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National Institute of Technology, Surathkal Karnataka(NITK) is one of the premier technical colleges in India and is rated even higher than some of the IITs in some of the surveys.
NITK has 5 streams of Comp. Science - BTech CS(undergrad course) - intake of 60
students for 4 years, M.Tech(postgrad) - Intake of 60 students for 2 years, BTech IT intake of 60 students for 4 years, MCA (postgrad) - intake of 60 students for 3 years, PhD - intake of 10-15 students for 4-5 years.After a long phone association of almost 6 months with between NIT Surathkal and Sumitha Prashanth from Sun; 3 engineers and me went to NIT Surathkal on 10th and 11th Nov 2006.
The planned agenda was:
- Sanjay Manwani - Talk to Dr.Shet and HOD about Sun and Universities and work with them to identify Campus ambassadors
- Sun and Participation Age pitch - Jeevan (an alumnus of NITK 2005)
- Introduction to OpenSolaris - Moinak Ghosh
- Introduction to Project Glassfish - Varun Rupela.
The main agenda of the trip was to make the students and teachers of NITK aware of the Sun contribution to opensource and solicit their support. Also to get 3-4 names of students for the Sun ambassador program from NITK.
Though most of the sessions were planned only for 11th Nov. We were able to organize 1 formal and one informal discussion between Sun and NITK.
We reached and were received at the University by one of the student volunteers and an active participant of the Open club - Dhaval. Dhaval is a 3rd year student and has done a project at IBM and is scheduled to join IBM at the end of his studies. His interest is in Linux kernels and he is currently involved in a project related to that. The Open club is a group of students and a lecturer (M/s Vani ) who are actively working on open source projects with a lot of them being Linux enthusiasts.
Dhaval introduced us to Mr. Annappa who is one of the lecturers at NITK with interest in distributed systems. Mr. Annapa was very enthusiastic about the Sun visit and immediately organized a meeting with the lecturers of the Computer Science (CS) department.
During the meeting which was attended by the Professors including Dr. Vinay (HOD), Dr. Shet, Mr. Annapa, and M/s Vani, some PhD students including Mr. Jose; whose interest is in the area of compilers and some M. Tech students. We went over the canned presentations that we had planned to share with the students. There was interest in the gathering and some decent questions were asked. The Mtech students informed us that this was good learning for them. After the meeting Dr. Vinay informed that he had already sent 3 names to Sun to choose a student ambassador. He also informed us that the attendance may be less in our session due to the end semester exams in 2 weeks.
Dhaval organized a impromptu session for students to talk about projects. about 7-8 students attended and most were interested in how to get projects. All of us informed about the power of open source and how they could easily contribute. It was a very open session with lots of questions about Sun and open source.
On 11th at 9 AM we began our formal session. there were about 30-35 students and slowly the whole classroom with the capacity of 40-45 students filled up. Dr. Shet introduced the session and mentioned that he had recently become aware of the open sourcing of Solaris. M/s Vani and Mr. Annappa were also in attendance. It was a very interactive session with lots of demos and questions. At least 20 students had worked on Linux and many of the questions related to open source were answered.
There was no flagging of interest till the 3.5 hours of the session when we broke for lunch with the promise of D-trace demo after lunch. 30-40 SDN memberships were signed up and more forms distributed for people who could not attend. Lots of Netbeans CDs and Belenix DVDs were distributed, with 5 of each given for the library to be borrowed by students.
Conclusion
It was a very fruitful trip to learn about such an open and enthusiastic community of teachers and students interested in open source not too far from IEC. We have a lot of leads to continue our association thru students and lecturers for the SAI. We need to keep up this engagement to make sure that it bears the results that we want from our academic initiative.
