Krishna Shasankar's Life Blog

New Blog

2008-11-22T21:02:00.000-08:00

My Blog is Moved to http://www.krishnashasankar.com/

I have moved my blog out of blogspot/blogger
please check here http://www.krishnashasankar.com/

Regards
Krishna

Solved the Rubik's Cube

2008-08-23T07:33:00.000-07:00

After a half's days effort today, i have been successful in solving the Rubik's puzzle. It is really not that hard to solve the puzzle, although it looks like it is. just that you will need to have a step b step approach and use some simple algorithms to have the output. you will also need loads and loads of patience to get it done.

Steps

Step #1 : getting the first row right.

I have no clue of what algorithm to use here. i did it on my own so it should be simple.
Finnish off one side right and place it in the bottom so the completed side faces the bottom. Now we will do completion towards up.

Step #2 : getting the second row right.

Two algorithms here, left one and the right one

Left one: Ui Li U L U F Ui Fi
Right one: U R Ui Ri Ui Fi U F

Step #3: Now you should have completed the bottom 2 layers
Creating a cross on top, either from a center piece, or from a L or from a line

===> F R U Ri Ui Fi

L should face towards North West

Step #4: Aligning the cross Elements to relevant center pieces

When you complete the cross which has 'four center pieces', at least two of them will be aligned to the center pieces of the the four sides, if the aligned pieces are adjacent to each other place one aligned side on your opposite and one on right and do this algorithm, if they are opposite to each other try this algorithm to get adjacent pieces and then repeat the step as detailed.

===> R U Ri U R U U Ri

Step #5: Aligning the aligning edge elements to their positions

===> U R Ui Li U Ri Ui L

up , away from you (r) , up inverted , away from you (l), up , towards you (r) , up inverted , towards you (l),

Step #6: Super rotation

===> Ri Di R D

Note: nothing will go wrong in step 6,don't be afraid, if you repeat step 6 - 6 times, the cube will come back to its original position. also when you align one corner piece on the topside, rotate the topside anticlockwise to get a new corner to be aligned, don't rotate the whole cube when you align one corner price in step 6

After a few attempts you are done. See the completed version of my cube here.

Buy Diamonds online in india? - Yes, Welcome to CaratLane

2008-08-13T19:49:00.000-07:00

Ever wondered what will happen if jewellery shopping is made online, ladies choosing and buying jewellery using a computer instead of making men spend whole day(s) standing in a shopping mall. This is where the future is .. Visit Caratlane.com this i think is probably the first portal in india focussed towards online sales of diamonds jewellery, they say that they are gonna change the way indians buy jewellery.

"CaratLane is an online Diamond and Diamond Jewellery Portal that aims to change the way Indians buy diamonds and diamond jewellery"

Visit: www.caratlane.com

P.S. You also get a free gold coin as a part of their launch

the Zilla ! vs Business User

2008-07-19T20:58:00.000-07:00

"The Zilla" has become my new nickname in office (with all credits to Collen for this amazing initiative) after I have started with bugzilla project to manage development activity at Chennai office. And the same guy says that I talk in C++ when he talks to me in English. I was wondering what makes me/us different from others, I think i have spend more time learning business process engineering, on-demand businesses, web design and marketing then with learning PHP or AJAX. So I thought of comparing the software that we use everyday to see if I can find any key differences in the way we work

An assumed list of tools that a business guy will use

Windows

Outlook

CRM

Web Meeting

MSN Messenger

Word

Excel

Powerpoint

Internet Explorer

Skype

Notepad

Microsoft SQL Server

Technologies/Concepts that they work with everyday

Saas

Strategic Planning

EPM

Strategy Maps

BSC

Six Sigma

EFQM

TQM

List of tools that I use everyday

grub (the boot loader)

ubuntu (my operating system)

gnome
(window manager - I tried KDE, didn’t look well)

pidgin (MSN messenger)

wine (to run some windows apps)

eclipse (the development environment)

php
(one of the main languages that I speak)

umbrello (UML)

dojo (the JS toolkit)

dijit (more into dojo)

jquery (the other JS toolkit)

apache (the big - boss)

evolution (my email client)

firefox (obviously)

firebug (yes!)

subversion (source code management)

bugzilla (work management)

nautilus (file manager)

gedit (more that just notepad... )

shell
(well the all illusive command prompt)

sudo (‘I am the god’ mode)

nano (notepad when I become god)

emacs (1 more)

Technologies/Concepts that I work with everyday

JSON

XML

REST

SOAP

CRM

SaaS

From the above comparision (length of the list)we infer that they are obviously doing lesser work then developers (he.. he.. i know i m gonna get kicked when collen sees this). They have fancy names for thier software, the only well known name in the list of my tools is firefox. But I never managed to understand what EFQM means???

Finding the Right Programmer.

2008-06-29T03:27:00.001-07:00

I was trying to find to resurces to properly evaluate programming candidates and i stumbled upon this article which i thought was perfect 10/10 measure to exactly identify a good progammer. But i am not sure how good this articale will be if we had to apply the same logic in a country like india, where exposure to computers only starts after college. (But when i put down myself in the same race, i did bunk my +2 tutions and school classes to hang out in internet cafes and try out Suse linux 6.3 using at that time's most advanced installation module-Yast2. Now when i look at myself. i almost manage to score a 9 out of 10 in these questions. ) . Read on this will be really intresting if you are really into programming. Finding the Right Programmer.
http://www.inter-sections.net/2007/11/13/how-to-recognise-a-good-programmer/

I am still here.. haven't quit blogging yet

2008-05-29T10:16:00.000-07:00

For all those who were thinking that i had quit blogging.... bad news .. i m still here just that i am not finding enough time to work with google tools (gmail,gtalk,analytics,adwords,docs,calendar.... and this one blogger).. I have been quite busy these days (everytime i say this, i want to give some other reason but couldn't find one).. if you wanto know what happened in between last blogpost and this one is that i travelled to two places one long trip to my office headquarters at stavanger(March) and one short but enjoyable trip to pondy after that(April). Pics posted below. Try here : http://picasaweb.google.com/itkrishna

Stavanger - Trip - March2008

Photography - the old NEW hobby

2008-02-25T08:10:00.000-08:00

Hi, all

Its been a long time since i had posted anything on this blog. Reasons are simple, i m too busy with my work, havent found time to travel or to take a few snaps. There are too many things happening over here, couldnt catch up with everything in these schedules. Well the good thing is that i managed to find a small trip to coimbatore (fotos below) and an across the border view of kerala for a couple of days and i have got a new prosumer camera (FujiFilm s5700) for myself and what next would you expect me to do all these times... its only been fotography.
Coimbatore Trip

More pics here

Photos near pallavaram hill

More Pics

and i seem to be learning a good amount of photography skills as well, look at my best photographs collection.

Art of Photography

New Cricket Rules (ICC Update: Jan 2008 )

2008-01-09T02:55:00.001-08:00

After watching the test match, someone has written some rules have to be incorporated by ICC to give the other teams a perfect clarification

(1) Ricky Ponting – (THE TRULY GENUINE CRICKETER OF THE CRICKET ERA AND WHOSE INTEGRITY SHOULD NOT BE DOUBTED ) should be considered as the FOURTH UMPIRE. As per the new rules, FOURTH UMPIRE decision is final and will over ride any decisions taken by any other umpires. ON-FIELD umpires can seek the assistance of RICKY PONTING even if he is not on the field. This rule is to be made, so that every team should understand the importance of the FOURTH UMPIRE .

(2) While AUSTRALIAN TEAM is bowling, If the ball flies anywhere close to the AUSTRALIAN FIELDER(WITHIN 5 metre distance), the batsman is to be considered OUT irrelevant of whether the catch was taken cleanly or grassed. Any decision for further clarification should be seeked from the FOURTH UMPIRE. This is made to ensure that the cricket is played with SPORTIVE SPIRIT by all the teams.

(3) While BATTING, AUSTRALIAN players will wait for the ON-FIELD UMPIRE decisions only (even if the catch goes to the FIFTH SLIP as the ball might not have touched the bat). Each AUSTRALIAN batsman has to be out FOUR TIMES (minimum) before he can return to the pavilion. In case of THE CRICKETER WITH INTEGRITY, this can be higher.

(4) UMPIRES should consider a huge bonus if an AUSTRALIAN player scores a century. Any wrong decisions can be ignored as they will be paid huge bonus and will receive the backing of the AUSTRALIAN team and board.

(5) All AUSTRALIAN players are eligible to keep commenting about all players on the field and the OPPONENT TEAM should never comment as they will be spoiling the spirit of the AUSTRALIAN team. Any comments made in any other language are to be considered as RACISM only.

(6) MATCH REFREE decisions will be taken purely on the AUSTRALIAN TEAM advice only. Player views from the other teams decisions will not be considered for hearing. MATCH REFREES are to be given huge bonus if this rule is implemented.

(7) NO VISITING TEAM should plan to win in AUSTRALIA. This is to ensure that the sportive spirit of CRICKET is maintained.

(8) THE MOST IMPORTANT RULE : If any bowler gets RICKY PONTING - "THE UNDISPUTED CRICKETER WITH INTEGTIRY IN THE GAME OF CRICKET" more than twice in a series, he will be banned for the REST OF THE SERIES. This is to ensure that the best batsman/Captain will be played to break records and create history in the game of CRICKET .

These rules will clarify better to the all the teams VISITING AUSTRALIA .

What FYI and FYA Really Means

2008-01-04T01:56:00.001-08:00

This is what we always use in the office when we send emails and this is what it really mean at the back of our minds. It is so true for all of us in the working world. For the newbies joining the working world, take a look.

1) For your information. (FYI)
- I don't know what to do with this, so please keep it.

2) For your action. (FYA)
- I don't know what to do with this, so I'm passing this shit to you.

3) Noted and returned.
- I don't know what to do with this, so please keep it for a little while.

4) Review and comment.
- Do the dirty work so that I can forward it and sign off with my name.

5) Action please.
- Get yourself involved. Don't worry, I'll claim the credit.

6) For your necessary action.
- It's your headache now. Woohoo!!!

7) CC to
- Here's a share of the headache.

8) BCC to
- I'm telling someone important that I'm working and sharing the headache with you.

9) For your approval, please.
- Put your neck on the chopping board for me please. :D

10) Action is being taken and will revert in due time.
- I lost your correspondence and still trying to locate it.
- I¡¯m busy! Bother me next week!!!

11) Please discuss.
- I don't know what this is all about. So please brief me.

12) For your immediate action.
- Do it NOW! Or we'll all get into trouble!!!

13) Please reply soon.
- Please be efficient. It makes me look inefficient because of you!

14) I am investigating/ processing your request with the relevant departments.
- They are causing the delay, not me! (Eyes open big big, innocent look)

15) Thanks & Regards.
- Thanks for reading all this bullshit.

Happy New Year 2008

2007-12-31T21:56:00.000-08:00

Plugins for Joomla CMS

2007-12-07T20:31:00.000-08:00

Some nice Plugins for Joomla CMS

- Tag Clouds
- http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,2287/Itemid,35/
- Joomla Featured Articles Module
  
  Simple, lightweight module which allows you to display your selected articles titles, to attract attention to these articles. Just enter comma seperated list of content IDs and you are up and running.
  
  http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,2385/Itemid,35/
- Content Item Module
  This modules allows for publishing content items or articles in areas other than mainBody(). Choose if you want to display a single item, all items from a category, all items from a section, or a number of content items/categories/sections specified by a comma separated list of ids. Simply enter the content item ID in the module's parameters field, assign a position to the module, and publish it. You can copy the module and assign a different name, position and contentitem id to the copy.
  http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,listcats/cat_id,1766/Itemid,35/

Chennai Superstars - Anything is POSSIBLE

2007-12-01T09:13:00.001-08:00

Try this Cool one

Chennai Superstars - Anything is POSSIBLE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYl3Kcq188Y

Not blogging

2007-11-21T04:10:00.001-08:00

I m not blogging these days too frequently...

there are basically 2 reasons for it...

1) I am lazy

2) I am too lazy

I have become so lazy that i try to create a blogpost with the word lazy

Stavanger - Norway

2007-09-30T20:06:00.001-07:00

Norway was my next travel destiny after Gwalior trip this April. I have been waiting for a long time to run-away from this tengshn-filled IT world. No trips in May, June and July meant that I have been waiting for something big to happen, never thought that I would end up travelling to the top end of the hemisphere.

This one was to a place called "Stavanger" in southern Norway, a small city with the Size of 1/17^th of Chennai and a population of 120 K. Stavanger houses the Global Headquarters of Corporater AS, where I am designated to work for a couple of weeks. Stavanger is a beautiful place to live in, its lush green everywhere cold air blowing all the times, the place is quite windy, but you can manage if you are not as thin as me.

When I first got the info that I will need to travel to Norway, I was kinda worried, I thought is this some sort of punishment for not doing the work right , I thought Norway is completely filled with ice and I will shiver to death if I had to go there. But only when i m there I came to know that Norway is not that bad (at least Stavanger is not that bad). I never got a chance to see the ice. It doesn't mean that it doesn't snow in Stavanger. It jus means that you are reading an august-posted-blog in December (wake up ☺ ). The good climate in Stavanger is because of the hot winds from the Atlantic Ocean. So if you end up in this beautiful place in the end of august you have 2 choices to call yourself, Lucky or Extremely Lucky.

