Thursday, May 29, 2008

The 96-yr-old who blogs

Understand the meaning of the words of Randall on his 96th year.

"I am a learner. I believe that when one stops learning he ceases to live and that it is never too late to learn,"

These words are nice and encouraging me to do what I am hided in myself.


Randall Butisingh


At an age when people begin to lose interest in many aspects of the world around them, 96-year-old Randall Butisingh not only mastered the intricacies of the internet but also began his own blog, which describes him as one of the world's oldest bloggers and shows him as a man with a remarkable catholicity of interests.

The grandson of indentured workers who were taken to Guyana to work on sugar plantations, Butisingh has watched the world transform many times over in the past nine decades and has adjusted himself to the changes.


"I am a learner. I believe that when one stops learning he ceases to live and that it is never too late to learn," Butisingh said.

At the age of 80, he learnt Arabic so he could read the Quran. At 95, he began studying Spanish and he is doing it "poco a poco" (little by little). Butisingh has an agile mind and an eager interest in life and at present he is studying the Hindu religion and philosophy.

Butisingh's blog is versatile. Its subject categories vary from Buxton (his home town), economics, world politics, environment, history, philosophy, poetry, psychology, religion and an inspiring thought for the day.

In April, Butisingh posted a blog on his website that stressed the need to keep the internet an open arena and out of the hands of those who wished to place restrictions on this free medium. He responds to every comment or response to his popular blog.

Born in Buxton, Demerara, in what is now Guyana, Butisingh has never visited India since he does not like travelling, but he has followed Indian history and geography.


"The person I admire most is Mahatma Gandhi, the architect of India's freedom. Although I never saw him, I wept when he died as many did all over the world," he said.

He has three collections of poems to his credit - "Love's Light", "Wild Flowers" and "Love's Balm". His poems were written in the 1970s and he was inspired to pen them after reading about the life of the late blind and deaf humanitarian, Helen Keller.

Explaining his daily routine, Butisingh said: "At my age, I do not work strictly as per routine. I cannot read for very long although I have good eyesight. You may find me in the day resting for hours and at nights up until two or three reading or typing up my blog.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

With the death toll from a massive earthquake in China now above 67,000, the government aims to prevent new deaths by protecting survivors from possible floods and the threat of a disease outbreak. Jamila Trindle reports from Beijing.



Chinese health officials said Tuesday that they have begun the country's largest public health effort in recent history to guard against the threat of epidemics among survivors of the Sichuan earthquake.

Concern about possible outbreaks is rising not only because survivors are living in cramped, sometimes unsanitary areas, but also because the threat of disease is always higher in the summer. Officials say there have been cases of diarrhea, tuberculosis, and hepatitis among survivors, and they are monitoring the cases closely.

Ministry of Health official Chen Xian Yi says researchers have compared the current outbreaks with disease patterns before the quake.

Chen says that they have found that there are no more cases after the earthquake. In other words, he says, so far, there has been no big outbreak of disease.

While health workers focus on disease, soldiers are trying to evacuate an additional 80,000 people from around a lake that formed when a landslide dammed a river during the quake. With heavy rains expected in the coming days, there are fears the dam could give way suddenly, causing a flood that could endanger more than a million people. More than 70,000 people evacuated the area earlier.


how deeply the disaster affect the people in china. If you want to see the coordination of chineese people even in this critical situation read the ppt . http://naveendavisv.googlepages.com/Earthquake11.ppt

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

A Crorepati who lives in a HUT!

http://noelatwork.blogspot.com/2008/05/crorepati-who-lives-in-hut.html is really touching blog entry. If you read this blog, then you have lot questions and doubts about entrepreneurship. E Sarathbabu, a self made enterpreneur gives you lot of confidence to start a business. His life is ansewer to who is an entrepreneur ?, Who can start a business and from where you get courage to face problems in business ??

