FOSS-Free and Open Source Meet!!

Almost a month of running about and hard work(not that much but still..) we managed to pull off another

FOSSMeet @ NITC

the 2009 edition. It wasn't exactly what I had in mind, there were a lot of things that went wrong. There was very little involvement of many of the club members of organising clubs and I guess its timing too wasnt very good, given the economic situation and just a month before the end of this fiscal.

Moreover, although we had quite a few good speakers, we really lacked the likes of Kiruba who could get the crowd roaring. Anyways hoping that the juniors do a better job!!all the very best to them!! And heres my gratitude all the speakers, delegates and organising team members!!

frustrations!!

hmmn.. it was one very tiring and depressing month..on one side it was the work at T&P and other side it was my own ego mixed with a lot of expectations which never came to life.. well to be frank i totally screwed up!! I took me a long time to realize that, but the good thing is I did.. thanks my very dear friends!!

people I'm back!!..(Raks says.. v'll c..)

Tech Institute Rankings..

I got curious and actually googled the college rankings, as expected IITs topped and guess what, I scarcely saw NIT Calicut in some lists, maybe because our data never reached them, maybe because we never made it to the top 20!!

Some have put NITc somewhere close to 14 and 15..but then it struck me as weird, what is so wrong with us??We don't even figure in the South top 5, IITM,NITT,NITK,NITW, IIIT!!wheres NITC?? Let me put it this way, before we all got here at NITC, we were as good as IIT entrants, some of us even better..But where did all that go? I have tried to convince myself a lot of times before also that we have a lot that IITians don't, say foe example, we have Ragam, Tathva, clubs.. But even they have these things, some of them do it quite well too..Don't you think its time NITc woke up.. its time we work up to our real potential!!

Anyhow I'm thinking about getting busy..

blogomaniac??!!

During a chat with a close friend, I confessed that I was on the lookout for topics to blog on, and that I kept thinking about my blog.. I suddenly called myself a 'blogomaniac' and for sometime, thought I had coined a new word!! But alas, Google knew better..

hmmn..anyway coming back to 'blogomaniac', I did a little research, and found that other people too suffered from this condition(yo! I've company!), though mine seems temporary.. I'll list out the symptoms that accompany this peculiar condition(courtesy: http://yelleoutloud.multiply.com)

• maintaining several blogs (plural) all at the same time
• checks out each and every blog at an average of 6 times a week
• obsessed with even the smallest details in blogging (punctuation, spelling, etc)

she's listed out more in her blog, but I'll stick with these.. though I've to agree she's right..I AM A BLOGOMANIAC!!

Ok, I'm no expert on this but blogomania disappears with the net connection and something else to do.. so for now I'd rather continue living like a blogomaniac ;)

prisoners..

Correct me brethren if I'm wrong.. But I seem to think we have made ourselves prisoners in the G-world...

yes, G for GOOGLE,man i'm screwed if the HR from Google sees this, but I guess some one has to notice these things.. Frankly, I think I'm a prisoner, coz the first site that I usually go to as soon as my browser is up is Google.com(honestly its because its very easy and quick to load that I can confirm an internet connection in a jiffy) and then Gmail, Gtalk, Gnews.. the list goes on.. Did i forget youtube,haa who am I kiddin blogspot itself, orkut.. the list seems endless.. but is it so??


As Google buys more companies and its 'net' share rises, are we increasingly being bound by GOOGLE. We seem to have made ourselves believe that all that we desire is here..(not exactly everything)

ps:Mr. HR I'd actually love living here as long you let me work with you ;)

Life at NIT Calicut..

Three years of technical education and its time to look back and think how life at NIT Calicut, deemed as one of the most prestigious technical institutes of the country, has been.

College life is never like school life and in my opinion, it should never be and we should never want it to be. Well its college after all.. NIT Calicut is one of the best places to be, the BEST!! For one thing its not a bunch of techies who pass out of it, neither a bunch of hooligans, but a group of individuals who have developed in a lot of spheres. They are the people who totally understand what a community life(well most people) and who learn that to survive you will have to co-exist.

I started out at NIT Calicut, pretty well, for me there was no problem in staying in a hostel, cos i had been living in hostels for some time then. Guess, i might have one of those lucky few, who had a chance of coming all alone to the hostel, yup, just me and my suitcase(a large one though, still have it tucked beneath my bed). Friends from school and coaching centers turned up pretty soon. We soon were a well organized gang within the first year hostel, in a very short span. Known as the 3rd Rates, we were quick to organise and were well known by the seniors too, that did us a lot of good, as a year. I guess the only thing that brought the year together, and made our first year so memorable was the simple lack of other entertainment means within the first year hostel. We were imprisoned within the hostel for one complete semester and part of the next. There were couple of delights within the prison, like the one time when we celebrated someone's birthday with washing everyone with water, diwali was also very memorable.. though I did end up getting a memo.. in short it was absolute unadulterated fun!!!even the motta season was fun, we did get ragged by our seniors, but I wonder what the next few years would have been without it all..Ragging as done by the mallus in NITC is a must, else you will end up losing the greatest fun in college life!!

A year passed rather fast, soon, we were junior execs in various clubs and all.. all very busy people..2nd year in B hostel was also rather an enjoyment, the xmas tree, xmas celebrations. evrything.. oh! the elections were really very nice!! man..sweet memories!! then couple of my dear friends did crash their bike on lamp post injuring their legs but one of them did end up with a nurse from the hospital...

think i'll write on 3rd year separately..

hmmn.. NITC rocks!!! the hostels are the place to be!! the wealth of loving and caring friends you get can never be matched!!

Things to do when you are absolutely bored..

Ok.. this is not the ony guide and it will never be the only one either..

I'm gonna keep updating this list with things I do when I'm very bored..

1. SLEEP - the only objection to this is that I do this even when I'm not very bored!!

2. visit www.bored.com - trust me they have a pretty neat collection of jokes and puzzles and stuff to do..

3. read something online, theres always stuff to read on the net, always good stuff and bad dumb stuff..choose for thy self.. well now you can also see stuff online, provided you have a good net connection.

4.watch the pendulum swing, yup, that is a swell way to spend your time, literally watch time go.

5.. rest is on its way..