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an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally</i>The Analysthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16670286446565763789noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452013533731619539.post-85045754934412395832012-10-17T23:24:00.001+05:302012-10-17T23:37:49.742+05:30So it has come to this ...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It has been nearly an year since I posted something, other than my <i><a href="http://istheurlavailable.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">one true follower</a>, </i>others must know that radical changes have taken place in the Life & Times of yours truly, for one I'm not in college anymore, a graduand now, as Wikipedia puts it. My culinary options are not restricted to <i>Gobi Manchurian* </i>anymore. In the past year life has been partly nomadic. I have relocated about 7 times in the past 7 months in Bangalore and I'm actually working now, like for real. Of course this does not explain why the 2 year sabbatical from blogger. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Originally this post was meant to be an elegy to blogger, I thought of kicking blogger and
moving to something else, posterous, tumbler, Wordpress. Well at the moment though that might be unlikely, (and blogger has undergone a <i>lot </i>of changes since I last posted). I promise I'll update something soon.</span><br />
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* Gobi Manchurian: A dish served from kitchens of Isengrad which consists mostly of questionably coloured vegetables & cauliflower bathed in oil </div>
The Analysthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16670286446565763789noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452013533731619539.post-67527899642106743812010-12-24T03:11:00.004+05:302012-10-18T00:44:10.119+05:30The end of an era (The R-day Chronicle)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have been trying to post for a long time now. So this post is just to break the silence, and hopefully paves way for better posts in the future. I will, in this post present a hyperbole version of the registration process at my college which is a fascinating test of one's patience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <strike>Yesterday</strike> 2-3 days ago the registration for my last semester at college was complete.Our college has a registration process, which increases in its complexity and an obvious increase in waiting time every year. There is also an increase in paperwork, which in this computer era, one would expect to decrease. However we are not done with just paperwork, the little on line part in the registration process, presents a problem in form of overloaded college servers which were carefully designed a long time ago with no consideration on the possibility of an increased intake in the future.There are also some 3-4 queues one has to wait/break in order to get all the formalities done. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On the R-day (which marks an individual's victory over the well designed administrative procedure at college), I got up early, to conquer the queues and thus saving myself from the unlawful wastage of time, though it is something that I do in front of my computer where it seems strangely justified. This time there was a different problem though, I had to change my elective course because the guy who takes down all the notes had changed his. 7 semesters of almost no note-taking means it is easier to switch an elective course and go through a longer registration procedure rather than listening every class, where yd great lengths of time could be spent dozing off. Strangely I find that in courses where I sleep a lot I perform better than the ones which I listen too. Probably my subconscious mind has better attention capacity than the conscious mind, where I am generally too lazy to think of a solution. On the R-day, there were 2 long queues to go before the last registration finally gets done.(I had completed the others much ahead of time saving me from the last time rush) The first one was for getting a token number issued for the second queue (supposedly purposely as the whole point of a token issue is to avoid a queue) which kind of determines how long you would have to wait. However the wait wasn't as antagonising as expected because the second queue wasn't monitored all that well, well they never checked the tokens numbers issued, so it meant a free entry whenever someone didn't show up. I got in about 100 numbers early, and thus on 12pm, December 27th the last administrative formality at my college was complete. There are still tales left to narrate on the copious amount of time spent just to get a signature on the identity card. Looking back the registration procedure is probably a small challenge one has to go through in order to counter the bigger ones during the semester. I guess I should stop writing here, it is 3 am, nothing good happens when you blog after 2 am...</span></div>
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The Analysthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16670286446565763789noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452013533731619539.post-79181506479054113002010-07-14T10:04:00.003+05:302010-07-15T09:19:30.752+05:30Procrastination 101 : A prelude<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlBV_36c36LVAwOHBE7BzitTaXOXU9Xs8aoBCPuRC1zhJ5qSkv7pMih0qKw3TOIa1_Ndxd_Sc6y5qC_tUcVJfF2wAcZ7opGse75GRi82jndrx3GgPqnyPR4KXt8rcHd_XuerV7dzPodrkx/s1600/procrastination.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="435" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlBV_36c36LVAwOHBE7BzitTaXOXU9Xs8aoBCPuRC1zhJ5qSkv7pMih0qKw3TOIa1_Ndxd_Sc6y5qC_tUcVJfF2wAcZ7opGse75GRi82jndrx3GgPqnyPR4KXt8rcHd_XuerV7dzPodrkx/s640/procrastination.png" width="640" /></a></div><br />
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For more details read the course <a href="http://theanalystquotes.blogspot.com/2010/02/later.html">Procrastination 101 here</a><br />
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I have to re-quote Stephenie Meyer again here, I am the most creative when I procrastinate.<br />
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Wednesdays are meant to be wordless in blogosphere, so I am stopping my post here.The Analysthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16670286446565763789noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452013533731619539.post-88227196859021784672010-07-09T16:21:00.005+05:302010-12-24T11:57:27.648+05:30A Versatile TagAmbiguous Geek at <a href="http://lizardspockexpansion.blogspot.com/">lizardspockexpansion.blogspot.com</a> gave me this award. Apparently I am very versatile as the award says.<br />
