Thursday, February 23, 2006
Thursday, February 16, 2006
60 Questions i tried answering
1. What time did you get up this morning? 06:45 a.m.
2. Diamonds or pearls? Diamonds
3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? Terminator 3 (its long time since then)
4. What's your favorite TV show? Ripley's believe it or not (AXN)
5. What did you have for breakfast this morning? Masala Dosa
6. What's your favorite cuisine? Kerala (coastal food)
7. What foods do you dislike? Nothing
8. What is your favorite chip flavor? any thing spicy
9. What's your favorite CD at the moment? Global Village (Karunesh)
10. What kind of car do you drive? Used to be Maruthi now nothing
11. Favorite sandwich? Chicken
12. What characteristics do you despise? Cheating
13. Favorite item of clothing? Any Formal clothing
14. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would you go? Switzerland
15. Color of your bathroom? combination of White and blue
16. Favorite Brand of clothing? Louis Philippe
17. Where would you retire? Kerala
18. Favorite time of day? Morning
19. What was your most memorable birthday? None still
20. Where were you born? Kannur, Kerala
21. Favorite sport to watch? Football and Cricket
22. Currently most awaiting sport event? FIFA World Cup 2006
23. What time do You sleep usually ? 11.30 pm
24. What fabric detergent do you use? Surf Excel
25. Were you named after anyone? Ya Shirdi sai baba
26. Do you believe on stars? ya bit
27. Do you believe in god ? not all
28. Do you like your handwriting? no
29. If you were another person, would YOU be friends with you? Yes
30. Are you a daredevil? no
31. Do looks matter? not at all
32. How do you release anger? apply theory of forget and forgive
33. Where is your second home? mysore ( aunt's house)
34. What class in High School was totally useless? none
35. Do you use sarcasm a lot? no not at all
36. Favorite movie? Gladiator
37. What are your nicknames? sorry very secret
38. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off? ya
39. Do you think that you are strong? no
40. What's your favorite ice cream flavor? Vanilla
41. What are your favorite colors? Blue
42. What is your least favorite thing about yourself? my hair style
43. Who do you miss most? My home
44. black or white ? white
45. What color pants are you wearing? black
46. What are you listening to right now? song : Rise - Anoushka Shankar
47. Last thing you ate? chappathi at the canteen
48. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Blue
49. Last person you talked to on the phone? Laveena
50. What is the first thing you notice about the opposite sex? Smile and eyes
51. What's your favorite drink? Water
52. Do you wear contacts? no
53. Favorite Day(s) of the Year? April 14 ( Our vishu festival)
54. Scary Movies or Happy Endings? Happy Endings
56. Hugs Or Kisses? Kisses
57. What Is Your Favorite Dessert? Ice cream
58. What Book are you currently reading? Da Vinci Code
59. What's On Your Mouse Pad? dont use one
60. if you are a cartoon, which one do you prefer to be? Mickey
2. Diamonds or pearls? Diamonds
3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? Terminator 3 (its long time since then)
4. What's your favorite TV show? Ripley's believe it or not (AXN)
5. What did you have for breakfast this morning? Masala Dosa
6. What's your favorite cuisine? Kerala (coastal food)
7. What foods do you dislike? Nothing
8. What is your favorite chip flavor? any thing spicy
9. What's your favorite CD at the moment? Global Village (Karunesh)
10. What kind of car do you drive? Used to be Maruthi now nothing
11. Favorite sandwich? Chicken
12. What characteristics do you despise? Cheating
13. Favorite item of clothing? Any Formal clothing
14. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would you go? Switzerland
15. Color of your bathroom? combination of White and blue
16. Favorite Brand of clothing? Louis Philippe
17. Where would you retire? Kerala
18. Favorite time of day? Morning
