India Still an IT giant? Lifting Website data from Singapore.

Delhi Police has “lifted” website structure, data, content and even Images from Singapore’s police website.

This news was first broken by NDTV on Saturday.

It is shame to see things like this happen, specially when the world considers India as a IT destination?

If they were desperate to get some simple HTML pages done with text and images, least they could have dropped me mail. Than doing this HOLY shit.

I guess it wouldnt be completely wrong to say that Delhi Police has done what Software Engineers in India do it on a daily basis.

Some of the “HOT” quotes from Delhi Police website.

”With the increasing number of bombing incidents around the world, no country including Singapore can take safety for granted.”

And just in case there’s a biological attack and you get anthrax, there’s no need to panic.
The website says: In Singapore, the SCDF, Police, Ministry of Health and Singapore Post have taken precautionary measures to deal with this threat.

Read the complete strip tease here

http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20070024487

What do u think abt such things? And what we can do to solve such basic problems?

Drop in ur comments…..

–Sridhar 

Alert: All Nokia Users, Check ur Mobile Battery!!!!

 

ALERT: 

Friends after bringing into notice that the mobile batteries of Nokia have some problem, Nokia company has given a test link.

Out of 300-million batteries only 46 million have problems, which can even cause short-circuit etc.

If you are a Nokia Mobile handset user, please make sure you check your battery details, if the serial number is in the ones which have problem, they wud offer you a replacement.

http://www.nokia.com/batteryreplacement/en/

Even, if you are NOT a nokia handset user, please blog about this, spread the word and create awareness.

Cheerz
Sridhar

A Small Step : PayBack-August 07

Wishing everyone belated Happy Independence Day!!! Proud to be an Indian

You must have never heard that a event happens first and then it gets a name <stuck>

Okay, so thats what we did yesterday, on the occasion of 60 years of freedom, we took a small step.

“In software industry, we are used to hear the word reusable stuff. Why not in real life?”

And, thats exactly what we did.

Goal: Collect all the old-reusable, not-so-bad condition clothes which are mostly redundant and distribute them among local people like coblers, fruit-sellers etc etc.

Why the name PayBack?

Its time for all of us to PayBack to Nation, be it in small steps.

Thanks a lot to Ram, Snigdha, Vinayak, Surpiy, Ayan, and Sudarshan for showing interest and willingness to make the difference.

It was great to see that young guns are interested in giving back to society in some or the other form.

We distributed the clothes in the CMH Road, Indiranagar area so if u happen to visit the place, and see a local guy wearing Arrow, Mango or Westside branded clothes, dont get shocked!!!! Instead Just say “PayBack Works”

Then the team went to blind school and distributed the ladies garments to the children there. I had to drop from there soon. So rest story may be Ram or Snigdha can narrate.

Local junta was following us for more stuff, guess last time I saw people following was only politicians

Cheerz
Sridhar

First Lady President with Crime Records. Applause!!!

India’s first Lady president, OOops Sonia’s Joke to Nation, Ooops a social-pest, Again I forgot Criminal too. Meet Mrs.Prathibha Patil.

I guess we should raise funds to buy Sonia & Co to buy a televisions, so that they atleast hear, see and understand that the candidate they are supporting has a background!!!!

Newspapers, Media, television everything is flooding of Mrs.Patil’s balcklist activities.

Why are they doing such things? Keep some respect for the Man, whom she is replacing.

Bloddy Politics they just want all uneducated people to fill the seats.

Openings in Indian Politics:

Qualifications, all are mandatory:

1. NO education

2. Crime record

3. Media full of black activities

4. Support from fellow illiterates “Sonia”, “Manmohan”

Shit, we Indians should hang our heads in shame for having such a lady as President.

You can read the complete “History-Geography-Biography” of this lady here

http://www.knowpratibhapatil.com/9/ptotal-new.pdf

I hear that people have self-respect, dignity and morale values in life, Mrs.Patil are you aware of any of these words? If yes, please resign.

Yours loving
Indian Citizen

Shameful Flight, a must read!!!!

