31 Oct 08 Enna Koduma sir ithu??

Yesterday, I updated my new blog and asked joel to see it. Joel did more than seeing it and commented too.. I was happy and everything went fine, until today. I am unable to see my own blog! Page Load error is what I get, but others are able to see my blog!

Dunno what to say… At a loss for words!… Enna Kodumai sir ithu?!

Tags: blog, harihb.com

24 Oct 08 Moving to harihb.com, thanks to godaddy promo code

Sathish (jujubee) mailed me that godaddy was offering .com domains for a price that info domains are bought. Yes, I bought harihb.com for $1.99 (+20% ICANN fee, totalling to $2.19). So, when the domain becomes active, its bye bye to harihb.info! You too can buy it by applying promo code 199TEST. Hurry though. The offer may get over soon

Looking forward to meet ye all there.

Tags: godaddy, harihb.com, harihb.info

23 Oct 08 No Rain. No School.

It has always been like this. Metrological department usually get it all wrong everytime and they inform the state government to declare holiday for all schools. As a part of the unspoken agreement with the rain god and our metrological dept, there won’t be any rain.

Now, why would I bother about it and blog it?. I have a reason too. Kids. Kids. Kids. Man o Man, you have to have a lot of patience to endure the noise they make. Nearly 16 shorties came and played cricket, making quite a racket. I had no other choice than to endure it. When it was 6 pm and rain started, they adjourned. Man, was I at peace atlast!!

Tags: boring day, kids, rain, school

21 Oct 08 India Dominates Australia in Test match #2

Right from the word go, it clicked for the indians. Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and made the right decision of choosing to bat first. The seniors came out good in the first innings with the skipper himself making 92 in no time. Indians ended up scoring 469 and with some belligerent bowling from Amit Mishra, Indians were on song and australia were bundled out for 268!. Imagine such a situtation where even the mighty aussies couldn’t avoid a follow on!

However, Mahi did the clever thing. Instead of enforcing the follow on, Indians padded up and continued on with Innings number 2. Delhi guys Gambhir and Sehwag made aussies bowling look insultingly simple and the scoreboard kept ticking. Indians ended their innings before tea, declaring at 314/3.

Australians started off their 2nd innings well, with matt hayden looking strong. However, three balle balle’s from Bhajji did the trick and aussies reeled at 52-3. Ponting was no good playing Ishant sharma and followed his men suit. It was 52-4 and Shane watson, player of the IPL tournament was taken out again by Ishant sharma. Haddin and Clarke put up a good solid stand and lifted the score and aussie hopes as the visitors reached 142-5.

Day 5: It all ended within the first session. And how?!. Zaheer came, took 3 wickets in 4 deliveries. Australia’s hopes of saving the match were doomed now as their score looked a pathetic 144-8. Mitchell johnson and Clarke shared a 50 run partnership. But however, debutant Amit mishra set the tail of the tailenders on fire and removed Johnson and Clarke. Australia bundled out for 195. India win by 320 runs! Highest ever victory margin!!

Tags: australia, border gavaskar trophy, india

20 Oct 08 TNEB - Outrageous plan

Tamil Nadu Electricity Board has come with a plan that sounds simply outrageous. Here is the billing plan

A user can use upto 600 units, on crossing it, he/she will charged 1.5 times the amount of units he/she consumes. Say for e.g if your power consumption is 700 units, your electricity bill will be charged for 700*1.5 = 1050 units. The worst part is, if you consume 601 units, you will be charged for 601+300.5 = 901.5 units!!

The worst part is 4 hours powercut in Suburbs.. Damn!

Tags: electricity board, power cut, TNEB

17 Oct 08 Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar - God of Cricket

“If cricket is my religion, then Tendulkar is my god”.. These are the non famous words uttered by totally non famous person living in a small suburb area, not visible on Google maps, with the name “Hariharan”. Yea thats me!

Today, Sachin scored the elusive 14 runs needed to overthrow the record made by my yet another favorite Brian Lara. When he reached 11954, there was no stopping him. He went on to make 88 runs from 111 balls, today before falling to Peter Siddle (Congratulations mate, you’ve nailed the big fish). I always thought 111 was an unlucky number, like the umpire David Shepherd does. Yes, it was truly unlucky as Sachin happened to get out in the closing moments of the day.

