Tamil People, who we are!

Read this article on Wikipedia about Tamil People! Pretty interesting, tracing to the origins of Tamil and the journey through the ages! According to the free encyclopedia, there are an estimated 74 million Tamils around the world!!

Click here to go to the article.

Gway.. leaves no space for leeway...

Been quite busy all these days... Working for my College Computer Science Department's function.. Gateway '06
Now I'm yet to complete the design for the website.. I get a sort of eerie feeling when I imagine the invitations hurtling down roads to thier destinations to be picked up early tomorrow afternoon... Have to complete the design somehow... Tata for now.... :-):-(

Adi Shamir points out holes in RFID tags

Shamir points out that "a cellphone has all the ingredients you need to conduct an attack and compromise all the RFID tags in the vicinity"

He proved his point by using a directional antenna and digital oscilloscope to monitor power use by RFID tags while they were being read. Patterns in power use could be analyzed to determine when the tag received correct and incorrect password bits, he added.

This could pose a huge security problem in the way RFID tags were read, making it possible to try out combinations and getting the password right after a while.

Read the full story

And the winner is...

The selected logo of Gateway'06!


And the poster!

Click for larger previews! :-)

Gateway 2006 Logo Design 'Attempts' :-)

Please follow the below link to view some of the designs.
http://www.thiya.net/twinklers/2006/02/gateway-2006-logo-design-attempts.htm

A new payment system from Google!(?)

Paypal prepares for challenge from Google

At the rate at which Google is expanding, in a few years, there'll be Google stuff offline too.. Like McDonalds or Starbucks! The Google Cafe perhaps!! ;-) ;-)

Wife / Marriage!

Every man should get married some time; after all, happiness is not the only
thing in life!!
--Anonymous

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Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be
happier than others.
--Oscar Wilde

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Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper.
--Scottish Proverb

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I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
--Sam Kinison

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A psychiatrist is a person who will give you expensive answers that your
wife will give you for free.
--Anonymous

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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be
married too.
--H. L. Mencken

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Men have a better time than women; for one thing, they marry later; for
another thing, they die earlier.
--H. L. Mencken

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"A man without a woman is like a fish without a bicycle."
--U2

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Marriage is a three-ring circus:
--engagement ring
---wedding ring
----suffering

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When a newly married couple smiles, everyone knows why.
When a ten-year married couple smiles, everyone wonders why.

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Love is blind but marriage is an eye-opener.

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When a man opens the door of his car for his wife, you can be sure of one
thing either the car is new or the wife.

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I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back to home
always.
--Anonymous

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I asked my wife, "Where do you want to go for our anniversary?" She said,
"Somewhere I have never been!" I told her, "How about the kitchen?"
--Anonymous

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We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.

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My wife was in beauty saloon for two hours. That was only for the estimate.
--Anonymous

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She got a mudpack and looked great for two days. Then the mud fell off.
--Anonymous

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She ran after the garbage truck, yelling, "Am I too late for the garbage?"
Following her down the street, I yelled, "No, jump in."
--Anonymous

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Badd Teddy recently explained to me why he refuses to get married.
He says "the wedding rings look like miniature handcuffs....."
--Anonymous

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If your dog is barking at the back door and your wife yelling at the front
door, who do you let in first? The dog of course...at least he'll shut up
after u let him in!
--Anonymous

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A man placed some flowers on the grave of his dearly parted mother and
started back toward his car when his attention was diverted to another man
kneeling at a grave. The man seemed to be praying with profound intensity
and kept repeating, 'Why did u have to die? Why did you have to die?" The
first man approached him and said, "Sir, I don't wish to interfere with your
private grief, but this demonstration of pain is more than I've ever seen
before. For whom do you mourn so deeply? A child? A parent?" The mourner
took a moment to collect himself, then replied "My wife's first husband."

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A couple came upon a wishing well. The husband leaned over, made a wish and
threw in a penny. The wife decided to make a wish, too. But she leaned over
too much, fell into the well, and drowned. The husband was stunned for a
while but then smiled "It really works!".