உலகத்தின் புகழ் வாய்ந்த புகைப்படங்களை பார்த்திருப்போம்.. என்னைப் பொறுத்தவரை ஒருவர் தன் வாழ்வில் எடுத்த படங்களில் எது சிறப்பானதாக அல்லது முக்கியமானதாக இருக்கும்? என்னும் கேள்விக்கு எவருமே 'இனிமேல் நான் எடுக்கப் போவதே முக்கியமானது' என்று சொல்வார். ஜான் கீட்ஸ் 'நான் கேட்ட கீதங்கள் இனியவை, இனிக்கேட்க இருப்பவை நனிசிறந்தவை' (“Heard Melodies Are Sweet, but Those Unheard Are Sweeter” - John Keats in “Ode on a Grecian Urn” ) என்று சொன்னது போல . அது மனித இயல்பு..

பிலிப்பைன்சில், திருமணப் புகைப்படக்காரரகவும், கவுன்சில் உறுப்பினராகவும் இருந்த ஒருவர் மிக முக்கியமான புகைப்படத்தை எடுத்துவிட்டார்.. இனி அவரால் அதை விட முக்கியமான படத்தை எடுக்கவே முடியாது.. உண்மையில் அவரால் எந்தப் படத்தையுமே எடுக்க முடியாது.. ஏனென்றால் அவர் அந்த புகைப்படத்தை எடுத்த வினாடியே சுட்டுக் கொல்லப்பட்டார். அவரால் எடுக்கப்பட்ட அந்தப்படம் முக்கியமானது. ஏனென்றால் அதில் அவர் தன்னை சுட்டவர்களைப் படம் பிடித்துவிட்டார்..

அவர் பெயர் ரேனால்டோ டக்ஸா . பிலிப்பைன்சில், காலூகன் சிட்டி என்னும் சிறு நகரத்தில் வாழ்ந்து வந்தார். அவர் ரவுடிகளுக்கு எதிராக கடுமையாக நடவடிக்கை எடுத்ததனால் சுட்டுக்கொல்லப் பட்டிருக்கலாம் எனத்தெரிகிறது. போட்டோவை வைத்து, கொலை செய்தவர்களை போலீஸ் இரு நாட்களில் பிடித்துவிட்டனர். சுட்ட நபரின் முகம் துப்பாக்கியால் மறைக்கப் பட்டிருந்தாலும், மற்றொரு கொலைகாரரின் முகம் நன்றாகவே தெரிந்தது.. பாதுகாப்புக் கருதி டக்ஸா குடும்பத்தினரின் முகம் போட்டோவில் மங்கவைக்கப் பட்டுள்ளது.

Caloocan city, north of Manila, Philippines, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011.
Dagsa, a local councilman and a wedding photographer, was taking pictures of his family outside their home to welcome the new year early Jan. 1, when he slumped on the pavement from an assassin's bullet. His last frame showed clearly the alleged assassin, Frederick Sales, aiming his pistol behind smiling members of his family. Police said Sales and another man, who acted as a lookout, were arrested Monday

how to fix HP Laptop Blank Screen

Suddenly my HP dv6000 series laptop got a black/blank/dark LCD screen.

I did few attempts to fix it, but could not succeed.
Check fn->Video out, pressed switch off continuosly, disconnected power , closed/hibernated/fn->snooze and reopened. Nothing work. No. Nada.

This is caused by the state, in which the computer goes into a mode, and when you switch off/wake up it starts and goes ot the same state/mode. This dv6000 has 'snooze on battery drain' enabled, so disconnecting power won't help too. So solution is to reset without letting it smoothly turn itself off.

What I did to fix : after disconnecting from power, I JUST pulled the Battery off from the backside crashing the system. Then put the battery back and switched on.

When I started it again it asked "where am I? what state I was?" (actually it asked if to start in 'normal mode' or BIOS set etc. )

Hope it works for you.