19. What was your most memorable birthday? None still
20. Where were you born? Kannur, Kerala
21. Favorite sport to watch? Football and Cricket
22. Currently most awaiting sport event? FIFA World Cup 2006
23. What time do You sleep usually ? 11.30 pm
24. What fabric detergent do you use? Surf Excel
25. Were you named after anyone? Ya Shirdi sai baba
26. Do you believe on stars? ya bit
27. Do you believe in god ? not all
28. Do you like your handwriting? no
29. If you were another person, would YOU be friends with you? Yes
30. Are you a daredevil? no
31. Do looks matter? not at all
32. How do you release anger? apply theory of forget and forgive
33. Where is your second home? mysore ( aunt's house)
34. What class in High School was totally useless? none
35. Do you use sarcasm a lot? no not at all
36. Favorite movie? Gladiator
37. What are your nicknames? sorry very secret
38. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off? ya
39. Do you think that you are strong? no
40. What's your favorite ice cream flavor? Vanilla
41. What are your favorite colors? Blue
42. What is your least favorite thing about yourself? my hair style
43. Who do you miss most? My home
44. black or white ? white
45. What color pants are you wearing? black
46. What are you listening to right now? song : Rise - Anoushka Shankar
47. Last thing you ate? chappathi at the canteen
48. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Blue
49. Last person you talked to on the phone? Laveena
50. What is the first thing you notice about the opposite sex? Smile and eyes
51. What's your favorite drink? Water
52. Do you wear contacts? no
53. Favorite Day(s) of the Year? April 14 ( Our vishu festival)
54. Scary Movies or Happy Endings? Happy Endings
56. Hugs Or Kisses? Kisses
57. What Is Your Favorite Dessert? Ice cream
58. What Book are you currently reading? Da Vinci Code
59. What's On Your Mouse Pad? dont use one
60. if you are a cartoon, which one do you prefer to be? Mickey
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
SeLf TaGGed (My High Five) !!
Today the whole day i spend browsing and reading others blogs. Read a lot of random blogs. Came across a lot of them and saw that a season of love tagging is going on. But still now no one have tagged me. I just thought of tagging myself. How about this idea ? But decided not a love tag but a High Five tag, pertaining to my five best/worst likes and dislikes. Here it goes..
Movies I like Most:
1. The Gladiator
2. The shawshank Redemption
3. Titanic (ya i am romantic)
4. Matrix
5. Hotel Rwanda
6. Shrek ( Only I part)
7. The Ghost and the Darkness
I am still not able to stop writing. there are lots more
Movies i dont want to see again:
1. The Exorcist
2. Requiem for a Dream
3. Donnie Darko
4. Apocalypse Now
5. The Passion of the Christ
Five Things I can never live without:
1. My Parents
2. Friends
3. Oxygen
4. Water
5. Food
Five celebrity crush(es):
1. Aishwarya Rai
2. Preitty Zinda
3. Sandra Bullock
4. Demi Moore ( Ghost movie Looks)
5. Salma Hayek
Five things I would do if you were a millionaire:
1. Buy a lot of electronic gadgets
2. Go for my dream SUV
3. travel, travel and travel
4. A cute house in Kerala
5. Set up a business at my home town
Five bad habits i want to change:
1. Biting my nails
2. Sleeping in between the classes(boring ones)
3. waiting for someone to give me work
rather then taking up (but i love working)
4. forgetting names of person i met.
5. don’t have a habit of planning anything
Five gadgets I wish to acquire :
1. Sony Cybershot DSC-H1/canon Powershot IS S2
2. A mp3 player
3. An advanced mobile phone
4. A laptop
5. Large screen Plasma TV
Five games I like to play:
1. Football
2. Cricket
3. Table Tennis
4. Hockey
5. Need for Speed
Five snacks you enjoy:
1. Any home made food
2. Any home made food
3. Any home made food
4. Any home made food
5. Any home made food
I love all type of food cooked by my mom. I am not seriously abscessed with food !!
