mumbai payanam

tonight 10.15 i m starting to Mumbai in Mumbai mail. ranjini i liked ur blog reg., behaviour, character and personality. but really i dont understand the Being u mentioned in the personality.

Mercedes Benz

The Mercedes Logo The "Mercedes" name was registered right back in 1902, but at that time there was no logo or trademark to accompany it. The idea for the 'Star' logo came when Paul and Adolf Daimler, the two sons of the company's founder (and then in charge of the business) remembered that their father had once used a star symbol in his family correspondence. Their father, Gottlieb Daimler, had been technical director of the Deutz gas engine factory from 1872 until 1881. At the beginning of his employment there, he had marked a star above his own house on a picture postcard of Cologne and Deutz, and had written to his wife that this star would one day shine over his own factory to symbolize prosperity. In June 1909 the company registered both three-pointed and four-pointed stars as trademarks. Although both designs were legally protected, only the three-pointed star was ever used. From 1910 onwards it began to appear at the front of the cars as a design feature on the radiator. The three-points of the star were supposed to represent Daimler's ambition of universal motorization: "on land, on water and in the air". Over the years the logo evolved, to include the 'Benz' laurel wreath, and then, in 1923, the three-pointed star enclosed in a circle was registered as a trademark. Since then it has changed little, and is now a powerful symbol and integral part of the Mercedes-Benz brand.

Ada paavi.......

Ada paavi, inime ethaachum anupinaa olunga nee eluthinathaa illa vera yaarodathaannu mention pannu ya. no probs let my words of praise soon become true. Ofcourse u too can write like them. And sujatha is not a great writer but ofcourse unique coz of his flare for writing things which are more scientific which very few writers almost none are popular. Some are good, but not all of his works. For me a writer when he attains a level in writing should be able to produce stuffs which are of better or equally good quality and not less than that. If i start feeling so, then i dont feel like getting back to the writer with the same interest as i did earlier but never shun him totally too with the hope that he might produce something better than that. Recent days i felt a sag in his writing and it double up when i read a story of his recently. At the same time, i read Srirangathu Devathaigal in Kumudam or vikadan i dont know and was impressed by his mild strokes of humour and lauded the lifestyle of their fun filled way of living in those days at srirangam except for the last story in the series. Yes when i read the stories, i felt it was true and almost could take me to those days. But then the last one failed to. dint know y! more after lunch.......

More for jax...

Jax i think, u dint get what i exactly meant. See its going to be from one of the articles which interests others other than the usual fun stuff.. Again i too feel that implementing is time consuming. but then when u have done enough to create a blog with much sophistication, i think doing this will take a day or so more.And i think its not going to be much difficult if u just cut the first para and paste it and provide a link to that blog. It will remain permanent till another interesting article pops up. since u visit our blog daily and has got admin rights, u can do it in minutes time since u need to fiddle with the template to post it permanently till next change. More over Recent posts gives me the list of titles which has happened in a week. But it doesnt give me the content and prompt me to read. Where as what i am talking about is like reading those few lines must prompt every one to read and in the end it should let them leave with a feel of having read something good as i felt in the end, after reading the down posted article. So that was my idea. That article on sun is again not as expected. Summa summa bhaya muruthaatha. This is also a very old news. Have u heard of elnino few years back. Its much based on such natural calamities on Earth due to celestial changes. and having a solar flare is not new to us too. Get me some thing new original and fresh! And even if i keep blogging, then thats all i too will loose my job one day. But never mind, by that time i would have got another one! Dear jax, i am not a fairy to grant all the wishes u have. But surely i will put a request to Santa to grant all ur wishes come true this christmas. By the way started anticipating christmas or u too are feeling like Vijay and manny as they felt towards Diwali....... Source of that BCP article is not known as it came as a forwarded message from srini. So i cant help u out even this time! Raama, nee engagement kathai solliye thapichittu irukka. Sari parava illai poittu vaa. and snaps 500k kulla anupina download panna vasthiya irukkum. sariya. sorry vijay that day when i was chatting with u, there was a disconnection and so couldnt proceed further. anyway All the best and happy journey ya.

A few clarifications

The post at "Quod scripsi, scripsi" is not a poem and it is definitely not mine. It is a song titled "Can't fight this feeling any more" by an artist named Reo Speedwagon. The title would have said it all, "The way I feel". This song and another song keep popping up in my mind so often that I start humming them unconsciously. The link to a story I sent you is again not my story. It was written by Humphrey Hawksley. The link was a special preview of the first chapter of his latest book, "The Third World War". BTW, Sujatha is a great writer. I definitely cannot write better than him. It is true that I haven't sent any stories to you. The truth is most of the stories I have are half written. I lost interest midway or I am thinking of an ending. I'll try to put up my earlier stories online soon. So the first victim is Vicky. I can't say if I would be able to attend the wedding. But if I do and also Ramgopal turns up, I'll kick him for you. Ram why don't you put it online in your Yahoo account and send us the link (don't forget to give us permissions) like your thangachi Valli had done earlier. Thangachi irrukkure mulla alluvukku kudda annanukku illa.

Just

Yeah jax, U r saying right... but it seems u r chasing someone......... S Rini, its not fair from my part in the friendship focus by abstaining for your marriage that too on a holiday and paying a visit even in a working day, Any way let me wait and see what is going to happen. But, please do remember I made on time for your engagement (working day). Reg. snaps I will get u the best jpegs in a zip(around a MB) to ur office inbox.... BCP article is good.... plng. to call kicha by noon, let u know later... one more point for vijay's querry is that, we are matured enough to maintain balance (to some extent) between ordinary day and a festival day........... Yeah MDGs are really scintillating, but what efforts are taken towards the same.......... I think the time period is also very low compared (just 12 more years for 8) to the goals. coming to empty space, put something let me comment later (hahahahaha ) sorry too busy to break head...... Cheers

To Rini and few more links

I guess you are mentioning the Sideblog when you are talking about "empty space". The "Sideblog" is actually another tiny blog. To put up gists of posts is time consuming. That's why we have post titles. You can use the post titles to highlight your post, example your earlier post "Behaviour, character and personality" or the one before that "Suggestion for empty space". They really were meaningful. We can use them effectively. The only detrimental factor is that javascript is used to pull the titles from teh blog posts and put them under the Recent Posts sidebar. So if some one uses & or an apostrophe, it throws up errors and also the post title does not appear in the Recent Posts sidebar. Other than that, I feel that the title serves the best purpose in highlighting the post. More on the butterfly note, read about the danger of the Sun. Also be careful, blogging can get you fired as this person recently came to grief. Ranjini, Kicha is still feeling sick. He'll be coming to Bangalore only on Sunday. BTW the mail you forwarded to me, I couldn't understand a single word of it. What is the job for and what are the requirements. There were some skill sets required that I have never before heard of. Anyway, I'll try to pass it on. Were you able to change your email options in Yahoo? You can get me anything from this list. My usual question, where did you get it from? Please mention the source whenever you put up an article. It is always useful in case I need to get background information on the article. It was quite interesting to read and quite thought provoking too. The link to Rajini's fan site is to show that art and appreciation of art is universal. But I doubt how many of us would be able to sit through a Japanese film without knowing the language. I don't seem to find a theatre where they show movies by foreign film makers (other than English). I would really love to get my hands on the following movies:

• O Brother, Where art thou?
• Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai or any of his other movies
• No Man's Land

Anyone able to find a copy of the above movies, kindly get a copy for me.

3 MB ya?

Its too heavy for my inbox and will block the entire traffic. u can chunk it to less than 1 mb and send us ya. be it HSS celebs or Pondy trip. And i welcome one more poet! ya Jax i read ur poem at ur jaxsays blog and found it good! By the way dint u write any stories in recent days and one more thing, the story which u had sent us some time back, i could not read fully. The story which starts at Indian PM's residence. can u resend me again? Is it a thriller? and by the way these days thrillers are not very thrilling with much twists and turns. Recently i read one sujatha's story. Hope all of us know Ganesh & Vasanth. His prime detective characters. It was a detective story and the story was so dull that in the end there was a billow of disappointment of having read a kothu kathai. Yes, the end of the story was so plain and i wonder how sujatha could write like this and it has got a place in Vikadan's Deepavali malar. That time i felt, even jax would have written better than him! So send me some interesting story which i havent read till date or the story which i have missed. Though got lots of work, my mood is kharaab and so dont feel like working only.