Technology and Norway

Norway has a lack of human density, for a city which can be called as one by global standards (back in India, Stavanger will not even qualify for town-status) there are very few people to live in. If you walk on the road you won't see a human being for miles. And this is a country which tries to compensate its lack of human resources with technology. Almost every shop in Stavanger has a website (bolia.com, kvadrat, deal.no, datakjeden, it goes on…). Wherever we go you will end-up finding a wide amount of automation in systems that were otherwise considered to be manual. I suppose there are very few police (I am even afraid if there are any), becoz I have never seen a police guy during my whole trip, other than the guy who was diverting traffic towards airport on the last day. It seems that all traffic violations will be billed at you residential address. Hotel check-in and check-out is automated and you are debited on your credit-card (I don't know about others, but at smarthotel.no it is the case). It s really funny that you don't find these designations in Norway which we consider to be assumed as default in India, I have listed some of there

Lift Operator
Bus Conductor - (I am from Chennai, yes)
A guy issuing tickets for parked vehicles
Traffic Constables
Room Boy
Security (Other than the guys with big guns at NATO office)

Norway and India are at two different ends when it comes to population, one is suffering from decrease other by increase.

Prices and Lifestyle

"Norway is Expensive", there is nothing much you can do about it. So don't try be creative to find best deals. The best thing to do in Norway with prices is to forget about it , stop converting NOK2INR or stop going out. I did the first two and it did really worked out well.

Here is a small indicative of prices in Stavanger

Coffee = 20 NOK (140 INR vs 5~10 INR)
Coke(1/2 lt) = 32 NOK ( 224 INR vs 20 INR)
Cigarattes = 80 NOK (560 INR vs 40 INR)
Beer = 60 NOK (420INR vs 63 INR)
Mentos = 15 NOK ( 105 INR vs 15 INR)
Bus Ticket (Stavanger to Sandes in a Volvo) = 27 NOK (200 INR vs 20 INR in Chennai, 40 INR in Banagore)

The prices are relatively 10 times of what they cost in India, Its infact quite simple to manage, just assume you are spending Rupees instead of Kronas, 20 Rs for a coffee: ok, 27 rs for bus ticket : ok

About the people, Norwegians are shy and nationalistic. They are not open to talk to strangers, but they are helpful. If you ask them a route to some place, they wont say " I am shy i wont talk to you",instead they do help you :) . One strange think about Norwegians is their proud feeling about their country, they are always kind of asking you about Norway, well thats funny.

To be honest, the strangest thing about Norwegians is their insatiable appetite for acknowledgment:

“What do you think of Norway?”

“What do you think of Norway’s nature, athletes, politicians, musicians and (yes, I really heard
this one:) women?”

"why one earth someone expects me to comment about Norwegian politics in 3 days"

I’m not going to claim to be in possession of any facts or statistics, and perhaps the fact that I’m not a Norwegian and that I personally knew very little about Norway before travelling here, colors my impression. However, I do think the truth of the matter is that the vast majority of the Earth’s inhabitants do not like or dislike Norway. Quite frankly, it’s not that they don’t think much of Norway—it’s that they don’t think much about Norway.

And, to be honest, I’m envious by this kind of proud feeling among people.

Nature

Fjords

Fjords are crazy formations of sea that you will find only in Norway. Fjord looks like a river but it has the source at the other end. They are a formation of sea towards the land. The complete western coastline of Norway is covered by fjords and they are beautiful.

Pulpit Rock

Pulpit rock is the destination point for any traveller to Stavanger. its a view of a fjord from a cliff top 600 mts above the sea level and a near 8 km mountain climbing track.
Its sheer fun to be on top of cliff to view the fjord, with a fear of being blown away by air.

DalsNuten

Dalsnuten is near Sandes (* a twin town of Stavanger), its a small mountain( i am not used to the word "hill", otherwise i would have called it a hill). this is a place where my mountain climbing skills are put to test and certified a "fit". Its a easy climb, i was shivering in the beginning but i was able to catchup and do it with ease later on.

Cricket for Brazillians

We found friends with the two brazillian guys Christien and Roberto who had come into stavanger to wind-up a business deal with us. We were discussing about lifestyles in our countries, prices and a wide range of things. Finally we went to a restaurant to have pizza, and we were discussing about sports, thats when Roberto quoted about cricket saying

"Oh that strange game where you hit the ball with some kind of a stick instead of kicking it..." I just managed to imagine some batsman kicking the cricket ball to boundary... ha ha ha :). Then it was hard time for both of us (maddy and me) to explain the game with little references to baseball. I was really amazed when someone asked about cricket to me, in here its a part of your daily lifestyle that you can't imagine a person not knowing about cricket.

One more amazing fact about the people there is, many of them know about "Vishwanathan Anand" more than "Sachin Tendulkar", well that hurts me badly.

Beach

Our team mates had planned a team outing on a friday . This is the funniest one, from the morning everyone were talking about this team outing at the beach, I am from chennai, this is where marina beach and few other big beaches are located and I frequently travel to the arabian coastline too, So the moment someone says the word beach , the only thing that comes to my mind is open sea with atleast a 180 degree view of the horizon. But when we went 2 the team outing at stavanger i came to see the smallest beach i have ever seen in my life, i think it should be termed as backwater rather than a beach.

Way back home

Tor Inge, our CEO was grateful enough to pick us up from the hotel and drop us at the airport at 4:00AM in the morning, just when he has a flight to catch at 8:00AM in the morning. Well i got only one word to say "Great".

I was a nice morning flight from Stavanger to Frankfurt. Back at Frankfurt we had a nice time shopping with the euros left with us. The flight back from Frankfurt was really empty , there was so much space inside. Maddy told me that its quite rare to find flights being so empty. There was a nice looking air-hostess. You can find beautiful girls anywhere on earth but these airhostess are just awesome. They look soo confident but still listen soo patiently to whatever stupid things we say. They smile a lot. There was one beautiful indian-look-alike ,who came to me asking for drinks, i ordered a coffee. She gave me a make-yourself-coffee kit comprising of cream, coffee and sugar. Just when i thought of protesting over such unconventional way of serving coffee she smiled at me broadly and moved on to the next row. Again who wants to waste the short interaction time with a beautiful girl complaining ? Damn these airline guyz might have been recruiting psycology phds.

Landing back in india was really a happy moment, and i reached home by some 12:30 am

Photos

2007-09-15T11:30:00.001-07:00

fotos from stavanger trip ...

http://picasaweb.google.com/itkrishna/PicsFromNorway

"Being Randomly Selected"

2007-08-25T23:01:00.000-07:00

I was travelling across to Norway, this week, It was a business trip with my boss. This is my first trip abroad and I have this unique fear of airports and other places of heavy security. I got this unique ability to attract people (let people suspect me as someone). So the party begins right from Chennai Airport. I went into the Immigration Check point, the Immigration Officer 'randomly selected' me and started asking me all sorts of questions (studies, study details, school school details, company , purpose of visit, father's name , occupations, ... every unexpected detail .. )in a parallel corner, my boss cleared in with ease, no questions at all. Next we went had a break . and then we checked into the boarding zone, "Gate no:3 for Lufthansa" , Madhavan, had no problem in going in, but i was the one to get 'randomly selected', the immigration authorities went on to verify my identity, passport, visa, travel docs,etc. the tricky part here is when the asked about the purpose of visit. I said official work ,and they asked the invitation letter, who cares carrying an invitation letter from the same company. I am just travelling to meet my friends at the headquarters, i don't think i never needed an invitation letter, its not a "client visit" in Services terminology, where you need to get invited by some company and so on... i work for a firm and i just travel. but the airport authorities never seem to agree on that. we had discussions, he took all the id cards, business cards, visas (thank god he left my visa credit card with me.) with him to his supervisor, they were discussing about this... just imagine this happening right in from of the airplane doors on your first international visit. Then they came back to me saying, its okey this time but not anymore, next time onwards you should carry an invitation letter with you. All I can say was thank you. He also advised me that authorities do make 'random checks' so i should be careful and have proper documentation.

I boarded on to my Lufthansa, had a good flight across to Frankfurt. got down at Frankfurt. I was waiting for someone to do a 'random check' on me. no one did. then we went on to have some food. roamed round Frankfurt airport a lil bit. and did a lots of things... right when we were about to check in to the Stavenger flight. we had to send our hand-baggages thru the scanner. My laptop got randomly selected now. The security guy next to the scanner said to me "Krishna your laptop has been randomly selected for a security check" . He said that in a tone which sounded like " Krishna you have won a all expenses paid trip to Hawaii on a random lottery"

I went into a room in which the security guy did all chemical tests on my laptop. And i was declared okey and set free. (free to go to hawaii :-))

We had a long ride to the airplane, it was a regional plane, pretty small one. It was more than one hour air -ride to Stavenger. The view of Norwegian coastline from the air is awesome.
We landed in Stavenger, I was waiting form someone to do a random security check on me, but no one did.

I will post on the travel stories on stavenger soon... until then hang on :)

Facts of Life - Engineering and Management

2007-08-15T17:02:00.000-07:00

Woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost. She reduced altitude and spotted a man below. She descended a bit more and shouted, "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."The man below replied, "You're in a hot air balloon hovering approximately 30 feet above the ground.You're between 40 and 41 degrees north altitude and between 59 and 60 degrees west longitude."

"You must be an engineer," said the balloonist.

"I am," replied the man, "How did you know?" "Well," answered the balloonist, "everything you told me is, technically correct, but I've no idea what to make of your information, and the fact is I'm still lost. Frankly, you've not been much help at all. If anything, you've delayed my trip."

The man below responded, "You must be in Management."

"I am," replied the balloonist, "but how did you know?" "Well," said the man, "you don't know where you are or where You're going. You have risen to where you are due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise which you've no idea how to keep, and you Expect people beneath you to solve your problems. The fact is you are in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but now, somehow, it's my fault."

Funny Answersheets

2007-08-08T22:16:00.000-07:00

Have a look at this extremely funny collection of Answer sheet visuals from SivaMuthu

I wish i could also include a copy of my college-friend Madhan's "Software Engineering" answer sheet (Software engineering is a basically a dumb paper which talks about theories of best practices in product development and project management), he drew 'Circuit diagrams of Microprocessors being ruined by termites'... that was a funny visual on a Model Exam paper...

Shivaji - Matrix (Trialer Video)

2007-08-01T22:18:00.000-07:00

checkout this cool Shivaji - Matrix video Mix

IT Manager (Madhan) is flat

2007-07-13T03:52:00.000-07:00

See how our IT manager (Madhan) relaxes after heavy work (half-a-dozen âpples)

Top 7 reasons why I joined IT ...

2007-06-23T00:47:00.001-07:00

Top 7 reasons why I joined IT ...

1) I hated sleep.

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2) I had enjoyed my life enough.

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3) I couldn't live without tension.

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4) I wanted to pay for my sins.

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5) I believed in the Bhagwad Geeta principle : karm karo , phal ki ichha na karo..

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6) Everything in life has a reason; i wanted to prove it wrong.

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7) I wanted to take revenge on myself.

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Taj Mahal….

2007-06-16T00:14:00.000-07:00

Taj Mahal…. Some call it the man’s greatest erection for an woman [J]… if you have been there you would will be able to understand what it really means..

I have been to Taj very recently (this April); this is the first time I have visited Agra. Visiting Taj was a great Experience. It was an unscheduled visit, as a frequent traveler you should be open to unscheduled plans. As the saying goes “Good travelers never know where their destination is… “. I am one of them (if not good I m trying to be one). I was on this Trip to Gwalior for a friend’s marriage. I was travelling with some of my friends. We got a train from Chennai to Gwalior, which was a bad trip; I got completely exhausted with the dry climate of north India. We reached there in some early morning (4 or 5 am). When I came out of bathroom after taking my morning bath, all these guys were packing their bags for a trip to Agra, Joseph and Chandru stayed back. But you know, I never miss these chances.

Its some 7 AM in the morning, we are back again in Gwalior rly station to catch a train to Agra. The view of Gwalior fort from the Railway station gave me second thoughts of staying back and visiting Gwalior Fort first but the guys held me up. We caught the train; it was a travel full of all kinds of hassles, full rush trains, bad auto-rick bargains, bad climate, bad food, etc... Nothing seemed to work out for us. The auto –driver showed the way to the entry and gave us a huge bunch of safety advices.

We got the entry tickets and went in. Until now I have never seen a glimpse of the great taj. Even after you are so close to the greatest monument you will not see a glimpse of it. We went in, there was some tamil movie shooting going on inside (Nasser was doing some acting). I never cared about these things. To tell you the fact, my heart is pounding inside and I can feel the restlessness for having the first look at the great beauty. I was running towards the entrance and stepped into the place were everyone take those fotos. I had the first complete view of the TAJ, and then I say to myself “This is what you have been waiting to see all your life… ”

Taj is a great creation. You feel it’s yours. You feel proud about its beauty. There is that immense pleasure of being in a great place when you are there. There is a great sense of feeling when you watch it. Such a great thing standing so silent, so unnoticed from the rest of the world. It’s a real wonder.

