I have no idea why I am spending this much time on twitter. When I have nothing else to do, I keep reloading my twitter page for new tweets ( I haven’t installed any twitter tool yet ..  may be I will, soon .. ). And even when I have something important to do, I keep coming back to twitter, for another reload.

I created twitter account a few months back and left it there and Twitter was not popular like this.  Even when I saw twitter’s popularity growing, I didn’t feel like using it because I had nothing to do with twitter, or I have no idea what the use was, for me.

Initially, like many others I was also thinking this, why should I tell the world “What I am doing” using a website, and 140 characters ? Then twitter changed in to something more … Obama started twittering .. CNN , Facebook, Google … and then Google started worrying about twitter launching search and then ads … people started  dreaming about their tweets being published in newspapers like their blog entries do.

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Windows XP should be the most common operating system used in India…  right ? .. but we never pay  for it ..  great !!

When I went to the laptop store of “X” brand, they said they will get pirated XP installed on it if I buy from there.  hmm pretty good offer ..  So that’s how things are. Most of us use pirated operating systems. We laugh at people if they say they paid for the operating system. But, we seldom opt for free softwares or operating systems. Paying for the OS while purchasing a laptop makes us feel bad .. ( I agree, most them offer windows vista with it, and its a pain …. )

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So guys, you have seen many “How To” posts. But this is something different, this tells you how to Celebrate Christmas, like a Mallu;  first one of its kind ( may be !! ). Continue reading →

Imagine a vending machine, that gives you all types of free software and operating systems, straight on to a DVD !! The software vending machine ? Yes, a software vending machine, you heard it right. I got to watch this one on TV the other day. It’s pretty cool isn’t it ?

The news was on a Malayalam channel and I am sure we have it somewhere in Kerala. So, it should be in other cities too. Have you ever seen it ?  If you guys know about it, let me know, I need fedora core 8, the latest version. And of course, I would like to check out this cool software vending machine !! Check out their official website here

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When I was in college, the most interesting thing that I came across in my Economics text books, was Communism.

I liked the way that Marx  analyzed human history . ( may be I am yet to read something better than that, if there is any, sorry ). Till then, history was like a library with all its books out from racks, a complete mess. But, with the Marxian view of History, you get a better, organized version of the story.

But, when the same thing was presented to me through books in Political science, I didn’t like it. It’s not just the goal that matters, right ?

Now, in the same way, the Communist Party in Kerala, is taking a step forward ( unfortunately, away from what it is supposed to be ). Investing in a water amusement park, worth Rs.35 corers. I am not here for an argument, ( business run by a political party ? water theme park when there is no water no rain ? no for coke or pepsi, but a big yes for part’s water theme park ? ). But, I feel, they are walking away from where people expect it to be, from what people want it to be.

If you are in Kerala, or Know kerala a little, there is another organization, or a leader who is actually walking in the opposite direction of what he is supposed to be. Yes, I said OPPOSITE.

Guess ?

Palakkad is a district in Kerala, which is green green and green. It’s 135km away from where I am now ( Cochin ). I visited my roomie’s village last Sunday. It was a fun drive on the bike and yea…… in the heavy rain.

I don’t have a digi cam yet. These pics are from my roomie’ 2.0 MP Cell Phone Cam. Is it really worth to spend few thousands on a digicam with little photographic skills ?.

PS: Thanks to Ruhii.

Happy Independence Day

Strikes, Bandh, Harthal … oh no !! nothing new to us keralites. See, today it is “Education Bandh”. Yesterday and day before yesterday they had Harthal in Malappuram district. Last Friday it was private bus operators strike and there was a strike by Merchants association last week……. yes, we are familiar with these stikes, and we know how to celebrate them ….

So, need a vacation ? try if you can find a job in Kerala, or get transferred here ….. Welcome to Gods own Country ( and devil’s own people ok ? )

This time, the strike loving keralites made history by killing an innocent school teacher while he was attending a meeting.

Sirji…. what an idea Sirji !!! kill a teacher to protest against the textbook !!!!

I can’t find words to express what I am feeling now. So leaders, ( small and big, left or right, ) when its time for election, don’t ask me for my vote.. because my vote died with that poor teacher ….

“We are born in an unjust society and we are determined not to leave it as we have found it”

This is the slogan of AICUF, an organasiation that I used to work with during my college days. Itis the most touching, sincere and most beautiful slogans that I have ever seen

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