tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2263817674244870112012-02-16T20:57:24.856+05:30I guess the Title says it all, eh?[R]http://www.blogger.com/profile/09995066711442919594noreply@blogger.comBlogger251100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226381767424487011.post-88768062302114346722010-11-29T22:22:00.001+05:302010-11-29T22:29:12.615+05:30

When I first talked about the JnNURM low floor buses, i had mentioned some gripes. One of the major problem   I felt was the non availability of a useful and comprehensive schedule. I googled around a bit and this is all i got: http://aanavandi.wordpress.com/kochi-jnnurm-non-ac-timings/ http://www.ksrtcblog.com/2010/05/ksrtc-kochi-volvo-non-ac-low-floor-city.html http://jnnurmcochin.blogspot.com

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This is a test blog from my new N900 using 'mastaory'.As for what happened in my boring life these past few months...1 Completed project. Although ending was a huge mess.2 Course over. Everybody went different ways. Ashif & co to MDL, RVSS Rama and other navies to Mumbai and then Vizag. Jha to NK, Kashyap to Oshima, Japan, etc3 Got placed in CSL and joined on June 144 Visited Kuwait for a month.

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These last few months in CUSAT has been awesome. Epic Movies, Hilarious Sitcoms, AB Guys, designing the catamaran, last minute seminars, attendance shortages, time spend with great guys  (RVSS, Ashif, Rama, Kashyap, Jha), AC-low floor buses, imminent arrival of two more neice/nephews/combo, renovation of our house in Kollam, these and other things has made this semester one of most enjoyable few

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Today I had my first trip on one of the KSRTC low floor AC buses plying in Ernakulum. Overall I’m very happy and impressed about it.  Nice comfortable seating, smooth ride, good environment and Class. But, I hear that these buses are running currently at a loss due to lack of passengers. I think the reason for this is mainly because of lack of knowledge about the schedule of the buses. Apart

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No Blogging for the past month due to our Final year projects going on. My project is to design a catamaran. Right now, we’ve fixed our main dimensions and now we’re on to the lines plan stage. Those of my readers (all zero of them) who are alert may have noticed that in the last sentence, I’ve unconsciously moved from My to We. The reason is that although an individual project, I’m doing it

[R]http://www.blogger.com/profile/09995066711442919594noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226381767424487011.post-9135502503916029442009-11-16T20:24:00.004+05:302009-11-17T00:24:00.641+05:30

There are some books that you remember even after a long time. It may be because of some deep message or maybe because of the fun you in reading it or because it touched you in a way couldn't have predicted. This is about such a book: Penrod by Booth Tarkington This is not the funniest book I've read (no, that's the Hitchhiker's Trilogy) but it comes close. The book is about Penrod Schoefield

[R]http://www.blogger.com/profile/09995066711442919594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226381767424487011.post-39500288213862115342009-11-14T19:17:00.003+05:302009-11-16T20:24:07.207+05:30

Ignoring all the protests of my logic, I joined the bandwagon three days ago. And here's a travelogue of twitter. First of all, i've to say that I joined with a negative attitude. In fact my first tweet was "Why did I join this 140 character idiocy?". Anyway first few minutes was spend learning the basics:@somebody means I'm mentioning them; this is a public tweet, not a private message.D

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Warning: This is a long rambling post which meanders through the dungeons of my mind. The past one week was supposed to be our study holidays. But as usual, since there is more than 10 more days until next exams, I haven't done anything till now. I've been wasting my time sleeping, wandering and on the net. But in spite of the fact that I've been enjoying it immensely, on another plane,

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I live in Ernakulam city and I use Private Buses as primary means of transport. Now anybody living in Ernakulam for sometime will know about the speeding of the Private Buses here. The problem is that there are a large number of buses to cater to this highly populated city, and many routes have buses every 5 minutes (or lesser). Now as a result, there is a big chance for two of these buses to

[R]http://www.blogger.com/profile/09995066711442919594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226381767424487011.post-76488519819803612292009-11-07T22:51:00.003+05:302009-11-07T23:08:59.497+05:30

Yesterday night, I started reading somethings over the net and it scared me so shitless that I did not sleep till the sun came up. Damn. Let me explain what it was that I read and why it scared me.First off, I stumbled onto a site which have Top 10 lists, but unlike cracked.com, these lists were not all jokes. So, the first entry was top 10 missing people or something. The whole list had ppl who

[R]http://www.blogger.com/profile/09995066711442919594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226381767424487011.post-17767500447460348682009-10-28T21:20:00.001+05:302009-10-28T21:22:42.730+05:30

This is an article that I wrote with some help from my pal, RVSS in the Royalshippies.tk site. It tries to find a solution for the problem of plagarising, ie, submitting assignments taken directly from the online repository.Read on: Many a times, I've been asked about the problem of plagiarism aka "copy paste". Especially as this is a students portal and we have an online repository,

[R]http://www.blogger.com/profile/09995066711442919594noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226381767424487011.post-36266516117229974222009-10-24T22:36:00.002+05:302009-10-24T22:45:15.657+05:30

After that last post, I got to thinking how this can be achieved. Then, I have no idea how but I stumbled upon Joomla and Drupal. I've heard of these things before and had just ignored the whole CMS thing as nothing more than a blog manager.Anyway, a small research later, I settled on Joomla over Drupal and started on a hunt for a host that already has joomla installed and is providing free

