Published on September 17, 2006
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I happened to go to near-by Bus Depot to drop off someone who had come to our home. We had gone to Koyambedu Bus Station and when I went there I thought we had come to some kind of airport. Ihad heard many things about it, how great it was and all, but I didn’t think it was so huge. The place was damn big and it seemed to me that it was just like any other airport. When I went inside it I realised how big it was. Its architecture is what that caught my eye, It seems the design was quite different it resembled like a railway station when I looked at some part and like a Bus Depot when we went ahead and overall it looked like an airport. It intrigued me quite a lot. I was admiring the great pain that was taken to build it as its difficult to do such things due to political pressure. Now I checked wikipedia for pics but I found that the bus teminus is really known as The Chennai Mofussil Bus Terminus or CMBT. I guess it’s always good to look it up in the wikipedia. I found this piece of information there too:
The New CMBT commenced operations on 18 November 2002 with three buses being flagged off by the (former as of 2006)Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Ms J. Jayalalithaa. It was built at a cost of Rs 1,030,000,000 and can handle over 2,000 buses and 200,000 passengers per day.
Well you have to see it to believe it, it’s South Asia’s biggest bus station. I was flattered by the way it is maintained. It is much more well maintained compared to the Railway Station here.
Deep and Ashish had come to Chennai for the BlogCamp Unconference, so we had decided why not we meet here and make it a Techspot Forum members meet. With that thought we met at their room in The Residency Hotel. I reached the hotel around 6:00 pm and was lurking around here and there till 6:30 pm and went to their room at 6:30 pm. Ashish opened the door witha big smile and I found Qwerty and Sathya(Sathish) sitting in the chairs and Deep behind his laptop who was trying to do red eye reduction with his photos from BlogCamp which I tried too but was unsuccessful at it. Then we started talks Ashish ordered some pesticides(Pepsi and Miranda), we were first talking about GNU and Red Hat Courses and some how got diverted to the topic of me being a loner and all that but they did give me some things to ponder on which I am pondering on. I came to know that I have lot to learn about Open Source Software and also learnt how different is the perspective about linux from a programmer’s point of view and a user’s point of view. We talked about a lot of things but I forgot to ask Ashish how his kids were(damn me). Then they had to empty the room by 8:00 pm and they packed up and we were ready to move. We went down and had a small chat once again I gave Deep and Ashish directions to go to a restaurant they had seen earlier and wanted to have dinner there. I couldn’t join in and niether could Qwerty or Sathish as Sathish lived far away, QM was supposed to go somewhere and me I was just keeping a promise to be back before 9:00 pm. Well we then bid farewell to them Sathya left for his home and I and Qwerty went to a bus stop where he and I got Rickshaws(seperate) to head back home. I got of at the wrong place and went walking the rest distance which wasn’t much(I got down at wrong spot purposely because I love walking). This way our meet ended and I must say I was really satisfied by the Meet next time I will definately make it to the BlogCamp and will be with them for a longer time so that we can talk about lot more things. Its nearly 12 am and they might have boarded the plane by now I guess. There is something else too that I forgot to mention Deep had taken SEO for Blogs Session in the BlogCamp and I can’t believe that I missed it. Now this makes my resolution much more stronger that I am definately going to attend the next year’s BlogCamp where ever it takes place. So i will keep editing this post to add links to others who post on it specially Deep and Ashish as they have the photos.
Links:
Techspot Thread
Yeah and I am proud to say that I was the first to post about the meet after it has taken place.
Published on September 5, 2006
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Now, I will have to explain I guess and I am bad at explaining so I will let wiki handle it. Here is the link which will tell you what I am talking about. Here is a bit from wiki to tell you about it in brief:
Onam (Malayalam: ഓണം) is an annual harvest festival, celebrated mainly in the Indian state of Kerala. It is the foremost festival among the cultural repertoire of Malayalees, and falls during the month of Chingam (August-September as per the Gregorian calendar), the first month of the Malayalam calendar and lasts for ten days. Though it is essentially a harvest festival of Malayalees, mythologically it is linked to Malayalee-Hindu folktales. Like many other religious festivals in India, Onam is celebrated by people across all castes and faiths.
I am a Malayalee(person from Kerala) so I was not going to miss posting this. Well, I wanted to wish everyone Happy Onam. And I love this one festival as its’s not limited to any religion.
No, I am not having blogger’s block right now but actually I was thinking about blogger’s block. I was thinking why do bloggers end up with no idea of what to post and that also all of a sudden. So, I was thinking carefully on this topic and I realised that there are not one but many reasons to this problem and yeah I consider this as a grave problem. Now, lets see when is the most common time when a blogger feels to have lost his art of writing. Mostly when one realizes that the content posted by him or her his very much similar to the posts all around the blogosphere, at this time the blogger feels it as a need to post something different and does not post what he or she really want which leads to “The Block”. Another one of the reasons that I have noticed is lack of creativity, some time we just feel lack of creativity and feel that the post we are posting is not living up to our other posts. The last thing I noticed was lack of interest, we are all human beings we do get tired of doing the same thing again and again so, it’s natural for us to loose interest.
I have listed only some of the reasons to which solutions vary from individual to individual like for the first problem we should be aware that we are not posting the same thing everyone is posting but we are posting our opinions on the topic. Lack of creativity has no cure it cures on its own when you feel down go out get something to eat or drink or just stroll in a park, this applies to lack of interest too its not necessary that you keep on blogging all the days you can take time off too if you start getting bored. I am still trying to look into better options to get rid of blogger’s block all ideas on it are welcome.
Hmm… the title doesn’t refer to that I have upgraded my wordpress by paying the certain amount , it means that atlast I have upgraded my PC and I have damn happy about it. Well for me getting an upgrade for my “Living Dead”(Name of my older PC config) is a great deal and new config seems to be powerful enough. I will list my configuration here then put it in my about page.
- AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual core 3600+
- ASUS M2NPV-MX
- Chipset: Northbridge: NVIDIA GeForce 6150 GPU
Southbridge: NVIDIA nForce 430 MCP
- A new black and silver cabinet
- A new set of Creative 2.1 speakers
- 1 GB DDR2 RAM
So, now nearly whole of my computer has been upgraded except for my monitor and my keyboard not my mouse as I had bought a new one a month back. So, hows it I havent tested it much really but it seems blazing fast rendering in 3dsmax seemed easy but I will have to test it with Autodesk Maya Unlimited 8 to tell how good it really is. I am playing Path of the Neo and soon will get Need for Speed: Most Wanted. So, you can expect reviews on games here after. I haven’t really pushed it to limits I will try to encode a DVD movie to divx today and see how much time it takes. I had the upgrade done on 30th August but was too lazy to post about it. This was one of my happiest posts.
Edit: Forgot to add about the RAM.
