I am unable to see 'friends page' beyond the recent 50 (25 at a time, two pages). Is this a new norm restricting access?

On Friday went to Nasik on invitation to inaugurate the CSI Student Chapter of ABT College of Engg (?). Used the time to explore a bit of Nasik. The chapter inauguration was good - well organised and executed. I was chief guest for the occassion. Gave a chief guest address asking the chapter to look at doing usedul things, than just looking at a ( Read more... )

Wishing you all a very happy new year, sharing this little poem. Written primarily for the students, but if you change, 'projects and quizzes' to whatever activities you have, then I guess it can work for all.

Look at the madness all around,
Ideas galore, sweet and smart,
Quizzes and projects shelved aside,
Hear only echoes of sports and art.

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Accidentally bumped in to check if LJ is still alive. For a long time, I used to see no one writing much here. Friends page would have just one or two messages in a week or two. So, gave up on LJ ( Read more... )

എല്ലാ മലയാളി കുട്ടികള്‍ക്കും എന്റെ വിഷു ആശംസകള്‍. നിങ്ങളുടെ ഈ വര്ഷം സുഖസമൃദ്ധം ആവട്ടെ! ഓര്‍ക്കുക വല്ലപ്പോഴും.

(if you cant read this, this message is not meant for you!)

Yes, we are looking for sponsorship for the NCOSS conference.

If you are working in a company that has significant open source activity, you could recommend to the Marketing/PR department to extend sponsorship to the conference. If interested, send me a mail or write to ncoss@cdacmumbai.in, and we will send you the details.

For a long time, I have been wanting to visit this temple at Virar - it seemed to be an interesting place, atop a fairly big hill. Finally, Manoj and I made the trip today morning. Left 7.00am from Kharghar, and returned by 4.30pm. Train to Virar, auto to the hill base, and then climb. There was no significant delay anywhere (but for the trains ( Read more... )

A while back, we had a campus visit from students of a nearby institute. The group consisted of students from first, second and third year MCA students - all at the end of the respective years. We did the usual programme of showing some of the projects we are working on with demos, etc ( Read more... )

This is not a compare and contrast post - but just two incidents relating to airlines ( Read more... )

One reason, I went for an iPOD was inspired by audio-learning. I am not much of a listening-to-film-songs person - though I dont mind a bit of it, and that too with "nice" songs. I found a lot of good 'reading material' on the net in audio format, and wondered about listening to such material when travelling, etc. Not that I was planning to ( Read more... )