Find me, Follow me

Hey,

Instantly know what people whom you know are doing at this moment! I have heard about this service an year ago and its simple felt cool one!

Works best in the US network.

Its all about http://www.twitter.com

You can follow me at https://twitter.com/mougli

Puzzle to solve - a digi trick

This man has been following me whenever i come under a bright light -for the past 26 years ? I somehow captured him in the cam. 

Chronicles of funny debacle[s]

This is all about the quirkyness of way things work in different part of the world and how inexperienced mind experiences it in its own way.

Have you lost all of your baggages in your first international flight trip?

Have you got a letter posted to someone, dropped at your home the next day?

Have u got a bad credit history in the very first transaction?

Have you shared a laptop battery charger for a week with someone?

Have you been in 6 projects in 8 months time?

Have been asked to return to India twice within 2 weeks?

Still logging....

Discussion on MAC around the globe

Conversation Between Friends(Chennai)
 
Ganesh:-yappa sami, Srini Laptop vangunalum vangunaru, eppo inbox a pathalum ore LapTop Mails
Sundar:ennathu Srini laptop Vangittanaaa?
Ganesh:Appidithan nanum nenaikaren. But am not Sure! summa dagaltiya irrundhalum irrukkum.
Mobile starts Ringing.... bill theme, so its my(Ganesh) Mobile....
yaarnu Patha Iyer....
Iyer:Hi ganja eppdi irukking, Some formalities has completed, then ganja srini laptop vangitaanaam,  theriyumaa!
Ganesh:Appidithan nanum nenaikaren. But am not Sure! enna Aachu?
Iyer:Theriyalai, summa mail panna, atha pathen, appuram Mac laptop than vangirukkanam.
Ganesh:Mac a? appdina enna?etavathu sapadaratha?(Eatable)
Now Sundar Listening!
Iyer:yov, Mac na Laptop name, itula MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro nu neriya variety's irukku.
Ganesh:athu sari, athu nallava irukkum, eto oru hp compaq, lenova na ennakku therinju nalla irukkum!
Iyer:Kedayave kedayathu! Mac than best, ippa thabn en friend oruthan vangunanam, ennaku PDF anupunan. athula pathen, india la irukkurathu ellam laptop pe kedayatham, ellame lapbottom thanam! US la than LapTop Originala Kedaikumam!
Ganesh:appdiya. yarathu? yenga vangunan?
Iyer:avan peru Srini, ippa than Infosys la irtunthu onsite ponan.
Ganesh:Yov, ennakum sriniya theriyum ya, ithu ellam over a illa?
iyer:kedayave kedayathu. srini enakku than friend, unakku avan roommate.
Ganesh:wright vidunga, naren enna Mail le panrathu illa? any Loves?
Sundar:antha all poi love panrathavathu? ithukku indian hockey team gold vanguthu nu sonna kuda nambalam!
Iyer:chay chay! namma naren loves ellam panna maataan. but feel mattum than pannuvan!
 
Ganesh:Jesli ya patthi oru film vanthurukku! Yaratchum Patrhingala?
Iyer:enna padam ya?
Ganesh:Porukki nu than antha padam eduthaan, But jesli rangukku illay nu name change pannitaan, athan Sundhar C padam "Sandai"    .
Sunhar: Yei(Shouting and Start dancing).
Ganesh:yov ippa ethukku ithu ellam?
Sundar:naama pakarathukku oru super mokkai padam kedachachu!
Iyer:nice a cutting the phone.
Sundar:Continuing the dance......
Ganesh: Start Smoking>>>
 
Note:sittu Customers kuda busy a iruntha karanathinal intha conversation a attend panna mudiyala!
 

Mac - A King's Computer

This is the one for really individualistic people(truly Americanistic!) - Enjoy using it. One cannot stop wondering looking at each of the features of the new MAC OS 10.5.2. Every feature is really amazing and way coool!! I was wondering if there was really any body in the world who could build amazing stuff like google and I see one which is way ahead of it, 

APPLE. An individual's true expression.

Simply superbb!!

Few of my mac pics below:

Best things

The Best things in life always come late. Rarely they are explored by masses.

Colorful logo

Firefox

Neruppu Nari ..as my web dev colleagues funnily call it.

I hadn't much known about the resourcefulness of this browser till I was a tester. But this post is for the non-geeky casual users of browsers.

If you want a browser that can do a lot in a Single interface without crashing down frequently, then firefox is known for it.

Apart from the tabbed browser(which IE has stolen) concept, there are plenty of useful add-ons, which will make ur browsing a rich experience. The bookmarks facility is very very helpful, but it consumes a bit of RAM, but there's an alternative in case you have lot of links to bookmark by adding del.icio.us as plug-in to replace the conventional bookmarks provided by firefox.

Being a bit lazy in calculating time differences between other countries and India, I used foxclocks plug-in which shows different timezones on your taskbar while you have firefox open.

A sticky reminder you want. Use internotes plug-in.

Do not bang firefox with loads of plug-in, I cannot help you from its nasty behaviour towards you.

Do you think BIG?

