I love riding in rain. Especially if its a night ride. People says rain and bikes wont match. But for me, nothing is more romantic than a wet night ride through my favourite city. I feel like the roads get a life when its wet. They are colorful and animated when its wet. The neon reflections and light from the brake lights gives it a sexy look. Tonight was one of those lucky nights . I roamed around Trivandrum from south to north to west to east in rain..I got new tires for my bike a couple of days back. So it was a “riskfree” ride . Put some smooth music (i use Mobile+Headphone ) or speak to your loved ones (Not recommended! ) and keep going. After sometime, your body will let you know that its time to go home or to get a shelter by putting on the vibrate mode.Fools call it shivering. Never care , keep riding. You will get used to it soon.

If you are like me , a few things to care before such a romantic ride :

* Get couple of  plastic covers to keep your mobile/wallet etc.

* A Rain Jacket is a no-no as it kills the thrill.

* Ride slow and keep distance with vehicles to avoid harsh braking. Seriously , it can Kill you!

* Gear/Engine braking is preferred than normal braking to avoid skidding.

* Keep your helmet visor open to have a clear view and to enjoy the rain drops on your face

PS: If anything happens to you /your bike or any one else by doing the above mentioned act , I am not responsible for the losses

Finally i started a Malayalam Blog. This one will stay there for long unlike the previous one. I am comfortable with wordpress and was looking for a way to write malayalam in WordPress. They says WordPress supports Unicode. But i tried several times and couldnt save the unicode into the database. Malayalam will be shown in the editor and upto pressing “publish” button , everything is fine. But , viewing the post in the blog shows “????????” instead of Unicode Malayalam font. That was purely a Database error. So checked with it and found the culprit lines in the code.

For those who are looking for a solution, shoot up any FTP Client like Filezilla and browse to the root folder of the blog. That is where index.php is present.

* Then open the “wp-config.php” for editing

* Look for the following two lines,

define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
define(’DB_COLLATE’, ”);

*Comment the above two lines by adding “//” before each line . (Without “”)

ie. like,

//define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
//define(’DB_COLLATE’, ”);

Save the file in the server and try again!. It must work. Atleast it worked perfectly for me.

By the way , my Malayalam Blog, E-Thal ( à´ˆ-താള്‍ ) is here – ethal.fluids.in or ml.fluids.in

Right now i am in Mangalore, the port city of South India. I am starting to love this city for its infrastructure and the left-alone-areas inside the city. You can find mini-forests inside the core city , and the place where i stay now is behind such a mini-forest. The pollution and rush as you see in other indian cities are not seen here. A calm but lively city.May be there is some restricitons for new constructions. With the booming Land trade in India, it was a surprise for me to find such vast unused spaces right in the heart of the city. Even if it was a park or something like LalBagh in Bangalore, it makes sense. But atleast it helps in making the air fresh and pollution free.

The commercial centers are not as big as bangalore or even cochin, and the malls are under occupied. I have been to the Bharath Mall here, near where i stays. Its small and i spoted many non-occupied floor spaces in it. May be, the trend of urban shopping is catching up in Mangalore. And i was amused to find the hottest southindian movie as of now, Dasavatharam running in a half occupied Theater. With a large Tamil speaking population here, it was quite unpleasing. I wonder how they are running in profit. By the way i got a new pair of Reebok Canvas from there. I was looking for a right model for the past one month. Now i got it!

My new Pair of canvas!

There is nothing much here as tourist spots. Somehow my friend here whom i am staying with says there is a fort and beach which will be a nice spot to spend a day. May be we will be going there today. Or like yesterday a full day inside the room sleeping!!

Will be back with more mangalore infos…:) Byee!!

Haven’t heard about it yet? The release of Firefox 3 will be made in a few minutes (Tue 10:30 PM Indian Standard Time). They are making this event a huge one by attempting for a world record in most downloaded file in a day. I am high with sky high expectations about Firefox 3. I am already using RC3 of Firefox 3 and I am pretty much satisfied with features and stability(In Linux). Already 1,736,232 people  pledged for downloading the FireFox 3 (When checked now @ 9.50 PM Jun 17 )

So what you are waiting for? Go and take a pledge!!

