Wordpress

Today I saw a few wordpress blogs. They have more features and all, and the blogs are much better. Just thinking to change over to wordpress. But what's the point? My blog would anyways be always full of cobwebs (if you got the metaphor).

Columban Open Quiz 2010- Veni, Vidi, Whisky

Columban Open Quiz, the biggest interschool quizzing event in north India, rolled on this time on 30- 31 July. My team comprised of Raghav Minocha, Vaibhav Darbari, Utkarsh Agarwal, and ofcourse, yours truly. My School, DPS RK Puram, was sending on 5 teams this time from the school, compared to the 40 teams that went last year. And those 5 teams did not include my team. Sad. But we were determined to go for Columban. You see, we have been participating in COQ since the last 2 years. In 2008, we got 2 out of 40 in the prelims, and in 2009 we got 8 out of 40. So, we really had chances of qualifying in the prelims this time. So, we called up the president of the quizzing society of SCS, and after some talking, we finally got ourselves registered on an indivisual basis. Here's what happened in the quiz.

Day 1- We are supposed to report at 9:45 AM. And so we did. Apart from us, there was one more team who was going on an individual basis- The Things. So we assembled in front of the Edmund Rice Hall at 9:30. We then registered at aroung 10. My team no. was B-61, while The Things were B- 63. We went in the Edmund Rice Hall at around 11. The prelims started after 5 minutes, and we attempted around 15 of the 40 questions. I answered 4, Vaibhav 3, Utkarsh 3 and Raghav 1. While the others were guesses. The depression period started when we were'nt even able to answer a single audio- visual. But still, we qualified! We were on tied 8th position along with some other team. Then came the Quarter Finals. 4 teams from group B had qualified for the Quarters out of the total 10. So that was nice. In the quarters, the team of the Quizzing club president and all got 70 points, and topped. We answered 2, of which I answered both. :-). But still, we missed the semis by just 1 question, as if we had got one more question right, we would have got 30, and thus we could have qualified. There was a question whose answer was Mozilla Firefox, and we answered Mozilla. And got it wrong. Hence, could'nt qualify for the semis by just 1 question. :-(. But still, COQ this time was awesome, and we hope to do even better next time....

Money Made The Mare To Go

"Will you lend me your mare to ride a mile?"

"No, she is lame leaping over a stile."

"Alack! and I must go to the fair!"

 "I'll give you good money for lending your mare."

"Oh, oh! say you so?"

"Money will make the mare to go."
 
 
Almost every aspect of life is today influenced by money. No wonder, the safest way to double your money is to fold it and keep it in your pockets...

Where is Chuck Norris?

Apple IPhone 3G S

So guys, as you know, the Apple iPhone 3G S is out in the market....officially! Well, the IPhone 3G was overall a pretty good phone, but quite slow, if you ask me. But know, the 3G S promises to be one of the fastest in the business. Well, they may not me wrong, as the 'S' in the 3G S stands for Speed! Here are the technical details--->

Speed

• The iPhone 3GS has a new processor built-in. Apple claims that it is up to two times faster than the previous generation: Launching messages is 2.1 faster, load the NY Times in Safari: 2.9 times faster. It also consumes less, which has an impact on the improved battery life.

Camera

This is one of the strong points of the iPhone 3GS, according to Apple. They increased the resolution to 3 megapixels, which—judging from the shots they showed-seems much better quality under all conditions.

• 3 Megapixels sensor.

• New camera, with auto focus, auto exposure, and auto white balance.

• You can also tap to focus, changing white balance in the process. That is really neat, if you ask me.

• Special macro and low light modes.

• The camera also supports photo and video geotagging.

• Any application can access all the camera functions now.

• It supports video, 30 frames per second VGA with auto focus, auto white balance, and auto exposure.

• You can trim the video shot just using your finger, then share it via MMS, email, MobileMe and YouTube.

Connectivity

The other part of the "S" is the support for the faster 7.2 Mbps 3G standard, which in theory will deliver data faster to your iPhone.

• Three band UMTS/HSDPA.

• Four band GSM/EDGE.

• Wi-Fi 802.11b/g.

• Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR

Graphics

• The new iPhone 3GS includes new 3D graphics support in hardware. This means faster and more complicated 3D games.

• Same 3.5-inch widescreen multitouch display, but this time it has a fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating. No oily marks then..I suppose. Will it sustain my french fries-cum-gaming torment?

Design

• Same design as before, including the glossy finish of the back.

• Same size as the old iPhone 3G: 4.5 x 2.4 x 0.48 inches.

• The weight increases a bit: One ounce to 4.8 ounces (135 grams vs 133 grams).

• Greener materials: Arsenic-free glass, BDF-free, Mercury-free LCD.

New Special Features

• It has a magnetometer, which works with a Compass application, third parties, and it is integrated into the new Google maps app, showing your orientation with a small semitransparent cone.