-- Sanjay Manwani
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National Institute of Technology, Surathkal Karnataka(NITK) is one
of the premier technical colleges in India and is rated even higher
than some of the IITs in some of the surveys.NITK has 5
streams of Comp. Science - BTech CS(undergrad course) - intake of 60
students for 4 years, M.Tech(postgrad) - Intake of 60 students for 2
years, BTech IT intake of 60 students for 4 years, MCA (postgrad) -
intake of 60 students for 3 years, PhD - intake of 10-15 students for
4-5 years.After a long phone association of almost 6 months
with between NIT Surathkal and Sumitha Prashanth from Sun; 3 engineers
and me went to NIT Surathkal on 10th and 11th Nov 2006.The planned agenda was:
- Sanjay Manwani - Talk to Dr.Shet and HOD about Sun and Universities and work with them to identify Campus ambassadors
- Sun and Participation Age pitch - Jeevan (an alumnus of NITK 2005)
- Introduction to OpenSolaris - Moinak Ghosh
- Introduction to Project Glassfish - Varun Rupela.
The
main agenda of the trip was to make the students and teachers of NITK
aware of the Sun contribution to opensource and solicit their support.
Also to get 3-4 names of students for the Sun ambassador program from
NITK.Though most of the sessions were planned only for 11th
Nov. We were able to organize 1 formal and one informal discussion
between Sun and NITK.We reached and were received at the
University by one of the student volunteers and an active participant
of the Open club - Dhaval. Dhaval is a 3rd year student and has done a
project at IBM and is scheduled to join IBM at the end of his studies.
His interest is in Linux kernels and he is currently involved in a
project related to that. The Open club is a group of students and a
lecturer (M/s Vani ) who are actively working on open source projects with a lot of them being Linux enthusiasts.Dhaval
introduced us to Mr. Annappa who is one of the lecturers at NITK with
interest in distributed systems. Mr. Annapa was very enthusiastic about
the Sun visit and immediately organized a meeting with the lecturers of
the Computer Science (CS) department.During the meeting
which was attended by the Professors including Dr. Vinay (HOD), Dr.
Shet, Mr. Annapa, and M/s Vani, some PhD students including Mr. Jose;
whose interest is in the area of compilers and some M. Tech students.We went over the canned presentations that we had planned to share with the students.
There
was interest in the gathering and some decent questions were asked. The
Mtech students informed us that this was good learning for them.After
the meeting Dr. Vinay informed that he had already sent 3 names to Sun
to choose a student ambassador. He also informed us that the attendance
may be less in our session due to the end semester exams in 2 weeks.Dhaval
organized a impromptu session for students to talk about projects.
about 7-8 students attended and most were interested in how to get
projects. All of us informed about the power of open source and how
they could easily contribute.It was a very open session with lots of questions about Sun and open source.
On
11th at 9 AM we began our formal session. there were about 30-35
students and slowly the whole classroom with the capacity of 40-45
students filled up.Dr. Shet introduced the session and
mentioned that he had recently become aware of the open sourcing of
Solaris. M/s Vani and Mr. Annappa were also in attendance.It
was a very interactive session with lots of demos and questions. At
least 20 students had worked on Linux and many of the questions related
to open source were answered.There was no flagging of
interest till the 3.5 hours of the session when we broke for lunch with
the promise of D-trace demo after lunch.30-40 SDN
memberships were signed up and more forms distributed for people who
could not attend. Lots of Netbeans CDs and Belenix DVDs were
distributed, with 5 of each given for the library to be borrowed by
students.Conclusion
It was a very fruitful
trip to learn about such an open and enthusiastic community of teachers
and students interested in open source not too far from IEC.We have a lot of leads to continue our association thru students and lecturers for the SAI.
We need to keep up this engagement to make sure that it bears the results that we want from our academic initiative.
-- Sanjay Manwani
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Microsoft and Novell made deal last week. Of the many things it included two things
1 > Microsoft will go ahead and distribute 350,000 licenses for SUSE Linux Eneterprise.
2 > Novell and Microsoft each promised not to sue the other's customers for patent infringement.
Then Mr. Steve Ballmer went ahead and claimed that Linux users owed Microsoft. ( I could not stop laughing at this). I could not believe he said it.
Ballmer did not provide details during his comments today. But he was adamant that Linux users, apart from those using SUSE, are taking advantage of Microsoft innovation, and that someone -- either Linux vendors or users -- would eventually have to pay up.
