Swatch Internet Time

In as back as 1998, Swatch came up with this concept called Internet Time. I was ignorant till date. I just learnt about Internet Time and I am an instant fan ... !

I think Internet Time as a concept makes a lot of sense. As we are moving towards the global world where physical boundaries between people located in different countries are blurring every second, there is in fact a need for a standard universal time.

So advantages ... ?
1. Swatch can now make, market and sell an entire new range of watches. When you are bored of your regular time, switch to swatch.
2. If people adpot this as a standard in near future, huge huge royalty fees from mere reference to the term (just like CDMA by Qualcomm) would be realized.
3. Swatch gets even more credit for being just more than yet another watch company.

4. People get a standrad reference for time. Although the current time and date system is one of the most beautiful concepts ever and is very hard for Interet Time to replace it, people can still do away with a standard reference for time online.
5. No confusing time zones, conversion charts, sunrises and sunsets, daylight saving formulaes and all that rocket science.

So what exactly is Internet Time....?
Pretty Simple ... instead of having seconds as the basic unit for measurement of time, we have something called .beat as the building block. A .beat is equivalent to 1 minute and 26.4 seconds. A day is now divided into 1000 beats rather than 60X60X24 seconds. A day begins at @000 Swatch .beats and ofcourse ends at @999 Swatch .beats

Posted by Saurabh Garg @893

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I can't call anyone now for new year :(

Dunno what to do ... H E L P ! ! ! !

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Apart from the catchy image, the punchline is AMAZING ...

and one more reason to work for an advertising agency...

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The Howrah Bridge in 1940s
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Main Zinda Hoon

After a long long time, there is a song that can summarize ... me !

Movie: Zinda
Artist: Strings
Track: Main Zinda Hoon

yeh hai meri kahaani
khamosh zindagaani
sannaata keh raha hai
kiyun zulm seh raha hai

aik dastaan puraani
tanhai ki zubani
har zakhm khil raha hai
kuch mujhse keh raha hai

chubtay kaantay yaadon ke
daaman se chunta hoon
girti deewaaron ke
aanchal main zinda hoon

bus yeh meri kahaani
be nishan nishaani
aik dar beh raha hai
kuch mujh se keh raha hai

chubtay kaantay yaadon ke
daaman se chunta hoon
girti deewaron ke
aanchal main zinda hoon

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yaadon ka jangul yeh dil
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chubtay kaantay yaadon ke
daaman se chunta hoon
girti deewaron ke
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More information about the movie ...
Zinda songs online @ Raaga.com

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I have been busy lately, this is what was keeping me away.

Pic taken by Vivek Gawri.

A lemon, a spoon and some onion !

"Food" for thought ... ?
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Waiting for dinner at a dhaba in Haridwar. I have never seen a Neembu cut like that to remove all the seeds. Interesting !

Going Out To Eat ... ?

Interesting message for all the people going out to eat.
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It goes something like this ...



Thanks to ;p:d for the poem ... This really means a lot !

And I also making a dedicated webpage for Harivansh Rai Bachchan. The Alpha version is located here.