 

Tomorrow morning when you can find lot of crowd outside malls to buy a book, yes you guessed it right. Harry Poter series.

I will also start my search for a book, its not HP series. Its a book from “Stanley Wolpert” named “Shameful Flight”.

This book is about the last years of british empire in India. How India got divided, who were responsible, what game plan british played. Its a sad chapter to read, but I would say a must.

The book is titled properly for their “Shameful” acts. Its an Oxford University Press release.

The book also features life of Nehru, Mountbatten, Winston Churchhill, Lady mountbatten etc. It throws some light on how because of our leaders we suffered.

India will turn 60 next month, and what are we upto? The answers to these questions are not simple as they appear. Its sad to see the numbers which say what we have  achieved in last 60 years.

One more thing I swore last night, I will surely enter into Politics at any cost, waiting for the right time.

Cheerz
Sridhar

Love Taj? Vote NOW!!!!

Were you a lover of the beautiful Taj Mahal?

Then its time to pay back, its not only a monument. Its a matter of honor for our country.

Please visit this site and vote it takes only 5 mins.  5 Mins of yours can bring heritage culture to the nation.

Spread the word. If you blog write abt it, if u read drop comments and inform your friends and family as well.

Visit to cast your vote:  http://www.new7wonders.com

I have casted my vote for Taj Mahal. Have you? Go now!!!!

Keep Voting!!!

Cheerz
Sridhar

PS: if you have casted your vote, then drop in comments so that others can get inspired.

Technology Threats???

Have you even imagined that the benefits we are taking of Technology even the terrorist can take?

Imagine how dangerous it can be?

Cyber police says, it can trace the emails sent, scan them and then identify the anti-social elements.

Anti-Social #1[Place 1]: Writes the message in the email/blog and saves it without sending.

Anti-Social #2[Place 2]: Opens with same userID and Password, reads the same saved message and logs Off. 

What can the police do in such a situation?

This sure may sound, simple but trust me it can prove very costly and deadly as well.

Any thoughts??? views??? suggestions???

Cheerz
Sridhar

Book Review : AJAX In Action

     

I have recently finished reading this book “Ajax In Action” By Dave Crane, Eric Pascarello and Darren James.

I thought I would share some key points from the book with everyone.

I recommend this book to everyone, who wants to learn Ajax or for those who have already fallen in love with it

The book talks about the basics as introduction and example code are given to explain various ajax libraries covered, which includes Prototype, Rico, Dojo, Sajax etc.

It is also written keeping in mind only about the client-side programs and not heavily on server-side, which helps individuals to use it with any of these PHP/Asp/JSP etc.

This 680 pages book is what you need to master the concepts and start using ajax in your web apps.

Cumon, u still waiting for more reviews??? Go and buy here

Its a weekend, I have some plans too.

Happy Weekend!!!!
Cheerz
Sridhar

Sena heated up over SNS(orkut)!!!

Before you read this article, I would appreciate if you can read my previous post Here.

I was going through a Daily Newspaper, The Times of India, 12th june edition, in the front-page an article quoting ” Sena Cubs are part of target website”, Which was written in the context of Shiv-sena’s attacking some cyber cafes to protest against Social Networking site, Orkut.com.

Shiva Sena’s attacks were due to some posts/articles on orkut quoting wrong about Shiva Sena supremo, Bal Saheb Thackery and his party.

What’s the point in attacking cyber cafes? Orkut is run by those people.

One more interesting fact is that, the “cubs” of shiv sena have their profiles and more than hundred friends on orkut.

Why dont they break computers at their home, rather than cyber cafes?

I was wondering, if this is going to be the mentality, soon sites like Desimartini, yaari.com etc will have treat and also causing treat to wanna-bes.

Check out the article in the newspaper here.

Drop in your comments/views on this!!!

Cheerz
Sridhar 

PodWorks : My Experience!!!!

Podworks, India’s biggest podcasting unconference was held on 9th-10th June 2007 in Tidel Park, Chennai.