Behavior, character and personality

Behavior, character and personality are distinct levels in the evolution of the human being. When people display nice behavior, we say they are presentable. At the next level, when they have character, they can accomplish something. At a further level, being endowed with ‘personality’, they can create something original. Let us first examine behavior . Behavior is superficial and comes through training. It is a channel through which a man expresses himself. The energies for behavior come from the vital emotions, whereas the energies for character come from the mind. The vital energies are short-lived responses to a situation. The ordinary man who is popular with everyone behaves well, has polite manners and does not criticize anyone. He is very presentable in society. But if this is where his growth has stopped, he cannot accomplish anything in the ordinary sense of the word. When a person has developed character, he can accomplish something by himself. Character is organized in the mind. It has a memory and never forgets. When the essence of the vital experience which is behavior is received in the mind and organized well so that the mind accepts that as its central direction, then it becomes character. A man with character fits into that level of society to which his character has risen. If he has a noble character or a weighty character, he may be a philanthropist or a CEO. If he has a character but his nature is small, he can organize and raise a family successfully. When the mind comes into play, it generally acts on an opinion or bases itself on an idea. It tries to understand and begins to think and organize itself. The vital does not think, it responds to the situation, but the mind listens to an idea. On the basis of this idea, the mind organizes its values. The mind gives its sanction to certain behaviors which it has accepted as right. This behavior then becomes a pattern. The essence of that pattern is based on respectability, on social values. The mental understanding is based on the idea that what is valuable must be respected. Once the mind accepts this, every behavior will be directed by that characteristic. If a mother teachers her child to be polite to his grandfather, the child does not know it should also be polite to his uncle. If the child’s mind, which is capable of understanding, receives the essence of this pattern of politeness towards elder relatives, the pattern becomes continuous and his mind accepts it as a general direction. A person with a mere behavior can follow instructions, but he cannot think on his own, whereas character comes from the mind and enables the person to carry out a task with self-direction. What is personality? Character is necessary to achieve something in society, but when something has to be created anew, personality is needed. Where character may hesitate to attempt something completely new, personality will not. Personality can accomplish something original, whatever the field is. Personality is deeper than character. It does not confine itself to an organized expression as character does. Character needs the support of the social and psychological milieu. Because mind is a narrow organism which functions on thought, it draws its values from the general level of thought in the society. Something in the person feels safe in that climate and then the mind understands, the heart is able to be enthused about that understanding and the body is able to work. Usually when mind has to think of something original, it begins to shake. Personality cannot be centered in the mind. It does not care whether anyone else has attempted a certain work before. It has the initiative to start a fresh work in a new field. Personality does not require the extraneous support of the social sanction. After it has understood and the mind has consented, it has the imagination to give a mental emotion to that consent. Once the mind is able to visualize something in its own imagination, the heart does not hesitate to release its enthusiasm for the accomplishment of the work. The support for the work comes from the Being which is above the mind. If the mind is clear and the Being supports, it doesn’t need the support of the society. That is the difference between character and personality. Character is an efficient mental organism functioning within the social fabric of accomplished levels. Personality is an energy which comes from the Being, able to understand on its own, be enthusiastic on its own and be a trail blazer for the society. Whether the field is in literature, or scientific discovery or in industry or in founding a college, this is the basic difference between character and personality

Suggestion for empty space

Jax that site on Rajini is in Japanese i believe and so its not loading properly and even if it loads also i dont think its possible to understand. Think u might have sent us to make us aware that there are websites of rajini by japanese which is a very old news to me. And that link on butterfly......... Sari kadi. Yarru adhu ippidi time waste panni ivalavu aaraaichi panraangannu theriyala. But the site on UN Millenium goals is scintillating! Hei vicky is younger to me atleast by two years manny. and so i felt too early. Hope u guys to have a good time at his marriage. Ennadhu ram is cominga? he dint come for my wedding and now he is going to go for vicky'sa? Ram this is not acceptable. ponaa othai thaan solliten. by the way ram did u contact kicha? has he come back? how is he now? he hasnt posted even a single blog till date. seems to be so sick. Hei Jax we can put in that empty space few lines of some interesting blogs. For eg. a gist or some punch lines of the discussion in our blogs. What do other guys say? coz putting a review or some good articles might demand more space where as this gist or punch lines is more short and sweet. Moreover such good articles can be posted directly on blog itself if its a forwarded one or a link can be established for such things. So lets reserve that space for something interesting . As an attempt i will post in my next blog an article which grasped me very much by its simplicity in explaining abstract things in such a clear cut manner. And jax u can use the first para of that artcile as the highligh of the article and put it in the empty space which also acts as a gist of what the article is all about! A link to the actual blog will follow at the end of this highlight ........ This is my idea jax and to implement is in ur hands. Ok others, do tell jax, what else can be put. bye for a moment to cut copy paste the article which i read in next blog

Hi

Welcome sri, atlast u logged in...........ah!!!!!!!!! OOPS, bad login...... Jax, What they r conveying from the butterfly site, I couldnt understand anything, coz I am reading in between lines of the events, and trying to grasp something quickly, can u provide a gist in the blog. Rini, which snaps u want immdtly, diwali_hss_celebs I have zipped nearly 3 MB, other one Pondy tour yet to arrive.......... Ganja, naanum irukaen nnu soollitu poriya..............fine........ Cheers

Thanks for overwhelming Response

Dear Friends, Thankyou very much for your overwhelming welcome and wishes! Manny has pointed out has rightly that I cannot trouble Jax too much for adding 1 more id. That was a lesson for me. I am happy to announce Manny @ this moment that I had successfuly closed the id vsriprasath_chat@yahoo.com to avoid any more future problems. So no troubles, no worries! Manny! I saw Boys 3 times due to technical features involved in that film. I admire Shankar's ideas, thoughts and his love towards film career. Shankar struggled in the tamil film industry for 11 years, Vickram 14 years, A.R.Rahman 7 years to get a break through! Don't think I am advocating these people. These are generic lessons we should learn. The best way to reach people is media, films, TV ads. Ok no boring again! You may face tougher time with ur Superiors/Boss. I have Translation Software for you people. Suppose your Superior/Boss says "I totally agree with you" means " I totally disagree with you" "You are Right! But... " means "Even if you agree! I don't care" "I didn't have time to go through your mail and I can't understand what u said" means "I don't know to access the e-mail software" "We have an opportunity" means "You have a problem" "Convince your client for this deal" means "Hell with your Client" Ok guys and gals! Meet u again! Sri Prasath Venkateswaran

We all wud have heard about "God Fathers"... but now I hereby add crown to Jax by giving him the title "Blog Father". Namakku ivlo goals irukkunnu ivlo naal enakku theriyave theriyathu my dear blog father....nenjai thottuteenga ponga... che...intha blog'la emoticons ellam illa...illatti namma expressions innum nalla sollalaam...enna naan solrathu??? Ok dears, i will be on leave and will get back to work on monday only. Till then bye and I request our Blog Father (Jax) to take care of our blog and bloggers...ha ha. Mahen

Welcome

Welcome to the blog, Sri. Good to hear from Ganesh after a long time. Meanwhile, if you are a Rajini fan, this is a must visit. As Manny had said, we at time get to discuss about things like goals, whenever we are not discussing about Bisibhelebhath or Rava Kesari.

And Sri enna ithu Technological Challenge is frightening, threatening'nnu ....athu ithunnu ethetho solra...!!! Hope he shud have a wrong notion or in other words a high hyped thoughts about our blog activities... I mean somebody wud have told him that techy discussion is encouraged (of course it is) in our blog... But Sri, dont get fooled... we will most often discuss about how to prepare Sambar saatham (Bisibelabaath in new terms!!!) ha ha... so come out with some recipes too.

hi

hi all, nice to read the deepavali expereinces of some. then annan Pachai Pachai Sri welcome to the blog. bye

Welcome Sri

Vanthuttanya...vanthuttann....!!!!! welcome Sriprasath...but one thing da...here in blog we cannot keep on adding more Ids of yours as you r used to with the messenger...(!!!!) so keep this in mind sri... poor jax will have to send separate invitations if you want multiple Ids (of yours) to be added...ha ha... Apram Boys padam paathu sri romba affect aayirukkannu ninaikiren...RAC...Ticket...Train'nnu solli irukkan...(FYI dear bloggers: Diwali annaikku veetukku call panni Boys padam Paathiya da'nnu kettan enkitta...ha ha...avan moonu murai paathanam...enakku pidikkala da'nnu sonnen...but avanukku romba pidichirunthatham...ha ha...so probably...antha "friendship enbathu RAC...." song thaan avana romba affect panni irukkumnnu ninaikiren). BTW...myself, vijay and Ram has planned for vickky's marriage...Vijay is going to mumbai this friday and since he will be in his initial days of induction into PCS, he said that he was not sure abt the plan. But he said that he will make it up to be there on 12th. And, ranjini..how can u say that this is too early for him yaar...when u, valli, sindhu, and vinitha were able to marry, then y not vickky??? this is really not fair on your part ma... Mahen

My first Post

Hi, Greetings to ALL! Since a long time I was quarelling with Xavi, to reserve a berth in this group. I though it will be RAC, but finally I got a berth for travelling in this train. I thank all who responded to my mail. Technological Challenge, it is the phrase which frightens u and me day to day. I read an article in which how top tech companies invent technology and how people experiment the same! Here are some samples. Compaq is considering changing the command "Press Any Key" to "Press Return Key" because of the flood calls asking where the "Any" key is. A Dell technician advised a customer to put his troubled floppy back in the drive and close the door. The customer asked the tech to hold on, and was heard putting the phone down, getting up and crossing the room to close the door to his room A customer was asked to send a copy of his defective diskettes. A few days later, a letter arrived from the customer along with the photocopies of the floppies. Hope u enjoyed! till then! Bye! Sri Prasath Venkateswaran

what?