"Only customers that use SUSE have paid properly for intellectual property from Microsoft," he said. "We are willing to do a deal with Red Hat and other Linux distributors." The deal with SUSE Linux "is not exclusive," Ballmer added.
We disagree with the recent statements made by Microsoft on the topic of Linux and patents. Importantly, our agreement with Microsoft is in no way an acknowledgment that Linux infringes upon any Microsoft intellectual property. When we entered the patent cooperation agreement with Microsoft, Novell did not agree or admit that Linux or any other Novell offering violates Microsoft patents.
In closing, we wish to be extremely clear that Novell is committed to protecting, preserving and promoting freedom for free and open source software. We recognize that the community of open source developers is essential to all our activities in Linux, and we welcome dialog with the community as to how we can continue to work together toward these common goals.
I am a regular software engineer. I wake up at 8, in office by 9 and (try and ) leave office by 6, work hard to earn my increments and keep my job. Every now and again I am plagued by many questions regarding my purpose, my plan, my place in the world, my future. Although these questions may seem too abstract when you put them in a context of a software engineer working in India, the questions seem to have a rational answer.
I recently got a copy of "The World Is Flat" by Thomas Friedman. Friedman, explains in good detail how the globalisation is changing the world. And, perhaps trying to answer the questions posed above. It is an "un-put-downable". Although, I still have to get through 40% of it I can safely say it is what every person who has been touched by globalisation should read. 
Thanks, Mr.Friedman.
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I was working to compile and execute fastDNAml a really smart Bio-App. Something that me and Prem ( a colleague and a friend ) had done before, and I assumed that the steps were too simple to write down "Come on, any fool can remember these steps", I remember saying. I generally desist making such grandiose statements because I know saying such things is just tempting fate. And, Fate is one lady you do not want to tempt ( yeah, I have learnt it the hard way). Getting back to what I was saying, all I had to do was to compile this simple app and run it with some test data. I kept getting silly errors, saying " could not connect to child proc", "unable to find xxx", each of which I distinctly remember solving the first time around. As it turns out I am a fool, a big one in fact. It was a deja vu as I ploughed through each and every hurdle and finally got it to run. If only I had documented I wouldn't spent half a day, yes HALF a day trying to get it to run again. Hence the saying "To memorise is Human, to document is Divine".
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I had the same problem. I did download Firefox 2.0 as soon as it was made available.I got Performancing 1.3 to go along with it, to start blogging of course. Unfortunately, Blogger didnt seem to be picking up my blog. After hours of googling and trying to add the account on performancing I could not log in to Blogger at all!
I finally found a way out. Here are the steps.
Step 1: Click on the 'Launch Account Wizard' button. This will open a wizard. ( duh!)
Step 2: Click on the 'Manually Configure' button. Click Next.
Step 3: When the wizard asks you 'Which Bloggin service you want to add?' Select 'Custom Blog' from the drop down. Click Next.
Step 4: Select the Blog system type to be 'Blogger API' and give 'http://beta.blogger.com/api/RPC2' as the Server URL. Click Next.
Step 5: Give your google account credentials.
Step 6: Select the blogs.
Step 7: Enjoy posting!
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I have been very busy. The amount is work flowing is almost torrential!
BTW I decided to start my blog at blogs.sun.com. link
As Rajup puts it a Bookworms diet in reverse chronological order
C. Rajagopalachari's Mahabharatha
Gregory David Robert's Shantharam
Kiran Nagarkar's Ravan and Eddie (Again)
(Good) Movies watched recently:
Dor
Motorcycle Diaries ( Che Guavera's memoirs )
Billy Elliot
East is East
Need to watch
Girish Kasravalli's Nayi Neralu
Today is Karnataka Bandh, called by Karnataka activists on the issue of Belgaum. It is a peaceful bandh alright. I am safely in office now, that is an achievement considering all the chaos that was kicked up during the Dr. Raj's death. I saw the police, stationed at important junctions, all along my way from HSR Layout to my office in Shanthinagar. The good thing about the bandh is that all the traffic signals are off. I never stopped in any. Hi five for that!