Five habits in me i am proud of :
1. Patience
2. Caring
3. Hard working
4. Motivator
5. passionate
Friday, February 10, 2006
Return of techno Melange
Its not a sequel of any science fiction movie. Its the same old techno melange which had boosted my moral last year. This fest is going to be hosted again this year on March 17 and 18. This is the state level technical which MCA students of Manipal Institute of Technology conducts every year. Last year i had an opportunity to be the student coordinator. The two days: April 1st and 2nd of last year was fabulous, those 13 colleges and 75 guest students, tension of conducting such a big fest, sponsorship amount collection, time management, hospitality, late printing works, publicity work, more then that handling HOD..
I seriously thank my lecture Mr KK for all his support and help, he was the staff coordinator. I Had an opportunity to learn many things from him. I now also remember the day when we had to limit the participating college because of accomodation problem. Running around for sponsorship. Last time it was our juniors turn for fund collection. But atlast HOD and KRK Sir themself had to approach the company and banks for sponsorship. After a huge effort by one and all the fest last year was a great success. The last validitory function had a lot for me to remember. The student from guest colleges pored their love through their speach. That was my most amusing moment of my life at Manipal.. Hope our juniors who are conducting the fest this year comes up with a better the last year fest.. Best of luck for them from me..
News item : Hinduonnet.com
I seriously thank my lecture Mr KK for all his support and help, he was the staff coordinator. I Had an opportunity to learn many things from him. I now also remember the day when we had to limit the participating college because of accomodation problem. Running around for sponsorship. Last time it was our juniors turn for fund collection. But atlast HOD and KRK Sir themself had to approach the company and banks for sponsorship. After a huge effort by one and all the fest last year was a great success. The last validitory function had a lot for me to remember. The student from guest colleges pored their love through their speach. That was my most amusing moment of my life at Manipal.. Hope our juniors who are conducting the fest this year comes up with a better the last year fest.. Best of luck for them from me..
News item : Hinduonnet.com
Thursday, February 09, 2006
The history of 404
Today i got a mail from one of my friends which stated the The history of 404, ya the HTTP error/status code as:
"Before the beginning of time, when the Internet was still very much under the spell of bare Unix shells and Gopher, before SLIP or PPP became widely used, an ambitious group of young scientists at CERN (Switzerland) started working on what was to become the media revolution of the nineties: the World Wide Web, later to be known as WWW, or simply 'the Web'. Their aim: to create a database infrastructure that offered open access to data in various formats: multi-media. The ultimate goal was clearly to create a protocol that would combine text and pictures and present it as one document, and allow linking to other such documents: hypertext.Because these bright young minds were reluctant to reveal their progress (and setbacks) to the world, they started developing their protocol in a closed environment: CERN's internal network. Many hours were spend on what later became the world-wide standard for multimedia documents. Using the physical lay-out of CERN's network and buildings as a metaphor for the 'real world' they situated different functions of the protocol in different offices within CERN.In an office on the fourth floor (room 404), they placed the World Wide Web's central database: any request for a file was routed to that office, where two or three people would manually locate the requested files and transfer them, over the network, to the person who made that request. When the database started to grow, and the people at CERN realized that they were able to retrieve documents other than their own research-papers, not only the number of requests grew, but also the number of requests that could not be fulfilled, usually because the person who requested a file typed in the wrong name for that file. Soon these faulty requests were answered with a standard message: "Room 404: file not found".Later, when these processes were automated and people could directly query the database, the messageID's for error messages remained linked to the physical location the process took place: "404: file not found".The room numbers remained in the error codes in the official release of HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) when the Web left CERN to conquer the world, and are still displayed when a browser makes a faulty request to a Web server. In memory of the heroic boys and girls that worked deep into the night for all those months, in those small and hot offices at CERN, Room 404 is preserved as a 'place on the Web'. None of the other rooms are still used for the Web. Room 404 is the only and true monument to the beginning of the Web, a tribute to a place in the past, where the future was shaped."
