Brush with Ganesha
This is the season of Lord Ganesha when his idols deck up homes and shrines. But here, we check out how he adorns the artists’ canvas
There is something about Ganesha! This elephant-headed, pot-bellied, cuddly and happy-go-lucky God riding on a rat, gorging on laddoos and drinking milk may not be a high- profile deity when it comes to the hierarchy of divinity, but the very mention of him brings a smile. And lo and behold! He keeps springing up a miracle or two from time to time, the latest being his appearance in the form of a papaya in the garden of city-based A. C. Singal, a former Indian Navy officer. The fruit of his two-year-old tree in his Sector 34 residence resembles the face of Ganesha, complete with a turned up trunk.

From left: Satwant Singh’s sketch of Ganesha, a semi abstract Ganesha on Balvinder’s canvas and Kavita Singh’s Ganesha mask.

Touch and go…

Actor Om Puri was spotted at the city airport on his way to Patiala, on Monday. Lifestyle photo: Manoj Mahajan

When in Roam…
Making or taking calls in roaming is no longer a big deal. But you certainly can’t ignore the catch in the charges
Ah! This is one thing that most of us avoid doing pretty often. Taking incoming calls when we are in roaming. And, if we are compelled to take it, thanks to our dear friends, colleagues and relatives who call the minute we enter the roaming area (God knows how they come to know), the bill inflate like a space shuttle. Even when telecom companies offer attractive offers for roaming, the mobile bills say a different story. Now, where is the catch? We try to scrape a bit.

GizmOH!
Roam-an additions
Will you take a call when you are in roaming?
Family over unknown
If I am in roaming, I will never attend any call until and unless it’s from some important number or from someone dear to me. It is not because it will cost me but it is because if I am out of my town, I am definitely there for some important work. It could also be some important family function. And while attending that function, I would not like to attend unknown and unwanted calls. After all, family and work are more important than anything else. Therefore, only important calls while in roaming.

Geek SPEAK
Safe harbour
Use a docking station for better flexibility
A docking station is a bridge to the past for many new computers, but you may find you need one even if you have the latest on-the-market laptop computer. A docking station is a device into which you can plug your laptop in order to gain extra functionality, such as access to printers, mouse, scanners, full-sized monitors and keyboards, and external hard drives. All of these peripherals can be plugged into the docking station. Then, when you connect the laptop to the docking station, you can gain access to all of those peripherals without having to plug each one into the laptop. This can be especially helpful if your laptop has a minimal number of USB or Firewire ports.

More is not merrier
“We knew that multi-tasking was difficult from a cognitive perspective. We thought, ‘What’s this special ability that people have that allows them to multi-task?’”
An American study suggests that media multi-taskers who like watching YouTube, following Twitter, writing e-mail, and talking on the phone are generally not very good at any of their tasks. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, the study was led by researchers at Stanford University.