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Having said that, awards/tags in blogosphere in general come with stringent conditions to promote narcissism, which if not followed might lead to one being expelled from the blogosphere. It is the blogosphere way of forwarding messages that say pass this on to 15 people or very bad luck may fall on you. This award comes with a condition that you must mention 7 random things about yourself and also pass this on to 15 other versatile bloggers.I have already done the 7 tag <a href="http://theanalystquotes.blogspot.com/2010/03/fourth-reich-aka-tag-post.html">here</a> and I don't want to reveal the narcissistic contents of I, me, myself once again.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now for the tag, Varsh at <a href="http://varshabagadia.blogspot.com/">Food for though</a>t, tagged me with an interesting tag called 'My Sins against Gender-Stereotypes' wherein you are to list 10 or more things you have ever wanted or done which your gender is not supposed to and tag atleast twelve blogging friends to do the same. You have to be truthful as far as possible and as far as Blogosphere goes, <i>Et fictum fit factum</i> (True Lies?) </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">1. I read the entire Twilight series and that if anything constitutes as a sin against gender stereotype, a sin against literature rather. Reading New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn is what one would call an ordeal. btw check out my post on twilight <a href="http://theanalystquotes.blogspot.com/2010/06/new-moon-eclipses-breaking-dawn.html">here</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">2. I am a big fan of female fronted metal/ symphonic metal and almost nobody I know of (in person that is) ever heard of or listen to the bands I listen to.(Epica, NW, WT, LC fans anybody?) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsCQh53EWofemi0Qwht6HS_s6VqeM9-8l7FHMZeNDVHypYw3cKvbME74kp4j9shkKkZfwW65B829enXtsN_wpe4n-fKhVFwx-dh6iTsjYZpymVyXKqknsXqZHEIb_k7JDcEDACtaRSzqCC/s1600/task1.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsCQh53EWofemi0Qwht6HS_s6VqeM9-8l7FHMZeNDVHypYw3cKvbME74kp4j9shkKkZfwW65B829enXtsN_wpe4n-fKhVFwx-dh6iTsjYZpymVyXKqknsXqZHEIb_k7JDcEDACtaRSzqCC/s200/task1.png" width="200" /></a></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">4.I am an expert chef. In fact I plan to publish a book called ' Chow-a-ton: My failed attempts at making instant noodles' </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">5.I am flimsy with things involving a lot of dexterity. I am flimsy with stuff in general.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">6. I am really scared of spiders, eight legged freaks meant to scare people.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">7. I love day dreaming. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">8. I watched over 25 chick flicks over the last three years (excluding bollywood where overly cliched chick flicks are the preffered genre) However it is only a small percentage of the total number of movies I watched over the last three years (250 and still counting, how is that for waste of time), now you guys know how I procrastinate.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">9. I hate oranges and synthetic Orange juice duplicates and the fact is I hated orange juice even when I was a child. I know this doesn't count as a sin against gender stereotypes, more of a sin against humanity, I guess. As they say, Old loves, they die hard .</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">10.I suck at making lists which ask for people's strengths or weaknesses</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Of all my sins against gender stereotypes, the one that strikes me as the worst is making this list of sins against gender stereotypes. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And now the award as well as the tag of my crimes against gender stereotypes goes to: </div><div style="text-align: justify;">1. the meek kaiser at<a href="http://themeekkaiser.blogspot.com/"> I solemnly swear I am up to no good</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">2. g2 at <a href="http://gtoosphere.blogspot.com/">gtoosphere</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">3. Journomuse at <a href="http://wordysketches.blogspot.com/">Wordy Sketches</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">4. Judy Balan at <a href="http://quipsovercoffee.blogspot.com/">I bullshit because I can</a> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">5. Nish at <a href="http://totalgadha.com/tgtown/loser/">loosely a loser </a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">6. Nalini Hebbar at <a href="http://nalinihebbar-poetry.blogspot.com/">Open Mind</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">7.Purba at <a href="http://purba-ray.blogspot.com/">A-musing</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">8.Sweta at the<a href="http://disapearingcaravan.blogspot.com/"> dissapearing caravan</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">9.tbr at <a href="http://tbr-tangential.blogspot.com/">tbr-tangential</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">10. Tiffany at <a href="http://stylishchatterboxing.blogspot.com/">stylish chatterboxing</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">11. Kate at <a href="http://www.beatupboots.com/">Beat up Boots</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">12. Kris at <a href="http://becauseorwhynot.blogspot.com/">Because or Why Not</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">13. Andrew at <a href="http://whataboutfreewill.blogspot.com/">What about free will</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">14. Deepti Richa at <a href="http://laafatlife.wordpress.com/">Laaf at life </a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">15. Risha at<a href="http://epitaphforaheart.wordpress.com/"> You can read me anything</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And thanks Varsh for the tag and A. geek for the award. Consider yourself tagged and/or awarded</div><div style="text-align: justify;">P.S The unedited version of the versatile blogger award is <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5jFV8Cbjv2o/TCk12VvxeaI/AAAAAAAAADQ/fGjKqwphUdE/s1600/versatile-bloggeraward.jpg">here</a>. The image edit was just a futile attempt at image manipulation.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">P.P.S Due respects to Epica and their album <i>The Divine Conspiracy</i>, and the Nightwish album <i>Once</i> where I took most of the one liners for the posts and the latin.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">1. Vampires are described in a complete way by various combinations of <i>"beauty"</i>, <i>"perfect"</i>, <i>"graceful"</i>, <i>"dazzling"</i> etc. In fact if we were to cut out these adjectives, the vampires in Twilight series wouldn't exist.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">2. Contrary to what SM mentioned in the first book or so, talented vampires are very <i>very</i> common as is proved in Breaking Dawn. In fact you could be the most powerful vampire if your most powerful skill is being depressed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">3. If you're entangled in a love triangle of some sort and you don't get the girl; don't worry, just hang around till your (ex)lover has a kid, there is a very real possibility that you might fall into love with the baby. Ms. Meyer found a once and for all solution for ending a love triangle that spanned over two entire fully blown Twilight novels with this idea.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">4. 700 pages of Breaking Dawn goes in the buildup of a Vampire War that never takes place. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">5. SM does put a lot of research in to her works. Biologists might feel offended by the fact that Werewolves have 24 chromosomes (while Google search reveals otherwise; apes might as well be their distant cousins for all we know) and the fact that an average of chromosome pairs are produced in the progeny (Seriously isn't gene theory that simple?).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">6. Contrary to popular claims; <i>Twi-light</i> does NOT mean <i>light in Twitter</i>, in fact if anything it refers to the darkness plaguing the Internet forums of late.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">7.Bella is an ordinary girl, your average girl next door, and she does not deserve some perfect vampire, over 1000 pages or three and a half novels of the Twilight series revolve around this one core idea.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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P.P.S No offense is intended to anyone by means of this post.It is just meant as a fun way of looking at things</div>The Analysthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16670286446565763789noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452013533731619539.post-76171661616949336002010-06-08T08:26:00.007+05:302010-06-11T10:09:38.449+05:30Mind Your Language (Part 2: The Desi Version)It has been over a month since my vacation started and my new friends Boredom and Sleep deserted me leading me to make this post. When it comes to English, Indians add their own unique flavor to it, just like Manchurian which doesn't have anything Chinese in it except may be its name.(For people who don't know what <i>Manchurian</i> is, it is a gourmet specialty offered in most Indian restaurants under the Chinese category, while it has nothing remotely Chinese in it. It can be roughly described as a main course of oil, with a modest combination of cauliflower and garlic on the side.) While my style of posting has become cliched of late, it is something that you have to contend with when my friend boredom deserts me.<br />