USA - INDIA - ISLAM

It is becoming very common for Indian magazines to write satires about US , their economy, imperialism and culture and even their presidents in one page and writing something pro-Islamic on the other page. Is this trend fair ? Who is friend to India ? US or Muslims ?

US is the worlds biggest democratic country. India is the biggest in paper, but when it comes to human rights, human personal space, liberation US is THE DEMOCRATIC. Ever a layman can sue a police constable in India? In US it is possible. Can a Indian Chief minister illegally marry several women? yes. we know they have done it. No.. Nay...Not possible in US. Few months back, In Malasia, building a temple in a land bought by Hindus, was stopped by some fundamentalist groups. Such will never happen in US. US is true democratic, truly liberated country. Indian magazines worry that US pushes army to Afghanistan and middle east. But do they know, if US stops serving in Afghan, in a month, a thousand terrorists will be jobless and infiltrate from Afghan into Indian border most likely into Kashmir. There is no other country in this world that helps India, more than US. Still magazines write badly about US? WHY ?

Islam is one of the religions in India. Muslims are Indian citizens like Hindus, Christians, Sikhs and several others and they are not superior to another. But most of the magazines write about Muslims in a pitiable manner somehow attempting to create sympathy. Commonly found are : Poverty among Muslims, Unemployment among Muslims, prejudice, their sacrifice for our nation, suppression on Muslim and how all these make a 'terrorist' from a 'good Muslim'. Also plan to convert them back to 'good citizens' are already implemented as effective laws : Reservations in Engineering Colleges, Medical Colleges, Law schools, etc etc etc. Gift them further with Scholarship ( how else one poor muslim will be able to come out with flying colors just with a seat for him in University?) . For non-students ? Fund them Loans for their business. For older citizens ? Fund $1000 for their Haj Travel. This ideas will just work as nicely as they have been working in Kashmir for last 30 years which calls for separation now.

Wait... give me a minute... I saw few faces in the same magazines cover.. yes, It was ex. President of India, APJ Abdul Kalam... and previous Indian youths' religions' captain (sorry Crickets captain ) Mohammed Azaruddhin.. and Sharuk Khan, Salman Khan... A.R.Rehman.... and... Are these not Muslims?

The fact is : Muslims are living safer and successful in India, than in any other Islamic nation. They have more rights in India. India is so flexible for them : They can marry four women, while a Hindu can marry one. They have better opportunities in Govt, Schools and everywhere possible. There are well educated Muslims, Working as Judges in apex court of India, leading India in politics, Surgeons, small businesses, Industries, sports . They are Indians and We should respect them, love them. They should join in Indian river as a stream and run along with us flourishing the riverbed. Not against the great Indian river. It is DUTY of our magazines to explain the Muslims that they are our people, they are doing well and the put fact straight: India is giving them great opportunities. But the magazines never seem to do that. Rather they stimulate and help astray the innocent minds of Islamic citizens. WHY ?

I don't know the answer... but seems to me that, even our Indian history itself puts all wrong. History books always write that Gandhi is father of India, Mohd. Ali Jinnah is father of Pakistan. Please write it plain truth in our school books : Mohd. Ali Jinnah was against Indian Independence since he did not want a non-muslim to rule a country consisting of muslim people or whatever reason. He openly called for havoc unless partition. He challenged, planned and executed mass murder and rape that affected millions of Hindus until agreed for partition. Why our history teachers won't teach this in classes?

Looking at US at same time, 70 years back : US presidents are great. Lincoln is considered as the greatest ruler ever lived on the earth. But there is one greater than him from India's perspective : Franklin D Roosevelt, one of the greatest presidents of US, helped India to get independence. He forced Winston Churchill to sign a pact, that British should free their colonies and give independence, for US to help them in WWII ; And we know the biggest colony of Britain is 'British India'. Mr. Roosevelt, could have just said 'well Mr.Churchill, just forgo all the claims on our land, India is not my business'. He did not. He had higher purpose that is rare among Indian leaders. He spoke for colonies too. However, Roosevelt did not secure any good to India. He gave up and agreed Winston Churchill's stance. i.e. The independence is applicable to Whites and Middle east. No white should be slave of others. When it comes to Africans or Indian, ok.. ups and downs are common.. thou shalt be slaves..