Albeit scoring a bit slow, It was a welcome change to see thalaivar tendiya batting positively. Thalaivar played like the god he is, smashing 10 sweet fours in a juicy pitch. India sauntered to a good first day score of 311/5. Hope they keep the pace up tomorrow as well and reach a possible 600.

Tags: australia, brian lara, cricket, god, sachin tendulkar

17 Oct 08 Sensex falls into a blackhole

BSE Sensex falls nearly 900 points from yesterday’s market close to 9911. This is the first time in nearly 2 and half years, it has fallen below the 10,000 mark. This is a bad time for the market, which is called as Bear market during the falling times. People getting panicky and selling the shares for unheard of low prices, leading to a loss of about 20+ lakhs per capita. Today is probably what you can call ‘Black friday’.

For your information, Rupee has touched 48.85 per dollar mark. Like the tag line of Harry potter and the Order of phoenix, “Tough times lie ahead”

Tags: 48.85, bse, dollar, rupee, Sensex

16 Oct 08 Blog visits = 0

Since the model exam started, my blog visits became 0. No body has visited my blog for the past 6 days! Damn! Stop studying so hard guys! Take some time off and visit my blog as and Infotain yourselves..

Tags: zero visits

16 Oct 08 A Bizzare spectacle - Debt Clock runs out of digits!

It is very well known that US debt to the World bank has crossed $10 trillion, thanks to the brilliant administration of George Walker Bush and his congress. The primary reason being the money spent by taxpayers to the troops in Iraq. Apart from that, the stock market crash has costed heavily too. But the total debt that the US govt has will be displayed in a Debt clock here

As you can see in the image, there are no digits to display the debt as $10,000,000,000,000. However, the clock’s inventor Seymour durst plans on replacing the clock with a lengthier version.

Tags: Debt clock, New york, runs out of digits, Wall street

15 Oct 08 Stock market in turmoil!

Merriam - Webster’s dictionary states the term

Turmoil - a state or condition of extreme confusion, agitation, or commotion.

But I guess one can safely edit the term in the dictionary as

Turmoil - International Stock market

I don’t know what started this extreme confusion, but since the battle between Senators Obama and McCain started, the stock market took a downward spiral. Adding insult to the injury is the bailout plan. According to me it is a stupid concept put forth by the Congress government of USA. Bush has lost it completely.

Here is an excerpt from NYTimes.COM

Q. The bailout program being negotiated by the Bush administration and Congressional leaders calls for the government to spend up to $700 billion to buy distressed mortgages. How did the politicians come up with that number, and could it go higher?

A. The recovery package cannot go higher than $700 billion without additional legislation. As for that figure, it lies between the optimistic estimate of $500 billion and the pessimistic guess of $1 trillion about the cost of fixing the financial mess. But the $700 billion is in addition to an $85 billion agreement on a bailout of the insurance giant American International Group, plus $29 billion in support that the government pledged in the marriage of Bear Stearns and JPMorgan Chase. On top of all that, the Congressional Budget Office says the federal bailout of the mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could cost $25 billion.

Q. Who, really, is going to come up with the $700 billion?

A. American taxpayers will come up with the money, although if you are bullish on America in the long run, there is reason to hope that the tab will be less than $700 billion. After the Treasury buys up those troubled mortgages, it will try to resell them to investors. The Treasury’s involvement in the crisis and the speed with which Congress is responding could generate long-range optimism and raise the value of those mortgages, although it is impossible to say by how much.

So it would not be correct to think of the federal government as simply writing a check for $700 billion. It is just committing itself to spend that much, if necessary. But the bottom line is, yes, this bailout could cost American taxpayers a lot of money.

Q. So is it fair to say that Americans who are neither rich nor reckless are being asked to rescue people who are? What is in this package for responsible homeowners of modest means who might be forced out of their homes, perhaps for reasons beyond their control?

A. Yes, you could argue that people who cannot tell soybean futures from puts, calls and options are being asked to clean up the costly mess left by Wall Street. To make the bailout palatable to the public, it is being described as far better than inaction, which administration officials and members of Congress say could imperil the retirement savings and other investments of Americans who are anything but rich.

The last two lines clearly says the dialogue uttered by Rajini in Sivaji. “Rich getting richer and the Poor getting poorer”.

Tags: Bush, congress administration, Rajini, Sivaji, Stock market crash, turmoil