"My MeMorY ReMaiNS"

To be, or not to be, that is the question!!

2011-07-29T15:04:00.003+05:30

No no, the question is not about my existence, but about my this blog!!

One task which I have tried a million times and failed is to continue my Blogging.
Somehow due to the work and all other things which can stop a person from blogging, I have to admit I haven't been able to give enough time for my this small personal blog. During the course of last 6- years, lot have changed - both in my personal/professional life and also in internet eco system.

Personally and Professionally I have added couple of years to my experience, moved many location inside and outside India, inclination towards personal diary keeping reduced to nil, found new hobbies and interest to keep me active, which include Photography. And very recently found one more activity to explore the creative side of me - Videography.

Internet have also come a long way from Blogger to Facebook and Twitter. And even I have jumped the bandwagon as and when it came and went. It is more like saying internet have moved from 1000 characters to 140 characters statuses. I liked it all, but somehow couldn't be active in both world.

Even now I am not sure if I will be able to take this blog any further, whether I will be able to record my memories here as I used to do before 2008. The question asked to myself in the title of this post still holds true.

Till I find an answer to my question, you can can still find me active at:
Tumblr: http://www.sainathkm.tumblr.com

Vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/sainathkm
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The year gone by...

2008-01-28T19:49:00.000+05:30

What an year it was which had gone by. A lot of travel and lot of place newly explored. Better way to remember the months gone by should be by the places i had visited. Some which i could remember where :

January - Varahi, Karnataka
March - Ernakulam and Cochin, Kerala
April - St Marry's Island, Udupi
May - Kodachadri Peak Trekking, Kollor
August - Backwaters of Alleppey, Kerala
September - Bekal fort, Kasargode, Kerala
October - Calungute, Goa
November - Kumaraparvatha Trekking, Subramanya, Karnataka
December - Neeleshwaram Backwaters, Kerala

Hope to have a better and fulfilling year ahead too....

Kumaraparvatha - Ya was a tough one

2007-12-09T18:06:00.000+05:30

Great weekend getaways from Bangalore, India

2007-10-26T14:28:00.000+05:30

Happened to see this really good list of great weekend getaways from Bangalore. Really a great and lengthy list :

No. Place Rating Type Dist. Direction Road Food Lodge Food/
Lodge

1 Sri Ram Betta * Piligrim 50 Mysore - - Good No No
2 Rangasthala * Piligrim 60 CB pura + Good No No
3 Savana Durga * Hill 60 Mysore - - - Poor No No
4 Ghati Subramanya * Piligrim 70 DB Pura + Good No No
5 Nandi hills * Hill station 70 CB pura - Good Yes Yes C/B
6 Revanasiddesh betta * Piligrim 70 Mysore - - Good No No
7 Shiva gange * Piligrim 70 Tumkur - Good No No
8 Antharagange * Piligrim 75 Kolar Good No No
9 Chikka Thirupathi * Piligrim 75 Kolar - No No
10 Kanva reservoir * Dam 80 Mysore - Good No No
11 Mekedatu *** Ravine 80 Kanakapur+ Poor No No
12 Kaivara ** Piligrim 85 Kolar - Good No No
13 Sheebi ** Temple Paintings 90 Tumkur + Good No No
14 Devarayana durga * Piligrim 100 Tumkur - Poor No No
15 Kokkare Belluru ** Birds sanctuary 100 Mysore - - Good No No
16 Kudumalai * Piligrim 100 Kolar + Good No No
17 Melukote *** Piligrim 100 Mysore - Good No No
18 Muththathhi ** River 100 Kanakapur + Poor No No
19 Vidurashwatha * Piligrim 100 DB Pura + Good No No
20 Sri Rangapatna *** Piligrim 120 Mysore - Good No No
21 Bheemeswari ** River 125 Kanakapur + Poor Yes Yes A/A
22 Karighatta *** Piligrim 125 Mysore - Good No No
23 Shivasamudram **** Water fall 125 Kanakapur + Good No No
24 Ranganathittu *** Birds sanctuary 130 Mysore - Good No No
25 Adi chunchanagiri * Piligrim 140 Hassan - - Good No No
26 Lepakshi * Piligrim 140 CB pura ++ Good No No
27 Mahadevapura *** River 140 Mysore - Good No No
28 Mysore *** Historical 140 Mysore Good Yes Yes B/A
29 Shravana Belugola *** Piligrim 140 Hassan - Good No No
30 Hogenakal *** Water fall 150 Salem - Good No Yes C/B
31 KRS, Balamuri ** Barrage 150 Mysore - Good No No
32 Mudukuthore *** Piligrim 150 Kanakapur + Good No No
33 Talakadu **** Piligrim 150 Kanakapur + Good No No
34 Chunchana katte ** Water fall 160 Mysore+ Poor No No
35 Kadiri * Piligrim 160 CB pura ++ Good No No
36 Nanjanagudu *** Piligrim 160 Mysore + Good No No
37 T. Narasipur *** Piligrim 170 Kanakapur + Good No No
38 Sathanur dam *** Dam 175 Krishnagiri Good no No
39 Somanathapur **** Archeology 175 Kanakapur + Good No No
40 Hemagiri ** Water fall 200 Hassan - - Good No No
41 Ramanathapura ** Piligrim 200 Mysore+ Poor No No
42 Tiruvannamalai *** Piligrim 200 Krishnagiri Good no No
43 Halebeedu **** Archeology 210 Hassan + Good No No
44 B. R . Hills **** Hill station 220 Kollegal + Good Yes Yes C/C
45 Bandipur **** Wild life 220 Mysore + Good Yes Yes B/B
46 Gopalaswamy betta **** Piligrim 220 Mysore + Good No No
47 Harangi **** Landscape 220 Mercara - Good No No C/B
48 Nisarga Dhama **** Landscape 220 Mercara - Good Yes Yes C/B
49 Kabini **** Wild life 230 Mysore + Good Yes Yes A/A
50 Nagarahole **** Wild life 230 Mercara - Good Yes Yes C/B
51 Belur *** Archeology 240 Hassan + Good No No
52 Mudumalai **** Wild life 240 Mysore + Good Yes Yes B/B
53 Yercaud **** Hill station 240 Salem Good Yes Yes B/A
54 Bababudangiri **** Hill station 250 Hassan ++ Good No No
55 Irpu **** Water fall 250 Mercara - Good No No
56 Kemmannugundi **** Hill station 260 Hassan ++ Good Yes Yes C/B
57 Kudrehabbe *** Landscape 260 Chikmagalur Good No No
58 Talakaveri **** Landscape 260 Mercara + Good Yes Yes B/B
59 Bhadra **** Wild life 270 Hassan ++ Good
60 Manikyadhara *** Water fall 270 Hassan ++ Good No No
61 Muthodi **** Wild life 270 Hassan ++ Good Yes Yes C/B
62 Subramanya **** Piligrim 275 Hassan ++ Good Yes Yes
63 M. M. Hills **** Piligrim 280 Kollegal + Good Yes Yes B/B
64 Bisle **** Hill station 300 Hassan + No No
65 Gajanur ** Barrage 300 Shimoga + Good No No
66 Horanadu **** Piligrim 300 Hassan +++ Good Yes Yes B/C
67 Mandagadde *** Birds sanctuary 300 Shimoga + No No
68 Shringeri *** Piligrim 350 Hassan +++ Good Yes Yes B/C
69 Ulvi Birds sanctuary 300 Shimoga ++ Good No No
70 Nagar * Archeology 320 Shimoga ++ Good No No
71 Ooty **** Hill station 320 Mysore ++ Good Yes Yes A/A
72 Coonoor **** Hill station 340 Ooty + Good Yes Yes B/B
73 Ikkeri *** Archeology 340 Shimoga ++ Good No No
74 Keladi *** Archeology 340 Shimoga ++ Good No No
75 Dharmasthala **** Piligrim 350 Hassan ++ Good Yes Yes B/C
76 Hampi *** Historical 350 Good
77 Hampi ** Archeology 350 Bellary Good Yes Yes
78 Kudremukh *** Hill station 350 Hassan +++ Good Yes Yes B/B
79 Mantralaya ** Piligrim 350 Bellary Good Yes Yes
80 T.B. Dam ** Dam 350 Bellary Good Yes Yes
81 Varadahalli **** Landscape 350 Shimoga ++ Good No No
82 Agumbe **** Hill station 357 Shimoga ++ Good No No
83 Moodabidiri *** Archeology 360 Mangalore - Good No No
84 Gudavi *** Birds sanctuary 375 Shimoga ++ Good No No
85 Humbucha ** Archeology 380 Shimoga ++ Good No No
86 Jog **** Water fall 380 Shimoga ++ Good No No
87 Karkala *** Archeology 380 Mangalore - Good No No
88 Kaup *** Beach 380 Mangalore + Good No No
89 St. Mary's Island *** Landscape 386 Good No No
90 Katil ** Piligrim 387 Mangalore - Good No No
91 Devarahole **** River 400 Sirsi + Good No No
92 Magodu falls **** Water fall 400 Sirsi + Good No No
92 Mrudeshwara **** Piligrim 400 Honnavar + Good Yes Yes C/B
93 Satodi falls **** Water fall 400 Sirsi + Good No No
94 Udupi *** Piligrim 415 Mangalore + Good Yes Yes B/B
95 Honnavar ** Piligrim 425 Mangalore ++ Good Yes No
96 Gokarna ** Piligrim 460 Honnavar + Good No No
97 Maravanthe **** Beach 467 Mangalore + Good No No
98 Badami & Aihole **** Caves 500
99 Kollur *** Piligrim 500 Shimoga +++ Good Yes Yes C/C
100 Kollur forest **** Wild life 520 Shimoga +++ Good No No
101 Yana **** Landscape 580 No No
102 Gokak falls ** Water fall Good
103 Varaahi **** Landscape
104 Koravangala ** Archeology 200 Hassan+ Good no no
105 Ridge ** Landscape 250 Hassan+ Good no no
106 Mosale ** Archeology 200 Hassan+ Good no No
107 Doddagadduvalli ** Archeology 200 Hassan+ Good no No
108 Munnar **** Hill station 550 Erode+++ Good No No A/A