The story of this mail doesn't stop there. I searched the net and came across the site: http://www.404lab.com/404/history.asp, which contradicts this email story. The site reads:
Tom S. tells us:
"Having visited CERN myself, I can tell you that Room 404 is not on the fourth floor - the CERN office numbering system doesn't work like that - the first digit usually refers to the *building* number (ie. building 4), and the second two to the office number. But, strangely, there is no room "04" in building "4", the offices start at "410" and work upwards - don't ask me why. Sorry to disappoint you all, but there is no Room 404 in CERN - it simply doesn't exist, and certainly hasn't been preserved as "the place where the web began". In fact, there *is* a display about this, including a model of the first NeXT server, but the whole "Room 404" thing is just a myth."
Myth yes, but the creator of this myth should be appreciated for crafting a fine story befind a ERROR: 404 which is supposed to go unnoticed by any fellow citizen while browsing...
"Before the beginning of time, when the Internet was still very much under the spell of bare Unix shells and Gopher, before SLIP or PPP became widely used, an ambitious group of young scientists at CERN (Switzerland) started working on what was to become the media revolution of the nineties: the World Wide Web, later to be known as WWW, or simply 'the Web'. Their aim: to create a database infrastructure that offered open access to data in various formats: multi-media. The ultimate goal was clearly to create a protocol that would combine text and pictures and present it as one document, and allow linking to other such documents: hypertext.Because these bright young minds were reluctant to reveal their progress (and setbacks) to the world, they started developing their protocol in a closed environment: CERN's internal network. Many hours were spend on what later became the world-wide standard for multimedia documents. Using the physical lay-out of CERN's network and buildings as a metaphor for the 'real world' they situated different functions of the protocol in different offices within CERN.In an office on the fourth floor (room 404), they placed the World Wide Web's central database: any request for a file was routed to that office, where two or three people would manually locate the requested files and transfer them, over the network, to the person who made that request. When the database started to grow, and the people at CERN realized that they were able to retrieve documents other than their own research-papers, not only the number of requests grew, but also the number of requests that could not be fulfilled, usually because the person who requested a file typed in the wrong name for that file. Soon these faulty requests were answered with a standard message: "Room 404: file not found".Later, when these processes were automated and people could directly query the database, the messageID's for error messages remained linked to the physical location the process took place: "404: file not found".The room numbers remained in the error codes in the official release of HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) when the Web left CERN to conquer the world, and are still displayed when a browser makes a faulty request to a Web server. In memory of the heroic boys and girls that worked deep into the night for all those months, in those small and hot offices at CERN, Room 404 is preserved as a 'place on the Web'. None of the other rooms are still used for the Web. Room 404 is the only and true monument to the beginning of the Web, a tribute to a place in the past, where the future was shaped."
The story of this mail doesn't stop there. I searched the net and came across the site: http://www.404lab.com/404/history.asp, which contradicts this email story. The site reads:
Tom S. tells us:
"Having visited CERN myself, I can tell you that Room 404 is not on the fourth floor - the CERN office numbering system doesn't work like that - the first digit usually refers to the *building* number (ie. building 4), and the second two to the office number. But, strangely, there is no room "04" in building "4", the offices start at "410" and work upwards - don't ask me why. Sorry to disappoint you all, but there is no Room 404 in CERN - it simply doesn't exist, and certainly hasn't been preserved as "the place where the web began". In fact, there *is* a display about this, including a model of the first NeXT server, but the whole "Room 404" thing is just a myth."
Myth yes, but the creator of this myth should be appreciated for crafting a fine story befind a ERROR: 404 which is supposed to go unnoticed by any fellow citizen while browsing...
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
A bloggers Handbook
Today i was just browsing the net when i came accross a e-book titled : "HANDBOOK FOR BLOGGERS AND CYBER-DISSIDENTS". I felt this book will be useful for my blogger friends. It talks about everything with respect to blogging. A useful book for a novice 'like me' to the experts.
The topic includes :
• BLOGGERS, THE NEW HERALDS OF FREE EXPRESSION
• WHAT’S A BLOG ?
• THE LANGUAGE OF BLOGGING
• CHOOSING THE BEST TOOL
• HOW TO SET UP AND RUN A BLOG
• WHAT ETHICS SHOULD BLOGGERS HAVE ?
• GETTING YOUR BLOG PICKED UP BY SEARCH-ENGINES
• WHAT REALLY MAKES A BLOG SHINE ?
