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the beginning

2011-07-04T23:17:00.002+05:30

I had this craze of getting a domain name for myself (and for all my sites ofcourse) from a long time. Don't know what hit me today, I just went ahead and bought this domain www.srivatsakr.com from blogger (Blogger took me to GoDaddy.com). You think I am so knowledgeable to do all this by myself? Ofcourse not, there was Rahul Nair next to me.

Little did I know that the $10 that I had paid for my domain name would trouble me so much. By default, it was linking to one of my google sites which I had created as a test site probably in my previous life. I actually wanted to link the new domain name to one of my blogspot sites.

I spent my entire afternoon going crazy, making Rahul Nair and this one other guy called Shrikumar Hegde (who is a website creator) also go crazy. Finally, I called it quits and came back home from office.

I then searched over a couple of threads and then followed it step by step and actually was able to resolve the error pretty easily. Here's what I did.

The "issues" that I encountered (sadly):
My first issue was that my domain name was taking to my google sites link by default (which I didn't want). I rather wanted my domain name to point to one of my blogs.

One way to do this is go to the blog SETTINGS | PUBLISHING tab in blogger

Click on the link that allows you to choose a Custom Domain.
Switch to Advanced Settings

Write in your new URL (www.example.com), and save your settings. If you do not enter the "www," you will receive an error message.

If it works for you at this stage, you are very lucky. Stop reading this and go have a beer!!

It wasn't one of those lucky days for me and I received the below error:

Since I had registered my domain name through blogger, the domain name was pointing to one of my google sites by default. Few options that I tried:

I deleted the site I had created in google sites (since I wasn't using it much). That did not solve the problem. www.srivatsakr.com was giving me a Configuration Error, something like:

Configuration errorwww.srivatsakr.com points to the site "googlesite" which does not exist. Please contact the domain administrator.

I tried various options I searched in google, which asked me to check for a number of parameters in Google Apps Control Panel. Everything was as per what was suggested
Finally, the trick that worked for me was changing a setting in Google Sites. Yes, I had to restore my deleted google site back for this (the one I deleted in a couple of steps above).

Go to Google Sites and click on the site where your domain is pointed to. On the right top, there is a drop-down for More Actions. Select Manage Site.

Under Site Settings, choose Web Address. You would notice that one of the web addresses would be the new domain name that you just registered. Well, atleast that was what happened in my case. I removed this web address that pointed to the new domain name and it worked!!

Under such scenarios, you would notice everywhere that it would take 24-48 hours for the changes to take effect. Frankly, I never had to wait so much. I would have waited a maximum of 1 minute.

If you are reading this blog, that's because I carried out all the steps that I have mentioned in this blog. ;-)

Mailbox Wars!!

2009-09-27T23:32:00.026+05:30

The probability of the person reading this blog having a mailbox is almost 1. And the probability of the same person having a Gmail or a Yahoo or a Hotmail mailbox is again almost 1. Me too, have a mailbox in all three of them, and I use them regularly. Few years ago, I was thinking if all three were really needed, and the answer would always come out as YES. Let me just go back and see as to why I created them in the first place, and why I still use them.

I think Yahoo is the where I opened my first email account. One of the reasons would be because it was very famous at that time (around 2000 year). But, the main reason why people would have opened an yahoo account would be for Yahoo Messenger!! This was probably the only messenger available at that time and it rocked...Now, I am really not sure how many would be using Yahoo Messenger. And, I really do not know if anyone would open a new account with yahoo even if they want to. But I still keep this account because of another piece of Yahoo which still rocks - FLICKR!! This is less of a photo sharing site and more of a photo hobbyist site. Also, Yahoogroups sort of thing is not present with other providers and hence Yahoo still has an edge in this area!

I opened an account here just for namesake. I probably did so because Hotmail was the first email provider to come to the market, and when it did, it was an instant famous. This one is one of the few ones who still have a limit on their mailbox. I really didn't have any use of this account until recently - when I found out about their SKYDRIVE. This is an online drive where data upto 25GB can be stored. That's quite a lot of storage and quite useful too!!

