Forgotten language ( Sanskrit) and it's building

I was very interested in Sanskrit during my school days. I have done few certifications in it during the school, thanks to all the support and encouragement by our Sanskrit teacher Satyanarayana Sharma sir.

Here is the building of Samskrutha Vidhya Peetam, to promote the language.

Building seems as old as language, and shows it's lack of maintanance.

One positive out of it was, yes the office is open. And they are still doing something for it.

Good

Skype is not a phone

I like this statement on skype website

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No emergency calls with Skype

Skype is not a replacement for your ordinary telephone and can't be used for emergency calling

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Liquid or Solid - Water pictured as ice

See this

There was a fountain which was not working properly. And the water taken in close up look like a diamond. I like it :)

Mudupu

Devotees put something in a cloth and tie it to the tree or offer it to God, to get blessings and succeed in what they do.

This picture of 'Mudupu' tied to a tree is taken at Sri Rathna Lakshmi Devalayam, Rathagiri Konda, Singotam.

Monkeys are angry because I have not asked for their permission before taking the picture

Faster way to reach the god

Faster way to reach the God is to take a ticket of 25 rupees.

This picture is taken at Yadagiri Gutta Temple

Bhu Chakram

Bhu Chakram taken on Dewali day

Perception and Alwar Balasubramaniam

Was watching Art of substance and absence on ted

Sculptures were great. Here is some transcript from the video regarding the perception

How do you interpret cow crossing the road?

• A schoolteacher says, she'll simply say, "To get to the other side."
• Potter would say, "For the greater good."
• Martin Luther King would say, "I imagine a world where all cows will be free to cross the road, without having their motives called into question."
• Moses comes now, and he sees the same cow walking around the street. He would definitely say, "God came down from heaven, and he said unto the cow, 'Thou shalt cross the road.' And cow crossed the road, and there was much rejoicing as a holy cow."
• Freud would say, "The fact that you're at all concerned reveals your underlying sexual insecurity."
• If we ask Einstein, he would say, "Whether the cow crossed the road, or the road moved underneath the cow, depends on your frame of reference."
• Buddha. If he saw the same cow, he would say, "Asking this question denies your own nature as a cow."

Check out the full video here

Running Windows XP .. IE9 is not for you

A Beta version of Internet Explorer 9 is released. I thought of upgrading to new version and play around and see how it works.

And then there was a surprise. You can't run IE9 on Windows XP. You need new version of Windows :( .

Looks like there is more it it technically,

Below is the message I got

"Want to try Internet Explorer 9 Beta?
Since you're running Windows XP, you won't be able to install Internet Explorer 9 unless you upgrade to a more recent version of Windows.

Find out what Windows 7 has to offer
Find out what Internet Explorer has to offer"

References

• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/16/no_ie9_9_on_windows_xp/
• http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/running_windows_xp_no_internet_explorer_9_for_you.php

Microsoft :-?

wordle - generating word clouds

I was looking for a tool to generate word clouds for the question and answer section for one of the presentation. Came across this web site http://www.wordle.net/ .

It is simple web based tool and result is beautiful.

మహా ప్రస్థానం

ఈ రోజు ఎందుకో మహా ప్రస్థానం నా మనసులో పదే పదే మెదులు తోంది. మీ కోసం 'శ్రీ శ్రీ' మాటలు ఒక్క సారి

Gibraltar runway and the road

I wanted to write about this unique thing in Gibraltar from a long time. The Run way. The small run way is also used as a road connecting Gibraltar to Spain. For the flights to land and takeoff the road is closed.

Pictures speak better

Car


Plane




People


And then you watch flight accident investigation on tele and those small things causing the accidents etc. Little scary but unique.

Unsecured Content - wave.google.com

Google Chrome has this cool Omnibar with https in Green font along with padlock to inform if the website is secure or not.

Remember all those HTTP links included in the HTTPS pages throwing a lot of warnings if you are not careful with the web site design.

Looks like wave is not an exception

Itz Virus time

Had mail from a couple of people related to two different viruses. Looks like something happening out there.

One regarding the virus attacking NASA and google servers. Spent a couple of minutes on google and looks it it is a new virus.

Another friend sent me regarding a POST CARD virus from Hallmark.

However this looks like a false alarm, circulating on internet well over a couple of years by now.

I appreciate people sending these mails. Ofcourse it is better to be safe than sorry. However it might be worth checking if the alert was genuine and not spam.

Itz Monday, Itz Virus day and Itz a busy day.

google adSence and Gaming

Was thinking of putting google ads on my blog. When I went through Google AdSense Program Policies, there was something interesting.

Under the 'Content Guidelines' it mentions that the content should not include "Gambling or casino-related content"

That's my job, how can I avoid content related to Casinos. I have been working in gaming for more then 6 years now.

We don't call it Gambling, we call it as Gaming.