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</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Give an Exam</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Teachers give exams to students, but in India, it is somewhat the other way around. Here students <i>give </i>exams (to teachers?).It is because we have a very strong give and take policy here. The validity of the above statement can be proved from the following statements : </div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">Students <i>take</i> knowledge from teacher, they <i>give</i> it back in examinations. </div>Thus students <i>give</i> exams. </blockquote><div style="text-align: right;"> (Q.E.D)<br />
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P.S On an entirely different note you might want to read the first part of Mind Your Language <a href="http://theanalystquotes.blogspot.com/2009/09/harveys-law-explained.html">here</a>.<br />
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As a blog grows <strike>most</strike> some bloggers find difficulty in penning down quality content. As far as blogging goes most bloggers still maintain that content is king, which is why we see most bloggers bringing out quality content like this blog right <a href="http://theanalystquotes.blogspot.com/">here</a>. ;) This is the main focus of this edition of Blogcode. <br />
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<b>Article 1: Lists Tags and other <i>random</i> stuff</b><br />
If you're out of content to write, then lists provide an excellent getaway. Not any moron can write a list you know. Common lists include top 5/10/25/100 movies/ movie dialogues/ soaps/ other trivial matter that everybody cares... If you're too narcissistic then you could go about making an about me list as well since blogger does put a 1500 word limit on your about me column, you could enhance it with things I like/ hate/ don't care list. Almost all lists have a superlative label about them like the <i>best</i> movie dialogues or the <i>best</i> food I ate or something on a similar note . We live in an era of superlatives where every advertised product claims the best in its genre, since superlatives are overused in this era, people also go about extravagantly exaggerating things, we see phrases like <i>very</i> unique or <i>most</i> excellent or extremely brilliant being used.<br />
Tagging is a random act of kindness in blogosphere where you get to nominate bloggers other than yourself to write lists of important issues concerning the world. Almost anybody can begin the tag chain and number of bloggers tagged should grow exponentially unless someone decides otherwise.<br />
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<b>Article 2: The Writers Block</b><br />
Whether you have it or not writer's block gives you a one-time pass for writing a content less post in blogosphere. Use it carefully and do not abuse<i> the writer's block</i>, Bloggers Anonymous (B.A) was formed for this very purpose. For claiming the writer's block however, you should have a decent number of followers and you should have posted at least a double digit number of posts otherwise you'll end up sounding stupid. (I've been there, tried claiming writer's block with about 2 followers both of whom were my friends who ultimately asked why blog when you have the writer's block, so you see the timing of making a claim such as the writer's block is really <i>really</i> important).<br />
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A new phenomenon that has surfaced in this context is the <a href="http://quipsovercoffee.blogspot.com/2010/04/help-me-i-have-writers-clock.html">writer's clock</a>, which <a href="http://quipsovercoffee.blogspot.com/">Judy Balan</a> gracefully describes as an illness gripping writers where difficulty is encountered in bringing out reader friendly content by beating the clock. <br />
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<b>Article 3: The Awards Galore</b><br />
Awards are an excellent way to gain followers and the much needed love in Blogosphere. A blogger award could vary from something lifted off from google image search/ someone else's blog to skillfully edited images. Awarding is also sometimes a more refined form of tagging, where the greatest of the minds in blogosphere get recogonised for their contributions. Since most of the blogosphere believes in returning a favour, you are very likely to get one back when you give one.<br />
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March 24-27th marked the annual cultural festival of our college, Ragam 2010.This year's Ragam included shows from KK, Naresh Iyer and a UK based Iron Maiden tribute band Higher on Maiden.<br />
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KK rocked the floor on day1 ending the night on a high with his personal best " Koi Kahe". Naresh Iyer's performance had something in it for everybody. He nearly covered all south Indian languages besides performing the usual bollywood hits. However stage acoustics were bit of a bother on day2 and the sound engineer and the routine sound checks took away a major chunk of time. Day 2 also featured choreo nite which set the dance floor for those who knew to rock the stage. <br />
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Day 3 was a head banger's paradise with the UK based higher on maiden taking the stage. This day also featured the fashion show, Couture Boulevard (which strangely, no one knew how to pronounce) Since our cultural festival essentially followed the same pattern over the years, the crowd attending the rock show can be widely classified into three<br />
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<blockquote>Head-bangers type-I: True metal heads, in this case true maiden fans, they know which song is being played, which album it comes from and all related stuff.<br />
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Head-bangers type-II: Pseudo metal heads, not true rock fans but they do want to appear cool in front of everybody, thus the head banging.<br />
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Non headbangers: People who watched from a distance away from the scene of action. A major section also included people who came for fashion show instead, just waiting for the rock band's gig to get over.</blockquote><br />
Almost every night ended with the artists saying the unavoidable cliché that this was the best crowd ever. Of course we don't know if they actually meant it, but it has become a routine in stage shows of late.<br />