Now for the big one. This was one of the last places where I opened an account. At first, I opened an account here because it was only through invites we could open an account, and I had got an invite. It was more like a prestige to own a GMAIL account at that time (2002-2003) as it was offered by the big giant GOOGLE. I don't think anyone would be able to live without a GMAIL account now. GMAIL account can be used for multiple of their other services like PICASA, Google Reader, Blogger, Orkut, Google Documents, Youtube, Calendar, Gtalk and what not.

At the moment, I don't think I can discard any of my above mail accounts. But, it somewhat looks like time's up for YAHOO and HOTMAIL...You never know!!

Disclaimer: All the above three images were downloaded from Google Images and it belongs to their respective owners.

ND.4.SPD U2

2009-09-20T19:38:00.007+05:30

I can't believe that I am writing a blog again on one of these race events, even though I have a big list of other things to blog about.

Image Source:http://wallpaper-s.org

Anyways, there was this D-STORM fest happening in MindTree and they had organized "Need For Speed - Underground 2" racing event. There are 5-6 more newer versions in the market, don't know why they chose this version which was released way back in 2004. I went there to play the game and it was a shocker for me when I found out that it was a demo version :(. When I asked about this, they said that since only original softwares have to be installed on office machines, they installed this demo version which we get free with those CHIP / any other computer mags. And it's obvious that the one who purchases the original game would be labelled as "The Dumbest Guy" to have lived on this planet!!

We had to wait for around half an hour as some other tech-demos were going on. Now, there were around 20 people of all sizes and sexes waiting to play the game. Even though I reached before many others, I offered to play towards the end so that I could get used to the track, the shortcuts etc by watching others play. The list of funny events continued - the system used to crash for the every second race being played. Hence, after one person finishes his game, they used to log out of the game, log in back and play again. Phew!! This made half the crowd walk away from the place. Now the guys alone were present, who wanted to prove their mettle in NFS. I decided to go in last, and kept an eye on the timesheets. The times were improving as each one was playing.

Finally, my turn came as there was no one else left and the time to beat was 1:13:53 for that track. I started off and the car was behaving in a weird manner (may be because we are used to more later versions of the game). They guys who had set the top-3 times were trying to distract me (the same way they had distracted others) so that I could make mistakes. I did make some and they were very happy. But once I got into the groove, they thought to better shut their mouth and watch while "the master" raced. They came to know it was all over and yeah, it was over. My time was 1:10:27. Could have done much better without those mistakes, but it was good enough to show them as to who the Zapak Corporate Champion in NFS was...he he... ;)

There was still an hour left for people to come and race and try to win the prizes. I went back to my seat and after about an hour, got a mail from the organizer that the top 3 positions remained the same as before and I was the winner. This was an unofficial mail only to the top-3 guys, the official mail would be sent later is what he told.

Anyways, it's a great feeling that I am still not dethroned.

BTW, I am playing NFS-MW now, trying to finish off the last level.

ND.4.SPD

2009-07-05T20:00:00.002+05:30

Wow, I can't believe that I am posting this blog almost 6 months late...Anyways, I am still posting it because this particular day I am talking about is very close to my heart...It's almost like I went on to become a "Hero" from a "Zero"... (Only for that day..he he..)

For those who are still wondering what the title is all about, all "NEED FOR SPEED" game lovers will know it... ;)

Image source: www.startimes2.com/f.aspx?t=14942418

There was this Osmosis Day on 13th of December in MindTree and there was a gaming stall put up by Zapak. There were 4 games of which NFS - Most Wanted was one of them. It was like a "Walk in the Park" for me to finish 1st in the prelims. All the winners at prelims level from different companies were selected to participate in the Zapak Corporate Gaming Championship - the winners would represent their company for that particular city.

After a week or two on a Sunday, we had the finals. What was supposed to start at 9am and get over at 1pm started at 11am and got over at around 4:30pm...There were participants who were pouring in right upto 11am...there were girls (only 1 was somewhat good), boys (2-3 of them were sexy...;) ), couples and many more kinds of people who had come over.