Really.......????? Its too early for him and i think even the month of April is far away to fool us. Pooor girl! by the way, it seems many of us had a grand diwali except few like vijay, manny.... Ofcourse i did have a great time with dresses pouring from all sides along with wishes. Ya Diwali collection was around 2500rs/- Need to plan to spend it properly. Since i have got a bit of work, i couldnt blog and will keep in touch later. jax thanx for helping me change my mail delivery options for the group. Ram post the snaps soon and can send us soon. till then bye

Vickkykku Kalyanam...(contd...)

Hi all, as I said earlier, Vignesh prabhu is getting married with his cousin (athai ponnu) on 12th Nov. he will invite all thru our msitmmb soon. This is an expected but immediate arrangement it seems. and the interesting thing is that both vickky and his brother is getting married on the same day and that too his brother's bride is none other than the sister of vickky's bride... really interesting... hope to c all boys soon in V'nagar

updates....

Shocking news!! Everyone likes butterflies. But you should know that they are very dangerous. Read on for more information. BTW, Kicha is still sick. He had called this morning. He'll be back on Monday. I have added Sriprasath to the blog. If you have some time, read Quod scripsi, scripsi and leave you comments there, not here.

Yes...it is

s manny, I forgot that... He called me but I was not at home... I think he might have called me to convey the same... anyway hoping to catch him online... But Nov. 12th its quite difficult for me to get leave, as just now I had 2 days leave. le'me try...

Vickkykku kalyanam

Hi all, One (probably a shocking but true)news... our vignesh prabhu is getting married on 12th of november 2003. Ijust got this message from him...this might be an unexpected news to many of u. but some of the boys may not feel so and I expected this to happen ... got to go and i will post the details soon in the evening Mahen

Adding to vijay's point ...

BTW...Vijay has said that he has lost something....which he had in his school days... Yes machaan...for me too... i too have the same kind of feeling that u have as if we lost something... May be we wud hav lost our good friends (!!!!!) and unfortunately we ended up getting into all new contacts in our UG and more precisely in our PG...(diyounnnnnn!!!!!!!!!*!*!!**!*!*!) The kind of bad and bitter PG life...(ha ha ha...) may be the reason which wud have made you feel so. ok da past is past...hereafter dont spare any efforts to make your life full of joy and surrounded by good ppl.(Like me). Mahen

Diwali Damakkaa!!!

hai all, fine and had nice time after a short gap at native. Sriprasath called me up and conveyed his wishes, from him only I came to know about kicha's ill health... but I thought he would have reached blr by this time... Jax, any idea when kicha will be back.. howz he feeling now... Jax, do add sriprasath to our blog members.. and let him / me know once its done... Actually, Oct 18 - 19 I was slightly not feeling well.. something iritated me.. might be diwali fever... by Oct 20, really I got Fever, I tried 6 Paraceatamol.. and half filled stomach...gud, it saved nine.... I have booked tickets to (oct 22 -> ngl) and fro (oct 27 -> blr), but a shocking news, That I have to stay and go next day... coz of some delivery etc... somehow I convinced the PM (project manager) and made alternatives for my position... had a nice trip in Volvo (Imported from Japan) really a fantastic trip in A/C bus with 150 Rs/- more from actual fare.. just 12 hrs journey (798 Km in Indian Roads).. really enjoyed well with Boyz film (I slept coz I have already watched). Yeah, coz of the tension on the day of my journey at office, I couldnt find time to read blogs too. we had floor decoration for Diwali, our Floor stood second.. will post snaps soon... Our chidambaram tour snaps are ready & is in courier section.. will post them as soon as it reach me... Congrats vijay for ur step towards a new challenging envt (Career, Climate, Culture, Food & Language: Mumbai PCS). Coming to ur question, I have the answer, but I am not sure to what extent the same will convince you... Gud man, u purchased a week b4, I purchased a day b4 that too only a shirt for formality... Yeah I watched most of the debate, "Just we have come to know that these are yet another day which acts as a family get together, but in childhood these days are time to relish away from study, no pressure from teachers / parents the whole day, moreover new dresses only during festivals / functions... but now.. we can get dress rt. now also if needed.. those days need is not the criteria but function is the criteria, nowdays viceversa" Kavi, since strugling with gr8 responsibility and placing little effort I couldnt find time to post, although I read often.. moreover there is no matter to be posted. Manny yet to read your links.. will come to both discussion (Marriage & Religion later).... enna da.. pillion seat free ah??? irukooo??? hmmm irukatuumm... Valli, Sindhu, how about ur diwali celebs... Rini, how was urs... During my stay at native, talked to Ganesh, Rajesh, Rohini, Sindhu, JK, Shoba... all conveyed their wishes to all... Cheers

Diwali Hols

Hi All, Hope everyone enjoyed this hols..What happened to kicha? Not feeling well. Today morning just I was wondering why there is no Good Morning mail from kicha. I came to chennai sunday afternoon itself..'coz I forgot to book the return ticket and in last moment I didn't get any tickets in bus or train.So I preferred Day journey. It was too boring on sunday evening..I was alone in home. Then just started with all the housekeeping work pending. My roomi came in the evening..Then we went out for shopping..had dinner outside. Valli..How is your job going? I didn't see any blogs about your experience..I might have missed that also..I am not sure. Expecting all your blogs soon...

deepavali celebration

hi all, hope everyone enjoyed deepavali very much. thalai deepavali, rendam deepavali, irupathi munam deepavali, irupathi nazham deepavli, irupathi anjam deepavali,... yellam eppadi irunthathu. regarding myself, i enjoyed a lot. but comparing to deepavalies which came during my school/college days, i havnt enjoyed that much. y it so? i asked myself. during that days i start counting days for deepavali well before 2 months. like the world cup starting day counting in ESPN/Star, i used to start counting like 70 days to go, 55 days to go, next month this day it is deepavali, only two weeks to go,.... like that i used to start purchase dresses one month before the deepavali. usually in our town all the dress shops start deepavali sales exactly one month before the deepavali. only that time they start advertising. but in my house we buy dresses before that. but for this deepavali i only bought dresses 2 weeks before, and also i bought it in 2 days. why it so? i lost something? i m searching reasons for that? if anyone hav similar sort of feeling then pls tell me if u find reasons. i ll blog once i found the reasons. btw, has anyone watched patti mandram in Sun TV on deepavali day? it is related to what i said above. i ll blog all these things soon.

Hello!

Hope everyone had a wonderful diwali! Kicha spoke to me today morning, He is still sick. so he'll be on leave for a week. He said he'll try to blog if possible.

Happy Diwali

Hi all, Diwali Wishes from Ganesh & Valli. Wish you all a happy & safe Diwali.

Happy Diwali..!!!

Wish you all a very Happy Diwali... I'll be going home tonite... heard the weather is not so good in many parts of Tamil Nadu... nothing different in Bangalore too... last 2 days I was down with high fever and diarrhoea... and feeling better today... its an erratic weather here... y'day morning it was raining heaviliy... then there was 3 hrs of bright sunlight in the afternoon with virtually no clouds on the sky.. and in the evening it started raining again... at the moment, the clouds and the sun are playing hide-and-seek...

Happy Diwali

Hi All, Wish you all a very happy Diwali!! I am going home tomm evening. Hope Rini is going home today. What about sindu and valli....U are going to take off on Friday or what? Ram no blogs from you? When you are going home?? Have Nice Time!! Bye

A few notes

This year Diwali seems to be quieter than usual. Maybe the ban on the decibel level ratios is responsible or have people woken up to the fact that their hard earned money is going up in smoke. Those who didn't read today's newspaper. Surely, here is a good reason to get married soon guys. Read a description of avial and sambar, as described in the New York Times.

One of her classics is avial, a ragout of vegetables, in which she uses matchstick-size pieces of carrot, cucumber, green beans, drumstick (long, ridged pods from the moringa oleifera tree, rich in vitamin C, with a delicate flavor resembling that of asparagus), kovakka or little melon (a kind of gherkin) and brinjal, a longish eggplant. First she boils the vegetables with green chilies. Then she adds a mixture with the texture of oatmeal, including turmeric, coconut, garlic and cumin, along with home-made cow's-milk curd and kari leaves (highly aromatic and widely used in Kerala, these are often confusingly called curry leaves in the West; they look like basil leaves and taste of citrus and bell peppers). Sambar, a lentil and vegetable stew, makes use of two unusual spices. Asafetida, a resin taken from the rhizomes of giant fennel, is admired in Kerala for its earthy scent when fried in oil, and fenugreek seeds are liked for their bitter caramel flavor. Together with tamarind, a souring agent, chilies and coriander leaves, they give the stew intricate layers of flavor.