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The third day of Ragam ended with the fashion show. The number of teams were relatively lesser this time, probably the timing was not right considering that most colleges had their university exams this time around. With the college director doing the final honours, this edition of Ragam came to a close, adding more colourful memories of college life with it. I knew for a fact now that how much ever I criticise my college, one day I will end up missing it.The Analysthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16670286446565763789noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452013533731619539.post-20316406559143986682010-03-16T16:35:00.012+05:302010-04-18T14:00:25.512+05:30The Fourth Reich (a.k.a the tag post)<div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Tagging</b> <i>v</i>. A gripping game played in the Blogosphere where bloggers link with each other for no apparent reason. From <i>The International dictionary of Blogosphere.</i></div><br />
Recently I've been tagged by <a href="http://therestlessquill.blogspot.com/">The Restless Quill</a>. In fact, I received a message whose contents were the following.<br />
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<blockquote>Dear fellow blogger, </blockquote><blockquote>You have been invited to join an ominous cabal of bloggers who wish to pass their time by tagging each other. The encumbrance of this task lies upon you to continue this revered tradition of tagging 7 people in blogosphere. We are in the process of creating the fourth Reich in blogosphere, so tag along.</blockquote><blockquote>Regards</blockquote><blockquote>The Oracle </blockquote>It didn't look like I had an option otherwise. I finally decided to join the tagging bandwagon and hence this post.<br />
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<u><b>Rules</b></u><br />
<b>Reveal 7 random things about yourself.</b><br />
1) You have to tag 7 people.<br />
2) You have to link their pages in your tag post<br />
3) You have to leave a comment in their comments section telling them they've been tagged.<br />
4) You have to say who tagged you.<br />
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As a creator's tribute you might have to copy paste these 4 rules on your blog enforcing the tag on innocent bloggers who visit your post. Also note that you should reveal <i>random</i> things about yourself.By tagging 7 people you are in process of creating a cult of bloggers thus forming the <i>fourth Reich</i> in the empire of Blogosphere.<br />
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So here goes the <i>random confessions...</i><br />
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1. I'm a narcissist. I authored a book called <i>I, me, myself: the tales of a narcissist</i> and ended up not publishing it because I thought I should be the only one reading it. I also authored the <a href="http://theanalystquotes.blogspot.com/2009/09/blogcode-20.html">Blogcode</a> which is an incomplete set of documented rules governing the blogosphere.<br />
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2.<span style="font-size: small;">I believe that everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">(With due respects to Scott Fitzgerald and the Great Gadsby)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">3.I'm no grammar nazi, but I prefer to atleast do justice to this language rather than eating letters of words. I sincerely believe that the Shakespearean version of Romeo and Juliet sounds better than the neo-lingual version</span><br />
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Juliet- (ROFL) dude u rock.Oh no,dad cming, TTYL.</blockquote>All credits to <a href="http://theanalystquotes.blogspot.com/2009/09/harveys-law-explained.html?showComment=1253450833107#c5892447786045612776">Damu</a> for this comment.<br />
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4. I am still a pariah at social networking though many of my posts have been pertaining to it. I am still to get my footing firm on twitter, I don't seriously believe tweeting what I had for lunch makes sense, may be twitterati read <a href="http://theanalystquotes.blogspot.com/2010/01/tweet-tweet-i-thought-i-taw-putty-tat.html">my post on twitter.</a><br />
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5. I've been well trained in the graceful art of plagiarising assignments and delaying things to the end. In fact, this free skill training package was activated upon joining college (engineering in particular). <br />
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6.I am a heavy caffeine addict, since my college mess's coffee standards are comparable to mucky water a major deal of my pocket expenses go towards the the coffee fund.<br />
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7.I can write vivaciously verbose posts with absolutely no content in them. I believe the readers of my blog are well aware of this. Thank you for the visit :) <br />
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Now the <b>tags</b> go to <br />
1. Damu of<span id="goog_684411944"></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_684411943"> </a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/">Random Rants of a Raving Raconteur</a><span id="goog_684411945"></span>,a fellow vegan, my best friend and a follower of yours truly's blog ever since its inception.<br />
2. mK of <a href="http://themeekkaiser.blogspot.com/">http://themeekkaiser.blogspot.com/</a>, who shall justify the relevance of this post-title.<br />
3. Laafatlife at <a href="http://laafatlife.wordpress.com/">http://laafatlife.wordpress.com/</a> , visit with caution; high humour content<br />
4. Journomuse of the blog <a href="http://wordysketches.blogspot.com/">Word Sketches</a> , a blog which paints word sketches of top quality. Kind of blog that justifies that the pen can pull off better works than the paintbrush.<br />
5.Lazy pineapple of <a href="http://www.lazypineapple.com/">http://www.lazypineapple.com/</a>, a humour blog that is addictive to read<br />
6.Varsh at <a href="http://varshabagadia.blogspot.com/">Food For thought</a> a constantly updated blog with a variety of subjects<br />
7.<a href="http://totalgadha.com/tgtown/loser/">Nish</a> , whose blog is fun to read...<br />
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Join the cult, tag along.<br />
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P.S : Most of the work in this blog is purely a figment of my imagination. <br />
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<i></i>The Analysthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16670286446565763789noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452013533731619539.post-52650864001786096012010-02-12T16:50:00.042+05:302010-06-27T10:30:24.152+05:30Tomorrow Never Dies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsCQh53EWofemi0Qwht6HS_s6VqeM9-8l7FHMZeNDVHypYw3cKvbME74kp4j9shkKkZfwW65B829enXtsN_wpe4n-fKhVFwx-dh6iTsjYZpymVyXKqknsXqZHEIb_k7JDcEDACtaRSzqCC/s1600/task1.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsCQh53EWofemi0Qwht6HS_s6VqeM9-8l7FHMZeNDVHypYw3cKvbME74kp4j9shkKkZfwW65B829enXtsN_wpe4n-fKhVFwx-dh6iTsjYZpymVyXKqknsXqZHEIb_k7JDcEDACtaRSzqCC/s200/task1.png" width="200" /></a></div>Since I have been a proponent in the ancient art of delaying things, I thought I might very well design a course for it after having seen and slept through various courses in college. This is a rough draft of how a course plan on this art form would look like: <br />
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<i>For all those who worship laziness this is my tribute </i><br />
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<u><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Procrastination 101</b></span></u><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Course Code : </span></b><span style="font-size: small;">Dilly Dally 101- D101D </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">[ in the land of palindrome-speak, loosely translated - language called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayalam_language"><i>malayalam</i></a>, the author wishes to acknowledge his obsession with palindromes with an innovative course code]</span><b> </b></span><br />