I must admit, it was a great learning experience for me as I was a newbie to Audio/video podcasting. Got to meet people, share ideas and fun as well.

I started on Friday 8th june in Shatabdi Express, along with Himanshu, Vibhash, Anil, Yousuf and Alok. Reached around 10pm to Chennai, Damn it was fcuking hot there. After finding them a nice hotel to stay, I went to IIT-Madras.

I met friends there, Jitendra, Venu, Sagar and prem. Then we spent around 3 hrs just gossiping around with jitendra and venu. {they are my close buddies}

Next morning, I got geared to attend Podworks. Day one.

When I reached I saw other folks have already reached, and kiruba was making an opening speech, basics of podcasting, professional podcasters etc.

Then some topics came out on which people were willing to learn. I along with Himanshu, Vibhash took a topic “Basics of Blogging for WordPress & Blogger”. It was mainly about how to add widgets to blogs.

Guess, it was good and informative. If not, mind-blowing, atleast svenks got benefitted out of it, as he learnt to make a blog and how to add widgets

Then was time for some “Vitamin M”. A talk by Sunil Nair, CEO of Nautanki.tv on how to make money!!!! Hmmmmmm

Followed by talk by Karthik Kannan about how to create a Audio Podcast. It was very useful, as I did some hands-on as well

Then, time for lunch, their did some networking with folks from findnearyou.com, Mr.Krishna Prasad of Churumuri.com, Preethi, Mr.Suresh Bhagavatula, Vijay Anand, Syed  and a lot of other interesting people.

Noon, session went with some more talks and finally in the evening we went to Beach House. Mr.Seshadrinathan of findnearyou.com arranged a Band, named “Hang-over”, trust me they were awesome!!!

I even made a small instant theme their for podworks.

Check the video here

Then after that, kept talking with John and Venkatesh. Some real serious talks. Went to beach near by. Slept at 6am

Next morning, got quickly ready and then left to Tidel Park. Had breakfast first :)

Attented some talks, met some people and same stuff. Did some photo-sessions too.

In the evening, I came back to IIT, then me, venu and jitu went to a near-by hotel. Had nice dinner, then both of them came to drop me.{I insisted not to, who listens to me}

Then, got a volvo to Bangalore and next morning when eyes opened, I was back to my Den.

It was my second unconference and like previous one, this too was good in terms of learning and making new friends.

Cheerz
Sridhar

The Dark Side of Mid-Day!!!

You call it Mid-Day is getting prepared to see the Mid-Night now, after being caught in the Plagiarising case. You feel shame, well, unfortunately they dont.

WAT Blog is a famous blog among bloggers with some really kool stuff on Web 2.0 domain. Now if Mid-Day ”steals” the content from WAT Blog, what can any do?

Day before yesterday, I read a article in “Chattisgarh-group”, which is doing Citizen journalism, stating Indian media is not getting “Credits” it should it. Oh for what? They dont even know how to steal properly. Least, they could have change font, color, full-stops. I just hope the editor of Mid-Day is reading this article.

Dont believe me? Before you see the article, please read the original post.

http://www.watblog.com/?content=detail&id=770

See it, to believe it.

Now See the article from WAT BLOG.

Now, can be done for scenario like this? Bloggers speak loud, you guys are not audible to Mid-Day.

What other bloggers are saying?

Himanshu: http://thoughtsprevail.blogspot.com/2007/06/mid-day-in-blog-plagiarising-case.html

Note: I cudnt get the exact source, guess Mid-Day is using Guruji, Indian Search Engine and it prompts me if I am searching for Chinese, when I type Chintee

Bloggers, Come Let’s Fight Cyber Crime!!!!

Is Internet safe for girls???

A guy and a gal meets on cyberspace, they become friends, write testimonials, talk on phone, then they meet and finally the Girl Is Found Dead.  

Its not the first time in India, that such kind of accident has happened, but the question that everyone would ask is when will it be the last one???

I read in last week’s Times of India Sunday Edition, that a guy from Hyd was caught as he took some personal information from a girl from mysore and started blackmailing her or else he will post the information across porn sites. Girls need to be more careful[1]

What can we do to restirct net crimes [2]??? Is Internet a crime zone medium? 