Interesting to read the different names that the foreigners give to Indian dishes, trying to findsimilarities between thier food and ours. Try figuring out what sourdough crepes are? Anyway, Have a wonderful Diwali, guys and gals, at home or not?

my views...

Interesting to read the essays that Manny had posted. here are my views: Mankind has always been fascinated by religion. As someone said, it is the opium of the mind. A short look at the number of religions in the world will baffle the mind. So many religions, so many views... Add to this mixture, a large heapful of mythologies, you get a totally confusing volatile potion. But after understanding many mythologies, it is possible to point out several similarities between the mythologies, be it a greek, egyptian or matabele. So all I can understand is that there has been a common origin for the beliefs. The question is where? Africa (as scientists say), Ancient Persia (according to Judeo, Christian, Islamic and Hindu myths), Mediterranean (Greek, Egyptian, Atlantis). That's one question for which no one has been able to give a correct answer. But as George Bernard Shaw said, "There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it."

Hi all

Hi hi hi... Quite for a short while I have not blogged anything... Not because that i should not....just lack of more free hours to rest myself and share things with u all. But am used to read all ur blogs... Then happy to know that vijay has got into PCS. But at the same time I lost my sleep for the past few months...the reason being many in number but very specific about one thing...nothing but all chennai guys getting placed in good cos. First Ganesh into CPL Ajayan got into Eveready... Then Rajesh into Godrej... then Vijay into PCS... ipdiya pona enna aagumo therila...haha as a result I was not able to bear these shocking news one after the other in a very short while of abt 2 to 3 months...(Just kidding) (Just kidding'nnu bracketla pottathu summa oru formalitykkaga naama solvom illa...athukkaga...but really i lost my sleep over this matter...ha ha) Anyhow...Congrats boys...have a nice time ahead in ur new jobs ...(dei...ithu vayitherichaloda solra all the best da. unmainnu nambidateenga...) and my life is going cool...and hey one thing I forgot to tell to u all.. I have bought a brand new Hoodibaabaa...Caliber 115 bike for me... Riding my days fast in my Hoodibabaa...(Note: My bike's pillion seat is still vacant...) Ok then...nothing more. mates. Bye Bye. Mahen

Mommy...! He's Got My Job

Hi mates, An interesting article on the new restrictions laid over the H1B visas for foreign pros. US is no more a country which will dictate terms to others especially for countries like India and China...and the "son of the soil" story no longer helps them... Read more... Regards, Mahen

new addition

Hi all, If you go to to the bottom of the sidebar in the blog, you might find a new title called "sideblog". Tell me what we can use it for. Will post my replies to the two topics soon, Bye.

Were Krishna and Jesus the same person???

Dear mates, My wishes for a happy diwali... On the eve of this festival, I came across an article abt Hinduism... Worth knowing the whats of our great religion and makes me feel something good about my identity... if u have time have a look at this link Also, a bit of news that i found was as follows... "Some liberal religious historians have raised the possibility that stories of Jesus' birth, ministry, execution, and resurrection were copied, at least in part, from Krishna's life." To see what they say in its entirety abt this issue have a look at this link Ur views are welcome... Regards, Mahen

An interesting article...

The flight to India The jobs Britain stole from the Asian subcontinent 200 years ago are now being returned. by George Monbiot Britain's industrialisation was secured by destroying the manufacturing capacity of India. In 1699, the British government banned the import of woollen cloth from Ireland, and in 1700 the import of cotton cloth (or calico) from India. Both products were forbidden because they were superior to our own. Now the jobs we stole 200 years ago are returning to India. Read full-story

Hi

Its history in the making..!!! Kavitha posting her blog all by herself...!!! Anyway.. nice to know that u r able to get some time to browse and post... I'll be starting home on thursday night for diwali... and at work.. am doing some programming with.. guess what... COBOL and CICS... Yep..!! some mainframe stuff... no... not moved from my good old .NET ... but this is an initiative to integrate mainframes with microsoft technologies.. and I'm starting with the mainframe part of it and have to look at ways of integrating it with .NET so that we could get a real-time processing (rather than batch processing) with mainframe in the picture.. And yet to see views about that topic... I too am thinking on it...

My Diwali plans!?

Hi, Congrats Vijay Babu....iyyo pavam Mumbai! Xavier...I'll try my level best to make it...but cannot assure you....cos next weekend is Diwali...anyway can you tell me the exact place of the ITMA fair in Birmingham. Rini, as Valli said i dont have the same enthu as it would have been in India... My Mother-in-law sent me a silk saree and Boomi on his behalf got me a couple of trousers and jumpers...planning to take off friday afternoon to prepare some sweets ....have a party - not the sort that i would love to go....There is a huge Indian community in Leicester and they have fireworks...planning to go and watch it. Boomi's friends are coming down to our home for Diwali...so hoping to have nice time... I never imagined that Bulb will be such a big kozhi, at the same time prooving that she is a Diana as well! Kicha, we are not certain of how long we'll have to stay...as u said one yr is over...and our visa is getting expired by jan 2004....probably v'll get it extended for another 6 months or so... gud topic for discussion...will pour in my thoughts later!

Congrats Vijay

It's Nice to get to know from vijay that He got an offer in PCS. Congrats!! For Diwali..This weekend I went for shopping. I got a saree for Amma and a shirt for Anna. I got a plesant surprise from my brother for this diwali ...he got 4 chudi's for me. Yet to see all that. This time I am eagerly waiting to go home. Today..Just now got cleard all the doubts about today's work from my onsite coordinator and we started our work. Have to deliver it by tomm morning...So I will be in office till 10 or 11..today. I met bala and vijay saturday evening..Had Nice time with them..(Vijay note..I didn't say to all that you gave me a treat on that day)... See you all in my next blog..

Remember my link in earlier post on a house designed with CSS. I got a mail from the site's designer. I am reproducing it below.

Thanks for linking to my demo! Not sure what you mean by "Please don't view it in Internet Explorer." though. Works perfectly in IE5/Mac and IE6/Win. -- Chris Hester http://www.designdetector.com

Good to here that Vijay has entered PCS. Congrats, da.

i m joining Patni, mumbai

hi, i pleased to inform u that the poor Patni Computer Systems did a blunder by offered me a job in one of their Mumbai office. so i m going to join there next month. i ll update u shortly with more details regarding it.

an interesting topic

Kicha, an interesting topic for discussion. I'm eager to know what the others would like to say about these, especially our married ones. I'll post my comments later. But before that, everyone take a look at this and tell me your comments. Please don't view it in Internet Explorer ver 5.x. View it in IE 6 or Netscape 7 or Mozilla or FireBird.

Hi

jax, feel free to use anything... and about the chat in blog... how personal is a "personal" chat... am sure there was nothing "personal" in that chat, that I have "revealed" to the world... its more a sharing of "something funny" that went on between two people... I intend to propose a topic for discussion... this was going on since morning in our BB.. so just felt like knowing what all of us have in mind too... This is was the post in our BB which started it all... Here goes... Drop in your views if u find the topic interesting... Hey dear guys and gals ….. This is not a silly question. It’s very tough to answer. Easy it may seem, but given a second thought it could raise a big debate. What according to you is the right age to marry? Is it in the early twenties, when you are full of the so called “josh” or should it be in the late twenties, when u have gained experience of how to handle life. Whatever you may feel right, may feel absolutely wrong for another. Doesn’t matter though, coz it’s always free to express your opinions. Now the importance of the topic – Why should it be a concerned issue? If you must have read last Sunday’s supplements of Times Of India, you will agree that yeah… people do choose career prior to family. And when their career is all glory, they turn to family. But then its too late. Either there aren’t too many books on the shelf, or you may havta pick what you get, not what you want. On the other hand, we also see cases where kiddos fall in love and marry right after college. They don’t realize the responsibilities and duties involved in a married life, and often end up in disasters. Many a time, the not so forward Indian parents come in between, and they set a deadline, which could be as late as 30 or could be as early as 20. Now again, the average Indian youth, doesn’t have the guts or doesn’t feel it proper to stand up for their choices especially, when they are against the parents. Some may call this discipline, some may call it orthodox, some may call it obedience, some may call it fear. Tis not easy to bring a trend among a social culture. And very often, the beginners of the trend are often branded as the maggot in the apple. Open your views, and let’s see what the Bulletin Board has in mind. Keep the ball rolling

my thoughts...