Awesome Kodachadri Trekking

2007-10-02T18:41:00.000+05:30

After a bit delay, Now its time for me to jolt down why my trek to Kodachadri was Awesome. A perfect place, a perfect sky, a perfect weather, and a perfect team that’s the ingredient needed to call your trek a perfect one. Rather then pointing out how was our trekking trip to Kodachadri, this time I will write about how can you make it a memorable one.

What's Kodachadri ?
Kodachadri is a mountain peak (altitude - 1343 m above sea level) in the Western Ghats in South India (Karnataka State). [ map here]

Where is Kodachadri ?
Nearly 160 Km from Mangalore, towards Kollur. Kollur is a place famous for its Mookambika temple and Kodachadri is considered to be the peak where 'Shankaracharya' did meditation.

How to reach there ?
Take a bus from Mangalore to Kollur (2 hrs journey). And for the people coming from Bangalore, the best way will be getting a bus from Bangalore to Kundapur (a night journey) and from there getting a bus to Kollur (45 minutes).

What to carry and what not to ?
Enough water for two days to survive, Packaged Food item, Torch, salt to get ride of leeches, and also a good pair of jacket/sweater. Avoid heavy luggage .

My Experience ?Day I:
10:00 am
The most ideal time to reach Kollur will be 10:00 am. After getting down at Kollur, Give a visit to Kollur Mookambika temple and also if possible to have a meal from the temple itself. As we reached Kollur it was nearly 11:30 am.

01:00 pm
Take a bus(Hanuman travels) which goes towards Shimoga. Make sure you don't miss this bus. Just a 30 mins journey and you are at the start of your journey. Get down at Kodachadri Gate, the starting point.

2:00 pm
The awesome trekking experience starts now. On the right side of the road you can find a mud/stone road which is the path which leads to your destination. After trekking for around 4 - 5 kms we reached a small school and a village surrounding it. This initial trekking is very mild and can be easily completed in 1 -2 hrs. From here starts the actual trekking. As we reach there the sight of the peak got cleared and the road leading to it became harder. Make sure you ask the route and also fill your water at the Santhosh hotel at the village. The Most breath-taking scenes of the trekking starts from here. As we walked up through the narrow route the sky stared clearing and the clouds started moving so close to us that we stopped many times to take snaps. And as we moved from one peak to the other the destination became clear, the Kodachadri guest house becomes visible.

5:00 pmAfter an overall 8 kms trekking we reached the Kodachadri guest house, build by government for the trekkers and devotees who comes here. Also there are 2-3 other shops which cater food. We had our evening snacks from one of the shop beside the guest house, and set for another round of trekking towards the ultimate peak, Sarvajna Peetha, Where Sakaracharya did meditation. This last 1 km trek was really great picture perfect path. Through out this 1 km, we felt like we are walking towards the sky and clouds are all below us. The sunset was really amazing. With the sky turning redish and sun slowly setting into the Arabian sea.

7:00 pm
After 45 mins of mild trekking, we reached the very top most place on the peak, the Sarvajna Peetha, a small temple like structure build of stone, a best place to spend rest of the night. After the sunset, its time for a campfire. We collected some fire wood and setup a very small camp fire. With the wind blowing it was really a great work.

09:00 pm
After hours of hard work on setting up campfire and lots of singing exercise, its time for some appetite pooja. The water was boiled and the noodles was more delicious then ever. The night was chilling cold with wind blowing from all the direction. For me atleast the sleep came fast, as soon as l moved inside the sleeping bags.

Day II :
8:00 am
Even though the clock says 8, the sun was not at all in the sight. The whole environment was surrounded by Cloud and mist. After a hour of hide and seek with sun, we decided to trek back. The trekking back to the guest house was very much refreshing and really great with the morning mild wind lashing the face with fresh monsoon smell. At the guest house there are places to get fresh also the cook at the guest house prepares some breakfast snacks.

9:00 amAfter a good breakfast and refilling our water bottles, we decided to descend down the Kodachadri to wards the place we started, After a walk for 2-3 hrs we reached the same road where we had got down from the bus yesterday. It all went as per the plan, We reached the road by around 12:00, and after a wait, here it is the bus to Kollur. And the end of a lovely and perfect trekking.

Note: For the people who want to avoid staying on the peak in the night, can book the guest house in advance and plan to come down to the guest house after the sunset.

** Updated :Mr.Rajendran is the person who looks after the guest house, So in case more info needed the weather and other details regarding Kodachadri you can contact him at 9242892299 and 9242647805.

** Updated Photos too:

Awesome Kodachadri

2007-05-30T18:21:00.002+05:30

Kodachadri Trekking, originally uploaded by sainathkm.

Cool Virtual HairCut Audio

2007-05-25T00:15:00.000+05:30

This is a really cool 3D/Binaural Recording. Please Use a good earphone for proper effect.

For those people who doesn't know what Binaural Recording is, here is a small info :

Binaural recording is a method of recording audio which uses a special microphone arrangement. Binaural recordings consist of capturing the sound of any given type by employing a realistic representation of the human head and ears in a recording setup. The binaural recording concept is elegant: place closely-matched microphones near the ears, and record what the ears actually hear. The details may be fascinating and esoteric, but the results speak for themselves; what your hear on this site was essentially recorded this way.

Enlightened

2006-12-27T18:42:00.001+05:30

During our trekking between Donigal and Yedukumeri

“The Great Green Route” – a memoir

2006-12-19T17:40:00.000+05:30

Donigal to Yadakumeri Railway track trekking

So at last I am back after the most beautiful trekking experience of my life till now. I had been for many other lovely treks, but this one didn’t miss anything associated with the word trekking. It had everything starting from truck safari, scenic beauty, dangerous bridges, dark tunnels, up and down the hill, forest inhabited by elephants, food prepared at track side, night stay in the open station, campfire and ending with crossing the flowing river without knowing how to swim.

It all started with small plan to arrange for a get together with my friends who had studied with me at Manipal. And that too a plan for a 25Km, 10hrs trekking at Donigal – Yedukumeri Rail route or more famously known as the Great Green Route. Donigal station is situated around 4-5 hrs journey from Bangalore and 10 Km from Sakleshpur. The date was fixed and tickets where booked all in advance. The date was 16th December, just some days before the train route will be busy with increase in number of trains. We where 7 old friends, 6 from Bangalore (Nimesh, Rejo, Varun, Sajid, Alka and Ashwini) and me, Sainath alone from Mangalore (planning to join them at the spot).