There were 4 games being played and it's very easy to guess which had the maximum number of participants - NFS had 16 participants and all of them obviously were boys...It's not a girl's thing. Each round had different CIRCUITS with 3 laps - a CIRCUIT is nothing but a closed loop in NFS terms..

1st Round:

16 boys were divided into 4 groups, each with 4 boys. One group played at a time and the top 2 finishers would go into Round 2. I was in the 3rd group and so I had to wait till the other 2 groups finished. I watched how the guys raced and few of them were good, and I immediately knew that it was not going to be as easy it was in the prelims. I thought may be I can equal them, if not beat them. Finally it was my turn with the other 3 opponents. The race started but not without 2 hiccup starts - once because I was logged out of the game as soon as the race started and the other one because another guy wanted different control settings. When the race did start finally, I was ahead of all the others but not for very long...the carbehind me hit me because of which I hit a wall. Luckily for me, I was still 2nd. I don't know how those guys remembered that circuit out of 100s of circuits in NFS, because they all took the short-cut route and I failed to even notice it. I was easily the last before I could join them back. Luckily for me, one guy was driving pathetically and so I overtook him. The other two guys were very quick. It was like "the game was becoming easy and easy for them while it was becoming difficult and difficult for me". The distance between them and me was increasing every second and me catching them was dependent on how many mistakes we were making, and they didn't show any signs of making even one!! On the last lap, the very short-cut because of which I lost my 2nd place (and even the 3rd) came to my rescue - the short-cut is a very narrow lane and the guy who was 2nd hit the wall. This mistake probably cost him around 10 seconds. Even then, he was ahead but I had closed-in on him. He looked stronger than ever now, not wanting to part with his 2nd position. The race was like between him and me now. The 1st guy had won the race 10 seconds back and the last guy - I frankly didn't know where he was. Finally, it was the last turn after which there was the finish line. Although he didn't make any mistake, he hit the barrier in the last turn which slowed him down by quite an amount. I still had not overtaken him after the last turn...we both finished the race with less than a second gap between us, me being the faster one.

At this time, the first guy had finished the race 20 seconds back and looking at the timesheets, all the guys who were coming 1st in their respective groups were clearly 20 seconds faster than me. At this point, there was just one thing flashing in my mind - "I HAVE NO CHANCE TO PULL THIS OFF"!!!

2nd Round:

Now, we had 8 racers...obviously me being somewhere down in 7th or 8th timewise. We 8 were again divided into groups of 4. It was again decided to select the top 2 guys to the next round. I frankly don't remember what happened in this race because I was either 3rd or 4th in the entire race. The top 2 guys were way ahead. When about 10% of the race was left, someone whispered from the back - "They have decided to select top 3 into the next round, just make sure you finish the race". I was like "What???". I didn't believe him actually. What he meant by "just make sure you finish the race" is - after the 1st person finishes the race, the rest of them will have just 30 more seconds to finish the race, and if we do not cross the finish line by then, the race is not complete. I was around 20 seconds behind the 1st guy. The guy behind me in 4th place was lingering all over behind me...but it was really not that difficult to keep him behind me...I finished the race after around 22 seconds the 1st guy finished the race...and yes, the top 3 went into the next round!!

3rd Round:

Now, there were 6 guys and again they were divided into two groups, but now groups of 3. This time it was for sure that the top 2 guys will go forward.

While the guys from the other group were playing, I watched how they used the NITRO - short burst of speed during which time the car goes a little bit faster. From this round, I don't know how and why - but it was like "the game was becoming easy and easy for me while it was becoming difficult and difficult for others". and this was mainly because I changed the way I was using the NITRO. I don't even remember what happened in this round (because I was first right from the beginning and I don't know what happened behind me), I came first in this race.

At this point, the guy who lost in this round created some hungama. He said the groups were not mixed properly and that same guys were racing against each other.