Pls vote for TAJ as the new greatest wonder of the World. Follow the link below

http://www.new7wonders.com/index.php?id=366

Apple Safari in Windows

2007-06-13T00:17:00.000-07:00

I saw an RSS feed this morning about apple coming up with a windows version of safari. so the first thing i wanted to do when i stepped into office this morning was to evaluate it...
i got a shock when i heard about its features.

it has 12 great features ... apple advertises on all these .... apple thinks that these are the features that you will need to switch from your traditional browser to safari.

here is the list from their website.

1. Blazing Performance
2. Elegant User Interface
3. Easy Bookmarks
4. Pop-up Blocking
5. Inline Find
6. Tabbed Browsing
7. SnapBack
8. Forms AutoFill
9. Built-in RSS
10. Resizable Text Fields
11. Private Browsing
12. Security

all of them seem to work great. until for one small issue....

the apple safari on windows will not render text in any form menus, dialogs, buttons, pages,etc...

here is my one feature vs steve jobs' 12... why should i use a browser which will not render text....

have a first glimpse of safari screen from my notebook....

E-books downloads

2007-06-02T22:44:00.001-07:00

E-books download here...

h__p://www.flazx.com

BECOMING A MAN - TWO-YEAR DEGREE COURSE

2007-06-01T20:58:00.000-07:00

A new two-year degree is being offered at the University that many of you should be interested in: Becoming a Real Man. That’s right, in just six mini-semesters, you, too, can be a real man as well as earn an MA degree. (Male Arts)
Please take a moment to look over the program outline.

FIRST YEAR

Autumn Schedule:

MEN 101: Combating Stupidity
MEN 102: You, Too, Can Do Housework
MEN 103: PMS-Learn To Keep Your Mouth Shut
MEN 104: We Do Not Want Sleazy Under Things for Christmas

Winter Schedule:

MEN 110: Wonderful Laundry Techniques
MEN 111: Understanding the Female Response to Getting in at 4am
MEN 112: Parenting: It Doesn’t End with Conception
EAT 100: Get a Life, Learn to Cook
EAT 101: Get a Life, Learn to Cook II
ECON 001A: What’s Hers is Hers

Spring Schedule:

MEN 120: How NOT to Act like an arse when you’re Wrong
MEN 121: Understanding Your Incompetence
MEN 122: YOU, The Weaker Sex
MEN 123: Reasons to Give Flowers
ECON 001C: What Was Yours is Hers

SECOND YEAR

Autumn Schedule:

SE#X 101: You CAN Fall Asleep without It
SE#X 102: Morning Dilemma: If It’s Awake, Take a Shower
SE#X 103: How to Stay Awake After Sex
MEN 201: How To Put the Toilet Seat Down
(Elective) (See Electives Below)

Winter Schedule:

MEN 210: The Remote Control: Overcoming Your Dependency
MEN 211: How to Not Act Younger than Your Children
MEN 212: You, Too, Can be a Designated Driver
MEN 213: Honest, You Don’t Look Like Brad Pitt
MEN 230A: Her Birthdays and Anniversaries are Important

Spring Schedule:

MEN 220: Omitting %&*!@ from Your Vocabulary (Pass/Fail Only)
MEN 221: Fluffing the Blanket after Farting Is NOT Necessary
MEN 222: Real Men Ask For Directions
MEN 223: Thirty Minutes of Begging is NOT Considered Foreplay
MEN 230B: Her Birthdays and Anniversaries are Important II

Course Electives:

EAT 102: Cooking with Tofu
EAT 103: Utilization of Eating Utensils
EAT 103: Burping and Belching Discreetly
MEN 231: Mothers-In-Law
MEN 232: Appear to Be Listening
MEN 233: Just Say “Yes, Dear”
ECON 001C: Cheaper to Keep Her

Time to laff!!

2007-06-01T20:55:00.000-07:00

Funny quotes from Random Thoughts as they strike

Laff your heads off........

* 1. NAMES:
If Laurie, Linda, Elizabeth and Barbara go out for lunch, they will call each other Laurie, Linda, Elizabeth and Barbara.
If Mark, Chris, Eric and Tom go out, they will affectionately refer to each other as Fat Boy, Godzilla, Peanut-Head and Scrappy.

* 2. EATING OUT:*
When the bill arrives, Mark, Chris, Eric and Tom will each throw in a $20, even though it's only for $32.50. None of them will have anything smaller and none will actually admit they want the change back.

When the women get their bill, out come the pocket calculators.

* 3. MONEY:
A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs
A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn't need but it's on sale.

4. BATHROOMS:
A man has five items in his bathroom: a toothbrush, shaving cream, razor, a bar of soap, and a towel from the Marriott.
The average number of items in the typical woman's bathroom is 337. A man would not be able to identify most of these items.

* 5. ARGUMENTS:
A woman has the last word in any argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

* 6. CATS:**
Women love cats.
Men say they love cats, but when women aren't looking, men kick cats.

* 7. FUTURE:**
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.

* 8. SUCCESS:**
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

* 9. MARRIAGE:*
A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.
A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change and she does.

* 10. DRESSING UP:**
A woman will dress up to go 4 shopping, to water the plants, empty the garbage, answer the phone, read a book, and read the mail.
A man will dress up for weddings and funerals.

* 11. NATURAL:
Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed.
Women somehow deteriorate during the night.

* 12. OFFSPRING: **
Ah, children. A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and romances, best friends, favorite
foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams.

A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.

* 13. FINAL THOUGHT:*
Any married man should forget his mistakes.
There's no use in two people remembering the same thing.

Where i am, as a programmer?

2007-05-28T20:05:00.001-07:00

i was casually browsing some blog site last week where i found a digg for a programmer's hierarchy (whos big and whos small) .
http://www.digg.com/programming/The_programmer_hierarchy

Programming is a weird profession , here people like only the harder way of getting things done. All programmers have the same characteristics, they want complete control over whatever they do and they love command line more than anything else.

As of me personally, i would always love to write classic old php-webapps running on UNIX box rather than writing a Custom module in DotNetNuke. Thats the way it is.

So when i went through this "Programmer's Hierarchy", it depicted the real view of how programmers are categorized. I have marked places where i have been. I seem to be almost half-way on the road to be a gr8 programmer.

>>> Life should be backwards

2007-05-05T02:05:00.000-07:00

"The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? 'A death.' What's that , a bonus?

I think of the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you should go live in an old age home. You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension then, when you start work, you get a gold watch on your first day. You work for forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You drink alcohol , you party and you get ready for High School. You go to primary school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back, you spend your last 9 months floating with luxuries like central heating, spa, room service on tap, and then you finish ................."

Check out this Link
Life sucks. And then you die!: Life should be backwards

I was caught

2007-05-04T02:58:00.000-07:00

Friends here caught me while thinking about some Balanced-modular-mobility script in PHP (Sleeping as others call it), and its been uploaded to youtube.... funny one check-it-out

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Cool Computer Program

2007-04-24T23:45:00.000-07:00

"It's been about 25 years since the mouse came out, It's time for another breakthrough."

Have a look at this sketching software developed by MIT Ph.D. candidate Christine Alvarado
http://masshightech.bizjournals.com/masshightech/stories/2003/07/21/story6.html

Indian HELL

2007-04-24T05:09:00.000-07:00

A man dies and goes to hell. There he finds that there is a different hell for each country.

He goes to the German hell and asks " What do they do here ?" He was told, " First they put you in an electric chair for an hour. Then they lay you on a bed of nails for another hour. Then the German devil comes in and beats you for the rest of the day "

The man does not like the sound of that at all, so he moves on and checks out the USA hell as well as the Russian hell and many more countries...He discovers that they are all more or less the same as the German hell...

Then he comes to the Indian hell and finds that there is a long line of people waiting to get in. Amazed, he asks, " What do they do here ?" He was told, " First they put you in an electric chair for an hour..Then they lay you on a bed of nails for another hour. Then the Indian devil comes and beats you for the rest of the day."

" But that is exactly the same as all the other hells---so why are so many people waiting to get in here ?" asked the man. " Because maintenance is so bad that the electric chair does not work,,--someone has stolen all the nails from the bed-- and the Indian devil is a former Govt. servant, so he comes in and signs the register and then goes to the canteen !

How to Kiss

2007-04-15T02:07:00.000-07:00

Learn the art of kissing with this funny video.

Adobe CS3 is out...

2007-04-12T03:44:00.001-07:00

I thought its jus another release of adobe products when bala was showed me screenshots of some new version of adobe suite. But when i went throught their presentations, i was realy amazed about the CS3 Suite. Adobe has infact come up with a really good version of products.

Adobe Suite CS3

Let me tell you come facts about this release,

This is the first major release of the suite after adobe has acquired Macromedia
This version offers excellent interop with all products, like you can copy images from Adobe Ps and directly paste em in Adobe Dw, lot of development in interop.
Flash and photoshop are not completely different products anymore... they are integrated....
Fireworks willbe generating some brand value.... it is being advertised as a web-protyping and design tool...

So we are all set for the release of CS3 to evaluate its first copies in hand... but adobe will delay the trial release bay atleast another month or so...

Bala had come up with a review on Flash CS3 pls read on

" With the next version of Flash, the integration is especially evident with both PhotoShop and Illustrator importers. And when they decided to finally bridge that gap,....."
- Bala Dhandayuthapani , Creative Designer , Synaptris Inc

feeling booooooooooooooooooooooooooooorrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeed

2007-04-11T05:17:00.001-07:00

hi everyone....

I am typing this post in a gzleppy mood.... i m jus not knowin what i m doin.... i m trying hard to keep myself busy, on the other hand i m not even able to compensate even 1pc for it... Now i know how hard it is to keep dumb and do nothing.... so i thought finding some innovative methods to get out of boredom, here are some ....

ONE-POINT OFFICE DARES

1) Run one lap around the office at top speed.

2) Groan out loud in the toilet cubicle (at least one other non-player' must be in the toilet at the time).

3) Ignore the first five people who say 'good morning' to you.

4) Phone someone in the office you barely know, leave your name and say, "Just called to say I can't talk right now. Bye."

5) To signal the end of a conversation, clamp your hands over your ears and grimace.

6) When someone hands you a piece of paper, finger it, and whisper huskily, "Mmmmmmm, that feels soooooo good!".

7) Leave your zipper open for one hour. If anyone points it out, say, "Sorry, I really prefer it this way".

8) Walk sideways to the photocopier.

9) While riding in an elevator, gasp dramatically every time the doors open.

THREE-POINTS DARES

1) Say to your boss, "I like your style" and shoot him with double-barrelled fingers.

2) Babble incoherently at a fellow employee then ask, "Did you get all that, I don't want to have to repeat it".

3) Page yourself over the intercom (do not disguise your voice).

4) Kneel in front of the water cooler and drink directly from the nozzle(there must be a 'non-player' within sight).

5) Shout random numbers while someone is counting.

FIVE POINT DARES

1) At the end of a meeting, suggest that, for once, it would be nice to conclude with the singing of the national anthem (extra points if you actually launch into it yourself).

2) Walk into a very busy person's office and while they watch you with growing irritation, turn the light switch on/off 10 times.

3) For an hour, refer to everyone you speak to as "Bob".

4) Announce to everyone in a meeting that you "really have to go do a number two".

5) After every sentence, say 'Mon' in a really bad Jamaican accent. As in "The report's on your desk, Mon". Keep this up for one hour.

6) While an office mate is out, move their chair into the elevator.

7) In a meeting or crowded situation, slap your forehead repeatedly and mutter, "Shut up, damn it, all of you just shut up!".

8) At lunchtime, get down on your knees and announce, "As God is my witness, I'll never go hungry again".

9) In a colleague's diary, write in 10am: "See how I look in tights".

10) Carry your keyboard over to your colleague and ask "You wanna trade?".

11) Repeat the following conversation 10 times to the same person: "Do you hear that?" "What?" "Never mind, it's gone now".

12) Come to work in army fatigues and when asked why, say, "I can't talk about it".

13) Posing as a maitre d', call a colleague and tell him he's won a lunch for four at a local restaurant. Let him go.

14) Speak with an accent (French, German, Porky Pig, etc) during a very important conference call.

15) Find the vacuum and start vacuuming around your desk.

16) Hang a two-foot long piece of toilet roll from the back of your pants and act genuinely surprised when someone points it out.

17) Present meeting attendees with a cup of coffee and biscuit, smash each biscuit with your fist.

18) During the course of a meeting, slowly edge your chair towards the door.

19) Arrange toy figures on the table to represent each meeting attendee, move them according to the movements of their real-life counterparts.

And if that wasn't enough for you...

How to keep a healthy level of insanity:

1) At lunchtime, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hairdryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.

2) Tell your children over dinner. "Due to the economy, we are going to have to let one of you go."

3) Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.

4) Put your rubbish bin on your desk and label it "IN."

5) Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over his or her caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.

6) In the subject field for all your e-mails, write " FOR SEXUAL FAVOURS".

7) Finish all your sentences with "In accordance with the prophecy."

8) Don't use any punctuation

9) As often as possible, skip rather than walk.

10) Ask people what sex they are. Laugh hysterically after they answer.

11) Specify that your drive-through order is "to go."

12) Sing along at the opera.

13) Go to a poetry recital and ask why the poems don't rhyme.

14) Put mosquito netting around your work area. Play a tape of jungle sounds all day.

15) Five days in advance, tell your friends you can't attend their party because you're not in the mood.

16) Have your co-workers address you by your wrestling name, Rock Hard.

17) When the money comes out of the ATM, scream "I Won! I Won! 3rd time this week!!!"