Bon Jour, Kicha, that was really an interesting chat transcript. Since when have you taken over Rajesh as a chief Kozhi catcher, Kicha? But is it ethical? is a question that I would want to ask everyone. I know there was no illwill meant. But what if two persons are having a personal chat and one of them puts the chat transcript online? Just my thoughts... Kicha, my comments on what you sent: Wonderful. Can I use a part of it (especially the 2nd and last paras) in any of my stories. I'll give the proper credits for it. Can I? Those who didn't know what I am saying. You'll know soon. It has been a long time since we had a long discussion on the blog. Anyone giving out topics, please let us avoid rehashing old topics once more. Let us discuss some new things this time. As for movie reviews, I watched "LOTR-TTW" on DVD a couple of days back. It is amazing to see how a movie becomes more interesting when you watch it on a DVD. I was unlucky to miss it on the silver screen. Waiting for the next installment to be released in December. As for books, I am currently reading "The Sons of Fortune" by Jeffrey Archer. Those who have read Archer before might understand this story would contain, the twists and turns etc. which reminds me. Hey Sindhu, where are my books. Does Vinod have them? If you have not yet read any of Archer's books, start with "Not a penny more, not a penny less". You'll love it. I am still trying to get my hands on "The Avenger" by Fredrick Forysth. The librarian has asked me to collect it tomorrow. So I have to complete reading "The Sons of Fortune" by tonight. Other than that, I'm waiting for my project to be completed by today.

Hi

Valli, I've seen "Bend it like Beckham" 4 times, and "Mr. and Mrs. Iyer" twice... Konkana Sen, who played the lead role also won the National Award for "Best Actress". After so much... America is just waking up to these movies... the country is becoming as dumb as its president... why don't u people kick out that dumbo... Sindhu, how long still to go in ur stay in UK... Its been almost a year, ain't it... any plans of returning home... Rajesh seems to be travelling a lot.. no posts for quite some time from him... and Manny too...

Interesting chat

Hey Kicha, had a nice time laughing......So finally did she understand that you were playing the fool around, or is she still expecting ur arrival on 22nd???? Happened to watch two wonderful movies last week......one was "Mrs & Mr Iyer".......An Indian movie.....The hero's nativity is said as Bengal, & the heroin's is from TamilNadu....So they communicate in English, with tit bits of tamil & hindi inbetween.....& for our convinience, we get close captions when the dialouge is in Hindi or Tamil.....The whole movie is about a journey, from the deep south to Calcutta.......It was simply wonderful..... The other movie was "Bend it like Beckham"......an Indian(Punjabi) family in London tries to raise their soccer-playing daughter in a traditional way.......Her dream is to play soccer professionally like her hero David Beckham.......Does her parents allow her to chase her dream or ties her with family values and stuffs??....This is the whole stroy about...The director is Gurinder Chadha(who's given one another hit..."Bhaji on the beach")...This movie was a sleeper hit in England.....a late pick up....but recieved an overwhelming response.....Now, picking up speed in America too......Don't ever miss a chance to watch these wonderful movies...... Kicha, so at what time u'll be at my home?....this week end we are celebrating Diwali, right????........

Kozhi of the century..!!!

Chatted with "Bulb" Packialakshmi today.. an extract of the chat transcript... ............... rpackialakshmi: tomm going to mdu after 15 days rpackialakshmi: where are u? kichili: New york rpackialakshmi: what rpackialakshmi: New york??? kichili: yes... rpackialakshmi: means? kichili: will be here for 1 more week... rpackialakshmi: where are u now? kichili: New York... now only... kichili: its 7AM here... kichili: just got up.. and came to check mail... rpackialakshmi: !!! rpackialakshmi: hey when u went pa rpackialakshmi: me too trying for foreign job............ kichili: came on 3rd and will be back to Bangalore on 22nd rpackialakshmi: oh short term......... rpackialakshmi: am so sad rpackialakshmi: y? kichili: yes.. just a small consultancy work... rpackialakshmi: howz the climate kichili: very cool.. it seems next month it'll start snowing... but i'll leave before that... kichili: this weekend am going to valli's house... 3 hrs from my place kichili: valli and myself are planning diwali celebration this weekend... rpackialakshmi: ok rpackialakshmi: Advance Happy diwali kichili: same to u... kichili: i'll be in mdu for diwali rpackialakshmi: thanz rpackialakshmi: ok rpackialakshmi: get me chocholates from there kichili: ok.. will do that... rpackialakshmi: thanks rpackialakshmi: then....... rpackialakshmi: what is famous there kichili: tell something small.. that I can carry... kichili: there will be "assorted chocolate boxes" here.. will get that for u rpackialakshmi: dress rpackialakshmi: or any costume rpackialakshmi: any modern dress rpackialakshmi: i will pay for u Comment: I couldn't bear it laughing any longer. kichili: do u know one thing....???? rpackialakshmi: what kichili: i've never seen a bigger kozhi than u...!!! rpackialakshmi: what rpackialakshmi: kozhi means kichili: kozhi means YOU rpackialakshmi: is it hen kichili: yes rpackialakshmi: why kichili: u r proving to be a bigger kozhi than I thought... rpackialakshmi: i dont know the character of hen rpackialakshmi: buy something for me rpackialakshmi: i will get from u on diwali kichili: i'm telling u r a FOOL... atleast now do u understand..??? rpackialakshmi: why rpackialakshmi: am i did anything wrong kichili: yeah... u did everything wrong... rpackialakshmi: what rpackialakshmi: why u said new york rpackialakshmi: is valli is in new york kichili: no... kichili: u r kozhi.. so u'll believe anything... .............. Happy laughing...!!!

links

CSS Tutorial - Interesting articles on using CSS to practical usage. The blog has utilized a few concepts from this site for the navigation bar at the top. W3Schools CSS Tutorial - A simple intro on using CSS. http://www.csszengarden - A wonderful site showcasing the capablities of CSS. The html page is the same but the CSS syles are different. My favorite designs are Mnemonic and I dream in colour By the way, Firebird 0.7 is out. If you want to get the best of CSS, you better download and install Firebird.

sorry

Dear Rini. I didn't get what you want properly. You want an article on CSS, right? I'll let you know after some time. I was on leave yesterday. And guess what my boss is off to Dubai for a week.

Diwali

Hey Rini, I'm feeling so sick Rini...I wanna get chudi or saree for me too......But, poor me, I've just got a pair of Van Huesen Trousers and shirts. However i still have one unused silk saree....new in box....Persian blue (If I'm right)....... We have two functions here, conducted by the Indian community......we'll be going there.....we have planned to go to a temple, with our friends.....we don't have a temple, in Lexington......need to travel to a nearby place....one and a half hr travel....90 miles.....We have also planned to make some sweets, one dish per family(Kinda Potleg)......will sure be speaking with our parents & bro's..... But inspite of all these, I feel, i'm missing something terribly.....the festive mood, the sound of crackers, flooded readymade showrooms, busy bakeries, my quest for chudis 'n sarees.....everything...... But this is far far more better than last year's Diwali......It was a friday......Ganesh went to office asusual......I hardly knew one family here....who were also far away from our place.....I was not that confident about my cooking experinces....So I did'nt try out anything new or different......I was afraid of deep frying also at that time(I had this problem for a long time....I've witnessed two deep frying accidents....one to my mom & the other one, to one of my aunts.Though now I'm very comfortable)......I was crying the whole day, so depressed.....nobody around me....Finally, i was okay in the evening, when i got dressed up, in my new silk saree & Ganesh took me to that one place whom we knew..... This year, Bless me, we have so many friends around us.....we have plans to celebrate it together.....Hope we'll have a great time together......

My senior is off to KL!!!

Hi guys, i will b free for the next few days. Coz as usual my senior has gone onsite to KAulaLumpur(KL). Dont know when he will be back. but might not be less than a week. Hei jax can u send me the link which gives intro to CSS? I would like to go thru it now. so send me stat.

My senior is off to KL

YA my senior has gone to offsite. so kicha u can call me if u r free. Dont know when he will be back but i have got some work too. And jax send me the link which contained that intro about CSS stat.

BREAKING NEWS...

B R E A K I N G    N E W S ... Catching a train to Crewe? Call Bangalore British train travellers will be forced to call Bangalore to find out the time of their next connection at Crewe or Clapham Junction, under a secret plan to save up to £10m by shifting Britain's national rail enquiries service to India. Read full-story

Diwali Purchase!