• Voice control. You can now talk with your iPhone, Enterprise-style. You can instruct it to play similar songs to the one you are playing, or call people.

• Nike + support built in.

• Supports accessibility features, like zooming on text, inverting video, and voice over when you touch whatever text is on screen.

Battery Life

• One of the more important new features is the increased battery life.

• According to Apple, you will get up to 12 hours of talk time on 2G and 5 on 3G, with a up to 300 hour standby time.

• On 3G, it will deliver 5 hours of internet use.

• On Wi-Fi, Internet goes up to 9 hours.• Video playback is 10 hours vs 30 hours for audio.

Price

If you are "a valued AT&T customer," AT&T offers an "early iPhone upgrade with a new 2-yr commitment and an $18 upgrade fee." The price? $399.00 for the 16GB iPhone 3G S and $499.00 for the 32GB iPhone 3G S. It gets worse: For non-qualified customers, including existing AT&T customers who want to upgrade from another phone or replace an iPhone 3G, the price with a new two-year agreement is $499 (8GB), $599 (16GB), or $699 (32GB).

Standard price-

• $199 for 16GB version.

• $299 for 32GB version.

Bye bye, AT&T.

So, overall, a pretty neat phone. Nice new features, good camera, fast, pretty fast.

My rating- ☻☻☻☻☺- 4/5.

What is A Blog? Do I deserve it??

Without bidding your 'extra' time on my heck of a blog, I start off right here.

What is a blog? A place where you care to keep your readers entertained by doing the HECK of a thing. But me...me? I am a little too busy with my competitions, and hence have to see you people with sad faces everytime you care to open this site. So i am back, trying to release you from the prison of boredom...Here are a few lines from my....fingers!

Me and my blog, together in lonliness,
Bue who cares? No ones wants his mind with extra stress!
It is all about you and your reaction...
But to me, only If I spare a few time from Linkin Park and Michael Jackson!
Are you people finding this boring?
When I saw my blog last time, I went snoring!
Just trying to rhyme a little too much, is'nt that idiotic?
It is just that different style of words I pick...
So gotta go, it's time for dinner,
and if I am late, I am a gonner!
So bye guys, and just turn up to this site once more,
Because you'll get to see more things, that's what of I am sure!

SIgning off,
Manas (The Gonner who does'nt care about his blog)

Examination Fever!!!!!!

Exams are days to go, and tention is going to conquer my head.
play???? tv????? games?????. No time for even a slice of bread.
fussing up dozens of books, my head is cooked.
the fun of these few days is booked.
Ok am I rhyming???? Must be the practice for the english test.
No need to wish me luck, coz my mind is already running for the best.
its time for history, who cares to read about Indian evelution.
But who either cares to read about cockroach's evolution?
Not giving the examinations?? your time is great!
But we have jump in the well straight.
Ok, time to go, hope to meet you again,
but only if my results are not in vain.
otherwise??? hanging on the fan, no problems no tention.
But finally you have to study for future pension!
So bye bye tata farewell, got to see the history book.
I have even forgotten how do i myself look!

- Manas Jha

Intelligence Quotient- IQ

Before we get into details, let's see what is IQ-

An IQ is a composite of your scores across 12 distinct aspects of intelligence. Each person has a unique intellectual make-up, with strengths and weaknesses that affect their methods of understanding, recognition, communication and association. These 12 aspects are-

- Pattern Recognition
- Computation
- Logic
- Spatial Skills
- Rote Memorization
- Reading Comprehension
- Intuition
- Structural Creativity
- Visual Creativity
- Geometric
- Comparative Analysis
- Processing Speed

Ok, so now you know the basic thing, lemme tell you that my IQ is 158!!!!!!!!

To know more about my results.....contact me.

Now one thing must be arising in your mind- to take the IQ test.

So go to-

http://www.iqtestlabs.com/
http://www.testcafe.com/

So best of luck for your IQ test!!!!

Note- DON'T use the paper and pencil for this test, if you want correct results.

The Influential Song- My December

- Linkin Park Lyrics

One episode- That changed the goal of my Life

The first episode that I watched of 'My Brilliant Brain' on NatGeo shaped my life to a new motive. Quantum mechanics, a rather 'undiscovered' field of physics for many usual people, but the aim of my life- To do something special, different from the others, in the field of quantum mechanics. So what if I am not familiar, or too small for it??.....I say that If you have the will, then you have the way. So better late than never, I have decided to work upon quantum mechanics from this age and start learning the basics. Thanks for the inspiration, Natgeo!

Now one more thing that touched my heart was 'My December' by Linkin Park, which proved to be the lucky song for me! It is an awesome son, which inspires me and also defines the depth of life and how to deal with this depth. I have rather become very 'emotional' this week. But overall, this was a very nice week. So I am signing off, with the aim of quantum physics in my soul.

By the way, say this if you can(fast)-

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper, a peck of pickled pepper peter piper picked.
So if Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper, then where is the pek of picled pepper peter piper picked????