I reached the meeting spot, Donigal tea shop “Hotel Picnic” at around 2.30 am. It was a chilling cold over there. 4 cup tea and 1 cup coffee that’s what my body had to take to withstand that cold morning hours till my friends joined me at 4.30 am. After finishing our morning needs and small breakfast we decided to start our journey at 5.15 am.

The Donigal station was again 5-6 kms from the spot we had got down towards the Mangalore side. We got a truck pickup till the Muthapan Temple on the highway. From there its now our way ahead. After walking about 1km in dark with the torch in hand we reached the Donigal station by 6.00 am and decided to start the trekking through the railway tracks. The first 2 kms we couldn’t find any major bridges or tunnels. The game of Anthakshari also accompanied us and even Rejo, who doesn’t like Hindi songs started chipping in with those blockbuster songs, along with the singers like Ashwini and Alka. Crossing the first bridge/tunnel was electrifying. But the thought of bigger and dangerous bridges and tunnels still waiting for us on the way made us walk more exciting.

Some of the tunnel which we crossed where dark and as long as half km, where filled with bats. Even those small water drop flowing through those stones and the hard blowing breeze inside those tunnels sounded like even they where joining us in the Anthakshari. The long bridges across some of the small streams where really photogenic and one would really try imagining how many days and how many peoples hard labour would have been used to build the mammoth structures.

After completing 12 Km, 10 -12 dark tunnels, nearly 15 bridges, posing for many more photos which we couldn’t count, we stopped for refilling our stomach at 12.45 pm. Made a temporary arrangement for boiling the water and preparing the Noodles. We succeeded in preparing a good noodle which was more then enough for our hungry stomach. During that course, Alka even had some small nap just beside the track.

As our energy was back and still some kms to complete we started the walk again. But this time everything was not as easy as it was earlier. There where 2-3 bridges with no proper iron planks for walking and where as tall as 5 storied building. Crossing those bridges took some courage out of me and a sense of achievement when we reached the other side.

Again walking for nearly 6kms we reached our trek destination Yedukumeri, a small station build for just passing the signals between Kukke Subramania and Donigal at about 3.30pm. We had a chat with the so called Station Master, one Mr. Lingeshwar (a chap wearing college volleyball jersey, never looked more) for a train lift till Sakleshpur. He was not ready to help us in any case. He told us that he can’t let those goods train drivers to take us back to Sakleshpur. Sad to say that how these types of bigheaded people spoils the name of Indian Railways.

After some useless negotiation with the station master, we decided to cross the jungle by our own and find the way out to the highway nearby. With very little information about the way out, we started to climb down the hill and crossed the small stream ending up finding a so called damaged road. But my instinct and the echoing sound of winds betrayed me and we started moving in a wrong direction. The walk become creepier when we found those elephant foot marks and dung all around and the sun started setting, increasing our shadows as we walked. It took us nearly 1hr to realize that we are on the wrong way. The only best thing we could do was return to the station and sleep for the night there. As all of us agreed for that, we started to walk back before the sun sets fully. To return back (climbing back up the hill) it took hardly half the total time of climbing down the hill. And at last we are again on the top of the hill at the Railway station.

After returning from the tiring and unsuccessful walk, we sat at the platform figuring out what went wrong and thinking “What ever had happened was for good”. We had our bread and jam packets opened and gobbled as much as we could. And made arrangement for a good sleep, which we couldn’t get the whole night because of the heavy cold and high wind which lashed every now and then making it tough to sleep. After struggling much for a good sleep we left the hope and got up by 5.00 am with the intension of making a campfire for getting ride of the cold. Collected some wood and successfully created a campfire.

We where joined by other 3 group of campers, who had come from Bangalore. We decided to move together and find the way out to the highway from there. After a bit of refreshment we all set out to find the way out. We all, around 18 of us climbed down together the hill and started walking in a pursuit to find the river which we couldn’t find the other day.

Walking for another one and half hour through the forest we where hearing the sound of trucks and busses together with the high flowing river. Ya we could even see the trucks and busses going through the highway just across the river around 400 meters away. The bridge was broken and only one way to reach the other side of the river was by stepping on the slippery stones which had formed a natural path for the trekkers. With all courage and withstanding the pressure of the flowing river all of us successfully reached the other side. I couldn’t resist the clean and crystal water for a long time, so as soon as we reached the other side I took a dip in the water and that refreshed my whole body. It was like whole pain had washed away with that one dip in the chilled water.

As soon as we climbed up to reach the highway out of the water, there it is, a KSRTC bus coming from Mangalore towards Bangalore. That was the time to say adieu to the great green route. Looking through the windows of the bus towards those green mountains which we had trekked, at least I felt like I had conquered that whole mountain range. But rather it will be better to say that the beauty of nature have conquered me.

tag : Donigal, railway, trekking, yedakumeri,Yadakumeri, yedukumeri,green route bangalore

Did you know : Bangalored

2006-10-30T18:01:00.000+05:30

Bangalored is a neologism and used as a verb. Bangalored is used to indicate a layoff, often systemic, and usually due to corporate outsourcing of the business function to lower wage economies. The word is derived from Bangalore, India, which houses many outsourcing centers for Western economies.

It refers to people who have been laid off from a multinational company because their job has been moved to India (outsourced — a business practice designed to save money that is arousing passions in some countries, especially Britain and the United States). Bangalore is cited in particular because of its reputation in the USA as a high-tech city, and widely regarded as the Silicon Valley of India that has benefited significantly from such outsourcing.

Bangaloreophobia refers to fear of Bangalore or fear of losing jobs to Bangalore.

source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalored

Is World still not flat enough !

2006-10-10T17:05:00.000+05:30

Ya, its official news now, Google have gobbled yet another dot com startup (rather a giant in its field), YouTube famous for free video sharing which lets users upload, view, and share video clips. A company just started just in 2005 at San Mateo, US with a small sum of money and innovation done by just three people.

This success story leads me to a question,"Why can't we Indians come up with such an Innovation ?" Its said that "the world has gone flat" which allow anyone anywhere in the world to fight with even the giants in the same level. We are able to access same material which any US innovator can through the World wide web, we are able to communicate between each other on web in the same way how an US innovator does through IM and phones. Still why are we not able to come up with these type of innovative product based startups. What are we lagging in ? Is that world is not still flat enough ?

One of the problems which I find is that Indian companies are not supporting innovations in our country at that magnitude which is required to. Let’s take an example of supportive innovation of Google, Google has something known as Google Labs which comes out with new new product at a frequent interval of time. It support the new ideas which comes out of its Employee and try to incubate it with moral and monetary support. As a result the new products of Google comes up.

Why can’t an Indian company like Infosys or TCS or Wipro come up with its own incubators or Labs ? Why can’t they come open into the product based business rather sticking itself with the Service oriented business culture. Infosys, TCS and Wipro each have huge employee strength of 65,000 each. Only thing they need to do is to give them chance to think and express their ideas. Surely from this 65,000 employees each company can get enormous number of practical innovative ideas. Which can be latter incubated and nourished. If they, then India is going to see a sea change in the scenario in the near future. Hope the next startup which Google is going to gobble be from India !

News which lead to this thought: Google Buys YouTube for USD1.65 billion

Me the WinneR

2006-10-03T13:55:00.000+05:30

Yes i am the winner of techtribe.com "the iPod winner for last week".
Check out it here : http://promotion.techtribe.com/

New Yahoo! Mail Beta

2006-09-28T15:57:00.000+05:30

New Yahoo! Mail Beta is out and Rocking.
When i first tried it, i just felt like i am at home with my microsoft outlook. The new Yahoo! Mail is a sleek, finely wrought piece of interface design. The overall look is an Outlook-styled, three-pane window with folders in the left vertical pane, headers top right, and a message preview pane below the headers.
Also some of the other addons are its right click enabled menu and the Tab interface for getting several message/folder on the screen at a single time and reading it latter.
They have made use of AJAX in the most stylish manner...

Happy Birthday Google

2006-09-26T10:43:00.000+05:30

Google turns 8 today..
Thanks google for making "World Flat"..

A long rainy season..

