January :

• New class.. New friends.. After almost 1.5 years(6 months proj+6 months of bunking+6 months Sem out )  of academic black out , i was brought back into the system this january. I  had a fear about how the new friends (My-supposed-to-be-juniors ) will accept my presence. But thankfully everything was fine and great!
• Bought a new Computer. Retained my monitor and dvdwriter. Everything else was new and decided to keep my old pc for my networking experiments.

• Started www.AdsInTv.com . An attempt to archive the ads shown in indian Television channels.The reason was my new Tv Tuner card which was superior to the one i was using before.

February :

• Started a new attempt in piracy .Opened a new blog for cracked series60 version 3 (Symbian 9.1) applications.Things were good except that i feared that my future may be in danger as the domain for that blog was a subdomain of neo999.com
• A new guest – Beer came to my life. No , I just wanted to gain some weight.3 Beers per week was the agenda!
• Enjoyed life to the max with my friends Deepu , Abhi and Arjun .

March :

• Wat happened ? Nothing.. I dont remember! Yea!! Stopped Beer!I realized that beer have to nothing to do with gaining weight!

April:

• Piracy got into a step ahead. Opened www.MySeries60V3.com for cracked symbian 9.1 applications

May :

• A dream came true for me! Atleast near to it. I always wanted to own a SLR camera. Apart from the SLR feature , the manual over ridings of settings was what i wanted. may 2007 and i got my cam! Sony DSC-H2 , A semi-professional camera. Bought it from e-bay with my own hard earned money!!

June :

• Photography became my passion.
• A trip to Koorg – Banglore . Bad days!

July:

• New Semester..Friends became more close. I became more regular in class.
• Deepu’s Engagement. Ernakulam!
• Shifa’s Engagement.

August:

• Several Ponmudi(hill station near Trivandrum) trips on bikes.
• The unimaginable event occured! – Deepu’s Marriage!
• A big arranged trip to Mysore – Banglore – WonderLa – Kodaikanal .

September:

• Shifa’s Marriage!
• Department Association and National Level Technical Symposium!   Busy days!
• Made a decision to stay in Thukkala (Near my college with my friends)

October:

• Fairwell Day! Tears rolling … Felt like 10 months were too short.

November:

• Exam days!!!  Switched to hibernate mode

December :

• Busy with exams.. Almost 6 exams a week! :O
• Exams over…Planning for a big time party…:)

Merry X’Mas and Happy New Year to all My readers…

OK, I’ve had with you people. You know who you are. Yeah, you’re the people hu tipe like dis. You’re the people hU tInK ItS cOoL 2 tIpE lIkE tHiS aLl ThE tImE!!!!!!!

Shut. The. Fuck. Up.

Just because we’re on the internet does not mean that you can forget everything you know about grammar, spelling, language, or just plain old ****ing LOGIC AND COMMON SENSE. Seriously, folks, is this really necessary? It actually takes longer to write in alternating caps, and you look like a ****ing retard when you intentionally misspell everything. Now, I’m not talking about using internet slang. Sure, it’s a lot easier to write “lol” than “man, that was hilarious”. And that’s fine. It’s also easier to write “g2g” instead of “I have to go, see you later”. But those are mostly used in Instant Messaging. My problem is with the bloggers,and reviewers. My problem is with the blogspot and Mouthshut users who think that it’s cool and hip to write like a ***ing six year old. Well, I have news for you people:
iTs NoT kEwL!!!!! K RITE?????!?!?!?!
So, here’s my plea to you all. Write in whatever language you speak, and write properly, because chances are you’re intelligent enough to. But that may be pushing it.

After the bans on blogspot, typepad ,geocities etc. , many people came up with innovative ideas to unblock the baned domains.One most usefull idea is to use a different proxy. And if u want to browse any blogspot blogs, use Pkblogs  which was created actually during the ban on blogspot in pakistan.We can use it only for blogspot domains.Some other techniques to overcome the ban are :

Approach 1

Google, Yahoo, WorldLingo and Altavista Babelfish provide free online language translation tools that let you convert webpages from one language to another.