18) When leaving the zoo, start running towards the parking lot yelling, "Run for your lives, they're loose!"

Reset a Car

2007-04-09T19:56:00.001-07:00

A project manager, a computer programmer and a computer operator are driving down the road when the car they are in gets a flat tire. The three men try to solve the problem.

The project manager said: "Let's catch a cab and in ten minutes we'll reach our destination."

The computer programmer said: "We have here the driver's guide. I can easily replace the flat tire and continue our drive."

The computer operator said: "First of all, let's turn off the engine and turn it on again. Maybe it will fix the problem."

Suddenly a Microsoft software engineer passed by and said: "Try to close all windows, get off the car, and then get in and try again."

Countdown

2007-04-04T04:42:00.001-07:00

Techno Talks

2007-04-03T03:24:00.001-07:00

Check these tech-thoughts by some one....
I thought the first 3 suited well for me...

"There are two ways to write error-free programs. Only the third one works."
"Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night."
"Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand."
"Java keeps your hand tied. VC++ gives you enough rope to hang yourself."
"A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages."
"Why doesn't DOS ever say 'EXCELLENT command or filename!'"
"WARNING: Keyboard Not Attached. Press F10 to Continue."
"Smash forehead on keyboard to continue."
"Scandisk is now checking your hard disk. You can start praying."
"Hit any user to continue."
"Error reading FAT record. Try the SKINNY one? (yes/no)"
"Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue..."
"Bad Command or File Name. Good try, though."
"Want to make your computer go really fast? Throw it out a window."
"If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing."
"To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research."

Have a first look Hannover (Lotus Notes 8)

2007-03-30T02:58:00.001-07:00

Hi all ... the much awaited beta 2 of Hannover (Lotus Notes 8 ) has been released....

Check out my blog for updates. I have posted some of the screenshots in this blogpost.

http://itkrishna.blogspot.com/2007/03/first-glimpse-at-hannover.html

First Glimpse at Hannover

2007-03-30T02:29:00.000-07:00

I was jus browsing at ibm site to see if there are any new updates in developerWorks and Lotusphere , then i stumbled upon a link which said IBM has announced the public beta for Lotus Notes 8, (better known as Hannover in the Lotus notes user community).

just imagine... Hannover is to Lotus notes , what Longhorn or Vista is for windows....

This is the coolest and the most advertised version of Lotus Notes ever to be released... with a Extremely new UI and Functionalities, I didn want to miss a chance in evaluating the latest beta from IBM site.

I jus went ahead and downloaded the 623 MB file from IBM site and installed it on my machine.

I have given some screen shots in here, which are taken from that version.

This is the Defaluts Home Page of Hannover, you can access sametime... you can subscribe for RSS feeds. Read Feeds, Compose mail, Creadee Docs, Spreadsheets , Presentations, Databases ... right from the Hoempage.... Its extremely user friendly

Mail Interface for Lotus notes: This is the coolest thing... we all are gonna have a interface thats gonna compete with other e-mail clients (MSO2007/WinMail) in UI... this is the major innovation from the Notes user prespective.

Calendar looks great with new user interface and a wide range of other options.

Creating spreadsheets and presentations can be done on the fly without the need of using microsoft office.... notes has integrated SOFFICE page built in to it... the Office package offers excellent compatibility with Microsoft office file formats , so the switch over process will be a lot easier

With the New version of Lotus Notes.... IBM is offering a big challenge to Microsoft by offering a solution which integrates the basic needs for office environments, like e-mail, instant messages, creating and sharing documents, spreadsheets, presentations, etc...

Notes is all set to crack the market with this innovation.

Forgot Visual Basic

2007-03-26T20:34:00.000-07:00

Yesterday i came early home and i tried evaluvating Visual Studio 2005.... Jus thought of trying something different from the world of open-source programming..... These PHP, JS and HTML programming have very much affected my life..... i was struggling hard to write a code for showing a message box.... in Vbasic 6 it is "MessageBox" Function... but it will not work in VBasic 8 .... since the technologies behind are extremely different from each other.... I have completely forgot Visual Basic , years back i was very good at it ... desktop programming was like a piece of cake...

Visual Basic has grown very much from the days of a RAD tool used for application prototyping ... to a enterprise level app- dev tool... its good to hear these things... i will be evaluating the 2005 edition for web-devlopment .. will review the features in next blogs

Funny Pics

2007-03-24T19:28:00.000-07:00

Mangalore…..

2007-03-24T16:35:00.000-07:00

Mangalore is one nice place….. You know whenever I get bad week of work in Chennai; I jus take my train to Mangalore…. It was the same last week end… I was like workin all days and nights in and out…. And I desperately needed a good weekend…. Where I will forget the website…. Its Mangalore again.

This time it was not a lone travel. I had a company Mr Kannan. I had my train @ 5 in the evening, I thought of taking a leave … but our beloved boss Maddy was relieving on the same day… so I cancelled my leave to accommodate a lunch @ Manshuks’

(I am being vegeterianized … ppl around are tryin to find a goat in me… but I wont give up)

But I end up in troubles….. I was changing the content in some e-mailer till 4.30 … I got my train @ 5… I messed it up this time around too… I pinged davis , told him … “Central in 15 Mins… ?”. He said "yes... lets go..."…. And I jumped off… literally ran out of office… I found a empty purse when I reached central (again)…. The SBI ATM didn’t accept my credit and debit cards (again)… I will be running in some platform to catch hold of some coach (again)…. You know these things have happened so many times that I eventually got used to all of em…. Finally got some cash outta the Canara bank ATM and got into the train in the last minute.

At last made it…. Found that kannan anna was surprised to see me… he was very amazed, that I at least made it to there…. (The things that we came across in train were supposed to be published here… but due to strict restrictions of Google regarding NC-17 Rated content. I am not able to publish more on this). There was not much entertainment… there were some nice scenaries…. But

My N72 ran out-of battery

Anna K810i ran out of battery

The Digi cam ran out-of battery

The Back-up batteries in Digicam were also empty

I did buy a AA Alkaline batteries…. They too didn work in that digi-cam.

The only thing which had some amount of battery was anna’s T610 which had 20/30% power but it went off by the time it was morning.

So no pics on our way to mangalore. The only entertainment on the train was over in Calicut. We got cute 4 yr old kid and his dad boarding in salem. That kid was my company till mangalore… very naughty guy.

We reached managlore to find a fat guy (yes deepak has doubled in size). We went to room, took bath, anna met some of his friends.Friends -> Shopping, Did some nice amount of shopping. Did have a good time while shopping purses (J). Then went back to room. From Room to Beach, it’s a pleasure watching the sunset at the beach. It’s a real pleasure... we took some beautiful snaps… we had food somewhere and returned room. Indian/Bangladesh match was goin on…. We lost, I slept.

Nothing spl in Mangalore other than ice creams…. Had so many of these ice creams that I eventually got tired of eating ice-creams…. So –many … ppl here should be stupid….

Took the train back home exactly at the last minute… travel back was dull nothing spl…I was clicking snaps all the way…. So many of them, I had a target of clicking 500 snaps, but I could only make some 160 odd. Something special here... the train stopped at some unknown station in karnatake... i desperately needed some water/coke and some food. so i got down and ask ordered for the same.. this shoopkeeper guy was packing em up for me.. i was staring at a beautiful face stiitng out there... all of a sudden this girl comes up to me askin... will this train take me to mangalore.... (i was like... oh shit... if you told this earlier... i wouldn have left to managlore... ). i told her the way out.... by time the train had started... i forgot to notice the horn sound in the discussion... i quickly got my things and got the change...and had to catch the train on the run. but i had forgot the "Lays Pack" .... 15 Rs Loss.... forget it... while in train , I learnt the fact the late night temperatures in tamil nadu is lot-lot lower thane the temperatures in Kerala/Karnataka.

We reached Chennai in good time... I reached home, I had brought some macrons. They had an excellent response in my office. And work started as usual….. ha ha…

Life sucks. And then you die!

2007-03-24T16:23:00.000-07:00

Pranav is creating a brand for himself with his hilarious collection of jokes....

Have a look at this awesome blog from pranav.

Life sucks. And then you die!

Windows Vista vs Mac OS X

2007-03-23T04:06:00.000-07:00

I have some clips comparing features of Microsoft's Windows Vista vs The OS X

NYT: Did Microsoft rip-off Apple Mac OS X in Windows Vista?

Apple WWDC 2006-Windows Vista Copies Mac OS X

Most HARD WORKING INDIAN EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2007-03-20T06:10:00.000-07:00

Hi Folks,

The time is 6.45PM and i suppose many of you are in your office or on your way back home.

Thats not the case with a friend of mine who works like from 11 in the morning till 2am in the morning and this guy does not get enough time to sleep either..

So what does he do to keep him so active through out these long hours, let us solve this mystery ( Not Nancy Drew Mystery). Now Coming to the best part of life ?? must be wondering what is that right! Being a bachelor.. and i am really proud to be belong to this family of high-spirited free birds.

So kindly look at the evidence yourself and do have a small piece** of Laugh at my friends cost...

So here the toast to the most HARD WORKING INDIAN EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

- Siddarth

Cricket

2007-03-15T19:33:00.001-07:00

Lets blog....

I haven been blogging for more than a week now... so i thought like why dont i blog,
about what is the next question, what to blog ? .... aditya showed me his blog post for the most hilarious and confusing definition of cricket.....

The definition of Cricket as explained to a foreigner--
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out.

When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.

When a man goes out to go
in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out.

When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those
who are not out, that is the end of the game!
Simple! ... »

Cricket ... its a really funny game ..... :)

Tok.. Tok.. Tok..

2007-03-09T23:12:00.001-08:00

Tok.. Tok.. Tok.. I am knocking the door at home my home... its 3 am in the morning and its shivering like anything.... i m not able to remove the socks off my foot.... i m extremely tired. my mom will wake up in a couple of mins to open the door. Its been the third consecutive week of resultless work for me since i have started fiddling with that stupid software.... Yesterday evening i was training someone on the same damn thing... (Hilarious right... you don't know something and train someone on it.... )

Day by day this new assignment is growing in size. and you know what life was much easier and comfortable a couple of months ago. now its like i am running in a race, which doesn't have a deadline , neither an end point...... and the race is only with yourself... (its exactly the same...i don't find any kinda help anywhere on earth.)

College life was fun....... you know... you don't care a shit about anyone else on earth. you do a lot of things but all of them end up in no use... its like you mess up so much with everyone and walk away cool saying....." Final year eanna appidithan...." . You cant say that now....if you do they will say.... "Fresher nna ippidithan....:-(" .... you got a brand name for yourself......

Those were the days when you thought ... i should be punctual to office.... i will go to office sharp at 9 and leave exactly at 5:30. and once you joined you came to know that you will never reach office by 9 and will never leave before 9.

Life has taken a u-turn. that IT-Krishna has gone missing .... he is probably doing his engineering somewhere ... You know the better part of the joke.... i never studied in engineering... never did i carry a book to college.... but now... you will find user manuals... advanced configuration guides.... ajax research papers.... all of them in My Bag.... I don't know how i call it my bag... since all these things are here, i cant term it as my bag any more.... say its the bag of the web-server-guy. life sucks .... you cant help it...

This IT life has changed my life miserably in the past 9 months... i very much miss the days of college.....

Custom Apache log Formats

2007-03-09T21:33:00.000-08:00

Log Files. ..... he he .... i hate em...

Apache Servers can be customized to create log file to record hits of user activity on a certain website. These logs are automatically configured by default. The Default log format called as "Extended Log Format" provides you exhaustive information about User's IP , browser agent, file requested, server responmse HTTP Referral, etc.

but the default log format is not usually compete. in the sense, the default log format wont help me to identify a user session. ( because default session tracking uses ip/user agent config. if i am browsing from my company the entire company has the same external ip and almost the same browser agent. so i cant be uniquely identified ). SO in order to provide a stong Session Tracking machanism . We will need to use a modified log format which can also track cookies. This is called the combined cookie format.

About Cookies.

There are two kinds of cookies. First party cookies and Third party cookies.

Cookies which are set and retrieved by the same we-server are called first party cookies. If a cookies is set bey a third party website, then it is called TPC. normally Third party cookies have a high rejection rate. So its always advised to use a first party cookie.

Apache Server can be configured to set persistent First party Cookies.

Default Log Format

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" extended

Now Lets examine the Combined cookie log format

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\" \"%{Cookie}i\"" combined-cookie

So once these cookies are configured to log.

We can configure a new session tracking mechanism (Admin Console, select Web Analysis > Options > Session Tracking > add\edit a Session Tracking definition .) in webtrends to process the persistent cookie set by our apache server.

Now you can unleash the power of web log analytics. Most Reports in webtrends can be enabled with this configuration change.

Processing HTML Files as PHP Files

2007-03-08T19:33:00.000-08:00

This is one of the most useful configurations that you need when you try to configure php on a apache web server.

Parsing HTML files as PHP Files

There are a lot of advantages in rendering PHP code as HTML files instad of a ".php " file.

HTML extensions are user friendly
say if you are migrating a site from some other technology to php, this can be very helpful.

The Process of adding .html extension to php scripts is relatively easy. Jus add the following line to your .htaccess or httpd.conf file

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .html

and thats all its done. This works fine with the my version of apache (HTTP Server 2.0.59).

