Signals of Noise

I launched Chrome on my PC and was told that it had upgraded with better spell check. It only seemed they forgot to run the spell checker on the notification copy.

I think they did it quite deliberately.

Well, not really!

For my work I needed to create a new email id. And so I did with GMail. But even before I could get to my inbox I saw the red notification icon start dancing with 3 new notifications.

And this mail was right on top of my inbox.

I never logged in to Google+ with this id, and never will. Yet they have one more user. No wonder they are growing so fast.

This is a portrait of a drummer in a wedding band in Jaipur. I loved the intensity in those eyes of his. Here are two versions of the same image.

Band Master by Suman De

Band Master by Suman De

Which one’s better?

Just saw this on my Facebook News Feed. They are now showing up events happening nearby. I have never seen this before. Is this new?

This will play nicely with the rumored Facebook location app. You could soon see friends who are nearby and more.

Sunset @ Lonavla by Suman De

A cup of tea by Suman De

Grilled Tiger Prawns by Suman De

Auroville Matri Mandir, Pondicherry by Suman De

Interesting source of funds for the Church.

Few passing London tourists would ever guess that the premises of Bulgari, the upmarket jewellers in New Bond Street, had anything to do with the pope. Nor indeed the nearby headquarters of the wealthy investment bank Altium Capital, on the corner of St Jamess Square and Pall Mall.

But these office blocks in one of Londons most expensive districts are part of a surprising secret commercial property empire owned by the Vatican.

Behind a disguised offshore company structure, the churchs international portfolio has been built up over the years, using cash originally handed over by Mussolini in return for papal recognition of the Italian fascist regime in 1929.

via How the Vatican built a secret property empire using Mussolinis millions.

Old man and the book by Suman De