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<b>Prerequisites</b> : Laziness (the inherent sixth sense in most people, at least in my college)<br />
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<i>Later</i> is a period of infinite span in the Procrastination dictionary it may range anywhere between few hours later to, um...well until death.<br />
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<i>Soon</i> in the Procrastination dictionary refers to a period somewhere in the near future just before the deadline.<br />
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<ul><li>Details regarding the course plan shall be put up <i>soon</i></li>
<li>Students attending this course should fill out the registration form and register sometime <i>later.</i></li>
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<b><u>Module 1:</u> </b>Procrastination through history, Procrastination through ages, the essential procrastination vocabulary- Later, Eventually, I'm busy right now, Let's see , There is nothing wrong with the way it is now..,<i>New additions -aal</i> <i>izz well</i>, the act of forgetting due dates, submissions<br />
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<b><u>Module 2:</u> </b>Procrastination in modern age : Internet- a procrastinator's paradise, the tools for procrastination- Social Networking- facebook - the art of spamming other's walls, orkut, the most gripping form of procrastination yet-twittcrastination - procrastination enabled by twitter, Other addictive tools - PSP, blogging, free messaging services (subject to service availability, applies to college students only), Playstation, DOTA<br />
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Update: The newest avatar of Procrastination yet: Google Buzz, Ladies and Gentlemen, take a bow <br />
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<u><b>Module 3:</b></u> Common phrases used in the eleventh hour, <i>Damn it!</i> - the essential addition to the procrastination vocabulary, list of things/tools/objects that you could throw around yelling <i>damn it! </i>, Probability of the fact that the object thrown = object needed, frustration, the act of yelling at everything to melt down your frustration<br />
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<u><b>Module 4:</b></u> Fake words used to prevent procrastination - <i>just do it</i> (courtesy of nike, probably), Widespread applications - the ease of break ups due to procrastination, improving skills at plagiarising assignments, homeworks, stress time skills - the art of creating presentations on the night before the deadline<br />
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List of Textbooks and References to be published soon.<br />
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<b>Famous Quotations</b>:<br />
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I took Procrastination 101 in college and the teacher would walk in everyday and say, "Yeah! We'll do something tomorrow"<br />
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-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Peters">Russell Peters</a> in <i><span style="font-weight: bold;">Show me the funny</span></i><br />
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P.S : I had a plan to post the above blogpost a lot earlier, sorry for the inevitable delay due to twittcrastination<br />
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P.P.S: I know this tests your patience, but stating the mandatory disclaimer- No offence is intended to any individual(s) or organisation by the means of this post<br />
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P.P.S : Recently I've been diagnosed with HCD (the Human Commento -Deficiency) Virus, (a variant of desperate attention seeker virus, in non medical terms) To cure me of this illness please leave a comment, I shall be eternally grateful.The Analysthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16670286446565763789noreply@blogger.com48tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452013533731619539.post-38576061309106803622010-02-09T16:20:00.005+05:302010-02-13T20:46:28.031+05:30The National Pride<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh77ad1fY1JhuTss0xXtMoP6QzkXBhcirK13UeKNFO96mSXCZKhTWXT1s98k20QcE5vTil548ApxOyLsJhGwBGm_0sYUcpcEHekMQLIhyphenhyphenwQK473BiCAUHapYjQDDqfsMvYEqxuAG8-bYpQG/s1600-h/Tiger-blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh77ad1fY1JhuTss0xXtMoP6QzkXBhcirK13UeKNFO96mSXCZKhTWXT1s98k20QcE5vTil548ApxOyLsJhGwBGm_0sYUcpcEHekMQLIhyphenhyphenwQK473BiCAUHapYjQDDqfsMvYEqxuAG8-bYpQG/s320/Tiger-blog.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>(Image courtesy of <a href="http://saveourtigers.com/">www.saveourtigers.com</a> )<br />
I came across this piece on the Internet and this news shocked me.It brought back memories of a certain Crocodile Park in Chennai, which housed a box containing the most feared creature in the world, if you do open the box you would be shocked to find your face there, a reflection, of things that have threatened almost any species of creatures in the wild. We have only 1411 tigers left, a beast which is our national animal and so majestic to look at and we have ourselves to blame. Poaching and habitat destruction has taken its toll and if we don't do anything now, we are in danger of losing the majestic tiger forever. <br />
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Primary cause of loss of tiger's population is habitat destruction. However the most saddening cause of tiger's dwindling population is due to poaching, the so called medicinal demand for tigers parts for traditional Chinese medicine and the well networked black market of poachers. The so called traditional medicine isn't still approved by research.<br />
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Use of tiger skin is the worst kind of abuse you can do to this majestic animal. What kind of fashion statement does wearing a dead animal skin make? The so called animal skin coats are just a "glamour" addition rather than a utility. A glamour with an ugly truth attached to it. It is this poaching that we must stop immediately and this can only happen if the demand reduces. <br />
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Presently there are plans to set up more tiger reserves, and this latest census is the last wake up call, a last glimmer of hope to save this animal which is an Indian pride. There is an urgent need to stop the blame game and take a real course of action. Most people would defer using animal products if the right awareness is created. The image of stripey the club is still one of the most shocking images that can make you hit reality about the numbers. We don't want the national animal to end up in the same state as Dodo. There is still a glimmer of hope left. So do your bit, popularise in any way you can that our national animal is on the verge of bidding its final adieu to the world an only we can do something to stop it. Fight for the cause, become the change.<br />
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P.S Please join the campaign <a href="http://saveourtigers.com/">www.saveourtigers.com</a><br />
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Disclaimer: Contents of this post may be deemed as offensive and improper by many of the virtual community, stop reading here after you have read this post, others continue reading. <br />
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The process of miniaturising has always fascinated mankind and and blogging found its new avatar in form of microblogs and thus begins the tale of twitter. Twitter is a site that prompts you to tell what you're doing now (if you can do that in 140 characters or less ). 'Bigger is Better' is a thing of the past 'Small is beautiful' is the catchphrase now. Guiding you through this post will be sylvester whose intimate association with tweets makes him one of the pioneers of this subject.The following is the post as describedby sylvester while solving the tweety mystery.<br />
