Solaris Cluster 3.2 (aka Sun Cluster 3.2) has been available for download for about a week now. This Solaris Cluster 3.2 is actually a bundle containing Sun Cluster 3.2, Sun Cluster Agents 3.2 and Sun Cluster Geographic Edition 3.2. Run Sun Cluster 3.2 on Solaris 10 11/06 to use new and enhanced support for the latest Solaris 10 features - HA ZFS, Zones and SMF. A lot of people like the new command line inteface (New CLI) as well. The product can be downloaded from here.

Read more about the new release on this Sun Cluster Oasis post.

So you've been an air guitarist all your life, but just could not cut it when it comes to playing the real thing. Don't worry - you don't have to know how to play the guitar to become a rock guitarist; not any more! All you have to do is wear a T-shirt for Air Guitarists created by Australian scientists. The T-shirt allows you to play rock guitar riffs just by mimicing the on-stage antics of your favorite guitarist

You can read the original news story here. Hmmm...I wonder how it'd sound if you try to play the guitar riffs of Creed's "My sacrifice" with this T-shirt!

10 Mar Qatar (Losail)
25 Mar Spain (Jerez)
22 Apr Turkey (Istanbul)
06 May China (Shanghai)
20 May France (Le Mans)
03 Jun Italy (Mugello)
10 Jun Spain (Catalunya)
24 Jun Great Britain (Donington Park)
30 June Holland (Assen)
15 Jul Germany (Sachsenring)
22 Jul United States (Laguna Seca)
19 Aug Czech Republic (Brno)
02 Sep San Marino (Misano)
16 Sep Portugal (Estoril)
23 Sep Japan (Motegi)
14 Oct Australia (Phillip Island)
21 Oct Malaysia (Sepang)
04 Nov Spain (Valencia).

Read the original story at the beeb. To me, the worst thing about the '07 schedule is that there's just one race in April, with the gap between the last race in March and the one in April nearly one month! But there are four races in June - I'm not complaining about that as a fan, but it's going to be very tough for the riders and teams.

One thing of note is the fact that MotoGP '07 has more races than Formula-1 '07. A clear reflection of the growing popularity of MotoGP!

BTW, I find it strange to see Nicky Hayden's, rather than Rossi's, pic in an article on MotoGP because Rossi's image has been so ubiquitously used in MotoGP related stories. It's also weird to hear Rossi referred to as "the former five-times MotoGP champion"

Nicky Hayden from Owensboro, Kentucky, USA became the last champion of the 990cc MotoGP era at Valencia, Spain today. Hayden was trailing Valentino Rossi by 8 points coming to this race. And things were not looking for Hayden - Rossi was on pole while Hayden could only manage 5th in qualifying.

But when the lights went out for the Race, Rossi made a very poor start while Hayden got the jump on him. By the end of the first lap Rossi was down in 8th place or thereabouts while Hayden moved up to 3rd. A lap later Hayden went up to 2nd, just ahead of his teammate Dani Pedrosa. By this time Rossi was in 7th place just behind Casey Stoner, and just didn't seem to be in his usual form - struggling to get past the riders in front.

Then, on lap 5 Rossi, just slid out of the track after his front tire slid out from under him. He managed to remount his bike, but down in 20th place and out of the points. After this point in the race, it was basically game over for Rossi. Nicky Hayden finished the race in 3rd spot, collecting 16 points while Rossi could only manage a 13th place and 3 points. In the end Hayden won the championship by just 5 points.

If Rossi had won the previous race, today's result would mean that Hayden and Rossi would be level on points but Rossi will take the title due to his higher win rate - the exact scenario I wished for in my previous blog in this category. But that wasn't to be and we have a new MotoGP World Champion, Nicky Hayden.

Congratulations to Hayden (from a Rossi fan). He worked hard this year for the championship and in the end he had a little bit more luck, and points, than his competitors; so full credits to him.

Today Rossi showed us that he's human. I never expected him to crack under pressure like that.

From next year the MotoGP bikes will become 800cc machines instead of the current 990cc formula.

Update: Rossi gracious in defeat, and some insight into why his performance at Valencia was below par. Read his post-race interview here.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has successfully measured temperature variations on the surface of an extra-solar planet called "Upsilon Andromeda b" - a Jupiter-like "gas giant" planet orbiting the star Upsilon Andromeda. The star is about 40 light years from the Earth.

The surprising thing about the finding is that the night side of the planet is always very cold, while the day side is like that of a lava. One possible explanation for this is that the planet is "tidally locked" with its star (like the Moon and the Earth), so that one side always faces the star while the other side is always dark. The star-facing side is being boiled (literally) by the star's heat while it's perennial winter on the dark side.

Read the original story here.

By the way, I will blog about Astronomy according to the ancient Mizos - the stars and constellations as the Mizos saw them, and the folklore surrounding them. Stay tuned.