One thing to be happy was the 6th bullet item in the list. I was expecting it to be 2nd item after pornography.

No ads on the blog for some more time :)

New priority inbox from gmail

First thing I do in the morning is to check the mails and flag the mails according to importance and actions needed.

Google introduced priority inbox, which sorts the mail according to priority based on different criteria.

Thatz lovely isn't it.

I am already using the conversation view, which is very useful at times. Now need to find a way how to do this for my outlook.

Looks great

View from my bedroom.. isn't it lovely?

Smart and Lazy ..

From the lazy project manager .. is Lazy and Smart better then Diligent and Smart ;)

Lazy project manager ebook can be obtained from http://thelazyprojectmanager.net/

Note: This is not my personal experience :)

It's not like it's the end of the world

An error message for JSPWiki OutOfMemory.

Nice one.

“And don't worry - it's just a computer program. Nothing really serious is probably going on: at worst you can lose a few nights sleep. It's not like it's the end of the world.”

The question is can you really take that view

Bus breakdown on Gibraltar runway

I have been living in Gibraltar for quite sometime now. I always have been fascinated about Gibraltar runway. There is raod across the runway which is shared for the runway as well as people commuting between Gibraltar and spain.

When I was walking on the run way recently there was a brake down of the bus. A couple guys was trying to fix the bus and few people were eagarly waiting for a private jet to take off.

Some of these things only happen in Gibraltar :)

I wish I had a proper camera at that time.

Wolfram - a representation of knowledge

I have come across this site when watching some videos on Ted. I have been using this site for a long time now. It mostly speaks in mathematics, but after all computers are based on the mathematical engines that is not a surprise.

Being used google over the years, it takes time getting adjusted to the information provided by Wolfram. I would definitely suggest you to have a look at it, if you haven't come across it already.

Some of the search results are particularly interesting. For example today I was thinking if 'I am stupid?. And the engine it interpreted the question very well.

Here is a screen shot

It basically say you are not stupid. Thank god someone answered my question right :).

Here is the TED Video I have seen before

Definitely something worth noting

World Wide Web - why is it WWW not just W

After seeing this incorrect spell on a vehicle, I was thinking about what if we can shorten "WWW" to something smaller say "$".

Then thinking about ambiguity, clarity about the protocol.

Then thought you lazy type two more characters and start working ... then thinking of how to avoid typing two letters.

I don't want to be in an Ambulance on Hyderabad roads

Other day I was going to office in Auto (Tuk Tuk). Traffic was heavy and moving very slowly. Since this is a daily routine, I was not very upset with it. You are aware it will take time to reach office and you start a bit early (usually) to make it.

Seeing a ambulance moving very slowly in that traffic, I was wondering about how much time it will take before it reaches the hospital. Yes, no body wants to be in an ambulance. And worst never in an ambulance in the Hyderabad roads. There is no chance you will reach the hospital in time.

Note: There is Government operated Ambulance service (108) which is much faster and fully integrated with hospitals, traffic control and police stations.

Seville air traffic clearance delays flight for more than an hour

There was a delay in my flight to to London. Reason for the delay was strange for me.

In order to fly the plane from Gibraltar to London, Gib Air need to receive the clearance from air traffic controller from Sevellie, Spain.

There was another flight from EasyJet to London. However Gib Air did not receive the clearance from Sevellie, ATC to take off. There were ready to give the clearance directly to the Captain in the flight, but not to Gib Air. This delayed the flight more than an hour.

Captains from both the flights went to the control room and sorted.

I dont know who's fault is that or if my understanding of the situation is 100% correct. However passengers on a crowded plane sitting there for more than an hour waiting to take off.

I wanted to to match England Vs Germany match in London. Looks like I haven't missed much?

shopping in gibraltar

I don't do much shopping. Even if I need to do some shopping, I generally do some quick shopping at the airport. However this time, I thought let me give a try and some shopping.

Spent almost half a day roaming on the roads of Gibraltar. I don't know how some people spend hours shopping. I think that really need a lot of patience and talent, of course a lot of money might help.

Anyway it is time for packing as I am flying tomorrow (27th June 2010) afternoon.

Planning for a quite a dinner (tapas) in Spain.

Conversation view for my outlook

I wanted to chagne the my inbox to see my email similar to gmail www.gmail.com conversation view.

I tried Arranged by -> Converstaion. That looks cool however there are no sent itmes in that. It will be good to have the sent items as will so that the conversation is completed.

I moved all my sent items to the inbox so that conversation will not be complete. Changed the settings (see here for more info ) so that a copy of sent item is stored in inbox and sent items doesnt store the message any more.

Only thing that still need to be done is when a message is sent the copy that is moved to the inbox shows as unread. Need to find a way to mark it as read.
Conversations with categorizing using colors, inbox looks very nice.

Not sure where i am ending up with the colors, I always liked to see the screen in only black and white.