2006-08-26T15:14:00.000+05:30

After a long time, i just thought again about my blog.. Poor little blog, no updates from a long time.. Lot of thing happened in my life, A city change, A company change, A new house,.. and lots more... But nothing had happened to my this beautiful page.. For me it was an eventful long rainy season.. Hopefully its ended and i am well settled for a while. Hope to post soon regarding a lot of thing.. See you soon my blog..:)

Snap search

2006-06-01T21:25:00.000+05:30

Snap search -An AJAX based search..
Surely google is going to follow this.. Nice interface and UI design.
Check it yourself

ipod shuffle

2006-05-21T19:37:00.000+05:30

Bought an ipod shuffle yesterday.. a 512MB one...

Barca, the winners. ( Champions League Update )

2006-05-18T09:37:00.000+05:30

Barcelona fought back from a goal down to beat 10-man Arsenal 2-1 and win their second European Cup in the 50th anniversary final at the Stade de France on Wednesday.
Late strikes from striker Samuel Eto'o and substitute defender Juliano Belletti cancelled out a first-half header from Arsenal defender Sol Campbell.

Full story here

Flickr Goes Gamma

2006-05-17T16:02:00.000+05:30

Ya, Flickr have added some new features and changed its look to name itself as Flickr Gamma. The features that has been added are minimal but the layout change which has been made will take some time for a flickr user to be accustomed with. The menu have been relocated and the photo set have been shifted from left to right side of the page. Flickr blog says :

New Navigation, New Search, New and Improved Organizr, and the Person Menu. All of these improvements have been designed to help you navigate the site with less effort and organize your photos more efficiently.

it's for my mom..

2006-05-14T20:58:00.000+05:30

Google Launches "Google Trends"

2006-05-12T16:03:00.000+05:30

Google Trends have been launched. It’s a analysis tool, that allows you to see how often specific search terms are being entered into the Google search engine. Google Trends analyzes a portion of Google web searches to compute how many searches have been done for the terms you enter relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time.

43thing i wanna do

2006-05-12T10:47:00.000+05:30

I am hooked up with this site : 43things.com

More About 43 Things

Write down your goals
People have known for years that making a list of goals is the best way to achieve them. Why is that? First, getting your goals in writing can help you clarify what you really want to do. You might find you have some important and some frivolous goals. That is OK. You’ve got space for 43 Things on your list. Not every one of them has to change the world (but save room for the ones that might).
Get Inspired
What do you want to do with your life? It is not an easy question to answer – and you shouldn’t have to answer alone. Browse 43 Things to find out what others want to do. You might find some goals you share. Click the “I want to do this” button to add a goal to your list. Got an idea for a new goal? Just type it in the text box on the homepage or at the bottom of any page on the site. Bam. Now, it’s your thing.
Share your progress
We all have stories about what we care about. Writing down your progress on a goal can help someone else learn about something you both want to do. When you see a goal you’ve achieved, click on the “I’ve done this” button and share a story about how you did it.

I am doing 18 things
1. keep smiling 10 people
2. Start my own business 2499 people
3. Create a successful Startup 29 people
4. write a successful social web application 18 people
5. Buy a Sony CyberShot DSC-H1 1 person
6. Get a laptop 517 people
7. own an iPod 72 people
8. learn PHP 815 people
9. master CSS 588 people
10. learn ruby on rails 783 people
11. stay a non-smoker 13 people
12. give back to my parents 23 people
13. spend more time with my mother 14 people
14. Fly a plane 265 people
15. write a book 6761 people
16. Read more books 3905 people
17. Make my parents proud 454 people
18. be more social 1198 people

Bangalore Travel Series

2006-05-10T14:09:00.000+05:30

Alexander Muse of Texas Venture Capital have written a nice series of article on Bangalore Travel. He had collected lots of details from his last visit to Bangalore for attending BarCampBangalore and made a series of travel tips. It Will be really a nice for those who are planning to come to Bangalore, The silicon Valley of India.

Bangalore Travel Series: No. 1 - How to get there
Bangalore Travel Series: No. 2 - Where to stay
Bangalore Travel Series: No. 3 - Where to eat
Bangalore Travel Series: No. 4 - What to do
Bangalore Travel Series: No. 5 - Where to shop
Bangalore Travel Series: No. 6 - Warnings and Tips

Spirit of BarCampBangalore

2006-05-04T17:59:00.000+05:30

Yes, it was not a conference, but a get together (or unconference by definition). More then that it was a platform for communication, idea exchange, a platform for knowing each other. I was really excited and motivated after attending the Bangalore BarCamp. Bangalore BarCamp unconference included lot of interactive sessions. Ya nearly 25 sessions. As expected when i reached yahoo office at 9.00am there where quite a large people who have showed up for the event. All where excited about being a part of this movement. There where some people who have come down to Bangalore just to organize or attend the camp. Some had even attended the recently concluded BarCamp at Delhi/Hyderabad/Chennai. But most of us where new and first timers. One interesting thing about the unconference anyone who attended would have noticed was the names of the unconference rooms : narangi, Toddy, Arrack, Fenni, Santra (upholding the BarCamp spirit). I wanted to mention some of the interesting sessions at BarCamp Bangalore which i could attend.

- Pete from yahoo on agile development model SCRUM
- Tara Hunt from Riya.com on Pinko Marketing
- Arun and Arjun on their new startup TAAZZA.com
- Jai Fichialos on junk prototyping for UI design
- Chris Messina ( barcamp starter) on Microformats
- Prashant on web 2.0 development modeling
- Shreyes on independent music in india

also other sessions i attended where on podshala, Amazon web API's and one on Adobe flex programming.

The best presentation was of pete on SCRUM and most crowd pulling was of Taazza (http://www.taazza.com) and the session which shreyas gave on spot about independent music ( http://infinityradio.info).

Remains of BarcampBangalore are here :
Photos :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/barcampBangalore
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/bcbattendee/

Reviews :
Anita bora's blog
Alex muse's blog
Tara Hunt's review
Amit Ranjan's blog
Rajan's rambling

Clicks :

GetFirefox for Protection

2006-05-03T13:34:00.000+05:30

History of Bangalore

2006-05-02T15:30:00.000+05:30

It all began with a handful of boiled beans!
The story how Bangalore came to be called by its present name has an interesting history. Once on a hunting expedition King Ballala of the Hoysala dynasty lost his way in the jungle. Deep inside the jungle, lived an old woman who took pity on the hungry and tired hunter. The old woman was poor and had nothing else to offer but boiled beans. But the king was so pleased with her hospitality that he named the entire city as bele-benda-kalu-ooru, which in the local language Kannada means, the place of boiled beans. The historical evidence of the name “Bengalooru” can be found in a 9th century inscription found in a temple in the village of Begur. Today the name has been shortened and anglicised after the British influence and has come to be called Bangalore.

Kempe Gowda marks the four corners of the city
Another historical figure instrumental in shaping the city of Bangalore is a feudal lord who called himself Kempe Gowda, and who served under the Vijayanagara Kings. Hunting seemed to be a favourite past time in those days. During one of his hunting bouts, Kempe Gowda was surprised to see a hare chase his dog. Either his dog was chicken hearted or the hare was lion hearted one does not know, but the episode surely made an impression on the feudal lord. He told himself this is a place surely for heroes and heroics, and he referred to Bangalore from then onwards as “gandu bhoomi” (heroic place). Kempe Gowda I, who was in charge of Yelahanka, built a mud fort in 1537. With the help of King Achutaraya, built the little towns of Balepet, Cottonpet, and Chickpet, all inside the fort. Today, these little areas serve as the major wholesale and commercial market places in the city. Kempegowda, the II built four watch towers to mark the boundary of Bangalore. A hundred years later, Vijaynagar empire fell, and in 1638, it was conquered by Mohammed Adil Shah, the Sultan of Bijapur.

Power shifts from Sultans to Marathas to British:
Pleased with the services of his trusted lieutenent Shahaji Bhonsale, (father of the great Maratha king Shivaji), Adil Shah gifted Bangaloreto him. After 49 years of Maratha rule, the moghuls captured and passed it to the Wodeyars of Mysore for 3 lakh pagodas. In 1759, Bangalore came into the possession of Hyder Ali, father of Tippu Sultan. It was during these two heroes, Bangalore flourished with parks, gardens and palaces. When Tippu died, British restored Bangalore back to the Mysore rulers, the Wodeyars, but were not too sure of their entrpreuner abilities. So they ruled Bangalore directly. Under the British influence, Bangalore bloomed with modern facilities like the railways, telegraphs, postal and police departments. In 1881, the British returned the city to the Wodeyars. Diwans like Mirza Ismail, and sir Vishweshwarayya were the pioneers to help Bangalore attain its modern outlook.