Google docs - a kalasal demo

Philosophy

Slowly I'm turning on to Zen-ism as I grow older.....

Some of them I recommend

http://zenhabits.net/2008/03/flip-your-karma-8-tricks-to-turn-the-bad-into-the-awesome/

http://zenhabits.net/2007/09/simple-living-manifesto-72-ideas-to-simplify-your-life/

http://zenhabits.net/2007/09/how-to-learn-more-and-study-less/

At 8th floor

Wondering curiously how #8 often comes along with me. The tallest building in Philadelphia hosts me on the 8th floor. Saturn smiles at his son!

And have a look at my residence from google maps:


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Jab we met

A beautiful movie with many takeaways on handling disappointments and failure. Must watch! Kareena has played a wonderful role and is very impressive on the first half of the movie. Anyone watching this movie will love her.

time differences

I too got online at odd times. The reason - simple, vacuum inside.

Taaren zameen par

Brought out a view of world from a child's point to view...

Cubicle Art

Reading one's art brings to you the person's inner mind. A creative mind is truly reflected in art. A confluence of creative minds will merge everyone's individual thought together. In an attempt to bring this together, our team has started attempting to express our minds in the form of an art. Watch this space for our artistic expression which we sprinkle while at work. The collection is indeed gonna be interesting and thought provoking.

Geeks galore!

The logo which Jimmy wales would remember on hearing "India"

Unconference is an ‘un’happening event which works in an unorganized way. “The day was sculpted!” as I borrow the phrases from the kick off session by Kiruba Shankar. Indian blogging legends like Kiruba, Amit Agarwal, wikipedians like Bhadani were present and last but the great Jimmy Wales whom I could shake hands with and capture a photo of his in my mobile.

Web 2.0 or collective intelligence would have been more appropriate name for the occasion as all the presentation and workshops were on wiki, 3D gaming, envisioning computing et al.

Things that caught my attention:

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the SUM of all human knowledge – quote by Jimmy
How twitter works? - From a side talk with Jax

Veni, Vedi, Wiki - a creative caption for Wiki by TKF
Liveblogging - by participants

We, the audience, were also provided with a stress ball to hurl at boring lecturers!

for photos: Search using tags "Wikicamp" in flickr or YouTube.

Online Journalism

There is a widespread view among my friends and colleagues that blogging is a “waste of time”, “it is jobless people’s job”. Ignorance results in such views. To wipe out this ignorance, read further.

Blogging in its true sense is online journalism. But it means different to different people. Some use it as online diary or a travel log and some as a collation of expertise in their area of interest. The secondary benefit of blogging, I consider is the associated learning of cutting edge web technologies. In general, it could be seen as a portal to voice one’s concern/views.

From quite sometime, I have been wondering how money is generated from blogs by using adsense. Digital inspiration shows staggering statistics how much money Amit Agarwal, a blogger generates per day/month. The concept is like, put up Google ads on your blog and get paid. The amount you get paid depends upon the number of visitor hits to your blog. By attracting more people to visit your page, you can make a huge sum of money. Attracting people to your page necessitates one to write quality content.

There are many other channels of making money through blogs like donations, blog consulting, Affiliate programs etc. This month’s Digit is giving away a supplement on blogging which covers all the aspects of this online log. A must read!

Bloggers around the Globe babble

A very good news for Bloggers around the Globe!!

www[dot]blogger[dot]com has gone out of Beta phase and is into production. Its lightning fast after this upgrade and quite easy uploading posts. Has got few web 2.0 features added. Sivakani and Amjathkhan are quite lucky fellow bloggers, long time college buddies of mine, who recently started blogging needn't experience the long waiting time anymore while uploading posts.

Coming back to the point,

Not everyone is blessed with the gift of the gab, but few manage to talk senselessly. Not everyone can use words as swords, but few manage to blog :) Let alone this post. But there are really quite few extraordinary people who are making a difference with their blogs and this space wont suffice making a list of them. For those who wish to meet these extraordinary people gathering at a single place in Chennai may attend the wikicamp, an unconference, by registering themselves at http://wikicamp.in/wiki/index.php?title=Participants.

But why bloggers are required for Wikicamp:

Is it because bloggers access Wiki most of the time? Or
Is it because most of the bloggers are technical wizards who would help enhancing Wiki? Or
Is it because bloggers are the only creative people? Or
Is it because bloggers spread news faster? Or
Is it a blogger's meet like 'blogcamp' again?

Lot more questions, have to find out.I would be quite happy to see Jimmy wales, the founder of wiki at the meet.

The event is to be held at Tidel Park,Chennai on the 25th Feb.

Freud on 'Decision making'

A recent read in a local magazine that would help in making decisions, suggested by Freud.

This technique is applicable only when there are only 2 likely outcomes.

If you are not able to really decide between two choices in hand, toss a coin. This is a normal technique which almost any layman would know if he had watched old Amitabh or Rajini movies. Freud would have remained a common man if he would have stopped here. But Freud went further to say, Based on the outcome of tossing a coin, your inner mind is likely to know which decision you would really like to make. Go Ahead with the one!

You will thank me for this post if you use this approach in making some of your life's vital decisions.