Yes, this weekend, Srini surprised me by getting a sari for Diwali. He had already got me two chudi and now one more sari. Its in Maroon color with embrodery in the palloo section and with small buttas. Good it looks on me. What guys how about u people? Esp. Valli &Sindhu, ennadi panna poreenga? Planning to try some new sweets? New outfits? And sindhu, going to spend sometime at home. Good mam, BTW r there plans for u people to come to India sometime later? Y not much of blogging these days? ok guys, nothing more interesting. Will share if something crops up. Till then bye

good to hear that

Dear Kicha, Good to have you back. I've been troubled by a project for the past two weeks. Not much work for me literally. All I have to do is co-ordinate the proceed and it driving me nuts. I hope I can get the project completed by the next two days. BTW, Sindhu, if you could visit Birmingham again sometime between the 22^nd and 29^th of this month, visit the ITMA fair. There if you can locate the pavilion of Lakshmi Card Clothing there, spend some time to take a look at a video presentation going on at their stall and then tell me how it was. Was my work for the past two weeks worth it? Can you tell me? Planning to work again? Somehow, I managed to install Windows XP, Windows Me, and Windows Server 2003 (in that order) on my machine. My Visual Studio .NET installation went fine, except that I need to activate my software through the net and I don't have a net connection at home. I'm still wondering what to do. Damn Microsoft and their stupid activation scheme. I realize I have to find a way to crack that stupid activation hurdle. Anybody willing to render their services?

Back to form...

Hi, My system is fine now... and am online in Yahoo messenger and MSN (this is for Kavi alone)... the exciting world of internet is open to me...

Hi

Hi, System still off the network. The support people here are too slow. I've escalated the request. Hope something will be done atleast today... couldn't do much y'day because of this...

Tough to Follow

Hi... Have a look into Procra Also Pareto... All the very best.

My Boss is off...

Hi, Hope everyone had a gud wkend.... Great to hear from Kavi after a long time.....yes kavi as u said it's very difficult to manage ur worklife and family in one-go.....but a lot depends on ur life partner! Xavier...i read the piece of story in the link.... it was well-written, narrative and simple in language.... Most importantly I was able to visualise things....it has a great take-off....but the momentum can be fine-tuned a bit...a few sentences can be rephrased....like... "The soldiers seperated...." other than these it was really great to read....kept me intact until the end... this weekend we went to Birmingham along with one of Boomi's friend....a new shopping complex was opened recently called 'Bull Ring'....had the usual set of shops that we find all over UK.....everything under a single roof.....it was so much crowdy like T.Nagar Ranganathan street....but the interesting part was a shop called ' selfridges'...it has everything and anything u need for a house...clothes, books, music Cd's, bags, cosmetics, decorative items, electronic goods,entertainment and what not....it even had a restaurant....English, Chineses, Itlalian.......just amazing but a bit messy as well! Watched ' Bad Boys II ' in a nearby cinema complex...horrible movie...it was dragging on, on and on.... oops...i forgot to tell one more thing.....I have resigned my job....right now i'm under notice period...so will work until the end of this month!....looking forward to staying at home for some time before my next assignment!...Boomi is just waiting for the d-day.....so that nan oru nalavadu Boomi ya torture pannama thaniya samaikarthukku.....

Yipppeeeeeee...!!!!!!!!

Hi, I'm released from that stupid project. From today am at my good old place. But still, yet to get back to full form. My system is still giving problems connecting to the network. Once it gets sorted out, I'll be back to full form...

hi

hi all, sorry that i could not blog for quite some time.i will try to blog often in the future. i felt vey bad that i could not accompany ram, murtu & sinoop for the last 2 days of their stay here in chidambaram. i will soon post the snaps in the group. ranjini enjoyed ur expereinces in chennai. bye

news

Hi all, Matthew Hayden has just broken Brian Lara's record (375) of being the highest test scorer. Looks like the Zimbabeweans are being massacred by the Aussies. Meanwhile, read the origin of CTRL + ALT + DEL . Bye for now.

Hi

My terminal is still not working... and I'm still to be released from the project, so not able to spend time with the support people to get my system going... Y'day, I had one of the most frustrating days at work.. got bugged up with the project's PL... just felt for a few moments like bursting out at him... restrained myself... just praying that I get the hell out of this project soon... hopefully, I might get released by the end of next week.. but nothing has been confirmed yet.. hoping for the best...

Interesting start

Hi, Read this and tell me your thoughts on it. Bye.

hey all

Thanx for the wishes, guys. Xavier, i enjoyed the alternate lines in your poem.....first, third etc....The best of all, was the last couple of lines......."You've got good friends, And we're ALL getting older"....inba then vandhu paayudhu kaadhinilae....... B'day went, as normal as any other day...with tit bits of celebs, then 'n there.....like, getting phone calls from parents & brothers, to bless me......Ganesh surprising me with a very very big mickey mouse (if i make it stand, it's 3/4th of me) I loved it so much (by the way, collecting plush toys is my hobby)....getting so many e-cards from all our friends.....other than these, the day was the same.....infact, more crucial....morning, at work, one silly stupid bug, was irritating me for more than an hr....& i had'nt prepared for my test for the afternoon class.....I was "Mulichifying" like our class boys do, whenever we used to have test there at DES.....thank god it was cancelled..... Kicha, did'nt you celebrate, your anniversery with Infy???......We need a treat man....... Kavi, great to see your post....I'm working in VB.Net and Ms Access. abt the cookery doubts.....ofcourse to me, Sindhu & Rini......unakku koluppu di......

answers to rini and info

• You can insert a single quote using the escape sequences. See the list here.
• Yes, you can change your posts after it has been published. There is an link called "edit" next to the post details in Blogger. You can click on it to load the post and then edit it as you like.
• Your admin rights allow you to change the posts of others if you want to.

BTW the past week, I am receiving a CD everyday. It started with a Windows 2003 Server evaluation copy. A few days later, a copy of MS Speech Server SDK and a DVD of Visual Studio.net 2003. Yesterday, a copy of Sun's latest desktop, codename "Mad Hatter", arrived. And today, a copy of Bullfighter, a software application. The coming week is surely going to be very busy with these things. I have also updated "Quod scripsi, scripsi" after a month's gap. If you wish, you can leave your comments on that blog.

some queries about blogging.......

Jax, how to insert a quote? i forgot how to use a quote, i mean single quote. and onew more doubt, once my blog is published and its in archive section, can i still change some of my posts? Can i do changes to posts by others? i am asking this coz i remember u telling that still i have got admin rights.

Missed you all ..... (from kavitha)

Hi,How are you All..the members the blog family? I was a little bit busy so I coudn't blog, Really I am feeling like living in island. No contact with anyone for atleast 1 or 2 months. Few calls from friends now and then keep me updated about you all. Then yesterday I spoke to vijay and he sent me all the blogs and archives...From 8.40AM I am enjoying reading all your blogs. When I saw sam's mail in yahoogroups..Really I shocked to get to know that kannan sir is no longer with us. It's really so sad..Then hope valli and sindhu are very busy with their work.Hey.. you know I took a flat near Besant Nagar with my friends(I don't remember whether I already updated you about this) and moved there last week. We started cooking. our Dishes are good compared to our hostel food....But yet to buy books to learn varieties. I hope valli ,rini and sindhu(Should I say in this order ganesh,srini and boomi) can help me to learn cooking. We 3 are staying together...Really I am enjoying being in home after 9 years of my hostel life. Valli..How is your work going? Which platform you are working now..? Gals......I really would like to know how you are balancing between your personal life and work. I had my product delivery on last week. Till last week..work is too tight for me. oct 2nd and all..I left the office at night 4.30AM(I should say 3rd morning). I couldn't find time to sleep all these last 3 to 4 weeks. Just I was thinking about rini,sindhu and valli. But in my case 'coz of some problems we went for redesign of the product and the time duration was too short..so it was like that. But really I would like to discuss '"Working women (that too married and got childrens) have time to live their life?". Ram, Bala told that you planned to go to cbe also..So I called bala on saturday to talk toy ou all. But he said..no they haven't come. seems all had a Great Break!!Jax...I like the present blog color which you are using for the page and title. Time is 10AM..I am going to start my work. 1.30 hrs passed by reading and typing blog and attending conf call. Have a Great Day!! Cheers....... Kavitha.N

My Chennai Trip!

