India win Asia Cup 2007

Well, well, well. As much as I would like to say, “I told you so!”, I am restraining myself. Why? Because we all know that India has a curious way of proving you (or anyone, for that matter) wrong on a consistent basis. That’s what the country is all about and that’s why I love it so much.

What am I talking about? Today India won the Asia Cup 2007 by defeating South Korea. The score line speaks for itself: 7 – 2. This year’s Asia Cup has seen a dream run made by India. In the end, India ended the tournament with a jaw-dropping 57 goals without losing a single match and winning twice against South Korea. What’s infinitely more amazing is the fact that India achieved this while conceding just 5 goals! All this despite the fact that there were many established hockey teams like China and South Korea! A job well-done.

This coupled with the Nehru Cup win might just script India’s most successful Sporting year in a long while. All I can say at this juncture is let’s hope that all this new-found glory does not get to the players. Here’s wishing them all the luck.

Chak De India!

Environment-Friendly Google?

It seems the people in this world are all of a sudden, leaving no stone unturned in their quest to stem the breaking-down of the eco-system. The latest, is a news article I read about a variant of Google.com that is more friendly to the environment.

Blackle.com is the site that uses Google’s search engine technology albeit in a more environment friendly way. When I saw this, I instinctively asked myself: How the hell do you make a search engine environmentally friendly? Well, Blackle.com has the answers.

Apparently, the predominantly white background of the Google site is responsible for a lot of avoidable wastage of energy. Blackle.com works on the fact that a monitor uses relatively lesser energy (upto 20% less) to display a black (or dark) color when compared to the energy taken to display white (or light) color. Blackle.com is just Google with a black background. The creator says that the idea came when he read a post: Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year.  According to the post, a black backgrounded google could save around 3000 MegaWatt-Hours a year. Not insignificant by any means. I say, every bit counts. And as the post says, it is an environment-friendly approach that just takes changing a few color-codes. So why not?