Read one such story and please spread awarness among your peers to make Net a better place to live.

http://www.indianexpress.com/story/31150.html

Its shame to see such things as it hampers the wanna-be Web-Entrepreneurs.

Imagine you start a web service/product and things like these happen, and one-fine day Govt says close all these sites or even worst if parents restrict children to come to Internet.

huh? Any comments??

Cheerz
Sridhar

PS: 1] A personal advice to all the girls out there on Net, please dont share any personal information on web to strangers. Remove all the phone numbers, photos, videos, address etc from your profile. You can have a Net identity, fake name!!!!

2] If you happen to have a blog, write about it, dicuss such matters, spread the word of awarness. If you cant, atleast ping back this post.

A must to be read for every Indian!!!

Please go through this, a must for all Entrepreneurs and educated sections of India.

A story about Suresh Kamat, Managing Director of LaserSoft Infosystems about how one can really make a difference.

Hats off to you Sir!!!

http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/may/10bspec.htm

Cheerz
Sridhar

India is what Silicon Valley was some years back!!!

India is what silicon valley was some years back. Why am I saying this?

I can see a lot of start-ups coming from ex-employees of either of Infosys, wipro, TCS etc. After gaining sufficient business knowledge and domain expertise people set out to start their own firms. This is what has happened some 10 years back in now “Silicon Valley”.

While reading the book , ICON-Steve Jobs. In this book a paragraph stuck me, with the companies like Intel etc getting started, growing and then some employees quitted to start their own firm.

Can we relate this with Indian scenario? Yes, we can!!!

I would rather say that now start-ups are growing are mushrooms in the valley. One reason I can figure out why is, coz there were start-ups, hence there are start-ups. Do I make sense?

For start-ups most important thing is mentoring. Mentoring can only be done by people who have taken extra risk to become now “famous”. In India, we can now find Angel investors like KB Chandra Shekar, Kanwal Rekhi etc and need not to say lot of VC firms are growing even faster than the start-ups.

In all, India needs to keep the momentum going by producing more and more of start-ups {again, only product based}. We will be lucky enough to see the whole Indian economy changing in next 10 years.

Cheerz
Sridhar

Why in India, Media Is So Negative Minded?

Do I sound wrong when I say this? I don’t know. Let me give you some instances and then I will ask the same question again.

All of us, okay most of us watch movies {typical bollywood style} what is common in all of them? A hero, a heroine, a vilan and wait, there is something more. Rain and sex!!!

I am writing naked truth here, when you can watch all that in a movie? Why media has to make an issue out of Richard Gere and Shilpa Shetty’s kiss? They were there to spread the word of HIV among truck drivers. Media didnt talk about the truck drivers/the message that was given to them. No, people have never seen any kissing scene but films like Murder scores a blockbuster in India.

Another Instance, day before yesterday I was surfing channels and came across a “Special” show on Aaj Tak channel. It was titled “Lux Girl: Priyanka”. They showed it for next 1 hr{I was watching final of WC when it ended, again surfing came to Aaj Tak}.

Priyanka bathing with Lux. Big Deal, huh? 1 hr? Man, please tell them there are better things to be covered.

One more Instance, yesterday I was watching news and saw that in Jaipur some people from VHP and BJP{as claimed in News} has badly beaten up a Principal{a Christian} and so badly, man how can you people do that? In his house, in front of his old mother, a helpless wife and innocent kids?

No Surprise. News channel was covering it live. They were informed before hand and not police. Koool. People got the victim, Media got a story to live with.

Why dont people take time to show how Abhay-Anand and they “super 30″ is doing in Bihar? Why cant people show guts of a soldier? why cant people show young people being Entrepreneurs? Why not?
Why media only wants masala/spice?

I am writing this coz I am angry on the way things are being projected in the country and specially in a news channel.

Shri

PS{Please DO NOT watch Aaj Tak Channel, It’s all F**King crap}