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Dry run @ Beijing

Beijing has had to divert water from a willow-lined river northeast of the city to replenish its Olympics rowing and canoeing venue which has run dry, Xinhua news agency said on Monday.The municipal government had spent about 430 million yuan ($57 million) to divert water 13 km from the Wenyu river to the Chaobei river which had run dry for nine consecutive years, Xinhua cited deputy director of the Shunyi district reform and development commission Qin Yongjun as saying.

The Olympic rowing and canoeing centre in Shunyi was built especially for next August's Games and features a 3-km rowing lake which holds 1.7 million cubic metres of water.Beijing sits in the arid north China plain, where water tables are falling fast due to climate change and rising consumption by farmers and booming cities.The country has embarked on massive engineering projects to divert water from rivers feeding the south to the dry north.It is also starting to address the serious problem of pollution of water supplies from untreated city sewage, industrial waste and farm run-off

Xinhua said Shaanxi province, in the northwest, will build ten sewage disposal plants to reduce pollution in the Weihe River, the largest tributary of the Yellow River.
By 2010, it plans to build 40 sewage plants along the Weihe River, which receives more than 800 million tonnes of sewage and wastewater annually. The Weihe accounts for about 18 percent of the discharges in the Yellow River basin, the source of irrigation and drinking water for millions of people in the north.

Trivia # 1

How are enormously heavy steel ships able to float?

They appear to defy basic laws of nature. But in fact, they're obeying a law of nature, buoyancy, which Greek mathematician Archimedes reportedly discovered while taking a bath. The trick in building ships so that they don't go straight to the bottom is to get the shape right. The vessel has to be configured so that it will be buoyant, displacing a volume of water weighing as much as it does. In other words, if an amount of steel equal to that in a giant tanker were rolled into a compact ball and dropped into the sea, bye, bye ball. But if the metal is spread out over a thousand feet, the ship can cross the ocean.

Some Doubts ......

Got a forward from my friend and listed some doubts in that ....

Whichever i think are really puzzling, i've given them down ..........

1.If all the nations in the world are in debt(heard even US has got debts), where did all the money go? (sounds weird isn't it!)

2.When dog food has "New and Improved tasting", who tests it? (to be given a thought)

3.What is the speed of darkness? (absurd query i guess, there is light or no light - which is called darkness, so how can there be a speed of Darkness?!)

4.If the "black box" flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn't the whole airplane made out of that stuff? (very good thinking, na .... then probably the flight can't FLY with such a heavy metal i guess ...)

5.Who copyrighted the copyright symbol? (who knows)

6.Can you cry under water? (let someone try)

7.Why do people say, "you've been working like a dog", when dogs just sit around all day? (i think they meant something else)

8.Why are the numbers on a calculator and a phone reversed? (Does God know?)

9.Do fish ever get thirsty? (probably thirst is not a phenomenon on thos species !!)

10.Can you get cornered in a round room? (u can go in circles, ha ha)

12.Why do birds not fall out of trees when they sleep? (stay and watch)

13.What came first, the fruit or the color orange? (seed for thought)

14.What should one call a male ladybird? (No comments)

15.If a person suffered from amnesia and then was cured would they remember that they forgot? (can some Doc help? )

16.Why is it called a "building" when it is already built? (strange isnt it)

17.If you were traveling at the speed of sound and you turned on your radio would you be able to hear it? (interesting)

18.If you're traveling at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on, what happens? (watch on some expressways)

19.Why is it called a TV set when theres only one? (very nice)

20.If a person owns a piece of land do they own it all the way down to the core of the earth? (or where does it stop)

21.Why do most cars have speedometers that go up toat least 130 when you legally can't go that fast on any road?(To break the law and give some revenues to the governement)

Short Codes - short circuited ?

What was the response you got on the last ODI between India & England when you SMS'd for the scores?

Did you check your stars and sun signs this week, using your AstroLive SMS?



Was this the reply you got ....“Please send your message to a different number. The numbers have changed as per a government order”.



Mobile VAS industry (estimated at INR 4560 Crores) is claiming the recently implemented rule of adding an extra digit '#5' in all the short codes by TRAI, is hurting their revenues & for the telecom operators as well.



They also claim the operators have Pre-installed the Short Codes for an estimated 120 Million subscribers for accesing their LIVE services through these short codes and it'll be really expensive and time consuming exercise for changing these physically.



But a visit to the TRAI website indicates the Operators & VAS service providers have been given time since 31st July 2006.



The content providers and the operators could have used the technology platform in educating the users of these services atleast indicating to alter the Short codes in near future. Though one might argue its not possible to inform all subscribers, they could have atleast informed people availing these services using their already existing software tools.



Looks like the providers wake up only in the last moment, inspite of of extension in deadlines by TRAI.



So much for customer care ............

The little things you forget .... Post-it

This ad has caught my fancy and amazingly created one for post-it

it catches the fun element and the product at one go and the ease of use too .......

One of the liked Ads ......

You and your colleagues .....

Is it really true, your guess is as good as mine. But it makes a real good argument and sense.

What am i talking about?

Came across an article which talks about increase in stress levels due to stupid colleagues around you and why its harmful. Ha ha :-)

Think of those guys you are working or had worked with some time ago ...... and their funny / stress increasing acts ...........