Fireworks – are they “bang” out of order?

Some may call me a party pooper but I’ve never understood the charm of fireworks. Yes I do see how captivating they can be when you attend one of those professional displays that have music playing in the background and a symphony of colours shimmering in the sky as the crackers go off to the sound of the beat. But I’m still puzzled about the attraction of the small displays accompanied by loud unpleasant bangs that happen mostly in people’s back garden.

My own feelings aside, the noise that fireworks cause can be intimidating for small babies, pets and the elderly. The bright colours and effects in fireworks are produced by a cocktail of chemicals. When fireworks go off

Calculate your carbon footprint

I must admit I knew very little about the effects of global warming and the severity of the issue until I watched “An Inconvenient Truth”. My husband and I watched it a few days ago and I can safely say it horrified me to think of what we are doing to this planet. Global warming is real. It’s simple – if we don’t do anything about it, Planet Earth suffers as do we – no NOT future generations!! Us… now… we will be affected. The good news is

Geeky Fashion

I’ve just been to www.thinkgeek.com (don’t ask me why!) and found a product known as the Wif Fi Detector Shirt. It basically is a glowing animated shirt that dynamically displays the wi fi strength where you are at that moment (just in case you are too lazy to open up your laptop and check for yourself!). The glowing bars

UFO in Kolkata

I’m not sure that I believe in UFOs but according to the Times of India an unidentified flying object was spotted in the skies of Kolkata early Monday morning.

It was described as a fireball that moved very rapidly and even seemed to change its shape and size along it’s route. It started off as a round object and then turned into a triangle and finally

Is Indian Mukesh Ambani the richest man in the world?

Now I know we are famous for a lot of things and being good business people is one of them. But for one of us to get to the status of richest person in the world??? How did that happen?

According to a report by the Press Trust of India released on Monday, Mukesh Ambani has reached this status. They pegged his wealth at $63.2 billion . He has reportedly just overtaken

Hulu.com takes online viewing to another level

Finally an online viewing technology that makes sense! Hulu.com is a joint venture between NBC and News Corp and it will launch with many episodes of hit NBC and Fox shows and a small sampling of movies, all with one-quarter the commercial minutes of regular TV.

Whereas most other networks have kept their shows on their own sites, Hulu.com will syndicate its shows to four of the Web’s most popular destinations, plus allow viewers to embed streaming clips or entire shows on their blogs. A “Heroes” fan-blog, for instance, could

Life while on leave!

So what do you do when you’ve got 12 months of maternity leave to use up and a baby that doesn’t need you all day?? You start up a blog. Which is what I’m doing! My blog will not be about just one thing in particular – instead it will be about anything and everything and so hopefully you’ll find something of interest here. Of course you may find more posts related to the things that are going on in my life right now… but I’ll keep it as varied as possible. Have fun.