Ozone Pollution
Vellore fort Museum…
Inside vellore fort, there is a museum which has lots of monuments, information, samples, etc. Some of them shot here, please have a look…
Coins and Stamps
Coins
Fruit eating bat
"Mudhumakkal Thazhi" (an ancient burial urn)
Tamil Letters – Mei ezhutukkal (from ancient to recent)
Hand Signs
Tamil Letters – Uyir ezhutukkal (from ancient to recent)
A trip to Thiruvannamalai Temple
Thiruvannamalai is famous for Temple arunachaleswarar and its a place to worship the lord. Apart from the temple, there are other places to visit to like ramanar ashram, satanur Dam, etc.
From vellore it around 90 kms with a total travelling time of 2 hours. Even peoples from the south, they can take bus to thiruvannamalai. Please have a look at the pics that have been taken during my visit to the temple.
Save Tiger – Save Mankind (there are just 1411 tigers)
Saving the tiger means saving mankind..
Not only is tiger a beautiful animal but it is also the indicator of the forest’s health. Saving the tiger means we save the forest since tiger cannot live in places where trees have vanished and in turn secure food and water for all.
If we make sure tigers live, we have to make sure that deer, antelope and all other animals that the tiger eats (its prey base) live. To make sure that these herbivores live, we must make sure that all the trees, grass and other plants that these prey animals need for food are protected. In this way, the whole forest gets saved! Saving the tiger means saving its entire forest kingdom with all the other animals in it.
Also forests catch and help store rainwater and protect soils. In this way we protect our rivers and recharge groundwater sources. Areas with less trees lead to floods, killing people and destroying homes. It takes away the precious soil, leaving behind a wasteland. The soil jams up our lakes and dams, reducing their ability to store water. By destroying the tiger’s home, we not only harm tigers, but also ourselves.
The tiger thus becomes the symbol for the protection of all species on our earth since it is at the top of the foodchain. This is why we sometimes call the tiger, an apex predator, an indicator of our ecosystem’s health
Alagar Kovil, Madurai
One of the nice spot near madurai to spend one day by visiting alagar kovil just 20kms away from Madurai. There are more number of buses plying in the city to go to alagar kovil. May be the bus series 44 goes to the temple.
By going to alagar kovil, you can also visit
- Pazhamudhirsolai (the 6th house of murugan) in the alagar hills
- There is a holy water tank available (you can take small bath) theertha thotti
If you love trekking, you can go for trekking in the alagar hills to go to the above two places. its nearly 4 to 5 kms in the hills and will be a very nice experience one can have.
You can see monkeys everywhere, so carrying a scale kind of thing is advisable during trekking. Some of the pics are given here.
Thirumalai Naicker Palace, Madurai
This is the view of thirumalai naicker palace at Madurai. This place is of one of the interesting things for the foreigners.
The seating in this pic is for the peoples who visits this palace for a light and sound show. The history of the pandia king is narrated here with light and sound. Both English and Tamil versions are available.
Enjoy some of the pics of the Tirumalai Naicker Palace at Madurai
BACKSLASH BACKLASH
Irritating slashes in URLs a mistake, says Tim Berner’s Lee
It has been one of the most enduring mysteries to have intrigued every web user. What is the point of the two forward slashes that sit infront of the “www” in every internet website address?
Tim Berners-Lee, the scientist who created the World Wide Web, has admitted his decision to include two forward slashes in internet addresses was a mistake. The // at the front of a web address was pointless and unnecessary, Tim admitted at a recent talk in the US. Tim, now director of the World Wide Web Consortium — which oversees the web’s development — that if he had his time over again he would leave them out of addresses.
“Really, if you think about it, it doesn’t need the //. I could have designed it not to have the //,” he said last week at the symposium in Washington DC on the future of technology, reports the Telegraph. “Boy, now people on the radio are calling it ‘backslash backslash’.
“Look at all the paper and trees that could have been saved if people had not had to write or type out those slashes on paper over the years — not to mention the human labour and time spent typing those two strokes millions of times in browser address boxes,” he added. AGENCIES
Source : Times of India
My Photograph Skills
The following pics were taken at Kota, jaipur (Rajasthan). All the photos are taken at random times with a entry level camera. Camera used if Canon A470.
Chennai Cooum River!!!!
When I visited Chennai (Madras) last week, I went to Spencer Plaza with my family, after spending some time (no purchase, just spend sometime), we went to have lunch near at Ponnsamy Hotel near Ethiraj college….
when we were behind the spencer and nearing the ethiraj college, we happen to cross Cooum river, really i have been in chennai for nearly 8 years, i never experienced the smell of Coovum, but I had last week when i crossed Cooum,,,, Oh God, just see the first picture, how nice it is? and look at the second….. Dont miss to pic it whenever you cross Cooum in Chennai….
Pizza Preparation in Micorwave Oven
Requirements
- A Microwave Oven (we have onida Power Convection 25)
- Pizza base (get it at a bakery)
- Pizza Cheese also called mozarilla Cheese, if ordinary cheese is used, it wont melt after baking.
- Any sauce, pizza sauce will do better
- Mayonnaise (thick condiment made primarily from vegetable oil and egg yolks)
Some peoples don’t like Mayonnaise, even i dont (so it may be optional to use) - Onion, Capsicum, tomato and vegetables desired (finely chopped)
Preparation
- Apply a tbsp of pizza sauce on the base
- Top it up with Onion, Capsicum, tomato and vegetable.
- Grate cheese and spread over the toppings.
- Preheat the oven with 200 degree C in convection mode for 5 to 10 minutes.(Temperature settings vary from oven to oven)
- Place the topped pizza in an oven baking tray and bake for 5 to 10 minutes.
- Wait for a standing time of 2 minutes (Don’t open the door of the oven after baking for 2 minutes)
- Pizza is ready to serve….