Welcome to Web Analytics

2007-03-08T10:32:00.000-08:00

"Welcome to the world of Web Trends", this is wat aditya told me when he introduced me to a weird web based charting and graphing tool (thats how webtrends looked like to me when i had m first look at it), For a moment i thought like it is just another customized web based analytics and reporting engine, which generates reports outta databases... But as usual i was wrong. :-) That was when i first began to have a look at the dirty big web analytics engine.

Web log Analytics (or simply WebTrends) is a software technology that allows users to examine webserver log files to understand user-activity, behavior patterns, requirements and client side specs of people who visit a website. The information thats gathered can very much help to increase the ROI of any organization, Web analytics mainly help in understanding user behaviors on a website, understanding their requirements, hurdles in reaching the information you need, conveying the correct information to the correct customer., etc.

In a current day scenario, where web based marketing plays a very critical role in business activity of every organization, web analytics tools like webtrends provide you total control and information you need on the web-activities you get involved in.

Say if you handle marketing for a organization. you will invest in paid searches in various search engines, so in order to analyze data , you will have to access each search engine get data integrate em accumulate all statistics , and then analyze the data. On the other hand if you have a third party analytics engine, you can do all the analysis at you end and be able to access all your campaigns and marketing activities in a single place.

Its not Just about marketing , you generally get data about ever kinda stuff on web , whether it is time zone, or city or the browser version or even the search query they used to reach your website...

I started feeling sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepy now. will blog later on this... more tech(???) stuff to continue....

History of Progrmming Languages

2007-03-06T02:15:00.000-08:00

I was just browsing around the web when i stopped at his link, about the history and evolution of programming languages.

===> Evolution of Programming Languages

This link depicts the evolution and developments in programming languages since Fortran to current Ruby.

Nike Cricket ad

2007-03-05T19:04:00.000-08:00

The World cup fever is on and Nike has come up with its own set of cricket campaigns in india....

Here is Nike Cric Ad.... Really cool one... jus watch the video

Leo's new website

2007-03-05T10:15:00.000-08:00

Our design thala.... Mr Leo Jeyapathy has come up woth a new personal portfolio site.. This one is really cool, if you are feeling bored and wanna look at some really creative graphic design work do check it out....

Leodesignstudio.org

and leo has offered the team a treat for this.... thx buddy... :-)

Holy(i) Reunion

2007-03-05T10:08:00.000-08:00

It was fine usual sunday, untill somebody called me up to remind me that we have a get-together today.

Jus look at Don in the consecutive pics.... "no matter what happens around , this guy will not step down from giving photo poses...."

Dustbin - Stand

2007-03-03T10:01:00.000-08:00

I dont know how siddarth found such a wonderful dustbin holder. It is by far the most advanced dustbin holder in the entire synaptris.... it runs on a pentium 4 processor with 1 gb ram for processing all junk.... and has a hard-disk inside.....

Congrats siddarth .... we all are expecting a treat for this :-) he he

Firefox to FireLion

2007-03-01T10:11:00.000-08:00

# Aging Tabs
# Answers
# Colorful Tabs
# del.icio.us
# DOM Inspector 1.8.1.2
# DownThemAll!
# ErrorZilla Mod 0.2
# Extension List Dumper
# Firefox Showcase
# FireFTP
# FlashGot
# Google Notebook
# Greasemonkey
# IE Tab
# ImgLikeOpera
# It's All Text!
# M3U Ripper
# Mouse Gestures
# Nuke Anything Enhanced
# Paste and Go
# PDF Download
# Rewind/Fastforward Buttons
# Sage
# SmoothWheel
# Tab Effect
# Tab Mix Plus
# Talkback

I got this list from Aditya's blog on the list of firefox extensions.. these are the coolest set of extensions around for mozilla/firefox. Jus try them out

The most solid phone on earth

2007-02-20T03:30:00.000-08:00

The Most Solid Phone on earth, Ext 436 . The Pasasonic Superman falls of my desk atleast thrice everyday and still works....

Why Notes Sucks in a Venn Diagram

2007-02-19T00:58:00.000-08:00

This is why people say notes sucks....

Really Funny Right?

Risky Travel

2007-02-17T18:43:00.007-08:00

Yup, its bangalore again.... I missed out to blog on pondy trip (31/dec), there wasn’t much action out there.... so its bangalore again on this edition of my travel blogs.....

Bangalore, Nice place, cool, serene, peaceful city… people live in fun and masti ….. This definition matches all except in case you are from Tamil Nadu or mistakenly speak Tamil… If you are a tamilian and you luv to speak tamil, bangalore becomes the most uninhabitable place to live in…. Especially when some cauvery issue breaks outta court.

I travelled this time exactly during the announcement of the cauvery river water case judgment… the result fortunately /unfortunately favored the tamilians, and I was traveling to bangalore from Chennai, friends and ppl at synap were telling me all sorts of stories about tamil people suffering in bangalore during the recent riots regarding the cauvery river case… But I was never really worried about all these…. You know when it comes to travel, I forget everything else…. I travel for the sake of traveling. I got my tickets online, but when I was trying to get a ticket back home, IRCTC website gave me a BULB (it usually happens). So I had to resort back to booking tickets in KSRTC. So this time I was sure that I will at least have a hassle free travel back home….. don’t be over excited, read on you will get to know the truth.

It was some lone Friday night (9th Feb), my train ticket was reserved for night 11:30 train starting from Chennai, which will drop me off in bangalore next day morning. I started outta office at some 10:30 with this guy called Davis (* a very good friend of mine at syanp, he is so good that he almost convinced me to cancel this trip) WE started off in his bike from office, on the way he started giving me all sorts of advices and nightmares of the situation of tamilians is in bangalore now… I was like saying this to myself “did I make a wrong choice???” … We landed at the station some 30 mins ahead of time …. Stupid thing again the ATM doesn’t work …. He started giving me weird advices that I never heard of before… He was saying words like…. “You are a great warrior Krishna … I have never seen sucha brave person like you !” ….. and I was like …”What? @#@#$” It was 11:29 at night and I was thinking… “Shall I cancel my trip now…. ?”Atleast I made up my mind Let whatever happen, I won’t give up…. And I BRAVELY said good bye to Davis….. I was feeling like a Boarding a Train to Islamabad during Kargil War …. :-)

I stepped into the train, took my berth, did speak a word with anyone, switched on my XpressMusic Player and slept, this guys reaches office and calls me up at 1 am asking “How come you are still alive….? I thought they would have bombed your train by now….?” …. I was saying... “Dai please da… don’t do this to me..“

Amidst all nightmares I managed to wake up alive in Bangalore station, Now I m all set to forget one language from my résumé…. Called up Deepak, spoke in hindi + english in a very low voice, hung up , just to notice that the guy sitting next to me was shouting at his son “Eadatha vittu navundhaey , konnu ea pottuduvaen” (I will kill you if you move)…. I felt like I did the dumbest thing on earth…. Ah I found this guy… Deepak traveled all the way from mangalore , he knows bangalore very well so he comfortable with the local transportation… I step out of the railway station and we head towards the tea-stall. All our communications are either in the dumbest version of hindi or fairly reasonable English. No tamil …. I felt like I landed in islamabad with some traditional Indian wear….

Now we headed to the rooms, the place was near somewhere…. I don’t know much about there… so leave it now… we managed to reach the hotel…. And atlast we found the place.. kannan anna was waiting for us. Rest, bath and sleep, food, coffee…

Were were all set to visit Infosys Bangalore., considered to be one of the world’s largest software campuses, Infy Bangalore is truly an exciting place. It was clicking all the way with our multi mega pixel mobile cameras… We did some shopping for eatables and were back on room. While coming back we took an auto, and I spoke with that auto guy in telugu…. That was really funny. Telegu is obviously my mother tongue, but you know first time in my life, I was like speaking my mother tongue for survival J. Next day we were at Indoor stadium for some event.

This is Sunday(11th Feb) night , I had my ticket booked for this night 11:20 Volvo bus from KSTRC, I was waiting till 10:40 ,, busses for 11:22, 11:30 etc have arrived but not mine… I was little worried, bcoz there was a local bandh here the next day for cauvery issue. Atlast the bus came… I boarded the bus.. and slept…

After a while…I hear some one shouting Koyembedu… I open my eyes…Its 5:20 AM My left leg is aching ,, probably I slept in some wrong posture…. I manage to snatch my bag and get down, I landed safe and fine in chennai…. I was so happy when I stepped down, I felt like I won a war against them…

The ground reality is that situation is not really that bad out there... But you need to be cautious at times. Jus keeping yourself updated of what’s going on will be enough. And regarding Tamil there are 100’s and 1000’s of them speaking Tamil with freedom out there… so don’t really need to panic …. But again be careful, speaking Tamil might end you up getting pissed off somewhere... But there is nt much to worry about… there aren’t much terrorists around.

Thalaivar veerasamy

2007-02-04T18:28:00.001-08:00

Thalaivar veerasamy
Originally uploaded by iT KRiSHNA.

Wed 31/01/2007 14:02 31012007046 I just happened to see our thalaivar's new movie poster near my office... Enjoy his emotional expressions

Lifeblog post

2007-02-04T10:13:00.001-08:00

Sun 04/02/2007 23:17 Hi guys i an writing this blog in my new nokia n72...

Bangalore This Time

2006-12-26T10:36:00.000-08:00

kempfort
Originally uploaded by iT KRiSHNA.

It has been long since i had posted any travel blogs. This one is for Bangalore TRIP, a relatively short one , and of course a miserable travel back. i don't know how, but i have developed this weird affinity towards, facing hard times while traveling home, all the fun and enjoyment i get i traveling and visiting places gets lost in the way back home( Its like i m not happy to find my way home. )

This was in mid-December, i was already in between a hectic schedule. I was busy in some personal activities, new-site went live, was busy fixing up some new scripts that i wrote a couple of weeks back, etc... it was all busy times.... i really needed a desperate break and arun calls up one fine day saying that , he has an interview at some company in bangalore (*for those who dont know about Bangalore, more than
50% of the world's blue chip companies run out of here...) and said like, he s moving alone and needed a company..... "why not, with pleasure....:-)" and here we go, i got the reason to slip outta chennai one more time....

I made it to the bus stand, very earlier than arun on that day, i was like waiting for this guy to come for close to an 30~40 mins.... i m very serious about timings.... i don't like waiting for others, i will only make others wait.... he he :-) , this guy made it very late.... we fortunately found some couple who were about to sell their tickets, got the tickets.... what next, board the bus.... it was close to 10:30 in the night... i thought we will reach comfortably by around 7/8...
ITs all old memories crepping in when the bus crossed Sastha Inst., " College life was fun na.... ? i miss it badly ..." it was around 11 odd then. I pulled on the bedsheet and went into sleep......................damn,... . that driver halts the bus in 4:30 in the morning, 4:30 AM ..... :0..... imagine, i have never seen such a time in my life for more than 4 months.... and you are in Bangalore during december, just imagine the amount of chillness we would have felt.... i was shivering like anything .. my jaws were making a new music every time i tried to speak... We had to goto a place near kemp-fort, it was don's brother's home... so we called up don's bro... he guided us to that place... we took an auto... we told the auto driver, not to go very fast as we were already shivering..... never in my life i have seen an auto driver flying through the city roads... he was cruising in 60's and 70's.... atlast he stopped near some kids shopping mall.... someone had opened a tea dhukaan outside... wow... tea... tea means fun.... and having a tea in that climate is like crazy. we went to that place... i slept for some time.. had some nice breakfast made by don's anna... arun in the meanwhile slipped for the interview.... i ran through the streets a couple of times but did nothing....

Arun came back from the interview.... we headed to the shopping mall... did some jaldi-jaldi shopping.... i wont forget what arun asked for in the shopping mall.... I was desperatley searching for some toys for a 1 year old kid.... while .. he was searching the same for a 25 yr old kid ( what he calls as 'boy' ?)... amazing.... the salesman was stumped when we asked we need a toy to play for a 25 yr old..... then arun says 'boy' .... (I will give you the choice to guess who that 25 yr old kid is...?) .... forget it ... kemp-kids reduced the thickness of my credit card by a few millimeters.....

Now its time to do some routine shopping.... we stepped out with don's bro and his friends.... JP, kathir, etc... we ran thru... all city malls.... BG road... city center/.....lots of other places.... and the gud thing is ... were never bought anything.... :-) thats the spirit of shopping....

wat else... lets find our way home..... sweet home..... but how is the question... this is severely unplanned travel... i didn book any tickets, neither did arun.... i had to be in office the next day... i din have a choice.... We went to bus-stand... trying to find some unknown travels... jus to get them saying "NO TICKETS"... we were feeling very hungry... so we thought of having some food... and continue the ticket searching.... food :-).... one bad thing about karnatake... food is always worser than your least expectations.... nothing changes here... we managed to have what others called as food... and continued our ticket searching...

We found some guy who was selling tickets for some unknown travels company... i bought the tickets.... and we ended up walking some 5 kms to get to the place where the buses stop for that "unknown travel company".,... arun is one guy , who worries about comfort, quality and brand... in my travel dictionary these words never exist.... "So no matter, what he says , or whatever i feel..... i was not gonna worry about it"... and that "Unknown-travels" guy.... takes so much time to bring out buses.... that u end up going pissed off by their service.... but theres'nt much of a choice either....

We ended up in chennai by some 5~6 am in the morning..... thats all for this edition of my travel blogs.... will catch u in some other place....

