Happy Anniversary!!
Dear Manu Kaka & Nalini Kaki,
Wish you a very happy anniversary and many more to come!
Lots of Love,
Dhenu & Mitesh
13 comments March 30th, 2007
Archive for March, 2007
Interview provides hope for the future
Hi everyone, I have not posted in a long time. I just wanted to post a link to this interview of someone who is a reformed terrorist. Watch the video on the right hand side and/or read the article! There’s another very interesting video on the left.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/23/60minutes/main2602308.shtml
Dhenu
7 comments March 29th, 2007
Palitana yatra
Dear family
Here are the photos for our navanu yatra and baia’s Palitana yatra .We are really thankful for everybody’s support , wishes and blessings. We had a great time there.
Harakh and Neena
view photos
7 comments March 23rd, 2007
Happy Birthday Jyoti Fui
Dear Jyoti fui,
Wishing you a very happy birthday and many more energetic ones to come… Wish you lots of health, happiness and love in the future years ahead. You are always full of so much energy and enthusiasm. Keep spreading your smile to everyone around you.
We Love You.
Priti, Dhiren & Parth
12 comments March 22nd, 2007
Understanding Daylight Savings & Why it saves energy
Since some of you may be wondering, here is my understanding of why DST saves energy. You can add to the comments if you feel I have been unclear or left out something 
To understand why DST saves energy, we have to examine two cases:
1) In the Winter (this is “normal” time, before Daylight savings was invented), we set our clocks back. Meaning, if yesterday sun rose at 7am, today it would rise at 6am. Since the days get smaller naturally in the winter, this change helps us save energy in the morning, by not having to turn on the lights when we wake up because the sun is rising earlier now. This however, also causes our days to END earlier. This is OK in the winter however, because the days are smaller anyway and the weather is not suitable for out doors. Thus, losing an hour in the evening doesn’t really matter as we would stay indoors anyway.
2) In the summer (the actual “Daylight Savings Time” period), we spring forward and the sun rises and sets an hour LATER. Meaning, if the sun was going to rise at 5am yesterday, it rises at 6am today. This causes us to lose an hour in the morning but gain one in the evening as now the sun sets an hour later. Because the sun sets later in the day in summer, this encourages people to go outdoors more, and this in turn saves energy (from lights, TV, maybe AC). The reason losing an hour in the morning is OK in the summer is that the summer sun tends to rise earlier than in Winter anyway, so losing an hour of sunlight in the morning doesn’t hurt us much.
Now we come to, what has changed in 2007?
In 2007, we extended the summer time (the 2nd case) by 1 month. Where the DST used to last from start of April to end of October, it now lasts from Mid March to Mid November (adding two weeks to each end of the old DST period). This is essentially done to prolong the evenings and encourage people to go out more in hopes that that will save energy.
Will this ploy to save energy by congress actually work? Thats to be seen I guess. All I know is that at Yahoo we went crazy for the past few weeks trying to fix up all our software to handle DST changes gracefully (this is a bigger deal than it sounds…kind of like another Y2k).
4 comments March 11th, 2007
Florida pictures
Hello,
we have posted our pictures from florida on parths website.
click here to go to parth’s blog
enjoy…
Priti and Dhiren
4 comments March 7th, 2007
Daylight Savings Time begins Sunday
Don’t forget there is a change with Daylight Savings Time this year – it has been extended a month, officially beginning at 2 a.m., Sunday, March 11 and reverting back to Standard Time at 2 a.m. the first Sunday of November. So be sure and move your clocks ahead one hour. (Three Weeks Early this year)
The extension was set by the Energy Policy Act of 2005, to conserve energy. By adding the entire month of April it is estimated that about 300,000 barrels of oil will be saved nationwide each year. It also means that less electricity will be used for lighting and appliances late in the day that could result in trimming the entire country’s energy usage by about one percent each day.
Nimit and Paras… do you know of any good patches we can get our our computers and laptops so that the daylight savings time is updated automatically? Please help…
4 comments March 7th, 2007
Happy Birthday Vivek
Wanted to wish you a very special Happy Birthday to you Vivek. Hope to see you soon here.
Nalini and Mahendra
10 comments March 5th, 2007
Happy Holi
Wish you all a very Happy Holi. Hope everyone’s life is very colorful for rest of the year
3 comments March 3rd, 2007