After some arguments and discussions, they decided to re-conduct few rounds. Most of them were thinking like it's just waste of time even though they didn't mind racing again, but I was like a little bit apprhensive about this as I usually ended up bottom of the table and I really didn't want this to be conducted again as I had already reached the finals.

3rd Round (Again):

In this round, the bottom 4 drivers of 2nd round were to race against each other and the top 2 would go into 4th round. The guy who created all the commotion was in top 4 and hence he was automatically into 4th round. I was 6th or 7th and hence I had to race again.

Luckily for me, the same track which was used earlier in one of the rounds was used. Only one among the other 3 had played on this track. So, the other two were playing the track for the first time that day. I knew all the shortcuts, maneouvers, tips and tricks and so I was easily the 1st once again.

4th Round:

Again, the 6 drivers divided into groups of 3 played against each other. I always wanted to beat the guy who created the hungama, but he was lucky and he was put into the other group. Good for him else he wouldn't have gone into the finals.

When my turn came, he was standing right behind me and he was watching how I play. I usually hit the car / fight with the other cars either while I am overtaking them or when others are overtaking me. To put it in simple words, they would have to go through hell to overtake me. In this round too, I was the first and there was some competition between the other two. Finally, one of those guys made a mistake and he went way behind. It was just two of us. He came right behind me and he overtook me as well at some point. It was now time for me to show my evil skills. I went and hit him from behind, from the side and all possible directions. Once I overtook him with the slingshot move, I was blocking him and not allowing him to pass me. In this way we co mpleted the race, me just ahead of him.

This was all registered in the guy who created hungama's mind.

Final Round:

At this point, the only thing I was thinking was "How the hell did I come until this round? In the first round, the guy finished 20 seconds ahead of me and now I am racing with the same guy once again, in the Final round. Anyways, I have got one more chance to beat this guy - Partha".

The race started and the Partha went ahead. I was sandwiched between two other guys, one of which was "the guy who created hungama" and the other was the guy with whom I was playing around with, in the previous round. If the cars are in contact with each other, none of the cars go fast. Because of this, we were all stuck and Partha had got a huge lead probably about 8-10 seconds by now. The other two guys were blaming that I was the one who was doing it and all of us are stuck. My only aim at this point was to somehow get out of that tangle and just do pure racing. I somehow got out and at this point I was 3rd. It did not take me long to come to 2nd position.

Partha was way ahead at this point and everyone knew that he's gonna come 1st easily. I was not disappointed either, as I was ready to settle for a 2nd place. Representing your city and company at 2nd place is not that bad afterall. ;)

I was racing normal when I noticed that I had caught up with Partha. I don't know if he committed a mistake or if I drove superbly. I now had some racing to do. People started to look at both of our screens. While all of this was happening, the guy who created hungama's car hit a wall and he went way way way behind the 3rd car. The race was virtually over for him - which is what even I wanted. There were prizes for top 3 guys and he was the 4th one...yay!!

Coming back to the race between me and Partha, I again used the slingshot move - in this move, you go right behind the car which is in front of you and you just keep going behind the car at the same speed, doing the same moves as him, as a result of which there will be very little gap between you and him, as both of us will be driving almost identically. When the right opportunity comes (say when he makes a mistake / when you think there is a better route which you can take), just come out from his track and use NITRO and overtake him. He can never catch you. Now, I was first, but he was not far behind.

I made a mistake and he overtook me and got a good amount of lead as well. But I could catch up with him easily and was right behind him, although he was not letting me pass so easily. One girl was commenting behind me saying I drive superbly. I felt happy thinking that I impressed atleast one girl in my life..he he..:D

There were just two more turns remaining. It was like "S"-kind of turn. I was right behind him once again and when first of the two turns came, I took inside of him (it was a right hand turn and "inside" means being to the right of the other person), and pushed him towards the wall. He could not do anything as insider always gets an advantage. I overtook him and now the left turn came - both of us were not using the NITRO - because he had no more NITRO as he had used it and I had plenty of it but I wanted to use it after the final turn. There's no point in using NITRO in the turns. The final turn was over and he was still looking to overtake him. Once I used the NITRO, he knew it was game over for him!!

