Search trends test

Its interesting to look upon various search trends that peak suddenly and dies out as they become mundane. The hot topic is always the attracting point and this is easily shown by yahoo and google trends. This is going to be a sequence of blogs trying to put on posts with the hottest search topics and then see how many hits this page gets on the search engine.
Today's topic: New Moore Island
Following are the list of links for this:
New Moore Island Sinks Into The Sea (Photo) Global Warming?
New Moore isle no more, expert blames warming
New Moore Island Sinks: Island Disappear

New Moore Island : Island Sunk By Global Warming

Top 10 stuff

This morning I was going through a post in sajaforum.org and stumbled upon this nice article which credited the new nepali national anthem as being one of the 10 best national anthems amongst the 205 Olympic contesting country's anthems.
You can check the new nepali anthem here:


Then I began to meander into all sort of top 10s from movies, off beat places, countries with beautiful girls (I don't agree with this list though), environmentally friendly countries and so on. Nice interesting list there.

The power of Cloud Computing.

I was reading through this paper on Cloud Computing from Sun and then I came across this nice little paragraph cited below:
"The New York Times needed to convert 11 million articles and images in its archive (from 1851 to 1980) to PDF. Their Internal IT said it would take them seven weeks. In the meantime, one developer using 100 Amazon EC2 simple Web service interface instances running Hadoop (an open-source implementation similar to MapReduce) completed the job in 24 hours for less than $300.
— open.blogs.nytimes.com, “Self-service, Prorated Super Computing Fun!”
11/1/07, open.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/self-service-prorated-super-computing-fun/"

A touch of genius.

Its growing.....

I had an invitation to join the biking community meeting last week but Alas!!!!! I missed it. I had too much work and the hectic schedule didn't allow me to join the elusive meet.
The junction was aimed to promote biking to and from the university. There are lot of cars here, a lot, almost everyone has a car and if people can be persuaded to ride bikes this would be a better place. They won't have to contend for parking space, they can be healthier and they can save a lot of money on time. And hey everyone else will enjoy the clear air!

Get your bike! Now!!!