Going back to India - counting

Going back to India. Starting from Gibraltar on 27th and reaching Hyderabad on 29th early in the morning.

Bye Bye Gibraltar

BTW this picture is taken from inside of car, through the front glass

Bloggy on the wave - no itz embeddy

A trip to San Roque, Spain

I was planning to go to Ronda for the weekend. However due to weather decided to go to some place near. We decided go to San Roque as it was only 10-15mins drive from La Linea.

Though the place is not very historical, it gives you a view of small spanish town.

We reached san Roque around 3:30 and most of the shops were closed and streets were empty. After an hour streeets were full of people. It was good expirience of what a spanish Siesta was.

I wanted to see the church. Went to a couple of them. However it is Siesta time for Jesus as well. Then at last I met Jesus.

It was good to get out of Gibraltar for a day and feel a Spanish town :)

After walking the streets for some I have been introduced to pub crawling.

Calentita - Gibraltar food festival 2010

Been to Gibraltar food festival - Calentita. Had some cup cakes and Moroccan chicken. The evening had a lot of things to cover

• Friends
• Foot ball
• Food
• Music

Interesting thing was that the D.J was playing lot of bolly wood remix. Almost every third song was Hindi song.

Best part were the fire works. It was fantastic. It was feast to watch the crowd and fire works.

Iddaru song - very touching

I was listening to Iddaru(Tamil: Iruvar) song. It was very touching.

My friend I am there with in the sweet moments of your life and also when you are dying.

Telugu might be better

unnanu neeku toduduga okkokka madhura kshnam
marana vela saytam maruvaleni kavyam ide

tunnuru nimishale thoduga unna kalam lo
yenno nimishalu hrudayam kadilinchinavi
paruvam to toli nimisham
bhayam to cheri nimisham
kattubadi kougiliki kannerayaina kshnam
ingitame mati tappi yenno sogasullo muddulane muripinche mohamlo chali nimisham

Full telugu lyrics here. Much better :)

new domain for my blog www.pramod.biz

At last I bought a new domain for my blog.

My earlier blog address http://pramodpadamati.blogspot.com will now redirect to http://www.pramod.biz/

Article here is very useful

yeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Taps in spain

Last week I went to few 'tapas' places in spain. Tapas are snacks served in small portions. Though I had a lot of them together to make it a full meal.

Here are some pictures for you


There are basically two types of them cold and hot. BTW the one looking colourful is not a desert, it is a spicy snack.

Generally each dish cost £1 - £5. In most of the places calculating the total bill is based on the type of the plate etc. In one of the places each dish came with a stick or a symbol. Pricing is based on how many sticks there and type of them. Pretty straight forward isn't it. And you wonder why at times make programming complicated, instead something simple like this can solve it :-?

Changing colors of all the putty session to use system colors

Putty is one tool, without which I can not live. By default putty displays back ground color balck and text color white. At times I need to concentrate to see the text ( Yup: My eyes are becoming bad ).

I thought I will inverse the colors. But I dont wanted to go and edit each session as I have a lot of saved session.

All the session information is stored in the registry and you can edit it a bit you will be able to change the colors for all the session.

* Export you putty registry ( Refer to this post on how to export registry
* In the registry file replace "UseSystemColours"=dword:00000000 with "UseSystemColours"=dword:00000001 and save the file. (Last 0 is changed to 1)
* Import the registry back.

Now all your putty session's color setting are changed.

References
http://www.putty.org/

Carnival Spain - La Linea

Been to carnival in La Linea. It is the first time I been to a carnival. I bought an Indian outfit to dress up for the carnival, however decided against in the last moment.

Met few colleagues at the frontier. Walked on the street. It was nice to see the people dressed in a variety of costumes.

A TV crew interviewed me. It was funny as the lady spoke for a couple of minutes in Spanish of which I did not understand even a single word. I just told her you are beautiful and she left me alone. It still works with the girls ;).

Will post a couple of pics or links here laterr

The Rock of Gibraltar








విరబూసిన మల్లెలా
పూరి విప్పిన నెమలిలా
చిరు దరహాసంతో
మరిపించి మురిపిస్తావు

నీ నుదురును స్ప్రుశిన్చి
నా మదిని అర్పించి
నే నిదుర మరిచి
నీకై మేఘమై వచ్చాను

నీ శ్వాసలో శ్వాసనై
నిను అల్లుకుపోయి
నా ప్రేమతో తడపాలని
నే వర్షమై కురిసాను

నీ గుండెలోతుల్లో
నే తొంగిచూస్తే

తుపాకీ గుళ్ళు
ఫిరంగి దెబ్బలు
రక్తసిక్త తనువు
తూట్లు పడ్డ హృదయం

అయినా
వణకక
తొణకక
నిటారుగా నివు నిలిచి
తోడుగా నే ఉన్నానని
నాకు ఓదార్పునిస్తావు

(Inspired by painful tunnels inside the beautiful rock)