I still could not believe that I had won the finals, atleast after the results of the first round! Everyone were appreciating the way I was driving. Right from the 3rd round until the final round, I came nowhere but 1st.

I think the turning point for this turnaround was because I watched others while they were playing and learnt how to use the NITRO. There was a huge amount of difference in the way they were using it and the way I was using it.

Another thing which came to my advantage was the slingshot move. Nobody, yes, none of them knew what it was in the first place, let alone using it...

I still feel so happy if I think about the events that happened that day. I know hardly anyone would have read till here, but it will always give me the details of the things that happened on that day, when I am too old to remember anything at all!! :P

However, I missed one important event because of the delay caused here. Bhumika was giving her birthday treat to Chandan, Rahul, Urvi and me. Since it was already evening by the time this got over, I could not attend it. Hope she, and others too forgive me for this! :)

Do check out Zapak Website where the details and winners of this event are published.

Apple istore in Bangalore

2009-04-12T22:41:00.011+05:30

There has been many a times when I would have seen a particular shop which I want to remember, but would have forgotten after a day or two. Probably, writing it down in my blog is the easiest way to remember them (rather I should say, it would be easier to look through the blog than through my mind, wherein searching through the latter would yield no results!!), and also it might help others who are looking for a particular store.

So, here's the first one. I saw an Apple istore in Jayanagar 5th block. The store is right opposite Sevakshetra / Raghavendra swamy Mutt. For those who are not familiar with either of them, the istore is in a corner of the junction between the Marenhalli Road and the 11th Main Road. There is a Café Coffee Day outlet on top of this store as well.

Here's one of its pictures...

Image source: http://ecofin.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/apple-istore-in-bangalore/

The complete address is:

iStore
Jayanagar 5th Block,
641/46th Cross, 11th Main
5th Block, Jayanagar (near Café Coffee Day)

Bangalore - 560004
Ph: 080-40939253

Can it get closer than this?

2009-04-12T21:03:00.000+05:30

While I am writing this, I would like to say it's a very unfortunate incident that a person lost his life while trying out the Reverse Bungee at a Bungee event orgainsed by Headrushbungee in Bangalore.

I got a mail from BMC about a Bungee Jumping event to held on 28th March. I wanted to try this for a long time, and may be so did Rahul - so we registered for the event and tried out the Bungee Jump. It was a great experience for both of us. Also, all the safety measures were taken of, like they checked whether the harness is proper, used the proper one depending on our weight, checked all the hooks and explained clearly as to what has to be done. Everything went well on that day.

Many of my friends saw my pictures and the video and were very excited to try it out too. They told me to inform about the event if at all if it was going to be conducted again. The day did come again - the event was scheduled to happen once again on April 10th, 11th and 12th. I notified few of my friends, and there were others from MindTree Trekking Club who were interested to try out Bungee Jump.

All of them wanted to go there on 11th, but due to lots of confusions, it was decided that all of them will take part in the event on 12th. Me and Girish came to know that there was Reverse Bungee (wherein we are catapulted into the air) happening as well. I wanted to try out this one. We went there only to see that Reverse Bungee hadn't started yet. There was huge crowd waiting to try out these jumps and when we enquired, we were told that we wont get a chance until evening. Both of us were obviously disappointed - for not having got to try out the jump after traveling around 15-20km in the hot Bangalore sun. We watched 4-5 bungee jumps and left from there at around 2pm.

On the same night, I heard a shocking news - that a person succumbed to injuries when he fell while trying out the bungee jump. Next day, I read from the newspapers that the person actually was trying out the Reverse Bungee jump when this happened and it was around 2:30pm.

When I look back, I should have been doing the same Reverse Bungee jump at around that time, if there was no crowd i.e.. All I want to say is, it just happens the way it is written. If it had to happen to me, it would happened the first time itself, or may be the crowd would have been less the 2nd time, and I would have got my chance to jump at around 2:30pm - which is when this mishap occured!

