Google Zeitgeist 2008

Zeitgeist is German word which simply means: "spirit of the age", spirit of a specific period of history, cultural and intellectual characteristics or mood of a particular era; trend of a specific generation.

I am avid follower of Google Zeitgeist, seemingly its becoming my hobby now a days. It assist me to determine what are people looking for across the World, how an event/activity influences certain citizens of a nation and so on. Google has recently came up with its zeitgeist list of 2008. Though Barack Obama won the US election but Sarah Palin is the one leading 'Fastest Rising' section on Google Zeitgeist's global list.

Coming to India, Katrina Kaif is leading all the way in India specific list. She is appearing in every major section like Fastest Rising, Most Popular, Top searches on Mobile and leading in Top Bollywood Celebrities.

Among all the best entertaining part is Top 'how to' searches in India, Here is a snippet:
Excluding point 5, 7 and 8, I really got impressed with our Desi Bandhu's search precedences :). Reducing (1) weight along with Gaining (6) weight are our top priorities.

You can find full list here.

70% Addicted

After long time this Friday I am free relatively (what a funny useful word which I used today for random works with manager). So I was doing random browsing, reading friends blogs as usual and ended up taking this quiz where Kris scored 80%.

Though I am not a regular blogger but it resulted into my addiction of 70% to blogging arena.

70%How Addicted to Blogging Are You?


By the way another funny thing got my attention there is that you can make your result anything by just putting any number after score in this link.

http://www.oneplusyou.com/bb/blog_addiction?score=120 (It will result in 120% ;-))

By the way that 70% is actual result after answering all the 14 questions.

Rocking All the Way

Last time I featured Taare Zameen Par in this blog as I liked it very much and this time its Rock On!!. Written and Directed by Abhishek Kapoor, Music by Shankar Ehsaan Loy. In first thought lyrics are undigestible but then it flows very well with the movie and strengthens the grip. And yeah these lyrics are unbelievably written by Javed Akhtar and mostly sung by Farhan Akhtar.

Its a story of college friends, flashing between 10 yrs back where they wanted to make it big with their musical band 'Magik' and current situation where they all are somewhat settled with pseudo careers due to after effects of 10 yrs back with concealed desire and eventual fate of making it again.

It was always an experience to watch Farhan Akhtar's movie like Dil Chahta Hain and Lakshya. This time also Farhan as Adi makes an acting impact in his debut movie along with well known TV actress Prachi Desai(Sakshi). Arjun Rampal(Joe) is quite good in performing a helpless guy stuck with 360 degree situational problems. Koel Pourie(Devika) and Luke Kenny(Rob) are balancing good with their part. Purab Kohli(KD) is too good with young at heart performance. Shahana Goswami(Joe's wife) comes out with an outstanding performance throughout the movie.

The story is very predictable at each moment but still keeps an anticipating grip altogether with good performances and direction. Aashiqui's song on Garba night to collect money for instruments and Purab Kohli's jolly dance creates hilarious waves. The good things are no unwanted scenes, no dumb incidents, no exotic locales, no cleavages, no grand affairs or flamboyance which keeps it down to earth and realistic.

Beginning to end, its a Rocking movie.

P.S.: Best Part: "Do not download the music" Buy the CD.

Horses Keep Distance

This again captured by friend Siddhesh Rane in Pune only.

Little Crack Little Broken

It seems that "Little crack, Little broken but running all the way in Pune".

Just got behind a bus in Pune captured by my friend Siddhesh.

Dynamically Adding and Removing Text Boxes using JavaScript

After many days I was just trying to work with PHP, MySQL and JavaScript yesterday. In one of the page I wanted to add/remove text boxes on demand (or say dynamically) so after much thought and search i found the solution in using JavaScript. Here is the sample of code which I used for my purpose and may also be beneficial for you web developers who wanted to add or remove text boxes dynamically.

It simply uses two functions:
addElement(): It first gets the element id where we want to include a new element followed by creation of new element and appending it inside the element.
removeElement(): It removes the last added new element.

<html>
<head>
<title>Adding and Removing Text Boxes Dynamically</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
var intTextBox=0;

//FUNCTION TO ADD TEXT BOX ELEMENT
function addElement()
{
intTextBox = intTextBox + 1;
var contentID = document.getElementById('content');
var newTBDiv = document.createElement('div');
newTBDiv.setAttribute('id','strText'+intTextBox);
newTBDiv.innerHTML = "Text "+intTextBox+": <input type='text' id='" + intTextBox + "' name='" + intTextBox + "'/>";
contentID.appendChild(newTBDiv);
}

//FUNCTION TO REMOVE TEXT BOX ELEMENT
function removeElement()
{
if(intTextBox != 0)
{
var contentID = document.getElementById('content');
contentID.removeChild(document.getElementById('strText'+intTextBox));
intTextBox = intTextBox-1;
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<p>Demo of Adding and Removing Text Box Dynamically using JavaScript</p>
<p><a href="javascript:addElement();" >Add</a> <a href="javascript:removeElement();" >Remove</a></p>
<div id="content"></div>
</body>
</html>

Just drop me a comment if you have any suggestion, comments or query.