I dropped a man from Audogodi to the Langford road junction, the good deed for today.
Thanks Bangalore for keeping it peaceful.
We have seen a surge in community effort to acheive general good. Linux is a shining example of this phenomenon. So many developers who have never met each other, have conspired to make a nice OS. Dave Freedman talks about the negative aspects of collabration. Link . I do agree with him, I have experienced it myself.
As far back as 1972, in his now classic book, Victims of Groupthink, Yale psychology researcher Irving Janis theorizes that groups often breed a false confidence that leads to unsound decisions none of the individuals in the group would have made on their own. In the 1990s, research by Purdue psychology researcher Kip Williams shed light on "social loafing"--that is, the tendency of people in groups simply to not try as hard as individuals. In fact, the notion that individuals outthink and outdecide groups is so well established among experts that they don't bother to study it anymore. Instead, the hot question among psychologists and organizational behaviorists is why the rest of us persist in keeping this wrong-headed notion alive. "We've been trying to find out what seduces us into thinking teams are so wonderful," says Natalie Allen, a psychologist at the University of Western Ontario who has studied what she calls "the romance of teams."
It's not time to swear off meetings and group efforts, online or otherwise. But it makes sense to be more selective about how we enlist them.
You're a classic - powerful, athletic, and competitive. You're all about winning the race and getting the job done. While you have a practical everyday side, you get wild when anyone pushes your pedal. You hate to lose, but you hardly ever do.
Take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz.
I been out for long. Many changes have come my way and I have not been able make time to share it with you guys.
Firstly,
I have worked hard and put out my set of photographs on a brand new photoblog. Have a look and leave comments.
http://jeevan.shutterchance.com
Secondarily,
My company is going through a rough patch, so, it has abandoned many of its assets. Real estate, products and more importantly people. My friend and colleague Sunil had to leave too. He is now happy with a cool company, who gave him a laptop and a plum pay cheque.
My ex-classmate and friend Pi has joined P*a*a*i as a graphic designer. I am sure he will do well, he has got good creative talent and a little hard work will take hime far.
Another friend of mine, Jello, has joined Manthan services. After a year long device-driver-programming stint in Wipro, Jello has decided to head in a new career direction of Market research. I wish him well.
I have a newfound admiration for 'Thermal and a Quarter', a band from my city, Bangalore. Now, I have seen these guys since 1999, a time when they hadn't quite foun d their sound. They have a brand new album now and the sound is great! Whats more, they even completed a tour to UK. Good going guys!
PS: A little known fact I used to live opposite to Rajeev's place (Taaq drummer).
Books & Movies I have completed recently.
Adventures of Feluda - Satyajit Ray
A curious incident about a dog in the night - Marc Haddon
The great indian novel - Shashi Tharoor
Finding forrester
Remember the Titans (again)
About a boy
Dead poets society (again)
I want to say no even when I say yes,
I want to live however I want,
I want to dress however I want,
I want to concentrate on my studies, whenever I want,
I want to drink whatever I want,
I want to eat whatever I want,
I want to break plans whenever I want,
I want to sleep wherever I want, whenever I want,
I want to live however I want, wherever I want,
I want to do whatever I want,
I want to ...... break free.
Censored: Govt signs out bloggers is an article on ibnlive.com that talks about how dumb the ISPs can get. When the government ordered them to block certain blogs they ended up blocking the whole blogspot.com website. Even a school kid can write a script to block the page requests.
However, ISPs say that they are not at fault for though a lot of the blocked sites are not on the list issued to them, there is a technical glitch as it's not possible to block certain pages, without blocking the entire site.
Had been to Pondicherry last weekend, will post the travelogue soon.
Besides French Chicks, Ashrams and beaches Pondicherry is a great place to load up on Movie DVDs. So that is what I did, bought movies.
