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Statement I hate the most from News organization/Politicians

Posted by toalakan-web on July 13, 2011 None comments

Whenever I read/hear an variant of the below text from news organization or any politicians I just can’t control my anger and today its a little high after reading this.

“After a so & so incident(mostly bomb blasts), the so & so city city people stood resilient,bold and went for work with out any issue”.

These statement has appeared so many times across different countries during different times since I knew and all I have is these questions for the writers.

  1. Do you really think that the people of any nation/city really care about the incident? unless they are a close friend or relative.
  2. Do you think most of the people have the luxury to take  a day off after the incident occurs?
  3. Do you think the government/corporate going to give mourning day offs? unless its a natural disaster that’s affecting a huge area.

Just stop these statements it really doesn’t make sense and report/follow up on the investigation of these blasts and please delete this news template as well.

 

What happens to the Doctorates?

Posted by toalakan-web on January 19, 2010 None comments

Well the news is out the Govt. of India is derecognizing 44 so called deemed universities in India due to lack of infrastructure facilities. Finally some one in the Education department recognized it and blew the whistle.

Although I didn’t study in any of these universities but I have visited some of them during my UG time and they weren’t gr8 even then so I’m gonna assume world didn’t become flat in last 5 years.

An example for the so called deemed university standard is when some universities awarded doctorates to some south indian actors just like a freebie (Google it).

So will these actors return the so call doctorates since these universities are no more universities?

I hope at least from now on people think twice before accepting any kind of doctorates just for the fun of it. I’m sure actors work hard as well but Please don’t mix academics and acting it doesn’t go well keep them separate.

Oscar looks good with A.R.Rahman than with Dr.A.P.J Abdul Kalam. Doesn’t it?

Where is bi.ng and Ap.pl?

Posted by toalakan-web on December 15, 2009 None comments

Just read the news that the mighty Google has released its own URL shortener tool http://goo.gl which is available with Google Toolbar and  FeedBurner according to press release.I’m sure the tool will slowly be used by all Google products and may be ship with Android and Chrome OS which would be cool.

Pretty much every IT companies have started their own URL shortener web apps. The next question is when Microsoft(http://bi.ng/) and Apple(http://ap.pl) are going to release their URL shortener tools?

Universal Mobile chargers finally..

Posted by toalakan-web on October 25, 2009 None comments

CNET news reported that the International Telecommunication Union a branch of UN has decided to go for universal mobile phone chargers.

In a world where each mobile phone from same manufacture have different chargers working this is a welcoming sign.

I also hope ITU gets in to and standardize the chargers for all portable devices as well. I’m tired of carrying individual chargers for my mobile, Blue Tooth headset and mp3 player. If we can standardize the laptop chargers that will be awesome too..

The only reason I’m worried is it wont happen soon enough. Since this is something driven by a branch of UN and we all know how long it would take for all countries to accept these protocols. Lets hope all the manufactures fall in line and accept it soon…

At least I’m happy that some where in distant future that there will less chargers lying around in my house.

Change of theme

Posted by toalakan-web on September 18, 2009 1 comments

Its been quite a while since I switched my wordpress theme to a different one. I changed some time in march and there were some issues with IE browser so reverted.

This time I have decided not to change the theme for IE issues alone. I’m done playing games for IE.

As far as the new theme its still boring as the old one but this blog is ain’t for some media blog so I will live with this one for some time.

Too much of rambling for a simple theme change.. so the 1 or 2 users who read this boring post :) please leave a comment if you have any UI issues other than IE seriously..

The Ripple Effect

Posted by toalakan-web on May 18, 2009 1 comments

With the United Progressive Alliance – UPA lead by Congress(I) winning the 2009 Indian parlimentary election with a surprise and its ripple effects has started showing up.

Obviously the first place to feel the effect is the closest to the center that’s Srilanka where BBC has reported that Velupillai Prabhakaran leader of LTTE has been killed. Although it could be rumor as usual but pretty much LTTE will be taken of the equation from now on in Srilanka.

But good news LTTE regrets the loss of innocents life ,not able to protect them any more and willing to silence their guns (nice term indeed).

There above statement is like the saying in tamil

kann ketta pin sooriya namash kaaram

which means Praying to the Sun god after losing the eye.

All mayhem over the weekend..

Update – 05/24/2009:

LTTE has finally accepted that Prabhakaran is dead. Hopefully with the end there will be a better solution in srilanka.

India Election result maps(2009) using ESRI Arcgis Flex API

Posted by toalakan-web on May 15, 2009 None comments

As usual I was lookig for a site that would show the Indian goverment election 2009 and I found out that electio commision has a site set up with the maps and stats online.

Here is the web site http://www.eciresults.nic.in/

The intersting part is they have a amazing interative map online using ESRI Arcgis Flex API and Arcgis server.

BTW ESRI is a company that I work for and now I can tell my friends when my friends ask about the place I work.

What good will it do

Posted by toalakan-web on October 13, 2008 1 comments

What good will it do especially after the last fiasco with with Karnataka govt.

Google News in Tamil..

Posted by toalakan-web on October 7, 2008 None comments

Not sure how long Google News had tamil news feed from Aug 6 2008 but I just found about it today. Now I will be able read all crappy,funny and gossips from tamil news papers as well.

With every political party preparing for elections its going to be fun. Since none of the parties can give a definitive solution for high inflation in India TN politicians have smartly used the Srilankan Tamil cause as a scape goat to divert people from inflation.

“Yethanai kaalamthan yematruvar indhe naattile” (for how long will these people cheat in this country).

Irony

Posted by toalakan-web on September 10, 2008 1 comments

Here is an article that I was reading today which basically says that Indian chefs are welcome in UK but not IT workers.

Soon after that I was wondering if Veera Pandiya Kattabomman welcomed any of them to his kingdom. Time changes lot..:)

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