Under Transition

Moving my blog to the new Blogger Beta, so just hang on till I set things up properly

I am India

Awesome video! Make sure your speakers are on as well. Link here

Pepsi - Yeh Devta maange more

All this hoopla surrounding Gods drinking milk has given me an idea. Let’s face it, whether you believe in surface tension or divine consumption, milk is running down the drains and milkmen are running to the banks. The cola companies need to change their marketing strategy and I am assuming its not going to be very hard to spread the word that Lord Ganesh loves Pepsi or Coke. Think about it, if someone thinks their God drinks colas then they will too and if that does not happen, then at least in the process lots of cola would have gone down the same path as the milk and sales will go through the roof.

Preview of new KDE start menu

This is a link to a preview of the proposed new KDE start menu, Looks kick ass!

Happy B'day Chennai and Nandan the working man

Today Chennai turned 368! Yeah!!! and yours truly completed one year as an engineer.

Firefox Crop Circle

Check this out. While you are there, also check out the other cool things those guys have done. Even though I use Opera most of the time these days, Firefox still rocks!

Thanks to Paddy for the link. Coming to think of it, an appropriate person to have gotten a link from about work done in crops ;) What say?

The x86 days

Yesterday(2/8/6), today(3/8/6) and tomorrow(4/8/6) are the x86 days :) Found a post on /.
Reminds me of the 1st computer we had at home a "fast" 486DX2 @ 66Mhz with a "massive" 4 MB of RAM and a "humongous" 520 MB hard disk and a video card that could do only 256 colours.
Ah.. Those were the days. Life was simple and DOS ruled and Dangerous Dave kicked ass and that CGA racing game was my favourite pastime.

QFI Open Quiz on July 30

The 2nd edition of the QFI Open Quiz will be held on 30th July. Here are the details

Date: 30th of July 2006 (Sunday)
Schedule: Prelims - 9:30 a.m. and Finals - 11:00 a.m.
Team size: Maximum of 3 members
Venue: "Sri Venkata Auditorium"
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
37/39, East Mada Street
Mylapore, Chennai – 04

So just grab a couple of friends and enjoy. Will be loads of fun considering Vinod and Goach are the quizmasters.

Read the full announcement here.

YouOS

This has to be the coolest thing I've seen in years, check it out - it's an web operating system. Click on try a demo and check it out. It's brilliant

More info here

Bolti Bandh

The Indian government has blocked access to typepad and blogspot blogs

Bloggers against censorship wiki
http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Bloggers_Against_Censorship
This has lots of useful info about using RTI and lists of bloggers protesting and ways to work around the gag

Slashdot entry: India joins China in censoring websites
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/06/07/17/1732209.shtml

Sites carrying the story
http://in.rediff.com/news/2006/jul/17blog.htm
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/07/17/report_indian_gov_bl.html

Ways to by pass the ban (courtesy Kiruba’s blog)
http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Bypassing_The_Ban

Bloggers collective is having a discussion on this
http://groups.google.com/group/BloggersCollective

Best part is I am able post to blogspot as blogger.com is not blocked! But I cannot see my own blogposts!!!! (Access via http://www.pkblogs.com/ works from office)

Wordpress, livejournal have not been blocked
I thought we became a free country in 1947

It's so sad that the country touting itself to be the world's technology destination does not have Free Speech

Seriously what kind of bozos are running this country anyway???? It's been done to tackle terrorist elements apparently and may not be a permanent blockade