Know your Java @ GIDS

Posting this from my mobile live right from the J N Tata Auditorium, Indian institute of science, Bangalore where the Great Indian Developer Summit is going on this week. First session was an interesting talk on CLOUD COMPUTING. The second session called ''Know your Java'' by Venkat Subramanian was probably one of the best sessions i have attended till date. It was a highly interactive session and Venkat used a very unique style of presentation which kept the audience enthralled till the end. Venkat also gave away some books to people who voluntreered,

~signing off from my mobile!

Interesting Writings of my Name

RANGANATH IN BARCODE!

RANGANATH IN MORSE CODE

RANGANATH IN BRAILLE ALPHABET

RANGANATH IN SIGN LANGUAGE

RANGANATH IN MARINE FLAG LANGUAGE

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Saraswathi Pooja at Home

Goddess Saraswathi

Today we celebrated Saraswathi pooja at home with the presence of a couple of friends and some neighbors. We somehow managed to do the pooja in spite of the power which kept toggling on and off frequently. The evening was very graceful and calm, i wish we could have it the same every evening. Me and my friends even enchanted some beautiful songs and shlokas on Goddess Saraswathi praying her to bless everyone.

A small set of instruments at home

(Just 1 mridangam, 1 khanjira, 2 acoustic guitars, 1 electric guitar, 1 violin, 1 shruthi box, 1 distortion box, 1 keyboard, 4 shakers, 1 twitter and a mixer, microphone & headphones for recording and mixing)

Saraswathi Pooja at Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan

Today we celebrated a Grand Saraswathi Pooja at Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan - Bangalore, the institute where i learn Carnatic Vocal under Vidushi Smt. H. V. Gayathri and Mridangam under Vidwan Sri. T. A. S. Mani.


The program had a pleasant start with Pooja of Saraswathi, the goddess of Knowledge! Then came up the beautiful Invocation Song "Dehi Dehi Shaaradaa" which was sung by 8 students of Carnatic Vocal class including me.




The program turned out more meaningful with the speech of our respected chief guest, Hon'ble Justice Smt. Manjula Chellur, Judge, Karnataka High Court. The speech was and motivational in all senses when she mentioned anyone could spend money and become popular in this world, but to become an artiste, one has to be gifted and artists are those special ones chosen by the almighty to spread happiness in this world!

The program continued with our respected chief guest presenting the Diploma Certificates to the students who had passed the exams held in July this year since this was also our Convocation Day as celebrated every year.

It was great to be part of this program and i look forward for the next program to be held most probably in February 2009 on the account of Founder's Day at Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan.

So long gone?

All off a sudden i remembered that i had a blog ;)

Carnatic Vocal 3rd year results announced!

The results of my Carnatic Vocal exam for 3rd year i took at Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan, Bangalore were announced today and i secured A Grade :)

This marks my completion of Junior Diploma in Carnatic Vocal at Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan!

My Car

Carnatic Vocal exam for 3rd year done :)

Today, I finished my Carnatic Vocal practical exam for 3rd year i took at Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan, Bangalore :)

Carnatic Vocal theory exam for 3rd year done :)

Today, I finished my Carnatic Vocal theory exam for 3rd year i took at Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan, Bangalore :)

My Car

Going the ROKR way...

Finally decided to buy this one since i am used to a touchscreen marvel called Motorola A780 :) This too, like my A780, runs on LINUX ;)

Lost my beloved Motorola A780 today :(

Today i lost my Motorola A780 while boarding a bus :(

Orkut's look revamped!

India shows thumbs down to M$ open format

India has done a great job by deciding to vote a "NO" to Microsoft's OOXML(Open Office Extensible Mark Up Language) document format against the ODF(Open Document Format) proposed by a lot other companies who believe in openness. This war of formats has been going on for several months now. The voting will be held at the International Standards Organisation (ISO) in Geneva on September 2 and about 123 counties are participating in the vote.

Read more on this here.

Orkut celebrates MTV Youth Icon of the Year contest...

Carnatic Vocal 2nd year results announced!

The results of my Carnatic Vocal exam for 2nd year i took at Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan, Bangalore were announced today and i secured A Grade :)

Orkut celebrates 60th Independence Day of INDIA

60th INDEPENDENCE DAY OF INDIA

Today we celebrate 60 years of Independence in India, the 60th Independence Day...

Happy Independence Day to all the citizens of INDIA living all over the world. I LOVE MY INDIA! JAI HIND!

15th August declared as INDIA DAY in Washington state

Orkut logo and login page revamped!

Apple's form factor (R)Evolution

GMail Woes!

GMail has started turning weird day by day, If you can check say more than a couple of mails per minute, They feel that you are a MACHINE and are ABUSING their system!

Killer Motivation!

Project Coordinator!

aMSN

aMSN is an free open source MSN Messenger clone, featuring:
» Display pictures
» Custom emoticons
» Multi-language support (around 40 languages currently supported)
» Sign in to more than one account at once
» File transfers
» Group support
» Normal, and animated emoticons with sounds
» Chat logs
» Event alarms
» Webcam support
» History in color
» Ability to autoclose the filetransfer window when it is finished
» New plugins log window (Alt-P)
» Plugins compatible with supported languages
» Faster loading skin window
» Skins in chatwindow
» Resizable chatwindow bottom
» When you add a new user, you can define in which group you want to add them
» When a contact change status, the top of the chat window changes color ( green for away, grey for offline, etc.)
» New panel GUI to alert when there's a new aMSN version
» Possibility to download the new release directly by aMSN
» Automatically update language files and plugins from the web
» New gui for deleting users (also possible to block on deletion)
» Possible to add notes for each user (XML)
» Support for MSN Mobile service
» Tabbed windows so you can group conversations using tabs
» Status is displayed inside a frame, so it won't dissapear when you scroll
» Display picture in notification alert (like MSN 7)
» Statistics for history (logging)
» Now possible to choose any state for your login status (before it was only possible to login invisible or online)
» Timestamping

But that's not all! More features can be added to aMSN with plugins, or for the adventurous, completely change the look of aMSN with different skins!


Checkout the product website here.

Carnatic Vocal exam for 2nd year done :)

Today, I finished my Carnatic Vocal practical exam for 2nd year i took at Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan, Bangalore :)

One of my most favorite KANNADA song of all times : prEmada hUgAra

Posters for a Cause : A Blood Donation Camp

I did a couple of posters recently for a blood donation camp... Finally spent some of my creative time for a good cause :)

Carnatic Vocal theory exam for 2nd year done :)

Today, I finished my Carnatic Vocal theory exam for 2nd year i took at Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan, Bangalore :)