Saturday, May 24, 2008

Entering into Insurance Domain

I am doing LOMA certification. For that I am getting a Insurance Class. Actually this is a fully new subject to me. Lot of terms that are unknown to me. First three classes really tough to get, because teachers, sorry BA(business analyst), they are starting with insurance terms and also I had missed first 7 chapters.Anyway I started to new area of knowledge, more related business and money.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

ubuntu counting my patience

I tried to get play audio and video in Ubuntu Linux. But it's showing "Totem could not start up" message. After that I went for downloading some other player.Then Synaptic Package Manager is showing some error like

W: Couldn't stat source package list http://archive.ubuntu.com hoary-updates/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hoary-updates_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)


this. I tried toinstall php also in ubuntu. But it also failed. 'apt-get install' is also not working. Now I am totaly upset.

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Sea bath

This is very hot season in chennai. Actually people call these days as Agni Nakshatram( burning star).In room I cann't sit, fortunately power cut is also there in my place( ha ha) .Today I got a chance to bath in sea. Really enjoyable.I went to Basant Nagar Beach at 5.30 pm.I called my hcl
friends also.Lot of people were enjoying the sea bath till I came
back(7.45 pm).Actually the water is not good for bath because it is
mixed with sand as well as some dirty things. Anyway after a long time I took bath in sea.
If there were more trees in chennai , it would have really helpful to escape from these hot season. Instead of trees, only building are here. It will only help to increase the temperature.The thing I understood , I have AC in my office, but the cooling I got from the sea shore had some more safty or calmness than I am getting from office.

Saturday, May 10, 2008

MLM in all forms is illegal: experts

Actually this was Deccan Chronicle news on Saturday 10 may 2008

Before going to join any MLM ( multi level marketing ) you should read and understand these words :

Speaking about the 'pyramid modeled' businesses, Ms. Shobha lyre, the deputy director of Citizen Consumer & Civic Action Group(CAG) says,"When the perpetrator and the victim of the crime are one and the same, it's matter of greed overtaking good sense. Unless the business is registered with a proper license, those involved will not come under the purview of the Consumer Protection Act".
Mr. Chandrashekar, special public prosecutor for the CBI in the high court says that MLM companies are governed by the 'Prize chits and Money Circulation schemes ( Banning) Act'. He explains, " According to judgement passed in 2005, the so-called MLM squarely falls under the defintion of 'money circulation schemes' under the aforementioned act."
He adds, " In fact, enrollment of new members to the MLM scheme with a promise of an incentive is illegal. Under Section 7 of the act, any meeting held to canvas people or influence them to join
an MLM chain can actually be stopped by the law of enforcement authorities."


89 % of the people in pyramid model business is not getting any profit .

read more here why I wrote this blog.. questnet problem and hindu news
http://mohanbn.com/blog/chennai-police-crack-on-questnetgoldquest/

Sunday, May 4, 2008

my blog traffic is not through college friends, but through blog dictionaries

In order to get traffic to blog, I sent blog link to my friends. But only few of them responded for once or twice. Meanwhile I joined in blogcatalog . For first two weeks I don't have idea about how to use that. After that I added some good blogs and site authors as my friends and neighbours. At the same day or next day they were sending messages like "thnks for adding me as friend or nice blog ". Actually these people really encouraging me to blog. Then I searched what are the other blog dictionaries.Blog dictionaries are where you can submit your blog or website and make friends there, can make even communities there. I got some . Actually there I found lot of people (more women) doing internet business( full free. no cost, nothing ). They have four or five web site . They beautifully maintaining those and achieving good traffic !!!!!!!!!!

www.blogcatalog.com
www.blogdigger.com
www.blogadda.com
www.blogsvertise.com
www.topblogarea.com
www.mybloglog.com

Saturday, May 3, 2008

Amazon Ads in blogspot

I added some amazon advertisement to my blog. Actually it is very simple to do.
Go to amazon associates . There you have to create one account and register your web site. When you log in, you have an option to 'build links/widgets '. From there select your format of advertisement and you will get html code with your account id inserted(verify it) . Copy and paste it in your blog.... thats it.