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<b>The Origin</b>: If we reverse the word twitter we get retwit which on applying Robert Langdon algorithm splits it into re -tweet which is one of the commonest activities in twitter, if you can't find something to tweet you can always retweet what others tweet. Other facts include the second most used word in twitter is "I", which probably means people are mostly interested in offering subjective opinions on matters of world concern.Some skeptics though are of the opinion that twitter is the best site around, <s> to promote narcissism </s><br />
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Just like nissin's cup noodles revolutionised the concept of fast food, blogging never found a faster way than this. If you still haven't created an account in any of the microblogging sites, create one immediately as the world is waiting to know your status. Update your status as regularly as possible, so the next time when total strangers your friends logon to their accounts they will see only your updates, imagine the popularity boost you get by doing this. As is found in the website you can update your status with anything, so you can always update with say “had breakfast in the morning” , “woke up late” . 2 tweets already for starts.<br />
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<s>Follow every random profile you click at</s>. Always sign of tweeting leaving twitter. Now this will add an additional tweet to the already interesting things you have tweeted so far. As the International journal on twitosphere reveals 10% of the people are responsible for about 90% of volume of tweets on twitter. Joining that glamourous group would be a privilege.<br />
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Learn the twitter jargon or twargon as the twitterati suggests (twiterrati .n : a list of twitterers, whatever that means , from the twictionary, the twitter dicitonary.<br />
Make tw key your friend. Use it like water, preciously.<br />
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<u><b>Twargon</b></u><br />
While in twitter do as the <i>tweeple</i> do, is the principle behind tweeting in twitter. The essential twitter jargon (<i>twivernacular</i> was banned due to the amount of characters it consumed) consists of adding twi prefix before anything.The origin of this probably attributes to the fact that tweety being a bird couldn't pronounce everything clearly as she was affected by the T virus. A modified Twi virus started affecting human beings and thus was born the land of twitosphere. A <i>twutopia</i> of infinite possibilities. Here we explore the common ones, though fully understanding how, where and why to use them is a question of great difficulty to answer. The following is an excerpt from the <i>International dictionary of twitosphere</i>.<br />
<b>tweeple</b>:People in twitter <br />
<b>tweet-dropping</b>: eavesdropping on someone else’s home page in friends mode. This is how people get famous on twitter, since most people do not block their profile it is relatively easy to tweet-drop on others conversation.<br />
<b>tweetsult</b>: Insult in twitter, as experts say this greatly diminishes the magnitude of insult as it is cut down to a limit of 140 characters or fewer. <br />
<b>tweetup</b>: when twitterers meet in person – a Twitter meet up. This is one twitter jargon (twargon) that messes up the whole concept of english language, since nearly everybody you know might be a tweeter, every time you meet a person you're tweeting up, whatever that means.<br />
<b>twittcrastination</b>: avoiding action while twittering, procrastination enabled by Twitter use.The act of procrastinating never found a better reason than this.<br />
<b>twitteritas</b>: women who play with their twitters. Twitter is an excellent place for a twidates where every conversation is only 140 characters long, this also greatly helps in tweak-ups which are break ups in twitter.(word still pending approval in the twitterati, thought tweeting it might solve the problem) <br />
<b>twitterness</b>: a person’s contribution to the twitosphere. <br />
<b>twilliteration</b>: (To be official soon, tweet this to attain popularity of this term)Alliteration in twitter. eg.<br />
How many tweets could the tweety bird tweet if a tweety bird could tweet tweets?(Not exactly a tongue twister but the answer is 17, I happen to be an expert on this)<br />
<i>tweeted by John tweets using birdfeeder</i><br />
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<b>FAQs</b><br />
Doesn't prefixing characters to an already constrained character limit sound nonsense? <br />
Learning twargon is essential for survival in twitter, about the word limit, one can always cut down the letters in most english words, we don't have to post according to the grammatic rules of english language, should we?<br />
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Ted: Another popular technique is the use of ellipses which is a commonplace in social networking, this gives a sense of an incomplete feel...<br />
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Robin: But..................um........<br />
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<b>References</b><br />
[1] '<i>Proceedings on the international tweetup on twitter</i>', tweeted by twitterati<br />
[2] How to prefix tw before anything,<i> the twictionary</i><br />
[3] <i>'How I met your mother?</i>' by Ted <br />
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P.S :This post stops here, please don't twispam me...<br />
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P.P.S:This style of posting is getting too cliche'd, will stop soon. Also due to the vast amount of new words in the twictionary the spellcheck had to be disabled.<br />
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P.P.P.S:If you really like this post and a user of twitter, tweet this post, otherwise create an account and then tweet this post. <br />
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P.P.P.P.S:This is one P.S too much, I know, the actual post ends here.The Analysthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16670286446565763789noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452013533731619539.post-79022846933034029332009-12-28T03:03:00.014+05:302010-02-14T11:17:44.199+05:30The Taming of the Shrew<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><blockquote><u>Recrudescence</u> :<i> noun;</i> Return of a blogger after a period of abatement, from the <i>International Dictionary of Blogosphere*.</i></blockquote>I'm not much of a Blogger really and much of my previous posts (which are not many, in fact ) have been reviews or something vague. I've never really tried my hand at personal blogging and I'm not much of a narrator, so mind you, the following venture could get very boring indeed. Since my old posts have been months and months old and the fact that I actually had to type the only URL that is mine (probably the last visit was so far back in time that the browser failed to recognize it, anyway not the point here...) prompted me to write this post. <br />