PS: The site is down at the moment due to the world record usage! =)) How they expected to set up a record without enough infrastructure?

Blogs all over the world are joining hands to show support and unity against the Blog Theft by Kerals.com.

I am showing my support by Blackening this post like Umesh in Gurukulam and other fellow bloggers did.I request all bloggers to join this protest.
Bloggers who joined in this Protest [ Links Taken from Kalluslate ]

1.Raj Neetiyath
2.One Swallow
3.Vellezhuthth
4.Visalamanaskan
5.Choottazhi
6.Guptham
7.Ithentha
8.Salini
9.Kumar
10.Anchalkkaran
11.Najoos
12.Wakkarimashta
13.Idival
14.Bindu
15.Pachalam
16.Njan
17.Sree
18.Siju
19.Beerankutti
20.Reshma
21.Moorthy
22.Saramgi
23.Sebin Jacob
24.Sreevallabhan
25.Anamgari
26.Sankuchithan
27.Yarid
28.Sundaran
29.Devan
30. Sapthavarnangal
31.Venu
32.Shiju
33.Vavachi
34.Mayoora
35.Pulli
36.Anilan
37.Kannuran
38.G. Manu
39.Thamanu
40.Shefi
41.Tharavadi & Valyammayi
42.Sakshi
43.Ziya
44.Kunjans
45.Nazeer
46.Cheedappi
47.Kuttenmenon
48.Anony Antony
49.Prasanth Kalathil
50.Keralafarmer
51.Dasthakir
52.Kinav
53.Nishkalankan
54.Asha
55.Latheesh Mohan
56.P.R
57.Sidarthan
58.Bhumiputhri
59.Kala
60.Agrajan
61.Sharu
62.Chintha
63.Umesh
64.Cibu
65.Indira
66.DesiPundit
67.Thahirabdhu
68.MS
69.Viswam
70.Baji Odamveli
71.Revathi
72.Hariyanan
73.Viswam Tumblr
74.Karinkallu
75.Patrix
76.Kovalakrishnan
77.Jayarajan
78.Jihesh
79.Bikku
80.Basheer Vellarakkad
81.Sreelal
82.Melodious
83.Nandan
84.Anjathan
85.Ithirivettam
86.Thonnivasan
87.Coolsun
88.Vayadi Malayali
89.Priyamvada
90.Wonderstruck
91.Neha Viswanathan
92.Santhosh
93.Nikhil
94.Ranjith chemmad
95.Anil
96.Lapuda
97.Sabi
98.Achinthya
99.Nalan
100.Saljo
101.Malayaali
102.Santhosh Pillai
103.Sini
104.Kaithamullu
105.Nandini Vishwanath
106.Thathamma
107.Bee and Jai
108.Chithal
109.Karim Mash
110.Jyonavan
111.Anuraj
112.Shankupushpam
113.Kavalan
114.IdliDosa
115.Ravunni
116.Panchali
117.Kochuthresia
118.Sreedevi Nair
119.Visakh Sankar
120.Cartoonist
121.Silverine
122.P.Anoop
123.Amrutha
124.Santosh
125.Lakshmy
126.Uganda Randaman
127.Sia
128.Trevor Penn
129.Drisyan
130.Kochumuthalali
131.Krish
132.Abdul Aleef
133.Naagurinch
134.Aisibi
135.Appu
136.Ittimalu
137.Baburaj Bagavathi
138.Anomani
139.Jyothirmayi
140.Sajith M
141.Vimmuuu
142. FLu!D
143.nEo999
144.Papi
145.Anish Thomas Panicker
46.Sijonane

Supporters of the Black Protest (As per their comments to this post)
1.Arundathi
2.Shammi
3.Pooja
4.Sunitha
5.pippala leaf
6.Priya
7.Kalai

News
1.e-pathram
2.ThatsMalayalam
3.Webdunia
4.The New Indian Express
5.Mathrubhumi