[R]http://www.blogger.com/profile/09995066711442919594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226381767424487011.post-76676563472807057382009-10-21T18:18:00.003+05:302009-10-21T18:42:04.842+05:30

I'm talking about an online repository for Engineering Students, where we can upload all our assignments, seminars, etc. It's an absolute must. We need it. Why we need it?Obviously so that we can share information. For example, an assignment we submitted may contain info from different places compiled into a single document. This will be extremely useful for other students. Plagiarism is another

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Talentime 09' is over. But, this time, I'm very disappointed. The overall standard of this fest conducted by the SMSians of CUSAT have come down. In fact, I believe in my four years in CUSAT, This is the worst Talentime. Basically, there was very less fun. Usually, whether you're a participant or just part of the audience, you could enjoy very much. All the competitions were fun to take part in,

[R]http://www.blogger.com/profile/09995066711442919594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226381767424487011.post-79844935800057849012009-10-16T18:30:00.003+05:302009-10-18T20:58:06.958+05:30

Wow, its 10 months since I last wrote in this. Damn, I'm so lazy!This year's edition of talentime has started today. Having a blast but expecting more fun once the inaguration is over. Anyway, shout outs to Raminder Singh, Sanjay and Sharat for Awesome results in Radio DJ. Congrats Guys.We hope to make our upcoming anchorage into a similiar succes story. Expected timeline of success:Present : In

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One thing that I noticed in my 3 years in an engineering college is that the standard of the pass outs is extremely low. The fact of the matter is that the students are systematically converted into idiots over a course of four years. Especially here in CUSAT. Its more or less true for the colleges in the entire state of Kerala.My choesn branch of Naval Architecture witness the inflow of very

[R]http://www.blogger.com/profile/09995066711442919594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226381767424487011.post-35251978974819385162008-12-03T22:28:00.004+05:302008-12-03T22:46:45.644+05:30

Nokia has just unveiled their latest offering in the Nseries. It has caught my made me drool for quite a few reasons. So far I've preferred and used mostly Sony Ericsson P series phones. I did use the Nokia 6600 earlier and at that time it was the best smart phone out there with the awesome new s60. The number of apps available for it was also humongous. But for long after that there was little

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I'm basically a calm and composed guy. I don't usually get into fights or quarrels (expect in the case of my bro, that's different). But sometimes, I get really pissed off. Like today.I get pissed off when someone makes a mistake and then acts like its not their mistake but mine. I get even more pissed off when they use choice words to let me know that they don't give a ****. Its even more

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I've recently written about the horrific incidents which took place in Mumbai. After more than 60hours it is finally at an end. Now, we have the aftermaths of this incident to deal with. I believe the investigation will be fast and accurate this time, especially with the help of American and Israeli intelligence services. The Pakistan link for better or worse can be confirmed or denied on a

[R]http://www.blogger.com/profile/09995066711442919594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226381767424487011.post-43031823665316734002008-11-28T22:20:00.002+05:302008-11-28T22:23:05.172+05:30

This is really interesting. It's basically an analogy between the dangerous world of operating systems and the high seas. It really tickled me. Check it out.

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As I write this the Mumbai Terror attacks have been continuing for more than 40 hours leaving more than 155 people dead and many more in critical conditions. This is no doubt, a major trajedy of 21st century India. A trajedy in more than one way. A trajedy that the Indian Naval Forces or the Intelligence Agencies could not detect and prevent such a large scale attack. In the case of attacks

[R]http://www.blogger.com/profile/09995066711442919594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226381767424487011.post-78603709409937592402008-11-25T20:53:00.002+05:302008-11-25T21:34:06.916+05:30

MIT: One of the pioneersOpen Education Resources: A very good collection of materials from different universities.Wikipedia School: Topics are divided into sections like maths, history, etc. Helpful for school assignments and projects.OpenCourseWare ConsortiumOpen Text Books : Not a lot of books as yet but promisingCollege Open Text Books Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online

[R]http://www.blogger.com/profile/09995066711442919594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226381767424487011.post-74858627550105162912008-11-25T18:46:00.004+05:302008-11-25T20:44:07.420+05:30

As I said before, our exams are going on now. One of our exams was "Electrical Systems on board Ships". This was a subject taught by a guest lecturer and as a result even though the topics for the semester was covered, the real topics that were required for attempting the exam was not taught satisfactorily. We unfortunately came to know of this problem only a few days before the exam. (That was

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Wow, this is more than i expected. What i really expected is that my second blog would come along in a month.But this is like 4 months later! Wow! Anyway, During this time, I went to Kuwait for the Onam vacations. It was a blast!Recently my Computer got damaged during a particularly heavy rainstorm and thunder. It seems though my computer was disconnected from the main supply, My cable modem was

[R]http://www.blogger.com/profile/09995066711442919594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226381767424487011.post-88423694041114819772008-07-11T14:41:00.001+05:302008-07-11T15:50:37.988+05:30

Hello World! This is my first post. Though i have read a multitude of blogs and articles, and have (or thought i had) a number of topics I'd like to blog about, my first post keeps getting lost somewhere between the chair and the keyboard. Anyway, I'll just say somethings about me and quit while I'm ahead (or am I behind already?). My name is ...[R] for now. I live in South India. Doing my

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