<h4 style="font-weight: normal;"> (If you hate computers then skip some lines) The PC at my home is the quintessential desktop of the 2000's, using a 15 " CRT for display, a standard ASCII keyboard, a mouse (which thinks it is smart by suddenly swaying to the corner of the screen when you need it the most),a 750 W sub woofer system (which is over 8 years old now, and the left and right speakers have been at war lately and they have decided not to sing together at a given random instance. Whenever this happens I try to look clever by simply jerking the wires connecting the sound-box to the woofer, a simple twitch is all that is needed to keep them happy, I suppose. ) My box is over 6 years old now and about 2 years ago a major influenza attack threatened to take everything away. I dreaded formatting the hard disk the most, so when an Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy) live disc booted without any hassles, the era of Linux computing began at my box. </h4><h4>The New Dawn</h4>Ubuntu Hardy proved to be a very stable companion to my box, for a fractional GB RAM my newly loaded box seemed to perform very well, though detoxification was still an issue then, I could do basic things like accessing Internet without any occurrences of crashes and delays at all, normally in my older configuration, I had to play games like ctrl+alt+del or push power button in order to work on it. Later after some RAM up-gradation, the box seemed better than ever, delivering the best possible performance for something that can be considered as an antique in this rapidly advancing digital age. For over an year or so there were just countable instances wherein I had to reboot in order to restore order from chaos. This was to me, heaven compared to the ordeal I had to undergo, about an year ago, in order to perform even the most menial of tasks like editing a document or accessing the Internet. <br />
<h4>Plague </h4>Good times were not to last forever or so the saying went, while migrating to Linux I did encounter some software related issues, but a large on line community and loads of documentation almost provided solution to the most common problems encountered, however nearly after a year of hassle free operation my box failed to boot, it was a festive occasion of Onam then, which ruled out the possibility of calling up the repair-man, the power button did glow but everything else went blank. Equipped with a new toolbox purchased sometime back, after some desperate phone calls I found out that problem was with the RAM, after some frantic searching at home, I fished out the 256 MB RAM which I previously regarded as something redundant, blunt and obsolete. Even things we regard as useless have their places in life I guess. So for the first time I opened the CPU cover on my own and and found out to my relief that the warranty still lasted for 2 more months, so after finding out the culprit, my box was back alive and kicking, though now with a reduced computing power (it was only temporary thanks to the warranty sticker). <br />
<h4>The Final Frontier</h4>The new version of Ubuntu, viz. <i>Karmic</i> was shipped with a host of new features, however because I had opted for a shorter install procedure, most of the configurations of the file-system never seemed right, importantly the recovery mode (equivalent to safe mode) appeared to have only a command line utility.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Sometime later the box started behaving really odd. I had to use the reset button so much; that at one instance I had to actually pry the button out from the cabinet, the problem was slipping well beyond my reigns and I could do nothing about it. A few hours later nothing seemed to work. Now power button gave no more responses even the beep sound I realised then that the problem was with the power supply all along, I opened the cabinet and tried the same sequence I had done months ago when the RAM failed, though I was sure I wouldn't get a response, which was proved correct. The problem was out of my grasp. I had to call up the technician to fix it up.</span><br />
<h6><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">A few days later the technician arrived and did his routine procedure opening the cabinet and re-fixing the cables. Finally he replaced the SMPS with the spare one he had brought and I finally the monitor came to life with the intel graphics blushing with its certificate of purity. I was about to take my wallet when I found out that he in fact did not mean to complete the repairs as of now,as the SMPS was meant for a more deserving customer, this was just a mock session a mere identification of the problem, not its rectification. </span><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Now this was fate I thought, after informing clearly that the problem was with the SMPS the company sent a technician without the one thing I asked for. Obviously they listen very well, so much for <i>customer</i> service I thought.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Epilogue</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">On a fine day morning the technician finally reappeared to finish the job he had started initially. After calling up the company 2 or 3 more times the problem had been solved. Finally a new SMPS was fixed, with a sticker ascertaining a warranty of one year and my box roared back to life. Hopefully everything happened for the best.</span></span><br />
</h6>P.S: This post may contain some information that may get too technical at times, maybe I'm experiencing the so called 'not so writer's block'. Hopefully everything will be better the next time. <br />
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</div>The Analysthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16670286446565763789noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452013533731619539.post-64657686989221935562009-09-20T15:44:00.010+05:302010-04-04T07:42:58.156+05:30MIND YOUR LANGUAGE (MYL)<b>Guidelines to the perfect social networking</b><br />
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Social networking seems to be the coolest thing around these days. It allows one to stay in touch with friends and meet exciting new people from every walk of life. While there is no recorded documentation of MYL Theory, it is seen everywhere on your wall, your page, even on your mobile. Though this post can never describe something like the wind completely we may be able to just take a sneak peek into what is one of the universal laws governing the other half of the world.<br />
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Social Networking sites are developing fast these days. Sites like maspace ,fb are used by millions. Besides having a wonderful wall and many sharing options there are some killer applications. It is suspected that many of these involve really complex algorithms to actually serve its great purpose. For instance applications like fiend of the day is the best, it chooses from your list the best person who can possibly guide you through the day. This is nothing compared applications like your crush or your future wedding bliss, many dating services have supposedly given up their jobs considering that one can find their perfect partner through this utility. The actual codes of this applications are really long some even employing the best cryptographic techniques there is, it is even speculated by fans that the codes were written by a 5th generation bot, so that accuracy is right on. <strike>Some skeptics though still maintain that all that these applications do are, reply like a five year old if you ask a really inquisitory question.</strike><br />
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<b>Article 81A :Of Posts and Posting (a.k.a The Neo-lingual paradigm) </b><br />
It is of primary importance that you get accepted in your social network. A typical posting on the wall by really cool dudes takes the following form<br />
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“2day i lyk had br3lfast at ma hOME in the morn3n.OMG THAT”S LYK SO K000000L”- posted at 2:30pm by McooL<br />
Daemon commented on this at 2:32 pm<br />
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“Ur ROCKIINN MANN…lol LOL” – posted at 2:35pm by lifescoolDUDE<br />
Rig likes this. <br />
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Matt Pery took the personality test and found his perfect love.Take this quiz and find yours<br />
