Fireball

For the past one week, since the day Icame to cochin, the climate here is *really* bad. It has been raining cats and dogs continuously. We couldn’t go anywhere during these days. I have never been this frust because of a climate. Today, I got sick of watching TV and sitting inside the house for long time.

It rains heavily or atleast keeps drissling, but never ever does it go dry. It has been a week since i saw the sun I seriously miss the hot climate in tamil nadu! Atleast i could go out !

Waiting to leave this place (yeah, thats day after tomorrow, )

Here are the podcasts me and suren made at Podworks.

Shashikumar @ Podworks.in from Allagappan M and Vimeo.

Vivin Mathew at Podworks.in from Allagappan M and Vimeo.

**DISCLAIMER: This post wast typed on 100% frustration**

Today, after a long time I found a reliance web world to upload some podworks pics, write my cv and write a few posts on my blog about podworks. I couldn’t get a broadband connection at home, and dialup seriously sucks. So I chose reliance web world (Reliance web world because most of the topcoder competitions are held here)

The packs were quite expensive (100 Rs for 3 hours). Still i thought, it is worth for its bandwidth. When i was given a user id and password, i realised i was right. The bandwidth was amazing. But, *only* the bandwidth was amazing. Let me list out what made my type this post

1. There is no desktop. Some arbit crappish reliance webworld software which kills all your freedom. There is no Start button!
2. No Firefox
3. Even if you think of downloading and installing it somewhere, you are not even given access to unzip your file. In short, you are denied access to everything but for opening your browser window and to type in the keyboard given
4. Even you cant open a new window in iexplore. you are denied access!!
5. Orkut is banned. I guess they are some shivsena supporters or there is some i hate rworld community there.
6. Everytime you have to open a new window you have to alt-tab and go to that crap home of rworld and press on the broadband surfing button.
7. You can’t use a usb directly. They’ll copy all your usb to some common share and you are supposed to access from it. Even others may access it!

The crappy home (Do zoom in and see how crap it is)

I wasted my 100 bucks on it. So, do go to your neighbourhood browsing centre, it is far more better. They give you good bandwidth and freedom. Don’t go for brand name and get fooled like me! Comments welcome!

Pongi gave me some tips (open word, and then file-open and type c:\ in the filename) but still, it sux for a rworld - beginner like me!
PS: I’ll keep updating this post till i leave this centre

After 4 long years of engineering, today we had our comprehensive viva. Though the viva partly covered tech, it was quite interesting. Worst of all, we had classes for comprehensive viva. I managed to convert the class into a documentary class, where in we played some extreme engineering video for the faculties to watch, and we slept off in the last rows.

PS:I recorded the whole Compreviva using surs’ mobile

Prabhukrish has this really good column “He-She” . Checkout, weightu!

I heard he is going to stop after 50.Hope he continues

PS: You need to know tamil.