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So finally the much hyped Web Design and Development workshop kick started today, am very much exhausted today. Though I tried my best to make the class as interesting as possible, still the topic in itself was such dull that even three people could not make it so interesting. In the middle I felt that people have started sleeping but still we cant help them if they cant help themselves.

The turnout was some 40-45, I was expecting more! Many of my third year friends didnt attend today since they know HTML, they will be turning up tomorrow for advanced HTML and getting the basics of Web Scripting. The Basics of Web Scripting includes telling how web development languages are different from desktop based languages. Telling them about interpreteres, how are they different from compilers and all those stuffs.

Well on the other side, my interview is caught badly in sessionals. We has appealed to college to just postpone the sessionals a day ahead next week, they taking a lot of time to give their decision. People had suggested me to give the interview at Mumbai this Saturday which is quite difficult as I have not prepared anything and in this present situation am sure to be rejected. Tomorrow Director will be coming out with his decision from which I dont have much hope. More updates tomorrow…

Is there something so special on this day? Does on need a special day to show off his/her love? Are other 364 days of the year not suited for the same? These questions can be answered only by those love birds, not by people like me and other singles! Those who do have some valentine miss no chance to prove their might on this auspicious event.

So how I passed this day? Just like any other day! Why? Quite simple, I dont have a girlfriend. Proud to be Single!!!

I had some unavoidable experiences while going out for work today at campus. Not my fault, if you are out of room on this day, you cant walk with your eyes closed. And I dont believe in that preaching of Gandhiji “Bura mat Dekho”!

Update on 18th March(This section is edited) : Well, said a lot, leaving for Bangalore on Saturday afternoon for Microsoft Internship Exams. Expect something from this exam, am an optimistic person but dont fly too high.

Any new year resolution? People do make some or the other, but what about me? I dont think making a resolution may lead to some magic or a sharp change in my luck and affairs. I have a very poor record of keeping up promises which were taken by lightly with a few exceptions.

Having spent two weeks here at home, I didnt even find time for meeting friends. Thanks to different time schedules in different universities. Tomorrow I may go to meet one of my friend who lives closeby and trying to meet 2-3 more before I leave. Today have to go to my grandparents, take blessings and sit back on this fascinating world of internet

Only 10 days are left here at home, havnt watched much movies as I wanted to spend more of my time with my family. Last few days were very exciting in relation to my technical side, will put up the updates soon (maybe tomorrow).

Till Then a warm Happy New Year to all my friends, relatives and country men…

This surely reflects the changing scenario of Indian politics. Modi has long been accused of using hatred politics and emotional issues for instigating people to garner votes. This time he had no such issues except developments and progress. People have given their verdict. BJP won by two-third majority alone and Congress with allies got some 65 seats.

I dont want to comment on emotional issues which so called intellectual people always think when the name of Modi crops up. These are those category of people who are equally responsible for instigating such acts. If they surely think that Modi is doing wrong, they should give him less coverage. Instead these people make him so much in lime-light that he has really become a hero.

Not only is Narendra Modi a hero, but he deserves to be. Its not that am his supporter, but am not even completely for him. I greatly cherish his plans for prosperous Gujarat. Those Chief Ministers who criticize him for riots should first look into their states, how people in their states live, such a pathetic situation. I could never believe that Surat- the city completely destroyed by plague once is again shining and is set to give even the metros a tough fight. Gujarat is the best place to start a business. Whatsoever be the situation, the reality is that it is that state which has the least terrorism. All other states are affected by some or the other internal security issues like naxalism, terrorism etc except Gujarat. The situation may become such that one day it can even stand on its own without center’s aid, like a free country.

Becoming a bit technical, I re-installed Ubuntu on my system. The other ext3 partition is remaining useless, unless I go back to pave its way for Fedora 8. My APTonCD backup rescued me a lot. Installed all basic softwares like gstreamer, libxine, abiword, geany, bluefish, bluetooth, gnochm, gparted, apache2, mysql5, php5, mod_fastcgi, audacious and many more thus saving my bandwidth. Three Cheers for the APTonCD project.

I know this is quite a new term for the general people. Actually our earth revolves round the sun inclined at angle to the axis. This leads to summers and winters and also unequal length of days and nights. So what you figured out. Today on 22nd night will be longest night of the year named as Winter solstice. I think of going to sleep early to enjoy this long beautiful night, this time this event fell on weekend. Hope all the people in the Northern Hemisphere must be enjoying their long sleep.

And a bit more update, my system is now screwed more heavily. I tried some more experiments and landed in a state that I cant boot Xubuntu Feisty and even Ubuntu Gutsy. I am unable to figure out what to do? Should I do a clean reinstall and lose all the setting and configuration. I have the backup of all the important packages, it is necessary as I have limited bandwidth on my internet connection. Presently am using my backup operating system - “Windows XP” which is the primary OS of more than 85% of this world

Guess how many people use Linux? Hardly a handful of them! Since I am a fan of Linux its my moral duty to accustom people with Linux and clear their doubts/myths and misconceptions. I have already installed it on numerous of my friend’s computers and still waiting for more.

Keeping up with the pace, last week on Saturday we 3 people- me,Shubhendra and Ayush organised the first meet of the Linux Users Group, Manipal which is a newly founded user group  for promoting Linux in Manipal. The response was awesome, some 80+ people turned out for the event/meet. The interaction with the juniors was also satisfying. It was really saddening to see the poor response in the third year itself. Third year students damn care about anything?

Before leaving we all asked them whether they want themselves to involve in some sort of group work. I had expected that some 10-15 students will stay back after the event. It was surprising to see around 35+ entries in the group work. More had called and asked themselves to be enrolled themselves as they were not able to turn up for the event due to some or the other reasons.

We have chalked out lots of plans. We intend to have a website for guiding newbies, we shall have an online magazine which is released once a month. We will have people for data collection so that they learn what they have to use.

And lastly we have more plans for next semester as this would be the first and last  event of the use group in this semester. Next semester on first saturday we hope to organize an install fest for students who want to install Linux on their systems. I have already given Live CD’s of Ubuntu Gutsy to some students and assigned some first and second year students with the work of distributing the CD ISO’s to those who want to try out this hot thing.

Since space and time is limited, I should conclude now without even mentioning hundreds of points which are still in my mind. Keep checking back soon, and you would be updated.