Many more happy returns of the day valli! How was ur celebration? Mail us all with a big story as it follows. Really great time i had u know. All his friends are nothing but a cloud of humour, care, smile, laughter, fun, friendliness, love, concern wrapped together to show me the rainbow of life! Oh my! how i envied and also enjoyed being with them. Appaaaaaa, naan theriyaama savaal vituten, that i will cook for those guys when i am at chennai and they dint leave me till i cooked for all of them though i said -n- no. of saaljaapu. Atlast, they made me cook Veg. biryani & Curdrice. Paavam, those guys u know, they had to eat the Biryani which was almost like pongal. Ya i had kept more water and so adhu kolanji pochu. but then taste wise it was good it seems. Curd rice was really superb. In the end, with the threat that i will cook for the next time, every body submitted their results that my cooking was good! Thats Ranjini!! The thing is i cooked for 12 of them at a time. I could not believe that i cooked for so many at a time that too all alone. Ofcourse everybody helped me by cutting vegetables, cleaning rice, opening the grocery packs, cleaning utensils, operating mixie. Ore kalebaram thaan. Kadavule, Water mattum naan correct proportionla vachirundha, today i would have come out with good name & fame ! No probs, i will try sometime later too. Really it has now given me a confidence that i can cook for -n- no. of people with out any fuss. woweeeeeeeeeee i can manage situations like this in future tooooooooooo. Hmmmmmmm regarding our visits, we had a great time at Mayajaal, hope u know its a multiplexer and has got bowling alley. U know what, i did bowling for the first time. And the most funny part was, i was the only one who dint know bowling and literally every buddy of his taught me how to bowl. Ya, they were almost praying for me to hit atleast one pin when i was enjoying a full pack strike by them. Good they play u know, including srini. Everytime i bowl, it goes in the side lane and one time u know what happened, as i was swinging the ball front and back, before i could release, it slipped from my fingers and rolled back and almost hit srini. Poor he! then what, every body were flying away from the place, if i was bowling. It was really fun to see a guy hiding behind his friends as i had told that my next target was to hit him. Ah, atlast, i too could shake some 8 pins in one stroke. Oh, how good they were u know, trying hard to make me hit atlest once. Obviously, had i enjoyed something @ mayajaal then it was due to their friendly move to make me not feel despaired as i couldnt hit and was struggling to hit. With such an exhibit of concern and fun we left from Mayajaal to Muttukaad to enjoy a classic evening while surfing the backwaters in a rowboat. The whole water was almost bathing in moonlight when we reached muttukaad. Really speaking i was the only one who desparately wanted to go to Muttukad and so coz of me, all the other 12 came with us. Ofcourse worth was our visit, though it was getting dark. Everybody were happy with a new kind of boating experience. U know i struggled hard to row and all others in the boat panicked with the fear that i might drop the oar any time in water. But then they took even this risk for their new guest(its me)! Then atlast that day i left them free as i was feeling tired and said will go back home. The next day we started towards Besant nagar beach. The climate was so cool even at 9 o clock and oh my! the beach was clean u know. Not much of Garbage. Good it was to trod on those golden sand and get wet in white waters. All his friends played volleyball and i had a nice time watching them play. Ofcourse we both had a pleasant short walk along the waters to make our morning come live! In the evening we went for shopping to a Casual wear shop and came out with baggages of shirts and pant for srini. Poor me, i dint buy any as i dint get any of my size and dint like too. The next day was the day of testing! Yes i tested almost all the members out there with my cooking extravaganza. When everybody were tired we slipped to one of his close friends house to be given a warm welcome to their place. As hari happens to be one of srini's best friend they had a nice time plunging themselves in nostalgia about the heydays they had spent together and also they were discussing on how to bring those days back now! Good move! With a warm heart we all started our move towards Spencer plaza as i hadnt seen even once. My god, its big man. Hmmmmmmmmmm bigger than all shopping malls in Bangalore. Very spacious were every shops and fully A/ced. Good shopping experience for me. I had a good time, getting into Landmark, one of the biggest book store i believe. We bought a Casette on Madukya Upanishad by Pandit Jasraj. Its a classic! We searched for it in Bangalore, but dint find any and finally caught it at Chennai. Then we stepped into every garment shop there like Provogue, Blackberys, CP and bought one shirt for Srini at Provogue for Diwali. I liked it. His friends toh, appaaaa, teasing him like anything, coz when ever he enters into trial room, they will ask if i like it or not and when he comes out, he straightly searches for me amidst them and asks my opinion first and then goes to his friends while i was feeling shy to tell my comments infront of them and blushing a bit. Ofcourse, before trying he gets suggestion of Hari, who has got a taste similar to Srini and is more particular in getting the best for srini than me. Nice to see such friends ya! Finished our shopping spree with a chocolate icecream and mini samosas. Went home and started packing for our trip to Pondichery. Arey, u should see that East Coast Road from Chn to Pnd, my god, just beautiful and to value add it, the climate became so soothing and cool. So good was the weather and our travel that we never felt the distance covered. We had a graceful darshan of Mother and Sri Auribindo and got their blessings from their Samadhi. From there we went to the Auroville a city in the making, where people from almost 30 nations are trying to realise the ideals of Mother and Sri Aurobindo. Its fully covered by nature, beautiful was the surrounding and they insist on silence which is really worth in such a divine atmosphere. Oh, it was really surprising to see that almost every soul was dipped in silence when we reached the MAtri Mandir, which is the soul of the city! With blessings and grace, we left the city and started towards bangalore with a comfort feeling of having spent our days merrily and peacefully.

Case Study...

Should Microsoft Be Liable for Bugs in Its Products? Should Microsoft be held financially liable for the vulnerabilities in Windows and its other products? Granted, this year hasn't been good, security-wise, for Microsoft: This summer's SoBig.F virus and MSBlaster worm interrupted businesses and individuals worldwide, albeit without any loss of data, and recent vulnerabilities in Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) facilitated the deadly new QHost attack, which runs malicious code on users' computers when they navigate to unsafe Web sites. But Microsoft, like other software makers, has historically relied on an End User License Agreement (EULA) to protect itself from customers seeking restitution for the allegedly shoddy quality of its products. Is the EULA legally enforceable? Can Microsoft be held liable for problems, including financial losses, its customers accrue from using its software? Post your views...

Other Styles

Hi Jax, Earlier, I was searching styles in the typepad url of the same blog.... Today I got it thankx, and yeah I like "simplistic" style the most.... coming to news aggregator I got some overview... If u dont mind suggest some freeware which is best suited for our purpose of news aggregation... Cheers

Ram

Dear Ram, Go to my other blog. There will be a style switcher just like the one in this. Click on any of the styles to view them.

Hi

Am back too.. aftre a quick weekend trip home... Many More Happy Returns of the Day, Valli... there's one reason that I can never forget ur b'day... Last year, it was this day, that I wrote my test in infy... Things seem that I might be released from the project next week or so.. let see... some problem with my system again... not connecting to network...Will update later on other things as soon as it gets going...

News aggregators

Dear Ram, Here is an article that I wrote for my company's internal newsletter last week.

What is a news aggregator? A news aggregator is "software that periodically reads a set of news sources, in one of several XML-based formats, finds the new bits, and displays them in reverse-chronological order on a single page." A few months back, we had seen about weblogs. Aggregators and weblog software are two sides of the same coin. Weblogs are for writing, while aggregators are for reading. How does it work? Every hour the aggregator reads the "feeds" or "sources" you're subscribed to, as few as a half-dozen, or as many as you like. The information is displayed it in a user-friendly format, one for each source. How do I get to read news? A computer, running an aggregator software, reads information from various sources. There are a wide range of sources, news websites, weblogs and even commercial sites. A search on google for "news aggregators" lists a range of software for reading news. There are news aggregator software for various operating systems. Recently Indian Express and Financial Express (the first from any Indian news website) have put up a "feed" containing the headlines, a brief description and links back to the full story available on their websites. Mostly all the "feed" available on the Internet are free. The news aggregator is an example of how technology can be used as an informative medium.

Hope you understood it. More on this tomorrow or the day after.

Hai

Hey Jax, What is this News Aggregator....(Desktop version, browser version etc...) Yeah coming to styles I use purple only.. I like that... light bkgrd.. dark text... by way I cant find any style on your other blogs... Can you give me the exact URL for those... Om prakash Sir, conveyed his wishes to u all.... Hope some of u might know he left MKU, DES to Mumbai in search of better opppor, Particulary in Java.. let him know if there is any gud...opening... Yeah Rini, is coming with gud ideas, but its not lasting longer... I am ready for book review also... by way what happened to our INTEREST articles... Cheers

Hi

Many more happy returns of the day Valli..... Then Rini, how was your trip... coming to ours.... had a nice fantastic time after a long gap.... Myself, Murtu, & Sinoop left blr to Triuvannamallai...unforgetable journey... then to Thirucouiloor... ok kind of travel... there to kadallooor on a four lane NH particulary for cycles.... then to Chidambaram... gud.. express hiway.... Astonished Ganja... with a huge box and no. of bags for a long stay over there.... Went to his home, nice cool place, placed our bags and slept welll after breaking our fast. Got up, triped to pichavaram... Hi5 bus in a Bullock cart road... hmm... okay... Then the mangrove forest was superb in the Back waters (from Sea) v 3 along with ganesh hired a boat (actually catamaran) and went rowing... took superb snaps... Ganesh will post them soon.. in groups... went to the other side i.e seashore.. only v 4 r there... had a nice bath... and back to home around 8, Took bath once again in soft water.. and had dinner... Really have to thank Ganja's ma, for favourite dishes that too.. more than 2 variety each and everytime for all the three days stay... went to sleep after watching "Thiruda.. Thirudi"... ok sought of film.... Got up by 9:30 am... dressed up and took breakfast.. after gr8 discussions planned for pondy... reached there by 2:30 pm... went to nehru st.. roamed, got into HiDesign showroom Murtu.. after much bargains atlast bought a leather bag (Mktg. Professional kind of) for 1.2k, I bought a belt for .15k Rs. Went to Aurobindo Ashram, had some time over there, bought books & articles, went to beach spend some more time... then back after having window shopping. Straight to Chidambaram by 8:30 pm... talked to bala and rajesh... They both skipped their visit saying some excuses.. which is acceptable.. even though!!!???.... We entered the magnificient Thillai Nataraja Murthy temple.. had a nice & cool dharshan, Thank God, Murugan (Ganesh's brother) accompanied us.. "since ganja had his monthly meeting etc.. at CP..." else ganja doesnt knew anything about temples and places... Back to home, dinner - next film Pearl Harbour.... Gotup as usual, went to Poumphuhar as per Ganja's idea... Gr8 S.. Shore...... Took some snaps, Pavai Mandram, and silapathikara scriptures etc.. reinforced the great epic... Then back to blr on sunday morning, thru salem... Thatz it.. more later.... cheers