Important Historical Dates
BC(-) Stone Age implements, Roman coins & burial grounds unearthed.
850 AD ‘Bengalooru’ appears on Mauryan empire milestone
1015 Chola Empire takes over City
c.1120 Veera Ballala II calls it ‘Benda Kalooru’ or ‘Town of Boiled Beans’
(after a poor woman feeds him beans in the forest)
1537 Kempe Gowda I designs City as it exists today. (KG II builds the 4 towers)
1638 Shahaji Bhonsle (Shivaji’s father) captures City for Adil Shah who gifts it to him
1640 Shivaji marries Bangalore girl
1687 Aurangzeb’s army captures City
1690 Sells it to the Wodeyars for 3 lakhs!
1759 Wodeyar gifts it to Hyder Ali who builds Lal Bagh
1791 Cornwallis defeats Tipu but returns City to him
1799 Tipu dies. City returned to Wodeyar
1800 Bangalore GPO opened
1809 Cantonment established
1812 St. Mark’s Cathedral built
1831 British take-over administration
1853 Sunday declared weekly holiday
1859 1st train steams out of City
1864 Sankey builds Cubbon Park
1867 Attara Kacheri built
1887 Bangalore Palace built
1898 The great plague. (Another plague-the 1st telephone rings)
1903 1st motor car pollutes city
1905 India’s 1st electric bulb lit in Bangalore City Market
1909 Indian Institute of Science built
1940 1st flight Bangalore/Bombay
1948 Deccan Herald launched
1954 Vidhana Soudha built
2005 I came to Bangalore

courtesy : startupbangalore

Da Vinci Code Quest on Google

2006-04-26T12:20:00.000+05:30

Try it yourself here..

Arsenal in Final (Champions League Update)

2006-04-26T09:49:00.000+05:30

Villarreal 0 - 0 Arsenal (Arsenal advance 1 - 0 on aggregate)

Jens Lehman saved a penalty kick to preserve Arsenal's 0 - 0 draw against Villarreal and send the Gunners to the Champions League final. Leading 1-0 after the first leg, Arsenal just needed a draw to advance. But Villarreal were given a chance to send the cup tie into extra time when Gael Clichy fouled Jose Mari. But Lehmann was the hero of the day as he made a diving save to deny Riquelme from the penalty spot. The Gunners will now face AC Milan or Barcelona in the final in Paris. And with Thierry Henry and Arsene Wenger, May 17th is going to be Arsenals biggest day at Champions league.

Congratulations to the Gunners!

Today : AC Milan Vs Barcelona (second leg semifinal)

Barcamp Bangalore Rocked !!

2006-04-22T19:10:00.000+05:30

Really a great experience attending Barcamp, Bangalore..
Will be posting more soon..

Beer Troubleshooting

2006-04-21T14:45:00.000+05:30

45 Kg Trophy !!

2006-04-20T17:26:00.000+05:30

Luckly India and pakistan is going to share the trophy. Other wise both dravid and Inzamam-ul-Haq would have felt difficulty in holding the trophy alone.
The DLF cup made world record for the biggest trophy made for any cricket tournement. The sparkling 45 kg trophy is made of gold, silver and diamonds with Jaipur's famous meenakari work around.
The trophy has five players engraved at its base wearing India and Pakistan colours. The bottom has flags of both countries along with logos of the respective boards. The centre has ten golden stumps with a red ball striking them.

Champions League (Update 1)

2006-04-20T16:16:00.000+05:30

For those who follow European football and love Barcelona and Arsenal (not Inter milan and Manchester) this is a happy moment. Both Barcelona and Arsenal have won their first leg Champions League semifinals. So one step closer to the final !!
Results:
Arsenal 1 Villarreal 0
AC Milan 0 Barcelona 1

Track Back :
Arsenal and Barca into Champions League semis..

My Childhood Memoirs (Part II)

2006-04-19T17:07:00.000+05:30

Doordarshan Days

This post will be nostalgic for those people who used to watch Doordarshan in their childhood days and still remember the old Mile Sur Mera Tumhara and all those Doordarshan programmes. Ya i did. When i get to hear those old song my mind goes back to those days 12-15 years back, when we had only one channel Doordarshan and hardly of 12 hours of telecast per day. The telecast of programme used to start with the RED Doordarshan logo filling the whole television screen. There where programmes like Ramayan, Mahabharath, Circus, Malgudi days, Chitrahaar, Buniyaad, Hum Log, Udaan, Fauji, Surabhi... The news for the hearing impaired, even "Street Hawk" Some of my best childhood programs were.. "Turning Point" and "Bharat Kee Khoj" (with Nehru narrating) and ofcourse how can I forget my best ever ... "Surabhi".. I remember sending those answers to swaal jawab answers in postcard and waiting for sidharth Kak or Renuka sahani to pick my card from those huge heap of postcards. I miss all that !!

Children’s series like Hi-Man, Spiderman, Vikram-Vetaal.

Advertisements of Nirma, Kayam Churen, Rooh Afza, Rasna ( I Love You Rasana!!). lots more

National integration programme like “ek anak aur ekta” cartoon, Mile Sur Mera tumhara.

Some Links here:
Mile Sur Mera Tumhara song : Here
ek anak aur ekta Video : Here
Bharat_Ek_Khoj title song : Here

For Those who don’t know about Doordarshan : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doordarshan

PS: Do any one remember a Chinese/Japanese program, dubbed into Hindi which used to be shown on Doordarshan in the afternoons. A story of a young girl.???

tag : Doordarshan,Ramayan, Mahabharath, Circus, Malgudi days, Chitrahaar, Buniyaad, Hum Log, Udaan, Fauji, Surabhi, Bharat Kee Khoj, renuka sahani,sidharth Kak

Not just a WebNotePad its Netvibes

2006-04-18T15:54:00.000+05:30

[Link] www.netvibes.com
For those who dont know about netvibes is, its like they still memorise each and every blog address, open each site one after the other to see if their is any new post. Have you ever thought about what if we could see all these blog post at one time and at one page ?. Ya thats what netvibes helps you in. Not only that, You can see your mails( Pop3, yahoo and Gmail). Place your Del.icio.us links on your page. Not just this, you can do lots more with netvibes. Customize how your page should look. Can even present the contents in a tab format. I just love opening my netvibes page every morning and finding whats new happening.
I am sure even you will get addicted to this..

Also posted at: www.sailink.blogspot.com

Back from home to work

2006-04-17T11:35:00.000+05:30

Don't Remember how fast those four days went.... :(

Happy Vishu

2006-04-14T13:50:00.000+05:30

For those who dont know about vishu click this Link Here

BarCamp @ Bangalore

2006-04-12T10:33:00.000+05:30

Yes, BarCamp the most heard Technical event in the blog circle is going to be conducted at Yahoo! headquarters in Bangalore on 22nd april 2006. I have registered but bit late. My name comes in the list at 154th position. Hope i will be able to attend the unconference as the limit stated was 100 campers.

What is BarCamp ?
(for those who are new to this)
BarCamp is an ad-hoc un-conference born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees. For more details see this link

History of BarCamp
check out this link to learn the politics behind its inception.

Check out what these newspapers had to say
DNA Network
Economic Times

Official Links
http://barcamp.org/
http://barcamp.org/BarCampBangalore

Rush to add your name and topic to this list .
Also join the mailing list for the discussion.

Lets raise our voice against this reservation policy..

2006-04-10T10:02:00.000+05:30

Its really sad that Indian government has become more vote bank friendly then people friendly. The recent reservation policy of the government shows this attitude of our current Indian government. The government is on the path of increasing the reservation for OBC/SC/ST in public department and educational institutions to 50%. Better then me saying about this i want you all to read the article written by one of my friend Abhishek> even my heart says the same :

I guess the hot news now is the govt.'s proposed
reservation bill seeking to add 27% reservation for
OBCs which would lead to the total reservation coming
to nearly 50%.

Now with all due respect to any SCs/STs/OBCs etc. etc.
blah blah out there, in my opinion this is simply
bulls**t! Why don't they increase reservations to 100%
while they're at it? Why do it piece by piece when
they're gonna reach 100% anyway?