Quick Reference : Euro 2008

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Czech Republic	Austria	France	Greece
Portugal	Croatia	Italy	Russia
Switzerland	Germany	Netherlands	Spain
Turkey	Poland	Romania	Sweden

Date	Time (IST)	Match	Venue
Sat, 7 Jun 2008	2130	Switzerland vs. Czech Republic	Basel
Sun, 8 Jun 2008	0015	Portugal vs. Turkey	Geneva
	2130	Austria vs. Croatia	Vienna
Mon, 9 Jun 2008	0015	Germany vs. Poland	Klagenfurt
	2130	Romania vs. France	Zurich
Tue, 10 Jun 2008	0015	Netherlands vs. Italy	Berne
	2130	Spain vs. Russia	Innsbruck
Wed, 11 Jun 2008	0015	Greece vs. Sweden	Salzburg
	2130	Czech Republic vs. Portugal	Geneva
Thu, 12 Jun 2008	0015	Switzerland vs. Turkey	Basel
	2130	Croatia vs. Germany	Klagenfurt
Fri, 13 Jun 2008	0015	Austria vs. Poland	Vienna
	2130	Italy vs. Romania	Zurich
Sat, 14 Jun 2008	0015	Netherlands vs. France	Berne
	2130	Sweden vs. Spain	Innsbruck
Sun, 15 Jun 2008	0015	Greece vs. Russia	Salzburg
Mon, 16 Jun 2008	0015	Switzerland vs. Portugal	Basel
	0015	Turkey vs. Czech Republic	Geneva
Tue, 17 Jun 2008	0015	Poland vs. Croatia	Klagenfurt
	0015	Austria vs. Germany	Vienna
Wed, 18 Jun 2008	0015	Netherlands vs. Romania	Berne
	0015	France vs. Italy	Zurich
Thu, 19 Jun 2008	0015	Greece vs.. Spain	Salzburg
	0015	Russia vs.. Sweden	Innsbruck
Fri, 20 Jun 2008	0015	QF1: Winner Group A vs. Runner-up Group B	Basel
Sat, 21 Jun 2008	0015	QF2: Winner Group B vs. Runner-up Group A	Vienna
Sun, 22 Jun 2008	0015	QF3: Winner Group C vs. Runner-up Group D	Basel
Mon, 23 Jun 2008	0015	QF4: Winner Group D vs. Runner-up Group C	Vienna
Thu, 26 Jun 2008	0015	SF1: Winner QF1 vs. Winner QF2	Basel
Fri, 27 Jun 2008	0015	SF2: Winner QF3 vs. Winner QF4	Vienna
Mon, 30 Jun 2008	0015	Final	Vienna

Aaj Tak at its Best

One of the leading news channel in India i.e. Aaj Tak use to come up with various breaking news and few of the best ones which I got in mail are here:

If you have any more breaking news of that kind then do share with me. :)

A Log for Life

Today on 3rd Feb 2008 around 7pm between Mulund station and Matunga station in Mumbai local train journey I lost my all time favorite helpful companion i.e. my mobile. It was Silver-Black colored Sony Ericsson T610 which was with me for more than three years in my good as well as bad times.

I also lost all my contacts as it was saved on my phone rather then SIM.
I also lost few of favorite poetic SMSs which i saved on it from long ago.
I also lost few of the pictures taken by that mobile and which never got backed up.

Moral for me: Never love your mobile.

P.S.: I used to see IMEI code of my mobile but never wrote it anywhere as far as I remember.

Know Your PAN Info

Now we don't need to remember our PAN number always as Income Tax Department (आयकर िवभाग) of India come up with a very good and user friendly site which easily and quickly displays the PAN information. Click on the link below:

http://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in/knowpan/knowpan.jsp

Just correctly feed your Name and DOB information and Bingo ;-).

It worked for me in one shot, Lets see if it works for you also in that way.

Ek Chidiya Anek Chidiya ...

Here is a good old great video which I luckily found while browsing through the Internet. This video reminds me of my good old childhood days. One of the few good things Doordarshan used to do it those days were showing very nice short clips like this. This is a very simple and cute animation with lovely song which always made me to stuck in front of Doordarshan on every telecast. The song is sung by Sadhna Sargam.