Now that this accident happened, all the loop holes are pointed out - like there was no ambulance, no first aid kit n stuff - which actually should have been there in the first place. We had not noticed this at all when we went the first time. We are just normal people and it's very difficult to check what should be there and what should not be there. Since this has happened now, I don't think I would be doing any more jumps with Headrushbungee. In the first place, I don't think they would be conducting any more jumps in the future - atleast under the same name!

30 QTag

2009-04-04T13:17:00.013+05:30

Chandan and Rahul had tagged me. Don't know what's in it for me. Anyways, to break the jinx (of not posting a blog for a long time), I am writing this.

1)What is your occupation?
Software Engineer for now...

2)What colour are your socks now?
I am not wearing any socks now. Didn't know that I had to answer these while I am at work. :(

3)What are you listening to now?
Nothing!! Since I was asked this question, I can hear this weird noise my CPU is making.

4)What was the last thing you ate?
Banana...now, now...don't think otherwise

5)Can you drive a stick shift?
Stick Shift eh? what's that? I really don wanna google now...anyways, there are many things I can do even without knowing what they are...probably, this falls under one of those... ;)

6)Last person you spoke to on phone?
I had got a missed call...called back that number only to find out that it was from a coin booth. That coin booth owner spoke to me. Didn't ask his name though.

7)Do you like the person who sent you this?
Chandan / Rahul...Let me see what sort of questions are there and then will answer this one..he he..

8)How old are you today?
24 Y, 3 M, 23 D (Oh man, I had to look up the calendar and do some math for this...Feel like I can crack the CAT all of a sudden!!)

9)What is your favourite sport to watch on TV?
Anyday, it would be F1...can watch it for 2 hours straight without a single wink!

10)What are your favourite drinks?
All that doesn't have alcohol...now, don't start thinking about all those drinks which doesn't have alcohol

11)Have you ever dyed your hair ?
No Way...Natural Color is always the best...be it, Black or White

12)Favourite food?
Can't think of anything in particular right now, because it keeps changing over time. But right now if you ask me what do you want to eat - I would say an Italian dish which I had in a Restaurant called Piatta in California more than a year back, don't quite remember the name of the dish though.

13)Last movie watched?
ARUNDATHI...he he..it's a Telugu Horror Movie...effects (both sound and visual) are good...but no story though...

14)Favourite day of the year?
Ganesha festival day - will get to eat lots of delicious stuff after starving for the entire morning!

15)How do you vent out your anger?
I usually vent it out at people or whatever it is, without keeping it in myself...Nowadays, I start thinking as to how to give a diplomatic answer back...by the time I think of it, my anger would have gone.

16)Favourite toy as a child?
Okie..I assume by "child" you mean when I was in nursery and stuff...then it used to be a Toy train (rather it's just an engine). Why I like this is I was not getting it enough to play with. Since it was bought from Nepal or somewhere, it was always kept out of my hands...

17)Favourite season?
In Summer, I love Winter and in Winter, I love Summer

18)Do you want your friends to email you?
If I say No, will they stop??? :o

19)When was the last time you cried?
Cried eh?? Cried...hmm...err...I really cannot think when was it last..

20)What is on the floor of your closet?
Some clothes which were washed last week, two kites which I bought months back but haven't flied them yet, the bag which I had taken for a trip last week and a "fly" which I killed four days back...phew, you made me turn in all possible directions to answer this...

21)Who is the friend you have had the longest?
I must say it's Vikas, right from 1st Standard...but there are many more who came in 4th std and they are still in touch (not just through Orkut, but in person)...

22)What did you do last night?
Played Cricket 2007 game and lost it badly...then resumed a download and switched off the monitor and went to sleep.

23)What are you most afraid of?
Water and Waves

24)Plain,cheese or spicy hamburger?
Cheese Hamburger Of Course...anything to do with cheese will top my list..