Loot from Pondicherry + Stuff from US (Thanks to Suchi):
> Fist full of dollars
> Bambi
> Farenhiet 9/11
> me: dead poets' society
> Fight Club
> Remember the Titans
> Scent of a woman
> Shawshank redemption
> God Father 1,2,3
> 2001 - A space odyssey
> Catch me if you can
> Gladiator
> Forest Gump
> Green mile
> A Beautiful mind
> Analyse This
> Crash
> Devil's advocate
> Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
> I, Robot
> Iceage 1,2
> Independance day
> Jaws
> Jungle Book
> Jurassic Park
> The Blair which project
> American history X
> Kil bill 1,2
> Kiss of the dragon
> Silence of the lamb
> hp-chamber of secrets
> Matrix 1, reloaded
> Original sin
> Paycheck
> Pirates of caribbean
> Sound of music
> The Transporter
> Star Wars - Episode 3
> XXX
> Looney Tunes back in action
> The Untouchables
> Naked Weapon
> Manchurian Candidate
> Ronin
> The art of war
> mi:3
> Tombraider - 1
> Analyse That
> The world is not enough
> Moon raker
> From russia with love
> Golden eye
> Tomorrow never dies
> Madagascar
Phew!
I despised them at school. But, have realised that it is a must for all citizens to atleast know the basic concepts of Politics and Economics, as they govern many aspects of our lives. I am a Centrist according to this and this quiz.
Definition from here:
CENTRISTS espouse a "middle ground" regarding government control of the economy and personal behavior. Depending on the issue, they sometimes favor government intervention and sometimes support individual freedom of choice. Centrists pride themselves on keeping an open mind, tend to oppose "political extremes," and emphasize what they describe as "practical" solutions to problems.
Right (Conservative)
Conservatives tend to favor economic freedom, but frequently support laws to restrict personal behavior that violates "traditional values." They oppose excessive government control of business, while endorsing government action to defend morality and the traditional family structure. Conservatives usually support a strong military, oppose bureaucracy and high taxes, favor a free-market economy, and endorse strong law enforcement.
Left (Liberal)
Liberals usually embrace freedom of choice in personal matters, but tend to support significant government control of the economy. They generally support a government-funded "safety net"
to help the disadvantaged, and advocate strict regulation of business. Liberals tend to favor environmental regulations, defend civil liberties and free expression, support government action to promote equality, and tolerate diverse lifestyles.
Libertarian
Libertarians support maximum liberty in both personal and economic matters. They advocate a much smaller government; one that is limited to protecting individuals from coercion and violence. Libertarians tend to embrace individual responsibility, oppose government bureaucracy and taxes, promote private charity, tolerate diverse lifestyles, support the free market, and defend civil liberties.
Statist (Big Government)
Statists want government to have a great deal of power over the economy and individual behavior. They frequently doubt whether economic liberty and individual freedom are practical options in today's world. Statists tend to distrust the free market, support high taxes and centralized planning of the economy, oppose diverse lifestyles, and question the importance of civil liberties.
Too bad I did not know it till recently.
Here is a news item I found through digg.
A Iraqi sniper who is f*cking the American Soldiers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1542824,00.html#article_continue
To,
M/s Reva Electric Car Co.,
Bangalore.
Respected Sir,
Subject: Need for an advanced electric/fuel cell car.
I am a Bangalorean and like the most of us, I have travel through peak hour traffic everyday. Dodging the unpredictable auto-rickshaw drivers and lethal Bus drivers to get to office and back. Due to this problem the mileage of my two-wheeler has reduced drastically, and is getting increasingly expensive to maintain. It is not just the problem of a Bangalorean but the whole world. With crude prices hitting the roof, there is a need to reduce our dependancy on the crude more importantly on OPEC.