I'll tell you why - it's because if this govt.
increases reservations to 100% (and don't think for
one moment it can't), then forthcoming govts. will not
know what to do to get more votes. After all, it's all
about cheap and petty vote-bank politics, nothing
else. All this talk about affirmative action is simply
an eyewash to fool people.

How else do you explain the fact that while all
parties in the parliament can *never* agree on any
issue and lakhs are spent on the tables and chairs
broken everyday in protests by one party or the other,
on this one issue there were *NO* objections by
*anyone*?

Obviously, because no party wants to lose the votes of
the minorities. It's a simple case of "you scratch my
back, and I'll scratch yours".

All I can say is that I'm saddened, bemused and
sickened all at the same time. When merit takes a
back-seat to politics, then India for sure is being
pushed down the abyss of destruction.

'India Shining' is the govt.'s cry. What rubbish! The
shine, if ever there was any, has fast been replaced
by the rust and degradation of avarice and greed.

India is a name to be reckoned with in the Silicon
Valley and all over the world solely due to the best
and brightest of our minds having contributed so much
to the industry. And after years of 'brain drain'
which saw us lose our best minds to the US and others,
there was some amount of 'reverse brain drain'
happening which saw those people return to their
motherland and contribute to the institutions here
that made them what they are today.

But now where is the incentive for any young and
talented person, especially of the General category,
to stay here anymore? No appreciation for hard work or
merit and fighting day after day with literally
thousands and millions for a few seats here and there
in educational institutions. I have myself given exams
where we were all competing like crazy for maybe 5 or
10 seats that were open to us out of the total. Won't
people go crazy in this situation after a while? It
pains me to say it 'cos I love my country, but who
wants to stay in such a place for long?

Even the few available seats are filled by people
through back-door means like bribery, nepotism etc.
What is a normal, average to above-average student
from a poor or middle-class background to do if he
belongs to the General category? If he can't afford to
go abroad and can't get a seat to study here, where
does he go? No wonder we have so many highly qualified
people working as chaprasis and what not. What a
waste!

I have seen with my own eyes my very own classmate
from school walking into IIT Kanpur and joining the
Computer Science BTech course (you all know only top
rankers in JEE get it) just because he was an SC or an
ST. I'm not sure which as I never asked him. In fact,
before he got into IIT, all through school I never
even knew he was an SC/ST. And why should I? I never
treated him any differently from the others. We were
all alike and there was no discrimination. In fact,
his family was distinctly in the higher economic
bracket as his father was a highly paid executive.

Now can someone tell me why this guy needed a seat
reserved for him? Was he discriminated against? Not
that I could tell. Was he poor? No way! Then how come
he got a seat that should have gone to some other
deserving candidate? Don't get me wrong, he probably
did have enough brains to get into some other course
at IIT but certainly not enough to get into the Comp.
Sc. course.

Today's paper says that 60% of IIT students whose
performance is reviewed and who're thrown out (yes! it
does happen in IIT too! Not everyone who gets in is a
genius, mugging can and often does suffice) are
SCs/STs. The tragedy being that deserving candidates
are turned away and such students are allowed in only
for them to be thrown out and seats remaining vacant
at the end! After all, even IIT doesn't want its
placement figures ruined. So better remove beforehand
those students who're useless.

Question - why did they allow those supposedly useless
people to get in in the first place?

This is what happens when you have reservations to the
tune of 50% and more. First it was govt.-aided
educational institutions, soon it might be in private
institutions, schools and even companies (they tried
this recently) too.

Now tell me - if you were told that you would have an
assured seat in school (do you know how tough school
admissions are nowadays?), then in college, then for
PG, then have an assured job - would you study hard?
Where is the incentive? Everything's free so why sweat
it out, right?

Let me clarify one major point here - I am *not at
all* against SCs/STs/OBCs etc. and I'm not totally
against reservation. But it should be MERIT cum MEANS
*ONLY*. If someone's got talent but is from a poor
background and can't pay for his education, by all
means it should be subsidised for him, whichever
caste/creed etc. he belongs to. But there should be
*no blanket reservations* for anybody who brandishes a
caste certificate saying he's an SC or an ST or
whatever.

People laugh and joke about one-room 'colleges' and
'universities' all over India giving degrees in any
and all subjects under the sun. But has anyone thought
of why they've mushroomed and how come they thrive?
It's because as a society we Indians are driven
towards gaining knowledge as a means to improve our
status in life. But if a person even with percentage
marks in the high 90s can't get a college seat in the
good universities like DU etc. (some courses, even
97-98 is not enough!), where will he go? And what of
the 50 and 60 percenters?

Every year the number of school students committing
suicides increases. It's obvious isn't it? They feel
that with their 'ordinary' marks they'll never make it
to any decent college and as they've ruined their
lives anyway, why not end it all. It makes me so sad
to read such news items - each one is a potential gem
lost to the country forever. And why? Because there
aren't enough seats for them. Why? Because of
reservations, of course.

The worst part is, no govt. will have the guts to
decrease reservations, ever. So like I said earlier,
with every govt. the ratio will increase till it
touches 100%.

My final opinion? First, for all prospective parents -
get a fake caste certificate made ASAP for your kid!
He'll appreciate it a lot when he grows up and needs
to go to college or during a job interview!

Second, I wish reservation touches 100% soon, for then
the only way out will be to start reserving seats for
us General category students. So govt., do it quick!

Already there's gonna be a massive shortage of trained
manpower and teachers in India in the IT sector within
a few years. For all it's flaws, China will soon
overtake us in the IT software sector too and we'll be
left licking our wounds yet again.

Great. When Manmohan Singh, an academic himself can
take such stupid decisions, what hope is there from
the rest?

So I ask you all, if you support this cause, then at
the very least raise your voice against this madness.
Write letters to the newspapers or mail them to let
them know how you, the youth and future of this
country, feel. Don't just sit back and think that
someone else will fight your battles for you. And yes,
it does affect you, whether directly or indirectly.

We can make a difference. Let us all shout together so
that the govt.'s foundations shake and totter. let
them know that enough is enough!

I know this was a loooong rant from my side but it was
just something I had to get off my chest. It may be
incoherent at times and not make total sense to you,
but if you read even part of it, you'd have surely got
an idea of what I was talking about. So do let me know
what *you* feel about it all? Do you think I'm right
about something or wrong about something else? What's
*your* opinion ?

For all those who believe that the recent decision of the Govt. regarding 49.5% reservation is unfair and is against the basic tenet of democracy...sign this online petition.

Hope we the citizens of india react to this bill before it is amanted as a law. Wake up my friends..

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2006-04-10T09:36:00.000+05:30

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Arsenal and Barca into Champions League semis..

2006-04-07T11:24:00.000+05:30

Hype, hype, hurray.. Both my favourite Arsenal and Barcelona are into semi finals of champions league.. In the semi-finals later this month, Barcelona will face AC Milan, while Arsenal takes on Villarreal. Hope both will win there semi and i will be lucky to see them in the finals. Thierry Henry's and Ronaldinho's presence in these teams makes these teams my favourite.

Match summary :

Arsenal-Juventus: 0-0
Arsenal’s young guns showed tremendous composure throughout the night as Arsenal moved into the semifinals of the Champions League for the first time with a gritty 0-0 draw at Juventus in Wednesday’s quarter-final, second-leg. The Londoners won the tie 2-0 aggregate triumph to spark off wild celebrations.

Barcelona-Benfica: 2-0
Ronaldinho had a penalty kick saved by Benfica goalkeeper Marcelo Moretto. Well Ronaldinho did ammend his mistake just minutes later when Samuel Eto’o excellent run-n-cross provided Ronaldinho with a simple goal in the 19th minute. Benfica didn’t posed much threat to Barcelona until the 60th minute when Simao failed to score with acre of space. Well that pretty much rounded up Benfica performance that night. Samuel Eto’o scored Barca 2nd goal to seal the game minutes before the final wistle.

Apple "Think different" rare advertisement

2006-04-06T09:11:00.000+05:30

Is he a rock star !!