'You're Pitiful' Weird Al Yankovic

2006-11-22T17:48:00.001-08:00


My Own Video to Weird Al's New song your Pitiful. It starts off rubbish but it gets better

From Chukku Kaapi to Cappuccino

2006-10-29T03:04:00.000-08:00

her is a mail for ward that i got some months back..... seems to sync with my life now.....

From Chukku Kaapi to Cappuccino

This blog was written because I was left with no work to do after coming back from Café Coffee day today. I always feel that blogs are written by people who have nothing else to do, but write blogs. And blogs are written for people who have nothing else to do, but read blogs. So if you have nothing else to do, continue reading.

Café Coffee Days in my life!!! I can't believe it. Six, seven years back I would never have imagined that such a day would occur in my life. Café Coffee day is supposed to be a place where high class people who didn't know how to spend the money they had, go. But now I am there... I have changed a lot since my school days.

As I said in my previous post, I never talked in English till the end of my 12th standard. May be in my primary school we talked in English a little bit... (Since girls were there in my primary school we used to talk in English... Mostly it was the "You go girl." "Miss this boy no... he is stealing my pencil miss" and "Miss this boy is pinching me miss" type of pathetic English.). Till I went to college, I never read an English newspaper. I never knew who Sidney Sheldon was. I never saw English movies. "Star movies" was considered adult material at home. I never talked to a girl. I don't feel that I missed anything...But still because I didn't have such experiences, I had to adjust a lot when I traveled beyond Cornigela, my place.

Born in Cornigela, an ordinary conservative town, even Chennai took a lot of time for me to adjust. My home town was too cool. You could watch movies for 15 Rs. in an AC theatre. You get the best food at lowest prices. You can drink water wherever you want and it doesn't affect you. Girls never wear T-shirts or Jeans. You can see girls in half-sarees. And there were a lot more things that were cool to me...My first costly experience as far as I can remember was my first Pizza.

In my 12th standard holidays I had my first Pizza. We, a group of 5 friends went to a bakery. It was around 7 p.m at night. We ordered our first Pizza (only one because it costed so much - 20Rs!!!). As the Pizza arrived one of the guys started using his hand to take out a piece. "Ley" ....The others shouted... "asingam pannatheylae. Fork kudupaanga"... We got 5 forks for eating one Pizza. Everybody tried taking out a piece with the fork. Nobody was successful. Stupid forks... As we were trying different methods, two girls came in, and took the table adjacent to ours. They seemed to be from the so called high class families in Cornigela. They ordered a Pizza. We were still trying to eat ours. Their Pizza arrived in their table. Unable to find a solution, we looked at them for one. One of the girls took out a piece with her hand and started eating it. Damn stupids we were!!! But what do we do now?? We can't go back to the hand-intake method... We are brave!!! Luckily for us the power went off... Forks were put down and everybody started picking a piece with the hand. Our sole aim- finish it off before power comes back!!! Unlucky for us, power came back immediately... We had a piece each in our hands... The girls started laughing... People around us realizing what had happened too joined them...We promised we would never eat Pizzas again. But we all did.

The first change in lifestyle for me occurred in Chennai. Chennai was completely different. Watching a movie for Rs.40 was a one time life experience for most people in my village. I had to adapt to such things since I had to be a part of the group. Otherwise you feel let out. My habits started changing. For example, you look into the glass before drinking water to check whether it is clean. I went to my first Coffee Pub in Chennai. I remember saying some time back "Loosu paya thaan Coffee publa poi mukkaa manineram wait panni oru black coffeeya 50 Ruba kaasu kuduthu kudippaan" - I did it...

If Chennai was difficult for me, how easy would be an MBA school? I was dumbstruck with the culture... The Hi's and the fundoo English speaking guys were all a great change, though I had expected it. There is a sense of hollowness when you say a Hi to somebody here. In Cornigela a smile was enough to say what you feel. There is real sense of belonging in a smile. I miss it - a smile without a Hi.

Here is an example to show how my family mindset is different from the mindset here. At the end of the first term when I went home, I showed quite a few photographs to my parents. In one photograph there was a guy who had his arms around a girl's shoulder. My mother asked me whether they were in love. I said "No". But even today she doesn't believe me. She still feels that they are in love!!! If only she comes here(...

The mind works mechanically here - after you crack a joke you do what they call high fives!!! When you meet a person you ask something like "What's up buddy?"- Only God knows how you are supposed to answer for such a question!!! You say "Excuse me" after a sneeze - What big mistake have you made to say that?? When you are ready to sacrifice ethics for grades and see even your closest friend as a competitor in group discussions, how much difference will that Excuse me make? Pretty difficult to adjust!!!

Even Café Coffee Days and costly dinners sometimes hurt. Daily my father takes a bus to reach home from his office because taking an auto would cost him Rs.30. He walks a kilometer daily from the bus stop to my house. When I think of that and the fact that I am spending Rs.50 for a Chocolate Fantasy, I feel uneasy. Definitely it is not a matter of money. The fact is that I somewhere in my heart feel that this is not really who I am...The fact that I have changed a lot hurts... I want to be the same myself, but I am unable to do so.

Started listing down a few things that have changed in my life. The left column is a list of things that were part of my life before I entered college. And the right are those that I came to know/were a part of my after I entered college.

I wish I go back to school and be the same guy I was. I know I can't. But I want to do it and live the same life all again.

Leo da Mirci once said, "I love what I do because I do only what I love".

If only following something is as simple as saying something!!!

New Cars for city police...

2006-10-28T15:27:00.000-07:00

New Cars for chennai city police... looks awesome na...

One of the mails that i sent to groups

2006-10-28T15:19:00.001-07:00

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Krishna Shasankar. V <itkrishna@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 9, 2006 11:05 PM
Subject: Atlast I Recharged
To: ITS <itsastha@yahoogroups.com>

Friends.... I m back on my mobile....
2~3 days without incoming messages or calls... it was lik hell...
but there wont be too much of enjoyment left for me even if i can see my self back on my mobile..

ya...
if you wanted me to speak about that tiny little masterpiece of finnish engineering(my nokia 1100) which slips through my jeans pocket, i would be glad to rate it as the worst human invention after the atom bomb....

@My mobile steals privacy from me...
It doesnt always sound nice to make yourself accessibile to every tom and dick anytime...
With this little smart device, i hav always lost the choice of whom to respond and whom not to....

@Thats not all... here comes another piece of crap called the SMS...
Let me Rate SMS as the 3rd worst creation of mankind after atombomb and mobile fone....
it starts Morning 5.40.. . a cup of tea or a coffee ...... attached to a HAV A NICE DAY OR GOOD MORNING message..... and it continues.... tea, tiffin, good afternoon, had u r lunch a ..., good evening, good night, sweet dreams, chellams, sweethearts, kadalai, good night,, again at night 12:01 am sending good morning for next day.... i m sick of all these....

idhaey thavirey .... holidays , birthadays.... republic day, valantine's day.....

i i yo.... somebody stop this.... to put an end to all this Sh## , TRAI(telecom regulatory authority of india) should increse the cost of SMS to twice that of call cost....

3 days without mobile ... It was like heaven...
But every now and then i feel for people who tried to call me up on my mobile.....
i feel like as if i have got adictted to this thing... i really hate this thing but cant live without it....
i m jealous on everyone who doesn't hav a mobile.... for you guys the world is really a cool place to live in... no commitments... always offline.....

friends... please put down your views on good's and bad's of mobile fonez....

--

Mail Signed by,

V.Krishna Shasankar [iT KRiSHNA],

Final Year ,B.Tech[Information Technology]

Sree Sastha Institute of Engg. and Tech. , Chennai

PHP Tips (Redirecting to a Page)

2006-10-17T12:36:00.001-07:00

To Redirect an user to a new Page

use the follwoing script

<?php
header( 'Location: http://www.yourwebsite.com/redirect_page.html' ) ;
?>

But make sure that no HTTP headers have been sent before this code is beign executed

(i.e. this should come before the HTML tag in the page)

Joges about WIFE

2006-10-17T12:26:00.001-07:00

I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry.
That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.
David Bissonette

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let
him keep her.
Sacha Guitry

After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they
just can't face each other, but still they stay together.
Hemant Joshi

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you
get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. Socrates

Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving
them.
Dumas

The great question... which I have not been able to answer... is,
"What does a woman want?
Sigmund Freud

I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.
Anonymous

"Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go
to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft
music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays."
Henny Youngman

"I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years."
Sam Kinison

"There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than
electronic banking. It's called marriage."
James Holt McGavran

"I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me, and
the second one didn't."
Patrick Murray

Two secrets to keep your marriage brimming
1. Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
2. Whenever you're right, shut up.
Nash

The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget
it once...
Anonymous

You know what I did before I married? Anything I wanted to.
Henny Youngman

My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
Rodney Dangerfield

A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
Milton Berle

Marriage is the only war where one sleeps with the enemy.
Anonymous

A man inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: "Wife wanted". Next day
he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: "You
can have mine."
Anonymous

First Guy (proudly): "My wife's an angel!"
Second Guy: "You're lucky, mine's still alive."

Thing You find only in Mangalore

2006-10-10T20:49:00.000-07:00

Managalore Engleesh

The City Traffic Police is using Eggjelent engleesh par itz Safety Hoardings ... have a look at this

25 NayaPaisa

I didnt have an opportunity to use 25 Paise coin for the past couple of years.... i dont even remember the last time when any one use the denominations in 25 paise and 75 paise... Bu when i came to mangalore... i was astonished that people here still use 25 Ps and 75Ps as denominations... here are some the sample bus tickets ... (NOTE the values 325 and 375 denote the numbers in paise not in ruppees [esp for chennaitees]...)

Mangalore Nagaram....

2006-10-03T20:25:00.000-07:00

Mangalore Nagaram....

I jus wanted to jump out of chennai for a weekend, thought of going to mangalore but tickets were not available,but i desperately needed a break out of this flyover-city, i had very few reasons to travel 1), to meet deppak 2),i want to travel because i love traveling, at last found a ticket through tatkal in some coach bound to mangalore which will drop me there at 5 am on sunday....

Sunday 4:45 AM

A Lightning of noise awakes me i turn down from my upper berth jus to see an empty seats, wow, i have reached mangalore, its shivering now, i rang up deepak he said he was on the way, i packed the stuff that i brought with me, came down, its stupid man, unbelievable i saw the railway clock , it ticks 4:45 ( the train is supposed to arrive at 5:15), for a second i got confused as if the train has stopped in some other station and it would leave to mangalore now, but i turned back to confirm that its mangalore only.... the recent hike to railways' guys is paying off in gold for us...

While getting down itself i get a message on my mobil saying that i have a meeting with my CEO scheduled on Tuesday 10:00 am, I have to be in chennai on monday morning at ANY COST... So my deadline was to take the 1:10 chn mail from here to chennai on monday morning .... so i have been allocated 30+ hours to enjoy ...

Deepaq came down to pick me up.... we headed to his place, a nicely furnished room, had chat about latest updates in both our lives, went for bath an then headed to beach (dont ask me the names), it was nice place, great beach guys i ll update fotos as soon as i get their soft copies, the beach was very close to the port , we saw a big ship crossing in front of us, dont know why I started to develop some kinda of HATRED towards SHIPS.... i saw a restaurant nearby the beach , i said we can have some dinner over said , deepak said we can have it near his office, i told we can have it here, bcoz i was very hungry, i didnt eat much during travel also... BIG MISTAKE i did, food was as horrible as ever... checkout deepaks's blog for a detailed description... We then headed to his office , INFOSYS Mangalore , It was cool man... great building, interiors, facilities.. the company was nice.... we took some snaps , he would need some for his orkut....

5 hours katham, 25 left

Then We did some shopping had some famous ice-cream, whose names i never knew, dont even know that anyone else back home will know... We headed to meet that FaztArithmetic Guy, i wanted the meeting to end in five minutes , it lasted for more that some 1 or 2 hours... man this guy ate a huge chunk of my time.... when we stepped off his office it was raining and raining cats, dogs, donkeys, and cows tooo... chalo... its has been long since i last got wet in chill rain, enjoy that one tooo... at last we found some auto to drop us in the bus stop that will take us to udippi,

One crazy thing about Mangalore... Auto-Rickshaws run on meters.. unbelievable stuff na... believe me or not this guy charged us with 18 Rs... i dont even remember last time i got a auto in chennai for less than 20 rs...

15:45 (Sat)
We took some odd bus to Udippi Which will leave us in udippi terminus, we had lunch before we took of for the bus, went to udippi beach ... (aval parandhu poonaley .... udippi beach povarey bus le oru ponnu... marakka ve mudiyaley)... went to the beach ... enjoyed the sunset in beach ... first time in my life i m having the sight of sunset at the beach .....(back in chennai-east coast its only sun rise by the beach) took some awesome snaps with the indian ocean....

19:45 (Sat)
We headed to manipal .... still dont know why we went there.... thought of finding some nice place to eat... but ended up finding that manipal is not tourist friendly place ( i mean in terms of navigation and pathfinding). We had to resort back to mangalore very quickly ... so that we can at least find some proper place to eat , its a 2 hours travel from here and the roads are the worst in the record.....

