Inspired by Iceland!!!

Tweeting through my tweets was like any other usual day...until I was re-tweeted by Danish actor, Viggo Mortensen and British writer and comedian, Stephen Fry with tweets supporting the 700 million krona (450 million Euros) promotional campaign ‘Inspired by Iceland’ that was announced at a tourism conference earlier this month.

The new campaign is specifically intended to improve the image of Iceland after the negative media attention the country gained throughout the volcanic eruption at "Eyjafjallajokull", (don't bother if you can't say that!! hehe). The campaign will show that the real situation in Iceland is actually safe and will encourage people to come and visit the country.


The website can be found here
or on twitter
and have around 250 followers.
and is liked on facebook by 3,152 people.




Stephen Fry ‘Tweeted’ on his Twitter page through the ‘Inspired by Iceland’ Facebook page, which is part of the campaign, announcing to his readers that despite what some people may think of Iceland, the country is still exciting, beautiful and safe to travel around. This is great support for the campaign as Stephen Fry is one of the most famous British actors and a well respected journalist. On the ‘Inspired by Iceland’ website yesterday, an interview with Viggo Mortensen also saw him speak highly of Iceland, its beauty and its people.

According to Einar Karl Haraldsson, a representative of the ‘Inspired by Iceland’ campaign, they intend to get more interviews and support from other well-known figures to support the campaign and promote the country in a positive light. “This of course will help show the world what the current situation in Iceland actually is,” commented Einar.

The ‘Inspired by Iceland’ campaign will be officially launched today at a dedicated ceremony in aircraft hangar 4 at Reykjavik Domestic Airport.

Pac-Man 30th Anniversary

Pac-Man started out as the most loved PC game. Being highly addictive and fun, Pac-Man which was actually inspired by a "pizza-without-a-slice" soon grew in popularity and has now completed its 30^th Anniversary. Which Google celebrated today on its main search engine website (http://www.google.com). Google has also done similar attempts in the past; for example, giving an image of the Hubble Space Satellite during a landmark set by it according to NASA. Or rendering a series of connected images to form the words Google. From the screenshots on this post, you can see the Google image that has a Pac-man game user-interface with the words Google in it. What I realized soon enough ( before my Pac-man was eaten alive!!) was that the image was actually like a game-application of Pac-Man itself.

A real masterpiece, it is like the real deal. With 3 lives and bonus points (the cherries) and also comes with the looped sound as you begin playing. And as icing on the cake, it is also very much user interactive. Breaking it down into smaller its, it is in fact a PNG file that is rendered in Adobe Image Ready. And used encoding of UTF-8, which is done to ensure it displays on all browsers of different versions.

It also displays your score, and after you're Game over, you're directed to the Pac-man Google search Page. So go there and check it out for yourself.

Testing post

This is a test Post!

Garnier & Times of India "Take Charge" Initiative

Garnier & TOI had launched a Take care, Take Charge" Initiative,to help build a greener planet.

What has been a very successful event as youth and other citizens poured in with thousands of Green Ideas in a little more than two weeks. The last day of "sharing these ideas with them is 11th May 2010.
TOI has stated that they will but 10 pkg of used paper for recycling for every idea recieved. Moreover, the best six will be published in the TOI and featured in a special edition. Not to mention that the Giovernment will receive these recomendations for implementaion or devlopement...so waht better way to get your idea immplemented for the redemtion of our planet earth, creating a new face of India, and being recognized for it!
So Let's not waste anymore time, let's Take Charge.