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“WHAT are u doing anywayz?What are u lyk R3tR3d??” posted at 3:42am by whoisthis<br />
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If the above posts don’t make any sense to you, then your English is probably the source of trouble, try completing about a trillion personality tests and read about 1000 posts on your wall and comeback again later. The history of the language written above is still in doubted. It can only be understood by really cool people having an IQ of the order of 190 or so, which is generally the case of most users. If you think that this was just a random combination of using caps lock and num keys coupled up with a broken language, then you’re heavily mistaken. Even advanced etymologists can only speculate how this language came about. Initially spellcheck was a feature that characterized posts, however due to heavy pressure from a great number of users this was later disabled. So when during registration if you are asked a question like what is your language? it is a trick question and only the selected few can answer it.<br />
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<b>Article 96B: Vocabulary Redefined</b><br />
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If you’re thinking that you cannot get your ideas across fully even though you attended the basic English courses then probably your vocabulary is impeding your progress. Learning the social networking jargon may not be an easy thing though it appears like poorly constructed language wherein singulars and plurals are switched(eg. newayz /anyway), caps being used at wrong places and punctuations used everywhere. Let me tell you this the developers of this language gave a lot of thought into it while developing. <strike>It was originally created when a monkey sat on a typewriter.</strike> Though if you want to flaunt in front of your peers you might give typing on broken keyboard with your eyes closed a shot, although it may not work everytime.<br />
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Article :(.-.. --- .-..:)<br />
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If you’re a total newbie at social networking and don’t know how to get recognized then you have come to the right place here. If you have nothing to post then you can always comment on others with .-.. --- .-.. (translated LOL in Morse Code).If nothing is going your way and you are desperately searching for a break then you have lol to the rescue.Even if the post makes no sense to you and you’re unsure of what it means you can always complement it with lol, chances are that the guy at the receiving end is a newbie too and thus all is well though this makes no sense to anybody. Also there are always the smiley symbols, if you still have to learn smiley code then you can always try some random combinations of braces and full stops.It is speculated that lol was created when a user misinterpreted the slang lol(lots of love) and as of the present only the few echelon members at top social networking sites know the actual meaning of this abbreviation(or a shorthand?) while the true meaning is still in doubt newbies in this world of social networking can always try to sound cool by just about using lol anywhere.<br />
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Well these are just some glints into the great MYL Theory, while the entire documentation is still awaiting completion. Btw Good Luck with creating a great profile at the great social networking sites.<br />
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P.S: My keyboard was working perfectly fine, and neither the caps key nor the numeric keys had any problems and no I did not attempt to post this blog from my mobile phone<br />
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UPDATE: For the comic fans out there here is a link to the <a href="http://xkcd.com/406/">XKCD comic strip</a> that aptly describes the situation<br />
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Whether we know it or not every Blogger adheres to a set of rules though none of these are stated explicitly.Blogcode 2.0 is aimed at documenting the various rules that govern the blogosphere of its blogs. It is a piece of code that was written by the very developers of blogs & blogosphere. While the etymology of the word blog dates back to the 1990s to something called weblogs, the real meaning of the word blog is still speculated.(If you’re using older versions of word or any other WYSIWYG processors pre-2007 era for that matter, you might find that the spellcheck fails to recognize this incongruous word.(As a matter of fact, spellcheck fails to recognize itself, so this may not be a bug!))<br />
(WYSIWYG: What You See Is What You Get)<br />
(Btw the word Blogosphere came out of the blue, it has no known meaning)<br />
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<b>PART 1</b><br />
The Quintessential cliché<br />
Every Blogger begins his blog stating its purpose and greeting the blogosphere. It is something much similar to the ‘Hello World’ in programming. Something that has to be done, a swearing in ceremony, it is even speculated that the word blog came into existence when a very famous blogger attempted the ‘Hello World’. Most bloggers then try to explain the reason for their entry into blogosphere as boredom or choosing blogging as they have nothing better to do. Generally the first posts are the quintessential cliché’s of every blog. Much like those chick flicks that are made these days, the first blog often contains long soliloquies of a blogger often explaining the reasons for their entry in this world, where adventure is an everyday phenomenon. If you’re a newbie to the blogosphere and you desperately want to blog (obviously for unexplained reasons) you can always begin by telling boredom is the primary reason for entry into this part of the world. Even better, you might even get praised by other blogo-sapiens for your entry even though your first blog essentially contains nothing but boredom explained, it is something, generally so clichéd that you might actually get away by pasting someone else’s first blog which itself may be a metaphor for boredom explained.<br />
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<b>PART x</b><br />
Of Postscripts and Post-scripting:<br />
If you feel that your reader’s patience wasn’t tested enough with your excellent post already, you always have post-scripts to the rescue. You can always post script your blog with something that ensures that your reader may never visit your blog again. And to further ensure that this happens you can always post-post script your blog to ensure that this process is speeded up. Please don’t go beyond an order of 3 lest only Nobel peace laureates may read your blog. Though most users claim they don’t know the actual use of this literary technique, bloggers continue to use P.S as an effective way to scare non bloggers off the blogerado.<br />
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P.S: Blogcode 2.0 is still in its development (beta) phase and further postings are required to complete this marvelous piece of code.<br />
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P.P.S: More postings to come, though this heavily depends on your support.<br />
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<strike>P.P.P.S: The above statement was false.</strike><br />
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Comments:<br />
“Give man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach him how to blog, you get rid of him forever”-<span style="font-style: italic;">An Anonymous Blogger</span><br />
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“Excellent! This is something that I have always been looking for”-<span style="font-style: italic;">The new kid on the blog</span>The Analysthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16670286446565763789noreply@blogger.com3