2006-04-04T16:13:00.000+05:30

All credit for channel V and MTV for changing the profile of this great revolutionary into a "well known rock star" !! Nowadays the t-shirts with this legendary face on it is considered to be the sort after party wear !! It happened last week when i was talking to a youth wearing that type of T-shirt, But when asked about the face, he suggested me it was one of the legendary rock star of 60's. Yes he was a rock star but never played rock music, but he rocked the world with his revolutionary ideas and ethics. He is Che Guevara. A Doctor by profession but revolutionary by his heart. He was a person who didn’t fight for oneself, but fought for the people around him. Argentine by blood, As a young man studying medicine, Guevara travelled throughout Latin America bringing him into direct contact with the poverty in which many lived. Through these experiences he became convinced that only revolution could remedy the region's economic inequality.
Later, Guevara became a member of Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement that seized power in Cuba in 1959. After serving in various important posts in the new government and writing a number of articles and books on the theory and practice of guerrilla warfare, Guevara left Cuba in 1965 with the intention of igniting revolutions first in the Congo and then in Bolivia. Guevara died at the hands of the Bolivian Army in La Higuera near Vallegrande on October 9, 1967.
Long live Che Guevara (Not as a rock star but As a revolutionary )

More Links:
http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/guevara01.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara
http://www.marxists.org/archive/guevara/index.htm

V for Vendetta (Movie Review)

2006-04-03T18:18:00.000+05:30

I cannot believe how many people love this movie. Reading every review along with an average score of 8.1/10 prompted me to see this very exciting film. But this excitement only sustained for the first half an hour of the film. Wachowski brothers' movies are known for its unrealistic but thought provoking story line. Matrix had every ingredient of a Wachowski brothers' story, Matrix trilogy was unrealistic in all aspect but excelled in graphical, story and succeeded in making us think ya this could happen. But V for Vendetta lacked everything except background sound. The story lacked suspense, lacked excitement, lacked colour, lacked life. It was a slow moving art film supposed to be liked by people who like movie because of its complexity. Even though the movie was set in year 2020 the set looks pretty old. And the 75% percent of the movie happens in night, Most of the actors wear black dresses. This makes the movie an absolute colourless and makes the audience sleepy. Our masked hero (Hugo Weaving) never shows his face in the whole movie. We need to appreciate him for accepting this role. When it come to Natalie Portman a full marks for her acting. She gave her best. Totally I would rate this movie 4.5/10.

The story goes like this:
The movie is set in Great Britain in the near future. Under the guise of several terrorist acts, a totalitarian government is elected to Parliament under Chancellor Adam Sutler (John Hurt) to save the country from these terrorists. The only problem is the people must give up a lot of their freedoms for being safe. The government eventually becomes cruel, corrupt, and oppressive to the people. Driven by a personal vendetta, a mysterious individual William Rookwood (Hugo Weaving) comes to the forefront to take up the cause of freedom. He wears a mask of Guy Fawkes to cover his face, and changes his name to only V. V's mission is to kill all the doctors who had tortured him at the detention center, and bring back justice to the country. On November 5, in the process of blowing up his first building, V rescues a young woman, Evey (Natalie Portman), from the secret police. V takes over the TV station and broadcasts a message to the country condemning the oppressors in Parliament. V invites all the people to join him in one year on Guy Fawkes Day to see him complete what Guy Fawkes couldn't, blow up Parliament.

* Sorry for this story spoiler
[* No commands please this is my personal view]

Top 10 April Fools Day Hoaxes of All Time

2006-03-31T16:19:00.000+05:30

#1: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
In 1957 the respected BBC news show Panorama announced that thanks to a very mild winter and the virtual elimination of the dreaded spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. It accompanied this announcement with footage of Swiss peasants pulling strands of spaghetti down from trees. Huge numbers of viewers were taken in, and many called up wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti trees. To this question, the BBC diplomatically replied that they should "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best."

#2: Sidd Finch
In its April 1985 edition, Sports Illustrated published a story about a new rookie pitcher who planned to play for the Mets. His name was Sidd Finch and he could reportedly throw a baseball with startling, pinpoint accuracy at 168 mph (65 mph faster than anyone else has ever been able to throw a ball). Surprisingly, Sidd Finch had never even played the game before. Instead, he had mastered the "art of the pitch" in a Tibetan monastery under the guidance of the "great poet-saint Lama Milaraspa." Mets fans everywhere celebrated at their teams's amazing luck at having found such a gifted player, and Sports Illustrated was flooded with requests for more information. But in reality this legendary player only existed in the imagination of the writer of the article, George Plimpton.

#3: Instant Color TV
In 1962 there was only one tv channel in Sweden, and it broadcast in black and white. The station's technical expert, Kjell Stensson, appeared on the news to announce that thanks to a newly developed technology, all viewers could now quickly and easily convert their existing sets to display color reception. All they had to do was pull a nylon stocking over their tv screen, and they would begin to see their favorite shows in color. Stensson then proceeded to demonstrate the process. Reportedly, hundreds of thousands of people, out of the population of seven million, were taken in. Actual color tv transmission only commenced in Sweden on April 1, 1970.

#4: The Taco Liberty Bell
In 1996 the Taco Bell Corporation announced that it had bought the Liberty Bell from the federal government and was renaming it the Taco Liberty Bell. Hundreds of outraged citizens called up the National Historic Park in Philadelphia where the bell is housed to express their anger. Their nerves were only calmed when Taco Bell revealed that it was all a practical joke a few hours later. The best line inspired by the affair came when White House press secretary Mike McCurry was asked about the sale, and he responded that the Lincoln Memorial had also been sold, though to a different corporation, and would now be known as the Ford Lincoln Mercury Memorial.

#5: San Serriffe
In 1977 the British newspaper The Guardian published a special seven-page supplement in honor of the tenth anniversary of San Serriffe, a small republic located in the Indian Ocean consisting of several semi-colon-shaped islands. A series of articles affectionately described the geography and culture of this obscure nation. Its two main islands were named Upper Caisse and Lower Caisse. Its capital was Bodoni, and its leader was General Pica. The Guardian's phones rang all day as readers sought more information about the idyllic holiday spot. Few noticed that everything about the island was named after printer's terminology. The success of this hoax is widely credited with launching the enthusiasm for April Foolery that then gripped the British tabloids in the following decades.

#6: Nixon for President
In 1992 National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation program announced that Richard Nixon, in a surprise move, was running for President again. His new campaign slogan was, "I didn't do anything wrong, and I won't do it again." Accompanying this announcement were audio clips of Nixon delivering his candidacy speech. Listeners responded viscerally to the announcement, flooding the show with calls expressing shock and outrage. Only during the second half of the show did the host John Hockenberry reveal that the announcement was a practical joke. Nixon's voice was impersonated by comedian Rich Little.

#7: Alabama Changes the Value of Pi
The April 1998 issue of the New Mexicans for Science and Reason newsletter contained an article claiming that the Alabama state legislature had voted to change the value of the mathematical constant pi from 3.14159 to the 'Biblical value' of 3.0. Before long the article had made its way onto the internet, and then it rapidly made its way around the world, forwarded by people in their email. It only became apparent how far the article had spread when the Alabama legislature began receiving hundreds of calls from people protesting the legislation. The original article, which was intended as a parody of legislative attempts to circumscribe the teaching of evolution, was written by a physicist named Mark Boslough.

#8: The Left-Handed Whopper
In 1998 Burger King published a full page advertisement in USA Today announcing the introduction of a new item to their menu: a "Left-Handed Whopper" specially designed for the 32 million left-handed Americans. According to the advertisement, the new whopper included the same ingredients as the original Whopper (lettuce, tomato, hamburger patty, etc.), but all the condiments were rotated 180 degrees for the benefit of their left-handed customers. The following day Burger King issued a follow-up release revealing that although the Left-Handed Whopper was a hoax, thousands of customers had gone into restaurants to request the new sandwich. Simultaneously, according to the press release, "many others requested their own 'right handed' version."

#9: Hotheaded Naked Ice Borers
In its April 1995 issue Discover Magazine announced that the highly respected wildlife biologist Dr. Aprile Pazzo had discovered a new species in Antarctica: the hotheaded naked ice borer. These fascinating creatures had bony plates on their heads that, fed by numerous blood vessels, could become burning hot, allowing the animals to bore through ice at high speeds. They used this ability to hunt penguins, melting the ice beneath the penguins and causing them to sink downwards into the resulting slush where the hotheads consumed them. After much research, Dr. Pazzo theorized that the hotheads might have been responsible for the mysterious disappearance of noted Antarctic explorer Philippe Poisson in 1837. "To the ice borers, he would have looked like a penguin," the article quoted her as saying. Discover received more mail in response to this article than they had received for any other article in their history.