Why our history books in school don't say at least Roosevelt had a better interest than Jinnah?

I think it was Nehru and Rajendra Prasad who controlled these publications. They screwed up everything.. There is no point in repenting on spilled milk. But we can clean it. We should send petitions to education minister to teach truth, true history on our books. That will not humiliate any religion. It will make them remember the truth that they were not victims and mould them as good citizens acknowleging the past. We have to tell them all those Muslims stayed in India are good patriots and we love each other. At the young minds, we have to etch and ensure that they will never be astrayed by fundamentalist preachings. We should make all Indian children to be patriotic and responsible.


-Kargil Jay

Undoing the Polarizer

The polarizer is a glass that filters off light from one particular plane. It is generally called 'polarizer' or 'polarizing filter'.

It can be used in photography to avoid reflections that cause original colors to be suppressed by bright light. In some photographic situations, where the sun light can render harsh white washing output the polarizer can be handy.

The right situation where you would use a polarizer:

1) Window glass reflections. Where the window's reflection of objects in the photographer's side becomes obtrusive in the photo.

2) Photos in clear water ponds or stream, where skyline reflection creates haze or glittering surface. Or When you want to take photos of fishes or alligators inside water

3) deep colored objects in sunlight. Say a rose or morning glory. The flower's petals could reflect the sunlight harshly, creating non-deep, lighter color surface at some angles. Polarizer can cut off the reflection resulting in well saturated, deep colored photos.

In above situations the polarizer can cut off the reflection in one plane and let the photographer to avoid the unwanted light. The example below illustrates how to cut off reflection from blue sky. The first photo was bare lens ; and second one using polarizer correctly*:

( both photos by Kargil Jay in Blue Bell, Philadelphia; fall 2010, copyright )

Though the polarizer did the job perfectly removing blue sky especially from bottom half of the photo, neither there was a fish or white sand underwater to highlight the effect.

* correctly : Fitting the polarizer in front of the camera alone is not going to help. We have to rotate the filter correctly to the angle of sunlight (or any light). Because the polarizer (any polarizer) can cut off only one plane of the light. If you watch the Polarizer glass the inner side of the rim you will see two 'cut marks' opposite to each other . If we sketch straight line like diameter, that is the plane of light which is cut off by the polarizer. And draw more lines in either side parallel to this lines.. All these lines define the plane whose light being filtered away by the polarizer. To find these poles you can do this: keep the polarizer in front of LCD of your laptop, and look thru it, while rotating the filter. At one point the polarizer will totally blackout the screen. That plane is the polarizing plane. In the polarizer photo shown in the top of this page, you can see the 'cut mark' in inner rim at 2'o clock position. That is defines the polarizing plane. When you shoot, that cut mark should be parallel to the on coming lights plane, in order to cut off that light.

Leaving the polarizer in camera forever, is not a good idea except for bright situations. Use it when you need it. Sometimes, undoing the polarizer, can be useful. Especially when you consider reflections add elements to photo. In the photo below, I removed polarizer, because the reflections are the sole subject of this photo :

Notes:

1) Circular polarizer does not mean 'several planes'. All polarizer glasses intend to filter only one plane of light.

2) small point and shoot cameras will not fit any polarizer unless, screw-able threads are present in the front of the lens.

3) The width of polarizer filter vary and hence we must choose 52mm,64mm or whatever the camera's thread size before purchasing. The one shown about is 72 mm suitable for SLR lenses only.

4) Generally all polarizers work decently and any decent brand is ok.