Karthik Chronicles

          I am not going to post about how happy I am about Taj Mahal getting into the new 7 wonders of the world. I am happy but my post is not about it. What I actually want to say here is how every once in a while someone comes up with the idea of making a new list for the seven wonders of the world and people go totally mad over it. I mean voting for a wonder of the world is the most ridiculous thing. These things should be judged by the most experienced and the best architects and archaeologists of the world. But what happens is lots of silly votes are taken in and used to see who wins.

          I agree to what UNESCO had said about this that the method is not scientific and that its purely money making campaign. The method is definitely not scientific but the worst part is asking the people to vote and select it. I mean is this some kind of freaking reality show like American Idol or something. I did not understand how they could do such a thing. I mean architectural marvels like Eiffel Tower and Statue of Liberty were left out.

          It was certainly amidst a lot of controversy with the whole Pyramid of Giza fiasco then later on UNESCO claiming it to be just a money making campaign. Well, I personally believe that it should not be accepted as something of a great importance. The only reason for me saying this thing is that I don’t general public can actually make out what is a wonder in terms of archaeological and architectural ways. It just reduces the seven wonders of the world to some cheap reality show on a world wide scale.

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That was my reaction when I heard about a networking site bigadda(be gadha=be donkey) but it actually meant big adda(big hangout). I went through the site to see what exactly was it and how good exactly was it. I realised that it was just a spruced up version of DesiMartini.com(whose ads has been making rounds of the TV now-a-days.) It was very much similar to Desimartini even the whole look and feel of the site exactly same except for its login page which reminds me somewhat of Hi5.

I checked out the whole site and it seemed kind of dull. It had around 88 members when I had logged in which obviously might have increased by now. Most I mean most are men looking for women. Then 1/4th profiles out of 88 are of women and out of those 1/4th are active. People there can just add people even without the other person knowing about it. It seems that they had added the feature just sometime back so I hadn’t known about it, it’s now quite similar to orkut in terms of friends requests. There are definitely some bugs in it. The image resizer for profile images and album is not at all good compared to the other sites. They have some kind of minimal blog for every account there which is like the usual ones we see on all networking sites. It even has video feature in it which is quite good for a site that new and which is still in its alpha stages. They definitely have lots to improve in it.

From what I have heard from here and there, it seems that the site is owned by reliance. They really want to put their heads in every other thing that they can think of. I actually wanted to know to which reliance brother does this belong, if my guess is right it should belong to the younger brother Anil Ambani. It would make sense since he is the one who has put his money in most of the internet related activities since he owns the Reliance Telecom. I personally don’t think that this site has any big hope until and unless it goes under a radical change in terms of its design and also in terms of its features. It’s trying to compete with Google’s Orkut, Hi5 and MySpace kind of rivals; it definitely need loads more than what it has now.

Well it is quite simple I will give free joost invited to anyone who wants it but, you have to ask like this:

Name: Your Name
Last Name: Your Last Name
{Your Email ID can be added into the place given above comment box.}

If its not like this I wont send the invite. I want it like that so it makes it easy for me to give the invites. I dont think people really need to know what Joost is but still:

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I am not going to write much or anything in this post. The post is just for what I call, Google is a Fool. I know that it’s bad but as of in recent years all of Google’s April Fools Prank have been too, lets say cocky, nothing was out of the box. So, here they are again to bore you and make you a fool.
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I had read about feed readers in torrent client but never really knew how to use them. It was hard for me to understand those difficult tutorials. Atlast now I have understood how to use them and I thought why not put it up as a post. This is a very simplified version of tutorial that I had found somewhere which is not in public domain.

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    I for the first time really mean what my title says. I had just a thought what would happen if in some near future blogging actually became a topic in the curriculum of the schools. We might see a mad rush of young students coming out to blog on net and actually competing with their fellow classmates probably for grades. Maybe their grades will be determined by the pagerank they have for their own blog.

               Though it’s a quite innovative idea I believe, but bad for the health of upcoming bloggers as many of those kids might grow up to take blogging as an interest and end up thinking that blogging is just about pageranks. One might presume that nothing good might come out of this but actually someting good will come out of it.

             Someone with a spirit of a true blogger might end up making a blog that would tell others about the happenings of the school. They might not blog for the grades but for the pure joy of freedom a blogger gets while typing a post. They would definitely be the true bloggers who will or may take up blogging seriously in life.

         Many subjects have been degraded just because they were pulled into the curriculum making them a part of the studies. I personally believe that subjects like arts and crafts should never be part of curriculum  but should be extracurricular activities though many schools in Inida have them as subjects making them a subject were kids compete rather than enjoying what they are doing. Heck I would say adding computers to curriculum is bad as some people have keen interest and want to learn something different in computers but as they are limited to their schools, they learn nothing but old programs and stuff that is near obsolescence and teachers who don’t know anything other than what the kids have in their books.

          But unfortunately we can’t stop time and as time flies by these words may come true at some point making the whole blogging scenario nothing but a big joke.