I am aware that you produce a good electric car called Reva and have achieved a commendable milestone of producing the first Fuel Cell prototype in India. I am glad the President Abul Kalam has acknowledged your efforts. And, GM has given you a contract of designing an Electric Vehicle. But, I as a consumer expect a better product from you. The current Reva seats two Adults and two Minors, What happens when the Minors grow up? I am sure you would want sell another Reva to this Family but, most people buy one car in their lifetime and it should serve most if not all of their needs including atleast a 300km range for the vehicle. I feel that this constraint is some what of an aberration and the top reason for people not opting for a Reva. The vehicle should atleast seat 4 adults and should as big as a Hyundai Santro. The second reason is the style Reva scores less in style and I am sure it can perform better if aerodynamics were considered while designing the exterior of the car. Please think of futuristic add-ons such as Bluetooth connectivity for a mobile phone, Backup camera and help, iPod ready, and GPS. Please keep in mind that it only a matter of time Toyota Prius (http://www.toyota.com/prius/) comes to India.
Syd barret a former member of Pink Floyd is not with us any more. The song Shine on You crazy Diamond, sung by the other members of Pink Floyd is a tribute to him. Syd was a superb song-writer and a talented guitarist and contributed to the early Pink Floyd between 1965 and 1968. Like many stars of the Rock n Roll era he became addicted to Drugs and it is argued that he suffered from mental illness. After a brief solo career Syd slipped into anonymity, but finally appeared at the Abbey Road Studio during the recording of 'Wish You Were Here', sort of a reunion for Pink Floyd.
Shine on You carzy Diamond
Part I
Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun
Shine on you crazy diamond
Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky
Shine on you crazy diamond
You were caught in the cross fire of childhood and stardom,
blown on the steel breeze
Come on you target for faraway laughter,
come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!
You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon
Shine on you crazy diamond
Threatened by shadows at night and exposed in the light
Shine on you crazy diamond
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision,
rode on the steel breeze
Come on you raver, you seer of visions,
come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!
Part II
Nobody knows where you are, how near or how far
Shine on you crazy diamond
Pile on many more layers and I'll be joining you there
Shine on you crazy diamond
And we'll bask in the shadow of yesterday's triumph,
sail on the steel breeze
Come on you boy child, you winner and loser,
come on you miner for truth and delusion, and shine!
I just hate spam, like you and millions of other email users. Spam invades your mail box and shatters the enthusiam with which you open your inbox when a new mail arrives. Wouldn't it be good if you had an email id that can eat up the spam. Wouldn't it be even better if you did not have to explicitly go through the hassels of creating one just for spam and then abandon it. That is exactly why spam gourmet was invented.
How to use Spam Gourmet
Step 1 > Register at SpamGourmet.com by giving your protected mail id and choosing a username.
Ex: jeev.kr@gmail.com username: jeevan_spam_eater
Step 2 > I registered at MoneyControl.com ( A notorious spammer ) with the email id: moneyctrl.5.jeevan_spam_eater@spamgourmet.com. This tells SpamGourmet to forward only the first five mails recieved at the above address to my protected mail id, the rest can be thrown away.
Step 3 > (Relieved) Sigh!
PS: For the paranoid-> moneyctrl.5.jeevan_spam_eater@spamgourmet.com is not entirely fool-proof. Somebody who knows how spam gourmet works can abuse it. Don't worry, SpamGourmet has an advanced mode with which you can couter this.
Have you ever turned left after Church Street and wondered why this road is called Museum Road, even when there are no Museums on it? I did, so here is what I dug up. Thanks to Deccan Herald.
The Government Museum on Kasturba Road.
One of the oldest museums in India, began as a private collection of sculptures and other art de facts of Reverend Benjamin Lewis Rice, director of Archaeological Researches, compiler of the Mysore Gazetteer, and ex-principal Bangalore High School. This mild-mannered self-effacing man, passionate about the state’s history, and Kannada literature, bequeathed the collection to ‘the people of the state’.
In 1865 Rev. Rice had this collection in a bungalow close to Church Street. To see it one followed the trail that eventually became famous as ‘Museum’ Road. As items kept being added to the ‘museum’, it was decided to shift this impressive collection to a larger facility. Colonel Richard Sankey addressed the issue by designing and building a stunningly beautiful facility on Sydney Road (now Kasturba Road).
Take three guesses.