• PERSONAL ACCOUNTS
• HOW TO BLOG ANONYMOUSLY
• TECHNICAL WAYS TO GET ROUND CENSORSHIP
• ENSURING YOUR E-MAIL IS TRULY PRIVATE
• INTERNET-CENSOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
Go through it, it is interesting one from a blogger's prospective.....
The topic includes :
• BLOGGERS, THE NEW HERALDS OF FREE EXPRESSION
• WHAT’S A BLOG ?
• THE LANGUAGE OF BLOGGING
• CHOOSING THE BEST TOOL
• HOW TO SET UP AND RUN A BLOG
• WHAT ETHICS SHOULD BLOGGERS HAVE ?
• GETTING YOUR BLOG PICKED UP BY SEARCH-ENGINES
• WHAT REALLY MAKES A BLOG SHINE ?
• PERSONAL ACCOUNTS
• HOW TO BLOG ANONYMOUSLY
• TECHNICAL WAYS TO GET ROUND CENSORSHIP
• ENSURING YOUR E-MAIL IS TRULY PRIVATE
• INTERNET-CENSOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
Go through it, it is interesting one from a blogger's prospective.....
Friday, February 03, 2006
KlueLESS: I am clueless
Was fun solving KlueLESS a puzzle game designed for IIM, Indore fest iris. This game was introduced to me by one of my Colleague Mr. Manoj Kalita. As in the first two weeks we were not assigned any major work at iflex, i sat for solving it. It took arround one whole week to solve the puzzle till 22nd stage. Its pretty tough to even reach 22nd. The whole puzzle consisited about 30 puzzle. which comes one after the other. You cant skip any thing,ie cant bypass any of these stages.. If you are going to try solving this puzzle, i am sorry that this is going to eatup your lot of Precious time. the link is :http://www.iimi-iris.com/iris/irising/klueLESS/. And if possible please tell me the 22nd puzzles answer if you get through that, so that i can complete my puzzle. Please do inform me about your progress
The 22nd puzzle shows up this figure:
i am needed to figure out the login name and password from this figure..
and the clueless clue statement given for this is :
Authenticate for "a=z"
gsrh ovevo rh hrnkov qfhg rmevig gsv trevm fhvimznv zmw kzhhdliw
fhvimznv: uozpv
kzhhdliw: tilfmw
Are you fed up of these ciphers? I'm not... I can come back to where I began to end it... :-)
So Enjoy KlueLESS
The 22nd puzzle shows up this figure:
i am needed to figure out the login name and password from this figure..
and the clueless clue statement given for this is :
Authenticate for "a=z"
gsrh ovevo rh hrnkov qfhg rmevig gsv trevm fhvimznv zmw kzhhdliw
fhvimznv: uozpv
kzhhdliw: tilfmw
Are you fed up of these ciphers? I'm not... I can come back to where I began to end it... :-)
So Enjoy KlueLESS
My phitar Experience
Its been long that i am an active member of www.flickr.com. And from the day one of my flickr experience i am facinated by a photographer named philippe tarbouriech. Who have uploaded around 400 photos till now, taken by him from all over the world. so my fickr experience can be termed as phitar (thats how he is known to the flickr world) experience.
This is the 'Best of 2005' released by phitar
for the entire collection of philippe tarbouriech check out : www.flickr.com/photos/phitar
I also want you to see CHILDREN AT RISK FOUNDATION - CARF Brazil photo collection on flickr contributed by many famous photographers. Even this collection is excellent and this is also one which i was following for a long time from now.
The link : www.flickr.com/photos/beija-flor/
This is the 'Best of 2005' released by phitar
for the entire collection of philippe tarbouriech check out : www.flickr.com/photos/phitar
I also want you to see CHILDREN AT RISK FOUNDATION - CARF Brazil photo collection on flickr contributed by many famous photographers. Even this collection is excellent and this is also one which i was following for a long time from now.
The link : www.flickr.com/photos/beija-flor/
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