21:45 (Sat)
In the bus we found this tamil girl... aiiyo avaliyum marakka mudiaythu.... 2 hours non stop discussion.... about nothing but useless stuff... we get down and say ... bye bye
Back to mangy... now we had rush in to some hotel for FOOD... Food for survival... got one... and learnt a lesson... Kannidiga Biriyani's are the worst preparations of biriyani in the whole world... dont ever bother to try it... its that horrible....
Get back to sleep.... The next day i will have to find my way hometown....

09:00 (Sun)
We went to a place called sultan battery to take some nice snaps.... and headed to railway station.... Nothing spl on trains... Nothing Spl on train, except for the fact that i had to travel through kerala and lots of college girls are returning back to their hostels after their weekends.... Found a friend on the trains , he was a 70 year old , we discussed a lot about the young age comparing with what that guy used to do when he was of my age....

Back to chennai... Back to home... a Fast brush and a lightning quick bath... Meet the Web Master, Synaptris.com in the mirror... and get to back office... and life restarted as usual but on a different role....

CSS Forms

2006-09-08T21:16:00.000-07:00

Hi all.. recentely i have been workin on some CSS UI for forms... CSS allows to offer better UI for User elements such as text boxes, check boxes , radio buttons ... etc... CSS also enbales highlighting the field that is being accessed by the user... say for example if the user is entering his user name , the username feild can be highlighted using CSS and lil bit of Javascript... This provides a more enhanced UI ...

There are actually two methods to get this done.... one is by applying CSS:focus style and the other is using Javascript... Ill prefer the Javascript one since the CSS:focus is not supported in my version of IE

The process is relatively simple... define two styles applicable to all textboxes.... one should be default one the other can be the one for editing mode....

.tbox {
background-color: #FAFAFA;
border: 1px solid #AAAAAA;
font-family: Tahoma;
font-size: 11px;
}
.tbox-focus {
background-color: #FFFFEE;
border: 1px solid #006699;
font-family: Tahoma;
font-size: 11px;
}

now after defing styles you have to write functions for setting and resetting the styles this is done using Javascript

<script type="text/javascript">

function sfocus(tid)
{
var im = document.getElementById(tid);
im.className="tboxfocus"
}

function lfocus(tid)
{
var im = document.getElementById(tid);
im.className="tbox"
}
</script>

Now having declared all these stuff inside <HEAD> tag... its all about calling the function in all textboxes

<input name="Name" type="text" class="tbox" id="Name" onBlur="lfocus('Name');" onFocus="sfocus('Name');">

<input name="Email" type="text" class="tbox" id="Email" onBlur="lfocus('Email');" onFocus="sfocus('Email');">

Use a simillar tag for all text boxes... thats all CSS forms are ready....

2006-09-02T04:32:00.000-07:00

Haloscan commenting and trackback have been added to this blog.

New york Nagaram......

2006-08-31T11:53:00.000-07:00

I dont know who told me about thing song a week back... i would have heard this song some that 200 times douring the past four days... Its in Loop on my winamp, my pocket mp3, speaker desk at office..... This is too good stuff from A.R. Rehaman.....

Here is the TANGLISH Lyrics for the fans of this song from the movie "Jilendru oru Kaadhal"....

"new york nagaram urangum naeram..
thanimai adarndhadhu..
paniyum padarndhadhey..
kappal irangiye kaatrum karaiyil nadandhadhu..
naangu kannaadi chuvargalukkulle naanum mezhuguvarthi..
thanimai thanimai oh.. thanimai thanimai oh.. kodumai kodumai yo..

new york nagaram..
paechchelaam thaalaattu pola ennai uranga vaikka nee illai..
dhinamum oru muthtam thandhu kaalai coffee kodukka nee illai..
vizhiyil vizhum dhoosi thannai naavaal edukka nee ingu illaii..
manadhil yezhum kuzhappam thannai theerkka nee ingey illai..
naan ingae neeyum angae indha thanimaiyil nimishangal varusham aanadhaeno..
vaan ingae.. neelam angae indha uvamaikku iruvarum vilakkamaanadhaeno..
new york nagaram...
naat kurippil nooru dhadavai undhan peyarai ezhudhum en paenaa..
ezhudhiyadhum erumbu moikka peyarum aanadhenna thaenaa..
jil endru bhoomi irundhum indha tharunaththil kulir kaalam kodai aanadheno..
vaa anbae.. neeyum vandhaal senthanal kooda panikkatti pola maarumae..
new york nagaram..."

Introduction to Server Side Includes

2006-08-26T22:21:00.000-07:00

What are SSI?

SSI (Server Side Includes) are directives that are placed in HTML pages, and evaluated on the server while the pages are being served. They let you add dynamically generated content to an existing HTML page, without having to serve the entire page via a CGI program, or other dynamic technology.
The decision of when to use SSI, and when to have your page entirely generated by some program, is usually a matter of how much of the page is static, and how much needs to be recalculated every time the page is served. SSI is a great way to add small pieces of information, such as the current time. But if a majority of your page is being generated at the time that it is served, you need to look for some other solution.

Source: Apache Tutorial: Introduction to Server Side Includes

The worst travel experiences of my life.....

2006-08-21T23:32:00.000-07:00

hi guys,

Welcome to this blog post on one of the worst travel experiences of my life.... this for for my friends marriage., it was to happen on a place named KODAD in some remote location beyond Vijayawada, the marriage was on 18-aug so I took leave on Friday , it was schedule at night , I thought like I can have a comfortable travel by train and bus on the day and go to the marriage in sharp time, but life is not always easy... it sucks... I had my leave confirmation on Wednesday evening ... I thought of booking the tickets on Thursday morning... I went to online booking ... got the tickets paid the money through HDFC netbanking ... everything went fine till a JavaScript error popped up that had crippled my transaction in the middle .... money has already been debited from my account... but no tickets.... full tension... called up HDFC and irctc... they atlast agreed to restore the money.... I had to go to Southern Railways booking office directly to get the tickets.....

Anyway I got them after long tensions..... now I had to go to office...@ syanptris... huge chunks of work was waiting for me.... something has to go live by monday... but I wont be available through weekend.... chalo kaam karo... hardwork till 1am on Friday... now i get back to home.... next morning i have train... i reached home by around 3 and then ofcourse slept...

Subhae Subhae utthe hi time hogaya 7 odd my train is by 9 odd and travel from pallavaram to the central takes a luxurious 1 hour.... run boy run....

chalo paunch gaya station in cool time but no money... my purse is empty now.... the canara bank ATM in the Chennai central wont work.... i m helpless...

Suren Sir (one of the great faculty members of my college and a good friend of mine... now he is working in some MNC ) was on his way to the staion on the same train... after hearing that i had a sigh of relief.... now i thought like i have some company to suffer with.....

We boarded the train... shared the experiences... was a lot of fun.... atlast i have found someone with time to share whatever thats going on in y life after college....

We made it to vijaywada in good time.... 4:30 or 5 pm... it was evening.... Krishna river was flooding like crazy.... We stepped out off train to the road outside.... there we headed staraight to auto-rick stand... we asked if he can take us to the bus-terminus.... he refused... we stood like stumped.... ( where ever i have went... rick drivers will tell you like it will cost more or atleast will try to cheat you... but this is teh first time that i had to hear something like this... "AUTO RAADHU...." IN A HARSH TONE.... translates as "auto wont come" in telegu....) we found some auto atlast ... but that was damn cheap man.... he charged just a mere Rs. 5 per head for each of us the distance was close to 2~3 kms....

aha ha we reached... the terminus.... but hang on teh confusion begins here.... where is KODAD... i went to the enquiry asked for KODAD (spelled like K-O-DAD) .... she said like that there is no such place there.... then she revealed the correct pronouncation "Kodhadu" (spell like KO-DHA-DU... translates in telegu like some synonym for riverside ... i m not sure)..." goto platforms 25 and 26... u might find some buses there"

No busses here again... Some bus driver ws trying to persuade us to take his bus ( his bus will not take us to kodad but will take us to somewhere from where i cand find busses to kodad.... but that place will waste a lot of my time and money). We dont have time... its SIX already.... i thought like "Marketing ke Makrketing a.... dai ... adangunga da :)"

We got a bus but were unsure whether it will take us there or not.... got in and slept.... that bus driver was sleeping too... he almost went on to crash the bus on a steep curve..... anyway hum bachgayae .... we dont have a choice... "lets believe it takes to kodhadu".... finally we reached kodadhu... we were astonished to find that this place has cars, ATM's and an engineering college tooo (ha ha .... suren knows the joke behind it).... It was crazy man.... the Image we had for kodad was a very remote village with nothing but cows and farms... but it was far more advanced....

Some of my friend's (bride's) friend came to take through to the place where we are gonna stay.... it was a place (no comments about it...) ... deepak* reached there in the meanwhile.... nothing crazy... this guy never took a leave... cameback staright from office... anyways... no harsh feelings ...
{ * Deepak works in SCM for Infosys and is currently havin his training at hyderabad}

Awesome man... marraige was over by 1 am on sat.... wished her all the best and found our way back.... my eyes were burining ... i havent slept for more than 40 hours by then....

No the return saga beging.... Morning train is at 6 AM at Vijayawada..... Its 2.30 AM here in Kodad.... We have been waiting for aroun 1 hour... no bus has crossed us.. thought like we will be in trouble if we dont get a train....I have to reach chennai at the earliest.... bcoz i need to help a friend to make his national level event live at Chennai Trade center on Sunday....

Finally we got the bus.... made it 2 railway station... by 4 odd...

We didnt have tickets 2 chennai.... I thought like we can travel in PINAKINI Express... i is by all means on the most emptiest trains.... i have travelled in it... u can sleep and travel till chennai in the general ... its that empty.... so we took a General Ticket...

now our stomach's were in trouble... no PROPER food for more that 18 hours.... after a little search we found some place which can sell us food .... had some idli's.... he asked if we need "COOLING WATER" (office memories of awdesh asking for it.... ha ha)...

Got the train... and now i came to know about the mistake i did.... it was the worst thing i had ever done to travel in General.... the compartment got stuffed with all kinds of nonsense.... fights, fun,chaos,,, everything that u could imagine..... i dont have any chioce.... i haev to travel by it.... If i had time i would have stepped out and took some other train.... it was that crazy....

Making it to chennai was like winning a nobel prize... ui stepped in to chennai... and started jumping in happiness....

Trip to KODAD may be one of the worst travel experiences in my life.... but it also made one of our friends happy by showing our presence at one of the gretest moments in her life.... Cheers for that....

A Night @ Synaptris

2006-07-29T23:29:00.000-07:00

Life seems to be easy until u find tougher times… this is what happened to me yesterday, Myself and Awdesh (a colleague of mine @ Synaptris.com) planned to stay at office yesterday night in order to implement some SEO changes throughout the website, This is a painstaking process which will involve a huge amount of work…. And this was gonna be my first night-out on office work. And the experience was too good. i would have been boring if there is no one around, but awdy gave a nice company…

After joining here, i got used to work late hours, and yesterday was really awesome, the early morning environment is too good that if i start workin like this for a couple of days , i may get addicted to these things, neways i shuldnt do that way….

By 3 am we were planning to make an innovative project for Synaptris.com, we used have one such thing in the old site, which we don’t have anymore… but we wanna start off from scrap, so that the implementation will be scalable. We will discuss more about in our future blogs…

Ek mahiney ho gaya

2006-07-26T23:28:00.000-07:00

Donno how time passes, it feels that I joined jus now and here we go, one month is over, how gud I am after one month at Synaptris is still a question?, but I feel I have learned a gud amount of Corporate designing, campaign page concepts, SEO optimizations, mailers, etc.. I still don’t know where this learning curve is gonna take me, but my manager always tells me to head out in the direction of usability, but I don’t even know any word on usability. I still a fresher in this area maybe I ll get to know more as I improvise on my experience.

For a non-corporate perspective, I m eating a lot these days (although awdesh is responsible of most of it), this is nothing special since anyone at syanptris will tell the relationship between Marketing Team and food. And I am speaking a good amount of hindi, becoz of this hindi rich community around me, ever since my first semester, I didn’t have chance to speak some of the languages I like most.

Zindigi chal raha hai, cool and slow paced…. C u in next blog …

An year after final year tour

2006-07-24T11:19:00.000-07:00

Exactly a year ago we were in some remote location in kerala, enjoying those precious moments of our bachelor lives, our final year tour.

Tour has been one of those special moments of my life which will take a tsunami strike to forget it. Life has changed a lot during these days, just making a comparison of how i stepped into the train that day (results were out that day, i thought my life was devastated ) and how i am now (sitting in some s/w company and doing what i like most ) , shows how fast life has changed, but anything is short lived in this world , maybe next in july i could writing a similar blog as VO from home, but for whatever it takes , its has been a hard fought battle to succeed and success could be short lived too...

Anyways i m not gonna regret for my mistakes but i surely will do so for the things that i have missed in our tour. I was having some gigs of work to be done today when someone reminded me of our tour last year, that's all a sparkle of fun and joy rushed through my brain, I was filled with a some kinda enthusiasm never felt b4, although it didn't last long befor I got a ping in my sametime to remind me of my pending works… it was good enough to teach me a lesson "how fast time travels??"

I feel very lucky for havin got a chance to work in Chennai itself; it keeps me in nice touch with most of our classmates. Of course meeting guys who have joined work has become very rare, at least I m satisfied with those text messaging and occasional meet with guys at Kutty's, Annanagar or Room.