25)Favourite dog breed?
German Shepherd. Actually, I like all dogs as they are like my friends... :P

26)Favorite day of the week?
Today

27)How many states have you lived in?
Lived in - Karnataka and California...
Gone to - many states...no count

28)Diamond or pearl?
no way..that would cost me a lot!!

29)What is your wish for this new year?
New Year - it's already been 3 months into the New Year now...so, no point in answering this one...

30)New year resolutions?
Same answer as the above one...

Now coming back to Q7 which I know most of you have already forgotten about it, Of Course I like them...else, why would I listen to them and answer these 30 Qs. BTW, Chandan is Mild while Rahul is Wild...that's the only difference... he he..:D

Deliciousssssss........

2008-11-29T20:44:00.008+05:30

It's a well known fact that we can browse through the internet only through a browser. In the college days, I had become a big fan of Mozilla Firefox because of its cool features compared to Internet Explorer(IE) - like those tabbed browsing, saving bookmarks, restore sessions after a crash and such stuff. When I was using IE, I was saving all the important links I wanted in a notepad. Once I started using firefox, there was really no need to continue what I was doing before. I had saved lots of important links as bookmarks in Firefox.

One day while I was browsing, my mozilla goes boom and it crashed. It had crashed lots of times before as well, but this was no normal crash. When I opened Firefox, it didn't ask me to restore my previous session. That's when I got to know something's wrong and when I looked deeper, all the bookmarks I had stored had gone. After this crash, my love for Mozilla Firefox reduced drastically and that's when I started losing trust on all the desktop applications.

I would want to term that crash as a DELICIOUS CRASH. I got to know about this DELICIOUS.COM (formerly DEL.ICIO.US), which is a bookmarking website where we can store any number of links "online" and hence we can retrieve them whenever we want, irrespective of where we are. In fact, it came to my use in the very first week I started using it - when I had to refer to a link in my office which I had saved at home. If I had saved it on a desktop application, I would not have been able to retrieve it elsewhere other than from my home.

That does not end there. Each of those bookmarks can be attached with TAGS like say Photography, Wildlife, Technology and so on. By searching for these tags, we get to see the bookmarks saved by other users of DEL.ICIO.US and at times, lots of good links are found, which usually does not appear in the initial pages when searched in GOOGLE.

Once I started this, I have now begun to store all of my photos as well online - who knows? Some day, my system might crash, all the dvds where I have stored my photos might get scratched or may be someone might steal it...But, I still would have access to all the memories that were captured by me!!!

Finally, the engine starts!!

2008-11-22T23:28:00.004+05:30

I wasn't blogging all these days for one main reason - all my writings turn out more of a colloquial type or prose, and without the usage of any hi-fi English words.

Although I have been told by many that thoughts in a blog matter more than the English usage, still I somehow was not convinced to start a blog.

I don't know why, I am convinced today about what all was said to me earlier and I decided to blog whatever, whenever, however I can. After all, "we can improve on something only if we start doing that thing" right? - so I am in a hope that I can improve upon my English writing skills as well. Probably, you must have already got a hint how bad it is... ;)

I have received lots of information through other blogs, when I was searching for some information - be it technical, to travel or anything else. This was another reason for me to start blogging. If you have noticed, the world is full of opposites - If you take something, you need to give back something. Hence, I want to give back some information (which necessarily need not be known to everyone) which might be of use to someone someday. This doesn't stop me from writing blogs which might not be of any use to anyone!!

Last and the most important reason for me to start blogging - I do not want to take away with me all the information I have in my mind, when I die and go away. Regarding money and other property, people take it away when we are alive itself - so no worries about that ;). It's something like Our legacy should live on even if we don't.

Having talked so much, let's see till where I can go on.

BTW, don't expect poems or such senti stuff from me - because Sentiment and Srivatsa are like opposites. You will soon notice that you can start using the word Srivatsa instead of Philosophy...as time goes on...

I am not going to modify this blog as this is my first one and it should remain as is. All we have to wait and see is whether this blog becomes my last one or not.