I guessed
1. Sharukh Khan
2. Aamir Khan
3. Salman Khan
Tuns out the correct answer is Rajinikant [link]
Title: Schism
Artist: Tool
Lyrics: Tool
The rhythm is very different, pausing ever couple of words and allowing the song to be quite appealing.
Here is my favourite piece of the lyrics:
There was a time that the pieces fit, but I watched them fall away.
Mildewed and smoldering, strangled by our coveting
I've done the the math enough to know the dangers of a second guessing
Doomed to crumble unless we grow, and strengthen our communication
cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion
between supposed lovers
between supposed brothers.
And I know the pieces fit.
His Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea, and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular and also, King of Scotland
That was the title of Idi Amin
I StumbledUpon a website that gives a clear understanding of the fundamentals of photography. By far, the most suitable for a beginner at photography.
PhotonHead
Todays Gem
Title: Jars of clay
Artist: Flood
Lyrics By: Flood
Lyrics :
Rain, rain on my face
It hasn't stopped raining for days
My world is a flood
Slowly I become one with the mud
Chorus:
But if I can't swim after forty days
and my mind is crushed by the thrashing waves
Lift me up so high that I cannot fall
Lift me up
Lift me up - when I'm falling
Lift me up - I'm weak and I'm dying
Lift me up - I need you to hold me
Lift me up - Keep me from drowning again
Downpour on my soul
Splashing in the ocean, I'm losing control
Dark sky all around
I can't feel my feet touching the ground
[Chorus]
Calm the storms that drench my eyes
Dry the streams still flowing
Cast down all the waves of sin
And guilt that overthrow me
[Chorus]
Lift me up - when I'm falling
Lift me up - I'm weak and I'm dying
Lift me up - I need you to hold me
Lift me up - Keep me from drowning again
I have collected 15Gb of music thru college.
I don't know how many tracks I have never played at all!
Yesterday, I decided to listen to every track in my collection, song by song, album by album. I expect to discover discover new favourites and gems. Will keep all of you updated on the same.
Today's Gem:
Title: King of Pain
Artist: Alanis Morissette
Lyrics By: Sting
Here is a part of the lyrics I loved.
I have stood here before inside the pouring rain
With the world turning circles running 'round my brain
I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign
But it's my destiny to be the king of pain
Ganja told me he regretted he couldn't pick this up (due to a lack of space, his parents had banned him from getting more books home). I did and was thankful to his parents.
Ravan and Eddie is a story about two boys growing up in a chawl, in Bombay. Both Ravan and Eddie grow up in homes where Mother plays a dominant role. Ravan is very interested in Kung-Fu and starts off practicing like Ekalavya because he cannot afford the classes. Eddie joins the local RSS Sabha attracted by the comics of Ramayana and Mahabarath. This is only the start of many adventures and struggles they go through as children. The experiences are something most of us can relate to.
Mr. Nagarkar has given a deep insight into the different families living in the Chawl and how they deal/ignore their problems. The book is filled with humour at the same time revealing stark reality. The author's ability to get into a child's mind must be applauded. He has good eye for detail and exhibits great skill in wording erotica. Though the end is disappointing it is a good, hilarious read.
PS: Please leave comments.
A hundred words, nothing less, maybe more! Not for them, not for her, just for me. To amuse, to ponder to be with myself. Too self-involved, too self-centered, too ego-centric, a megalomaniac.
Do we think I care. I hope not!
Floyd shouted "Wake up, wake up, they have started. No one told you when to run. You missed the starting gun!". We run and run to catch the dream, the star. Aren't we running in circles. We run for gold but get weary. Too late to go back, to restart, to redo, to undo. Do we think I care!
If you want your camera to look good get a Sony. If you want your pictures to look good get a Canon.
I visited this site. A random word is generated and you are supposed to write whatever you want about the same in a minute. This is what I had to say about "Aimless".
Aimless Aimless, where do I want to go,
Here there never know for sure,
Mom, said I would know where,
I am now Aimless, I here voices in my head shoutin "Shameless, Shameless!"