Animated GIF vs Flash SWF

2006-07-17T23:15:00.000-07:00

This debate has been going on for quite some time, which is better suited for banner ads and web animations, GIF or SWF?

Format: GIF

Animation: BITMAP animation (Frames based)
Colors supported: 256 (Palette)
Compatibility: high
Compression: Average

Format: SWF

Animation: VECTOR animation (scalable)
Colors supported: Full Color
Compatibility: Medium
Compression: High

At every point SWF is always better than GIF for playing animations but SWF falls short of mark when it comes to compatibility, SWF's require a unique flash plug-in offered by Adobe to be installed on the client machine for playing SWF's this is the only point that pulls SWF down in the race for the best format for animations on internet, While GIF is more standardized and consistent, it needs to improve a lot, the last GIF spec came 17 years ago (GiF89a), while Macromedia (now Adobe Macromedia) comes up with a new version of flash every year.

We jus cannot leave about GIF and start workin on our animation in SWF, because internet is all about diversity and if a solution is not compatible over a wide range of machines, then thee is no point in implementing such technology.

And SWF is not useless too, SWF offers excellent clarity and unmatched compression rates because of its vector animations and latest compression mechanisms, so if you are targeting a group of hi-tech people with latest system configurations, you can always implement your animations in flash.

if u ask me the answer for this question? Here it is

Best - one: SWF

If u need compatibility then, forget flash the winner is always GIF ..

NOSCRIPT Problem...

2006-07-06T12:17:00.000-07:00

I was working on these javascript menus when i came across this problem with java-script, there is an option in every browser that allows you to configure the browser in such a way that it can be made to disable java-script processing (i.e, all the java-script based coding in the pages will not be displayed by the browser), there was nothing much to worry about in this regard since most of the visitors do’nt do that, so i expected things to go well, but to my astonishment i came to know very lately from some SEO(Search Engine Optimization) Expert, that google too has the same habit of not processing Javascript, this means i was in trouble, the entire site navigation system was not being understood by google, i cant go ahead and change these hundreds and thousands of pages with a new navigation system, the solution to the problem is <NOSCRIPT> tag

Lemme explain how no script tag works, Javascript technology was developed by Netscape, when Javascript was first introduced, microsoft browsers(IE) at first it didnt have inherent capabilities to process it, the power and flexiblity of javascript made it one of the most successful scripting technologies, placing it much ahead of its nearest competitor (VBScript , a Microsoft Product), scripting generally refers to javascript although we can use any other language to write scripts, While microsoft and netscape while waging scripting wars, most other browsers didnt even had support for any of the scripting technologies. This led to a confusion Javascripts pages wont render properly in IE, VBScript wont render in Netscape, Some browser X will not support neither of the technologies.

This led W3C to introduce a tag called NOSCRIPT which will render some information if the client browser dosent support scripting….

Lets take the scenario where i am creating an Javascript menu, this wont render in the scripting-disabled browser properly
[A normal javascript menu in a javascript enabled browser]
[A normal javascript menu in a javascript disabled browser (Google looks at your site like this)]
As u can see the browser didnt render the javascript menu since javascript processing was disabled

Now if we add a NOscript tage and put the navigation system in place , this will work if the browser doesn’t render Javascript menus
[An optimized navigation system for no-js browsers and search engine bots, NOSCRIPT tage also improves your page ranking in google]

Why is this so important if 98% of the browsers have scripting enabled?

Nothing really matters if the percentage of non-scripting browsers in 2%, but unfortunately GOOGLE falls in that 2% and for that matter none of the prominent search engines can’t process Javascript, so if u have your site navigation systm designed in Javascript, forget it, google wont read it…. it means your site is not accessible to google, this reduces a lot of clicks to your site… If you work in SEO you will know how much troble your site is in.

The Solution :

Use an optimized text links menu to replace your navigation system inside a <NOSCRIPT> Tag jus below your script. It will do the trick and will also improve the your page rank in google pagerank.

Mr. Employee

2006-06-28T12:06:00.000-07:00

I m an employee now…
sounds gud na?? jus came off office today,
my third day at work, gud learning…
day-by-day i m turning out to be a gud learner, i hav learnt a lotta new things here, and i m producing better designs too… never knew, it was me who came up with such designs, it all looks so simple…

Awaiting tomorro !! - The Steep Turn

2006-06-25T10:48:00.000-07:00

Yup…

Tomorro is the day… 26th June 2006 (“For the record…. I m going to join in a job from tomorro“),my life is gonna take a steep turn from today, this is not the first time i m stepping into synaptris…. so i am not that nervous, i know most of my division guys, so it wont be a big problem in getting used to stuff…

but i feel like i have missed a lot…I was jus given nothing more than four days(22,23,24 and 25) to days to stay unemployed… and they are not enough to enjoy life…. enjoy life as a bachelor with no reponsibilities…. maybe i ll find some free time to catch up with other guys later on… but but life wont be the same for everyone as it was for the past 4 years….

Let us see , how well it turns up for me tomorro!!

Batchmate Leaves for Hyderabad

2006-06-24T21:58:00.000-07:00

Hi guys,

jus came back after lettin off my bacth mate to leave for hyderabad

Morning Mistakes..

I made a damn mistake this morning… i had a plan of gettin the course completion certi and then head straight to anna-nagar, but i woke up late, it took me around 11 to start off, then went straight to arun’s room(stupid thing)… eventually i forgot joe was waitin for me…

Life hasnt changed much here…. its as usual, i shuld have been better in making a choice… and i never do that…

When i called up joe, he was firing on me from all ends…. poor guy didn hav lunch bcoz of me…. and ever1 know wat lunch means to joe…

Railway Station Allumbu

i made it to joe’s home in the same unconventional way, jus to see a hot face… waiting for someone to take him out… we went out , for a walk, then praveen came by…we called up don, man this guy is crazy…. took 1 hour to come… deepak had started off by then… we headed straight to station, met kanna anna, we stepped into platform(no-8), man this place was crazy…. full of final year students, for each one going to infy, there were 20 others to give him send—off, jus imagine… we slipped in jus to see joe already notching up “OOR-KASU” from deepak

OOR-KASU : oor – kasu is a convention by which a friend leaving to some place for a small trip or a tour should pay the non-travelling friend an unspecficed sum of money.

Myself , joe and pravin came to send off deepu, while DON came for something else…. we never knew dese, until he tried to get into the train to look at the seat… ada paavi don… anyways, angey pannu alumbukku, payan(don) paavam aludhuttan, enna panna radhu “final year enna appidithan”….

nares(it),pump and mundus were there, vigu,seenu n nares(medavakkam) came in the last mins , shetty also made it to the station atlast… puli(CS-Selva) came to bid-adieu to rati, was also there, we told

“babu ollu baga chooskooo”
[telegu trans for “boy,take care of ur health”],

and let deepu go…. for the next two months, we will be missing a face in annanagar…. [atelast chennai will be a better place now ], i came out with puli, dropped of pravin on the way at st.thomas mount (we travelled by train as puli was not feeling gud). i came off to alstohm….

puli will be goin back to station i think, coz he has to giv send off to srinath(INFY/Mysore leavin by 11:15 pm train) as well… i was heading to home…

Ta Ta Ecahai

If u have seen the Infy share prices in the past one week u will get to know the impact this guy can generate on any concern…. 26th June 2006 will be a memorable day in both of our lives, our life will be taking a steep turn from here…. i m gonna join work in chennai, he will do it in hyderabad…

Congrats n all d best batchmate,…. Infy-e-saachiputtu, sattu buttu ennu ooru thirumbu…

Some Glimpses of My Campus

2006-06-19T21:05:00.000-07:00

Here are some photographs of my College…. When i joined sastha, it was no mor than g+1 floors, 2nd floor was under construction,, i m talking about the main block… and then swept a tremendous wave of development(during my second and 3rd years),during this period sastha moved from a low-rated startup callege, to one the cities respected accreditated institutions….

>>>> The Offical ART <<<<

World Cup Update

2006-06-18T22:26:00.000-07:00

WORLD CUP UPDATES

Brazil Wins….
France Suffers a exciting draw by South Korea.

FRANCE 1-1   KOREA REPUBLIC
BRAZIL   2-0 AUSTRALIA
JAPAN     0-0    CROATIA

Probablity and Stats Prep...

2006-06-18T20:36:00.000-07:00

I have got this probability exam which falls on june 21st … this exam has been the one of the toughest hurdles in my life… i ll have to spend tough time in getting through this paper, if at all i need to get a first class degree…

Yesterday nite we had put up a nite study… it yeilded nothing, i slept, i was very tired d day b4, so i couldnt do without any sleep, vasanth , shiva and vinoth were here, but i was sleeping….

I m leaving now to Nick’s Home for Prep, pray dat i ll clear it atleast this time….

Hey guys... Check out out Class foto

2006-06-18T19:58:00.000-07:00

Jus Check out this foto….
I was workin on it for some 15 mins or so….

I had Mailed a high quality version to the groups…

Blogging... on and on and on....

2006-06-18T10:27:00.000-07:00

I jus wanted to try my luck at some blogging…
I have found a new tool for blogging.. blogs are infact really a great way to keep others updated of wat u r doin….

So u guys can see me blogging a lot in the future…

Regardz… KRiS

Thathuvam....

2006-01-11T09:18:00.000-08:00

Pudiya Thathuvam for this century just for Joke.............

'Train evlo vegama ponalum, kadaisi petty kadaisiyadhan pogum...'
'arisi kotina vaera arisi vangalam pal kotina vaera pal vangalam aaana thael kotina vaera thael vanga mudiyadhu....'
“Cellula balance illana call panna mudiyathu.... Aaana.... Manushanukku call illana, Balance panna mudiyathu.... “
'Bus poita bus stand angayae thaan irukum aana cycle poita cycle stand koodavae poogum.'

No Telecast of India's tour of Pakistan.... :-(

2006-01-11T09:08:00.000-08:00

"India cricket fans who do not have cable television will miss live action of the upcoming Test series involving Rahul Dravid's men in Pakistan.
Instead, they will have to make do with a 90-minute highlights package on the state-run Doordarshan network.
Under a new directive, the highlights will be provided free of cost by the official rights-holder, Ten Sports.
The Supreme Court in Delhi has asked both channels to arrive at a similar solution for the one-day matches.
Dubai-based Ten Sports had challenged the Mumbai (Bombay High Court order which asked it to share the live feed with Doordarshan.
It feels the directive is 'arbitrary' and not justifiable.
The next Supreme Court hearing in the case will be held on 30 January.
Ten Sports channel is available via cable TV in India, but because of its relative high cost has very limited reach.
On the other hand, state TV can be accessed by some 90% of the one-billion plus population.
The series has provoked a huge amount of excitement and anticipation in both countries and an estimated 500 million are expected to watch the matches. "

Practical Exam - Multimedia

2005-04-22T12:13:00.000-07:00

Multimedia Lab Exam [20th APR 2005]

Wow!!! I Stepped into the exam hall with a blind confidence... i didn't know anything but concepts... I knew how to program 3/5 Programming Exercises....

but the exam happened the other way... i took the QP and found myself floating in heavens for a few secz.. I was the easiest paper you could expect for that lab.. the QP6 I was confronted with two extremely simple questions...(1)Zoom and UnZoom an Image in VB (2) move an object in flash... Wat shall i do...

Before everyone else started designing their answer sheets with scale and pencil... i was already done with my Practical Stuff and had my Output Ready... All Was over in a matter of 20 mins,,, :)

Now came the turn for VIVA... he he...

We i have a really bad habit..., I refuse to say "I don't Know" or "No Idea" during a Questionnaire, unless i personally compell myself to do so, I can handle questions ... any questions regarding Technology...

This habit has its disadvantages.... while doing computing labs .., i used to finish first in almost every semester Lab exam. When i do that i give the external examiner a huge chance for asking maximum number of questions.... always the external examiners have the habit of asking questions till the point the student say "No Idea"... This has Shown up tremendously in my Exams.. I have ended up with the records for maximum time spent with an external examiner for a VIVA ( i.e... 48 Minutes during my Visual Prog. Lab). Spending more time in viva has become tooo common for myself. This exam was no different... I spent some 35 or so minutes with that examiner for viva.... and he Probably ran out of Questions...

If my predictions go right i should get soem 99 out of 100 in this paper(bcoz.. 1 mark should be reduced for late submission of record)

CRICKET

2005-04-15T11:12:00.000-07:00

5TH odi ON THE Indo pAK series @ kanpur:

Most Humiliating Win by pak over India... Dravid Won a unlucky Toss 2 put India into bat.. Shewag and sachin were out before the score crossed 25... The pitch was terrible with dampness all over.... India was reeling @ 80+ with d loss of 4 wickets ... and almost half of overs were already bowled( 24 over or so...) Dravid and Kaif came to rescue to put India in a formidable position of 249 at the end of its quota of 50 overs..... Dravid played the innings of a captain.

The pakinstaini Innings started off witha thunder... Afridi was scoring all around I switched off my TV .... When i turned it on again i found they were already on their winning ways with the score over 125 at the end of 15 overs..... afridi had already notched up the second fastest 100 in the books injust 41 balls....while but was trying hard to score atleast one runn of 4 balls....it was tough time Finally they won....

India were down in the series by 3-2.....

Anyway the Delhi oneday will be theirs becoz of d pressure... India doesn't have too much prospects of drawing this series......