#10: Planetary Alignment Decreases Gravity
In 1976 the British astronomer Patrick Moore announced on BBC Radio 2 that at 9:47 AM a once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event was going to occur that listeners could experience in their very own homes. The planet Pluto would pass behind Jupiter, temporarily causing a gravitational alignment that would counteract and lessen the Earth's own gravity. Moore told his listeners that if they jumped in the air at the exact moment that this planetary alignment occurred, they would experience a strange floating sensation. When 9:47 AM arrived, BBC2 began to receive hundreds of phone calls from listeners claiming to have felt the sensation. One woman even reported that she and her eleven friends had risen from their chairs and floated around the room.

* courtesy email Forward

Must See Movies (Part I)

2006-03-29T15:18:00.000+05:30

Web 2.0 websites

2006-03-24T09:26:00.000+05:30

Web 2.0

2006-03-23T18:01:00.000+05:30

The buzz word "Web 2.0" is been arround in the internet from a long time now. Even i was surprized by the popularity it is attaining. Today i thought about finding out what is it ? and why does it generate this much hype ? And i found the answer which a newbie had to know.

Web 2.0 generally refers to a second generation of services available on the World Wide Web that let people collaborate, and share information online. Confusing ? Ok we go back to find the other old generation of World Wide Web : first came the static web page ya in the mid 90's build using HTML and other related technologies. Then came more vibrant(as i thought it was, before web 2.0) and dynamic pages with the help of CSS(cascaded style sheet) and DOM(document object model). And now the google map, gmail, flickr where among the first to introduce so called Web 2.0 technologies. The web 2.0 is more vibrant then its old counter part. Web 2.0 applications often use a combination of techniques devised in the late 1990s, including public web service APIs, Ajax, HTML, XML. Now the question is what is this AJAX ??

Asynchronous JavaScript And XML, or its acronym, AJAX, is a Web development technique for creating interactive web applications. The intent is to make web pages feel more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change. Its a combination of technologies like :XHTML/HTML, CSS, DOM, XML. Some of the example of what AJAX can do are google map, flickr etc. If you want to know more about AJAX click here or click here.

Surely Web 2.0 and these technologies like AJAX is really good when it comes to the user prospective. The usage of internet sites get easier and really user friendly.
Some of the site which had implemented these web 2.0 are:
http://www.gmail.com
http://del.icio.us
http://www.maps.google.com
http://www.flickr.com
.... there are lots more. and lots more to come...

Remembering the Revolutionaries

2006-03-23T08:04:00.000+05:30

Today is March 23rd, today is the 75th anniversary of Martyrdom of Bhagat Singh, Sukh Dev & Raj Guru. On this day in 1931 these young revolutionaries were hanged in the Lahore Central Jail. I salute these brave Revolutionaries who layed life for the freedom movement of india.
Log on to: http://www.shahidbhagatsingh.org.

Google Earth unearthened !!

2006-03-19T12:32:00.000+05:30

My exploration with this vast internet continues... Happened to encounter google map. Spend lot of time roaming arround Bangalore city through this intractive map. Discovered my room, airport, MG road, Hebbal Flyover.. and lots more

My House at Bangalore (jeevan bhima Nagar):

iflex solutions office at Bangalore :

MCAatMIT on the Cover !!

2006-03-17T09:50:00.000+05:30

Techno Melange '06

2006-03-17T09:43:00.000+05:30

Visit : www.manipal.edu/technomelange for more Details.

My Childhood Memoirs (Part I)

2006-03-13T17:57:00.001+05:30

"Mittai Achappan"

This memologue dates back to sometime arround 1985-86 period. Ya i was hardly around 4 to 5 years old then. We used to leave in my father's family house at chepanool, a small agricultural village in kannur, kerala. Our house was next to the green fields and was surrounded by green, green, and green.

There was a small passage in front of our house, through which most of the villagers pass by. They have to catch this passage to go to the local tea or grocery shop. There was this old man, somewhere of the age 70-75 years old. He had made a habit of going to the tea shop every evening. He used to have a stick which helped him in walking as his back was fully bend because of his old age. Every evening after having tea from the shop, he used to buy a toffee or two just to give me. I dont know what i was for this old man. But i just remember that i used to be really happy seeing him every evening. I used to wait for him to come near the passage. I used to call him "mittai achappan" which means sweet grandfather in malayalam. Till the day we shifted ourself to the new house near to the town in 1986, he maintained this habit. But after that i rarely saw him.

Last year augest i happened to meet him, he had turned pretty weak and was unable to walk properly, ya he was somewhere near to 95 years of age now. I even went to talk to him, but he coundn't rememeber me. How could he, i have grown, i am still not the same 4 years old kid who used to wait for him for a toffee. and even he have become old.

On 10th march, when i called home, mom gave me the sad news of mittai achappan's death. I have only one regret, that i could pay back the love he had showed to me. Surprizing fact is that I dont know his real name still. For me he is my old dear mittai achappan for ever.

My Childhood Memoirs

2006-03-13T17:38:00.000+05:30

My main intention behind keeping this blog was to jolt down those fadding memories of my childhood days which i have preserved in my mind till now. But i am really worried that these beautiful memories may be lost in transistion sometime in the future. There are lots and lots of good, some weired, some sad memories which really i dont want to forget. Hope this blog help me in this venture.

Sainathkm Merchandises

2006-03-12T15:41:00.000+05:30

Check this website out :
http://flagrantdisregard.com/flickr/
You can do some weired stuff like those which i have made :

My unofficial flickr id :

My Billboard at Times Square:

Oh, I am on the cover of Menz Mag!!

Now huge crowd puller !!

Sainath's official calenders :

( the whole range of "sainath" merchandise collection )

Perfect shot !

2006-03-09T11:44:00.000+05:30

My Personalized google home..

2006-03-01T14:32:00.000+05:30

Osama as Valentine !!

2006-02-23T12:03:00.000+05:30

60 Questions i tried answering

2006-02-16T16:47:00.001+05:30

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

SeLf TaGGed (My High Five) !!

2006-02-15T18:43:00.001+05:30

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

Return of techno Melange

2006-02-10T00:42:00.000+05:30

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

Let's Blog...

2006-02-09T07:42:00.000+05:30

The history of 404

2006-02-09T05:48:00.000+05:30

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...

A bloggers Handbook

2006-02-08T06:07:00.000+05:30

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.....

KlueLESS: I am clueless

2006-02-03T23:19:00.000+05:30

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

My phitar Experience

2006-02-03T06:20:00.000+05:30

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/

I am back to this page..

2006-01-31T23:00:00.000+05:30

My starting was fine... But could't capitalize on that. The main reason for this long wait for the second post was my semester exams and my BUZY ( Ha Ha ) life.. Now i am Out of manipal ( My College) and starting my career as a software professional at iflex solutions here at Bangalore, the Cyber capital of India.. I have started my work on 2nd Jan, 06. And today i will be completing my 1st month at Job.

I dont know where life will take me from here. Hope so its always good which is waiting for me. I think from now onwards i will find time to post my mind into this blog.

About Me

2006-01-31T05:11:00.000+05:30

ME the word itself confuses me.. when i think about me the whole world around me comes in to my mind.. my parents, my friends, my institutions, my teachers, my ....... this list goes on. this is not because i have doubt about why i exist, but this is because i know clearly with whoes support i exists.. These are the people who had helped me in my existence, who have made me what i am now.. ::: even though i did not achieve much till now in my life.. what i know about myself is that I am a hi-dreamer and hard-worker( if i start a work !!) ..

Just getting started

2005-08-12T15:41:00.000+05:30

Well . . this is one thing I never really thought I would do, and that is start a web blog. Why not? Well .. this thing had never even crossed my mind until tonight. Another reason is that I had only really ever read ONE other blog in my life and that is of my friend rahul radhakrishnan who is leaving for US within this month......

Whatever be the reasons, I decided tonight to begin blogging. And so it begins . . .

Well . . . I'll start with who I am . I am at present a post graduate student (doing my MCA) at Manipal Institute of technology.. But more into technology i am in to designing.... I love designing websites, graphics and bit of animation... I love to work if i am provided with one....

OK OK OK . it's late and I am getting sleepy, so I'll put this first blog to rest. Hopefully this is the beginning of a beautiful on-line reading/writing experience!