Friday, May 2, 2008

ubuntu running

Today only I installed ubuntu linux. After installation I had xserver configuration problem in ubuntu so that I could not go to graphics mode. I tried lot off time to login as root(super user) . Actually ubuntu will not ask root password at installation time. Finally I had to google for that. Then I got 'sudo' command. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo . Reconfiguring command for xserver is 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg'

A confession of a Btech student... the things I forgot to follow

Really I wasted lot off time in Btech life. When I joined in the Electronics & comm department , I thought I would get everything from teachers itself. But in Btech 90% of things, a student need to study by himself... that is fact. It is possible... easily possible. But you should follow whatever principles you followed in the schooling time. Wake up early at least 6 am. Give half an hour to every subject in every day. .... every body will have one time table in school time.One thing that is different in college, teachers will not take portions everyday . So we have to study ourself to cover that day portions. Main problem for students failing to follow these principles in Btech ( from my experience and problems me faced) are .....
Following some superheros..... Those are coming in car to college or showing that they have some money or having 3 or 4 girl friends to talk...haha. Don't follow them. They are only showing their father's money or what they got before coming to college. Believe that you are the superhero. Show your hard work and abilities in studies and helping others. You can show things that you learned after coming to college. For that you must try to clear your weaknesses..... struggle for that.
Wasting time . ... In my college life, I stayed in hostel. In that days , I didn't get interest to study, because no portions of subject were moving. ... Nothing to study. The subject that taking in classes were not interesting. But one thing I can tell, if you try to study subject daily , you can create interest in those subjects easily and you can follow teacher's classes also. But Btech study culture is, only studying in exam holidays. I will tell, you can pass exams with that study, but it will not give satisfaction in study. Don't follow that culture , follow the study culture you got from your schooling. My mother is a teacher, so I know how strictly I followed sch ool time table and my own time table , including weekly revision of subjects.( i really confessing. ) . I forgot to tell how I wasted my time in Btech life. Actually i didn't get my own private time. Always some friends wil be there.( these are not their problem only , I also included in disturbing others ) .. playing cards , going for movies, talking about waste things...... etc. These things are needed, I know . But no limitations was there in my Btech life. “ Better you take single room or come from home to college . You should get your own 5 hours time daily“ this is my first advice to Btech students.

Make use of everything in your college... attend your teacher's class.. I least go and attend the classes. If you are following the daily portions then that classes will be helpful. Attend seminars , technical talks of every subject ,including other department. “Don't think I am a electronics student so why should I attend a computer science or mechanical subject talk”. Attend... attend. No need to understand everything . Make use of your library. Read books.... Don't read for exam. Study to get some extra knowledge. This was the No:1 mistake I did in my Btech. I didn't take even a single book from my main library.... I am really regretting because of that. But I usually go and take magazines from my department library . There are really good books and magazines that you can not subscribe or buy. My favorites are 'linux for you', 'PC Quest', 'electronics for you'. Go and participate every technical programs in every college.

The things that you must follow other than you followed in school are you must make a habit of browsing Internet 1 hour daily . Relate the subject you studied and the information you got from Internet . Try to acquire knowledge,technology,computer programming language from Internet. This is not for CS ,ECE but for every Btech student, Every day you should try for some new thing from Internet. At the same time you should not go back in your college subjects.

Every week or month you should try a project with the information you get from college, internet, magazines, books. In electronics there are lot off magazines and projects avaliable . Try to do those things monthly as group( with your friends) or individual.

Try to read English news papers daily and discuss daily news. That will improve your English as well as communication skill.(second mistake I did)

Thursday, May 1, 2008

TATAINDICOM broadband in my laptop ubuntu

I have adsl router.
step1: http://192.168.1.254 (type adsl username and password as 'admin')
step2: in Interface Set Up -> select ISP as PPPoE/PPPoA
. enter your broadband provider given username and password
. encapsulation : PPPoELLC
. give ip address : dynamic (in that page)
. SAVE

. click Maintenance -> Sysrestart
. click current settings
. RESTART
. wait upto RESTART complete.

step3: in Ubuntu
. System -> Administration -> Networking

. Enternet connection -> Properties

. configuration - > static ip address
. ip address : 192.168.1.7
. subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
. gateway : 192.168.1.254

. DNS : 202.54.6.60