America Based Confused Desi Escaped From Gujarat; Housed In Jersey;
Keeping Lotsa' Motels Named Omkarnath Patel; Quickly Reached Success
Through Underhanded Vicious Ways; Xenophobic Yet Zealous
American Born Confused Desi, Emigrated From Gujarat, Housed In Jersey,
Keeping Lotsa Motels, Named Omkarnath Patel, Quickly Reached Success
Through Underhanded Vicious Ways, Xenophobic Yet Zestful.
Java went to Mars. Java, the software developed by Sun Microsystems Inc. in the mid-1990s as a universal platform for Internet applications, gave NASA a low-cost and easy-to-use option for running Spirit, the robotic rover that rolled onto the planet's surface on Thursday in search of signs of water and life. Proof.
The Auto-pilot program on planes made by Boeing or Airbus runs on Solaris with Sparc. (I wonder what would happen if Windows was used...."Excuse me, Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your Captain speaking. You will experience that we are plunging towards the ground for a some time as windows is restarting, so please fasten your seat belts"
Number One. Don’t start a business if you can’t explain what pain it solves, for whom, and why your product will eliminate this pain, and how the customer will pay to solve this pain. The other day I went to a presentation of six high tech startups and not one of them had a clear idea for what pain they were proposing to solve. I saw a startup that was building a way to set a time to meet your friends for coffee, a startup that wanted you to install a plug-in in your browser to track your every movement online in exchange for being able to delete things from that history, and a startup that wanted you to be able to leave text messages for your friend that were tied to a particular location (so if they ever walked past the same bar they could get a message you had left for them there). What they all had in common was that none of them solved a problem, and all of them were as doomed as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.
Number Two. Don’t start a business by yourself. I know, there are lots of successful one-person startups, but there are even more failed one-person startups. If you can’t even convince one friend that your idea has merit, um, maybe it doesn’t? Besides, it’s lonely and depressing and you won’t have anyone to bounce ideas off of. And when the going gets tough, which it will, as a one-person operation, you’ll just fold up shop. With two people, you’ll feel an obligation to your partner to push on through. P.S., cats do not count.
Number Three. Don’t expect much at first. People never know how much money they’re going to make in the first month when their product goes on sale. I remember five years ago, when we started selling FogBugz, we had no idea if the first month of sales would be $0 or $50,000. Both figures seemed just as likely to me. I have talked to enough entrepreneurs and have enough data now to give you a definitive answer for your startup.
That’s right, I have a crystal ball, and can now tell you the one fact that you need to know more than anything else: exactly how much money you’re going to make during the first month after your product goes live.
Ready?
OK.
In the first month, you are going to make,
about,
$364, if you do everything right. If you charge too little, you’re going to make $40. If you charge too much, you’re going to make $0. If you expect to make any more than that, you’re going to be really disappointed and you’re going to give up and get a job working for The Man and referring to us people in startup-land as “Legacy MicroISVs.”
That $364 sounds depressing, but it’s not, because you’ll soon discover the one fatal flaw that’s keeping 50% of your potential customers from whipping out their wallets, and then *tada!* you’ll be making $728 a month. And then you’ll work really hard and you’ll get some publicity and you’ll figure out how to use AdWords effectively and there will be a story about your company in the local wedding planner newsletter and tada! You’ll be making $1456 a month. And you’ll ship version 2.0, with spam filtering and a Common Lisp interpreter built in, and your customers will chat amongst themselves, and tada! You’ll be making $2912 a month. And you’ll tweak the pricing, add support contracts, ship version 3.0, and get mentioned by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show and tada! $5824 a month.
Now we’re cooking with fire. Project out a few years, and if you plug away at it, there’s no reason you can’t double your revenues every 12-18 months, so no matter how small you start, (detailed math formula omitted – Ed.), you’ll soon be building your own skyscraper in Manhattan with a heliport so you can get to that 20 acre Southampton spread in 30 minutes flat.
And that, I think, is the real joy of starting a company: creating something, all by yourself, and nurturing it and working on it and investing in it and watching it grow, and watching the investments pay off. It’s a hell of a journey, and I wouldn’t miss it for the world.
