Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Reverting to Orignal Icons in OS X

If you ever change the default icons of your OS X folders [with, say, these ;)] or programs, and want to revert to the original icons, all you have to do is -
  • Select folder
  • ctrl + click > Get Info (Or just  + i)
  • Click on the icon in the info window
  • Press the 'delete' key
  • et voila!

Monday, March 16, 2009

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

The Indian Subcontinent


23%
of the world's population.

3% of the world's land.

7.5X the world's population density.

CountryLand Area
(sq. km.)
Population
(Millions)
Density
(people/sq. km.)
India3,287,2401147.99349
Pakistan803,940172.80206
Nepal147,18129.51
184
Bangladesh144,000150.451045
Sri Lanka65,61019.67319
Bhutan47,0000.6714
Maldive2980.351105
Total4,495,2691521.45338




The World
148,940,0006750
45




Fraction3.02%22.54%751.11%

Monday, March 2, 2009

The Letter

....
Improved “transparency” – a favorite remedy of politicians, commentators and financial regulators for averting future train wrecks – won’t cure the problems that derivatives pose. I know of no reporting mechanism that would come close to describing and measuring the risks in a huge and complex portfolio of derivatives. Auditors can’t audit these contracts, and regulators can’t regulate them. When I read the pages of “disclosure” in 10-Ks of companies that are entangled with these instruments, all I end up knowing is that I don’t know what is going on in their portfolios (and then I reach for some aspirin).
....
- Warren Buffett
Letter to Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders
February 27, 2009

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Wow!

"NGC 5257/8 (Arp 240) is an astonishing galaxy pair, composed of spiral galaxies of similar mass and size, NGC 5257 and NGC 5258. The galaxies are visibly interacting with each other via a bridge of dim stars connecting the two galaxies, almost like two dancers holding hands while performing a pirouette. Both galaxies harbor supermassive black holes in their centers and are actively forming new stars in their disks. Arp 240 is located in the constellation Virgo, approximately 300 million light-years away, and is the 240th galaxy in Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. With the exception of a few foreground stars from our own Milky Way all the objects in this image are galaxies."

Friday, February 6, 2009

the sandbox

This is my playground!