How many times have we seen the title DAVID BEATS GOLIATH, and yet it never seems to bore the readers. Especially for any Scouser on a day like this when the MIGHTY REDS overcame all the gaga around them to come from behind -yet again- and beat Manchester United at Old Trafford (OT) and beat them with total domination in one of the greatest encounters in BPL this season. Old Trafford seemed like a fortress until today. The last time a goal was scored in Old Trafford this season was way back in November. It was like a nightmare for the Red Devils out there. An emphatic victory for Liverpool and a score line of 1-4 says it all. This has been the worst defeat for ManU this season and the worst at OT in nearly 17 years. This will be counted along Liverpool’s best wins in the premier league.

The first 20 minutes of the game was dominated by ManU and that would be it. The pendulum shifted and it was all Liverpool. Pepe Reina brought down Park Ji Sung inside the box, only for Ronaldo to net the ball home from the spot and take the lead in 24th minute. But that was as far as ManU could get near the goal. Torres who missed the the game at Anfield gave a you-were-lucky-last-time performance by stealing the ball from an underestimating Vidic and win the one-on-one with Van Der Sar. This was just the beginning of a very bad outing for Vidic.

This was the 1st goal He had conceded since November at the OT. But, it was definitely not going to be the last. Atleast not today. Just before half-time Evra brought down Gerrard inside the box after a beautiful move by the captain and he obliged by converting the penalty.

Liverpool and Torres kept questioning the Home defense throughout the 2nd half. A smart move by the Reds’ captain forced Vidic to take evasive action which turned out to be disastrous for the center back. Vidic got a straight red card and Fabio Aurelio hit a catch-it-if-you-can free kick and the unmoved Dutch Golie could only watch it sail by into the top corner. Liverpool missed a couple of easy chances to go 5-1 up as Gerrard missed his hat-trick. But just as the game was coming to an end with a 3-1 score line, the super sub Dosenna who had earlier replaced Riera, scored the 4th goal for the Reds for the 2nd time in the same week with a fine lob to give an enthralling climax to this Scouser-dominated game.

It was an all round performance and a special mention of the contributions by Kuyt, Carragher, Skrtl, Mascherano and "I am here to stay" Lucas who performed under pressure against a big club.



The (Red) Devil Wears Parda and with this victory Liverpool make it a double-double with wins home and away against 2 of the top 4 teams: Chelsea and Manchester Utd.

YNWA

Dial4Light

Street lights are probably one of the biggest energy wasters that I can think of. Don’t get me wrong, because there is always someone out in the middle of the night who needs a little bit of illumination to find their way home. However, no one in their right mind would leave a light on all night when it is only needed for a few minutes.

This is why a few towns in Germany have invented the Dial4Light. This is a system that allows the user to turn on street lights with their mobile phone. Once they have dialed up to turn the light on, the light will automatically go off after about 15 minutes.

The German towns that have tried this system have already seen a twenty-five percent drop in their electric bill, which is enough to justify implementing a Dial4Light system like this in every town.

However, if you come to think of it, it will be of absolutely no use in India. I could spot 2 reasons:
1. There are no street lights in most areas and even if there are, they aint working.
2. if they do work, Indian thieves are smarter. They will turn on the lights 15 minutes before the victim arrives and the light would go of precisely when the victim is in sight. Zip zap zoom and you are left with no money and all this before the person even thinks about dialing.

Couldn't there be another solution to this? I wish I knew.

For Sony Ericsson, it seems that an 8MP camera phone is not enough. At the Mobile World Congress, Sony Ericsson launched a 12.1 MP camera mobile phone codenamed Idou which is a smartphone having high end camera features and is based on Symbian OS.

The SE Idou comes with a 12.1 MP camera having features like Xenon Flash, Geo Tagging, Auto Focus, Smile Detection, Face Detection and advanced camera touch features. It has a 3.5 inch TFT Touchscreen with 360 x 640 pixels supporting 16 million colors amd 16:9 widescreen format support.

Connectivity options include 3G, Wi-Fi, DLNA, GPRS/EDGE, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, USB 2.0., FM Radio along with GPS with A-GPS support, are also present. The Media Menu is now fully optimized to support the 16:9 format and will enable you to play your favorite movies, music etc. The phone’s memory can be extended by using microSD cards.

The phone is expected to be launched in the second half of 2009.