Hi all, Glad abt blogging after a long gap... BTW...Many more happy returns of the day valli... Jax here is the reason why we are not able to name folders and files with certain reserved words... Illegal file/folder names and conventions for the Windows Operating systems... The following file/folder names are reserved under Windows: com1, com2, com3, com4, com5, com6, com7, com8, com9, lpt1, lpt2, lpt3, lpt4, lpt5, lpt6, lpt7, lpt8, lpt9, con, nul, and prn. You cannot use these names for naming your folders and files. There are lot more reservations for naming files/folders in Windows. ok then..bye bye and meet u all in my next blog. Mahen.

Happy Birthday Valli!

The good news is... It's your birthday! The bad news is... It's means you're growing older. The good news is... You'll get some gifts! The bad news is... You're still getting older. The good news is... There's cake and goodies! The bad news is... Yep, you're getting older. The good news is... You've got good friends, And we're ALL getting older!

Have a wonderful day!

at last

So after several days, Rini has gone and reviewed the other blog and suggested improvements. Thank you. As for the book review, I have everything ready. The only thing to be done is integrating it with the blog. Due to some very tight work schedule, I was unable to put it up. Maybe the coming holidays might allow that. Have a happy hols everyone.

about styles

By the way jax, the plum style seems to be good! Apart from that Sea, Guava are also good. Others not so appealing to me. In Dayswork blog, black is the best and all others are not that appealing. Coz they are all of the same background with only the color changes. But jaxsays blog has different layouts too which are appealing too. Can move plum, sea& guava too to dayswork if u and give off all those similar purple, mint, peach color styles. And those are all DOs commands i believe. PRN is for printing onto Parallel printer port and COM are for writing on to Communication ports i believe. So it might be like keywords of OS and so will not allow us to create folders of that name. Dont know exactly but! hope to see the correct answer soon.

Thought Process

Hey huge hoardings, highly hair heightening.... By way I tried the kicha's one in Win Nt client, I get some error.... Gud, gr8 info. after quite some time...nice... by way as kicha has let out v r leaving tonight.... happy pooja.... Jax, I ought to learn french.. can you suggest some sites.... which provides from beginning that too free of cost... Cheers

Why dont we review some books?

Oh, really i am unable to believe till now. Its a sad ending for one of the adored faculty of our course. May his soul rest in peace. Ok guys, have a nice and long & happppppy weekend. Me too am going to have a fine weekend. will tell all fun when i am back. and yesterday too i bunked my office as i dint feel like going. so to impress srini, i plunged still into the zone of cooking. Prepared some sweets and one special item, i mean Kolukattai to eat for dinner and not usual rice. He envied the way i was enjoying my leave. And dint feel like coming to office today. But then veetla irundha bore adikkumnu kelambi vandhutten. Hei guys, i have got a suggestion pa. Why not we write some reviews? Ya the way i have reviewed the casette Panchabhutam, why not people who read books like jax, kicha, ram, sindhu, valli and almost all i think read something or the other and keep in touch with the literary world. So it would be nice if we start posting some reviews. Need not exactly be on books, can be on Museums or exhibitions or casettes or any thing worth reviewing. Thats what i can say now. Gadsby good lipogram work! Ok then guys will meet u all after holidays............. bye for now

Thinking...

You cannot name folders as such because they are name of devices used by the Windows File system. More info here. But MS says that WinNT and Win2K do not face this problem. Don't know if it is caused by Fat File System. Maybe it does not occur in a NTFS file system. Maybe Manny can help in this issue.

Some more to think...

Try this... You cannot create a folder with the same name as any of the following: CON, PRN, LPT1, LPT2 ... LPT9, COM1, COM2 ... COM9 Can you tell me why...? PS: It holds true for Win 2000/XP/2003 ... I have not tested on other OS's...

More works

There are more such works in several languages which leave out a particular letter. As you said "Gadsby" is one in English. Perec's "La disparition" in French (available as "A Void" in English) also leaves out "e". I started reading Gadsby a couple of weeks ago, but never got around finishing it. BTW, any such works in Tamil?

Interesting...

Wow.. What Wizadry Work... Wonderfully Woven... Wondering Who Wrote... I've also heard of another novel "Gadsby".. seems the entire novel was written without using the letter "e" ... jax, any lights on that...

After the smoke

Hi all, I found this interesting story. Anyone care to tell me its uniqueness.

"Warm weather, Walter! Welcome warm weather! We were wishing winter would wane, weren't we?" "We were well wearied with waiting," whispered Waiter wearily. Wan, white, woe-begone was Walter; wayward, willful, worn with weakness, wasted, waxing weaker whenever winter's wild, withering winds were wailing. Wholly without waywardness was Winifred, Walter's wise, womanly watcher, who, with winsome, wooing way, was well-beloved. "We won't wait, Walter; while weather's warm we'll wander where woodlands wave, won't we?" Walter's wanton wretchedness wholly waned. "Why, Winnie, we'll walk where we went when we were with Willie; we'll weave wildflower wreaths, watch woodmen working; woodlice, worms wriggling; windmills whirling; watermills wheeling; we will win wild whortleberries, witness wheat winnowed." Wisbeach woods were wild with wildflowers; warm, westerly winds whispered where willows were waving; wood-pigeons, wrens, woodpeckers were warbling wild woodnotes. Where Wisbeach water-mill's waters, which were wholly waveless, widened, were waterlilies, waxen white. Winifred wove wreaths with woodbine, whitehorn, wallflowers; whilst Walter whittled wooden wedges with willow wands. Wholly without warning, wild wet winds woke within Wisbeach woods, whistling where Winifred wandered with Walter; weeping willows were wailing weirdly; waging war with wind-tossed waters. Winifred's wary watchfulness waked. "Walter, we won't wait." "Which way, Winnie?" Winifred wavered. "Why, where were we wandering? Wisbeach woods widen whichever way we walk. Where's Wisbeach white wicket, where's Winston's water-mill?" WistfuIly, Walter witnessed Winifred's wonder. "Winnie, Winnie, we were wrong, wholly wrong; wandering within wild ways. Wayfaring weather-beaten waifs, well-nigh worn-out." Winifred waited where, within wattled woodwork walls, wagons, wheelbarrows, wains were waiting, weighty with withered wood. Walter, warmly wrapped with Winifred's well-worn wadded waterproof, was wailing woefully, wholly wearied. Winnie, who, worn with watching, well-nigh weeping, was wistfully, wakefully waiting Willie's well-known whistle, wholly wished Walter's well-being warranted. With well-timed wisdom, Walter was wound with wide, worsted wrappers, which wonderfully well withstood winter's withering, whistling winds. Wholly without warm wrappers was Winifred, who, with womanly wisdom, was watching Walter's welfare, warding Walter's weakness. "When will Willie wend where we wait?" wearily wondered Walter. "Whist, Walter," whispered Winnie, "who was whooping?" "Whereabouts?" Welcome whistling was waking Wisbeach woods when winter's windy warfare waxed weaker. "Winnie! Walter!" Winifred's wakefulness was well-grounded. "We're well, Willie; we're where Winston's wagons wait." Without waiting, Willie was within Winston's woodwork walls. "Welcome, welcome, Willie." Winnie was weeping with weariness with watching Walter, weak with wayfaring. "Why Winnie! Wise, watchful, warm-hearted Winnie," Willie whispered wheedlingly. "We won't weep; Walter's well. What was Walter without Winnie?" Wholly wonderful was Winifred's well-timed womanly wisdom, which well warranted weakly Walter's welfare. Whenever wandering within Wisbeach woods with Winnie, Walter would whisper, "What was Walter without Winnie? Wise, watchful, warm-hearted Winnie!"

Good Luck!!

Week ahead...

Hi, Ramgopal, Murtuza and Sinoop are planning on a 4-day tour covering chidambaram, kumbakonam and pondicherry... I don't have holiday on friday.. However, am going home in the weekend - 4,5 and will be back on monday morning...