The trick is to instruct the translation tool to translate a given webpage URL from English to English (or any other language pair like Arabic to Arabic)

By doing so, you get to see the exact blocked webpage on your computer served from the translation service server bypassing the government internet filter – all the page formatting, javascripts, hyperlinks, comments, Google ads and other layout elements are preserved.

babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=en_en&url=XYZ.COM

Click the above URL to see this trick in action. If the page you are viewing is in a different language, replace the en_en pair with the corresponding pair like de_de for German or it_it for Italian. XYZ.com must be replaced with your URL that’s blocked.

This translation trick works only with Altavista Babelfish and not with Google or Yahoo babelfish even though the underlying Systran technology is the same.

Approach 2

The following approach may be used when you visit the website several times in a day like a Blog or a News site. What we do here is add the webpage to our watchlist and doing so, we automatically receive an update when the contents of the page changes (like some new content is added or exiting content is updated) –

Watch this Page for Changes – Enter the webpage URL and your email address – you will be notified daily of the changes.

I recommend this approach for reading sites like Indian Uncut, Lifehacker or Boing Boing where all the recently published stories are available on the homepage.

Approach 3

Use the following approach when you need an exact replica of the online story in print for your PhD thesis or for pasting in the scrapbook.

Adobe Create PDF Online – Create a free account at Adobe website and provide the URL address that you wish to convert. This service will create a nice PDF of the webpage and send that you as an attachment in an email.

 Approach 4

      You can setup a proxy on ur firefox. Google for annonymous proxies and select one.Go to tools>options>connection settings and select manual proxy. Enter the values and accept. If a particular proxy fails, use another one. Repeat until u get a stable and reasonably fast proxy and then stick to it. Here is a list of free proxies from samair

 Approach 4

SwitchProxy lets you manage and switch between multiple proxy configurations
quickly and easily. You can also use it as an anonymizer to protect your
computer from prying eyes. NOTE: In Firefox you can use the toolbar
element to save space   get it from Here

                But all these methods are not enough.We need Indian Govt to unblock these domains which i hope they will do within a week after they sort out what they want. Until then use these methods..

First of all , sorry for a big Delay in blogging. Its my post after a one month gap. Actually i was busy with some other stuffs..Went to Delhi for week and i was completly offline for 7~8 days. Anyway i am still busy but i thought its the time for me ,like all other indian bloggers , to protest against a rude, unreasonable and unfair attempt by Indian Govt .

Yesterday when i was going through my ususual routine of checking RSS feeds of various blogs.And all blogspot accounts returned error.When i checked some blogger accounts it returned a timed out error.(Some people says they get a banned error!!) . I thought blogspot server may be down.Even after a few hours there is no change. Even at night things where same..I googled and found out some news in rediff.com. Indian ISPs are blocking blogger accounts! WTF!!  I agree that there are some anti-Indian blogs in blogspot.But what about others? Almost all my friends blog in blogspot as it is simple and free.Backed up by google , it gives reasonable service with less downtime. Thats the reaseon why everyone opted for blogspot for satrting their blog. I used to blog on Blogspot and later switched to my own domain. I know people who run business through blogspot blogs.Some use it as a news service. And now..!! I think indian govt is taking some harsh steps after the mumbai tragedy. Its ok to ban anti-Indian sites.But it has to be precise. You cant block entire domain just because of having 1 or 2 violent sites. Even mumbai help(a blog created after the trajedy for providing help and service to people affected by the bomb blast) was blocked! So the next step will be blocking google.com as one can reach a “anti-indian” site by searching in google.I think its the time to react . We , the bloggers need to protest.No one else is going to give pressure as i dont think the polititians even know about blogging.First i thought about mass mailing.But now..i think it would be better to tell them directly about it through telephone(I thought abt this after reading this blog ) . Phone numbers are available here and here .

Till then you can use this simple trick to bypass the ban

PS : If you are from govt and you think this site looks offensive .. GO Ban it!!