I can’t believe this but we’re going to the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2008 World Finals at France

How’d we get in? Thank the Software Design Interoperability Awardкомпютри втора употреба I am really ecstatic right now so I can’t say much other than France, here we come!

So far, I’ve seen us, DCites (who are with us at IIM-A), Novices@Work, Team Douleur Vue Ame (Embedded Development, India) and a few people in the Algorithms final. This is Team India for this year and I’m proud to be part of it

Now its 8:14 AM and if you’ll excuse me, I’ll start worrying about my DBMS exam right about now and the fact that we our return flight tickets are scheduled for 16:30 when our exams end at 18:00 (yeah, we’re waiting for new tickets :P)

You can have a look at the official announcement on the Imagine Cup Interop Forum thread named “Interoperability Award Finalists Announced!“

Tags: Imagine Cup

Oh good freaking god yes! Try working 20 hours day, every day at IIM-A then taking a flight back to Mumbai for an exam; A flight which was got us to Mumbai at 11 pm instead of 9:40 pm. Watching the match at your place.. seeing Ronaldo take the lead, seeing Tavez miss two dead easy shots and then Lampard poaching a lucky goal on a very bad surface to play. Second half honestly, I didn’t watch that well cause I was sleepy but I fought sleep and stayed awake only for my tv cable connection to die at the 88th minute
I check the connections, they are proper so its an tv cable provider thing.
So what do I do? I go to online scores. I talked to a few people on IRC and a friend was live commentating for me (quicker and more detailed than online thingo). It was dead exciting… You couldn’t have written a better script. Tavez misses the 2 chances, scores the penalty. Ronaldo scored a goal but missed the penalty. Terry had to score to win it but he didn’t! In the end, it was Nicolas Anelka who missed it. Sorry but this was just our year
Yay for Manchester United \o/ They have won the UEFA Champions League after drawing the match 1-1 in regular and extra time A special thank you to Drogba for getting a red Wonder why Rooney didn’t take a penalty
(As I was writing the line “so its an tv cable provider thing”, I checked on my pc and got the tv back… now I am seeing us get the trophy I’ll post it just as they lift it up Now only to see the replay :))

Here’s how the penalties panned out

Tags: ManUtd

Ever heard this before? If you haven’t its probably good. Read on.
The whole thing started last Thursday, the 21st of February when I was late to a practical. I spent my time in the library doing my work and one of my class mates comes and tells me that Accenture is coming to Pillais this Saturday (23rd of February, 2008) and we (our college’s students) are invited!
The requirement was to have a mere 55%+ aggregate up until your 4th semester. The reporting time was 8AM. So we leave college 3 hours early telling our professors that most students want to prepare their resumes and all of them need to study for the tests.
If you don’t know this already, companies have an aptitude test, group discussion (GD), a HR (Human Resources) interview and a Technical Interview (hence forth referred to as Techni or TR).

I must warn you. This is going to be long post explaining the entire process. If in case you’re interested, do read on. This is written for freshers (students) who want to give Accenture interviews, know about their Aptitude test, GD, HR and Technical Interview rounds. I’m going to try to keep the 2 day ordeal as short as possible, yet informative.
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Tags: Accenture, interview

3 posts in 3 days.. That doesn’t usually happen often but this latest one is just for the ones who know The AXIS in any shape or form.
After the events over the past few days, I’ve just been informed that I’ve been inducted into the AXIS Core. I guess congratulations are in order, for myself

I’m not a man of many words when it comes to such things. This was certainly a surprise. I was expecting this day to come in a month or two when I’d get down to finishing dP2P for the release of Scribble Scrabble 1.0 (the long duration because of over due college work, nothing else :P) but hey, I’m not complaining.

I enjoyed my time as an AXIS member for 1 month and 29 days. It was fun being part of the AXIS support team for 1 months 22 days and each one of the 1 year, 1 month and 12 days I’ve spent as an AXIS Aspirant have been educational.
Now the inf days I shall spend in the AXIS Core should certainly be enlightening.

You can read about the official post by SaM on the AXIS RDC.

May the greenness shine upon you.

Tags: AXIS

PRAXIS 07 Day 1 is set and done and I’m really tired after all the work. So let me just give you a brief summary of what happened today.

1. Me and Renuk finished first in Mind Benders.
2. Me, Renuk and Prasen finished third in the Open Software competition with Scribble Scrabble.
3. SaM, strider and motr_fresco finished first (tied) in the Open Software competition with Transperancy.
4. SaM, strider, motr_fresco and musicaltherapyworks finished first (tied) in the Open Software competition with expRSS.

So thus far the first day has been good. 3 certis bagged and a ton of cash The events I shall be taking part in tomorrow are SupremaC and Brainwave. Lets keep our fingers crossed and hope we can rack up as many things as possible

From what I heard, I was just one step away from winning the PRAXIS On Line Treasure Hunt (OLTH). Oh well Me and anna want to break our record with the first rounds of C Coding competitions.. lets hope we do

Edit: Seems some people want to see a screen shot of Scribble Scrabble. Lets show it to them. It might be just plain windows GUI for now but it will be spiced up in the end when all the back end for all the features are done. XAML (.NET 3.0) should show its worth then

Tags: AXIS, competitions

Im thinking of running a second blog with a simple interface. Ive been searching for quite a long time and decided to use saralblog. I have the interface ready for quite a long time. All i need to do is the integration of the two.

I shall use this project to post the random things that i like and find online. I havent decided on a name so if you have any suggestions then please let me know

If you want to see the template and comment on it then read further ….
With my ever expanding collection, i need more space. As things stand, it seems my new pc will be here soon. I definately need the space cause the otherday i ran out of it :p. Atm if you want to see the songs that i have then you should see my playlist page.
So you wanna see the template of my new project …. well that was kinda it. The actual template can be found here. No the url will not be the same

This has been a tough decession for me but one i should have taken some time back. I have decided to stay off my pc and cease all the work i was doing untill the 16th of december because of my exams. So if you dont see me, now you know why.

Well i have to get up tomorow morning and goto my college to pick up my examination hallticket. Then its my exams from wednesday (oh god please help me ;)) and they end on the 16th. After that i plan to get a theme changer (since alex kings doesnt work and i need one ….) Lot of people have been complaining that they wanted this theme or that theme …. i even told tasha to post here so that i remember to do this one (tho she doesnt know why i told her to say that. She must have been like, i just told you on msn, why do you want me to tell you on your blog :S) Well its cause there is a constant reminder that i need to do something
I plan to use java to change the path of my css and i think that should do it but that causes the fundamental problem of the path to the images. Dont worry ill figure it out

Anyways wish me luck. 18 years of hardwork all depends on these 10 or so days. If i make it big time here, all my dreams come true, else ….. im screwed

Since i have a new domain name, i thought i should get a new theme too. The older one looked awesome. But it made purely in xhtml and one error in the code would make it crash so i decided to update the look with my name.

I just finished the banner editing and i have uploaded it. There are a few things left but this theme looks awesome. Ill get matt to fix the problem with the double toolbar on the comments page.

Im too drowsy atm to do anything so im off to bed. Tomorow is the sem ending and i have to get 1 journal corrected. (Well we do have college tomorow as well but who’s gonna sit for the lectures :refuck:)

Its just a small collection of online games that i like. I have just seen them here and there. Just play them for fun and enjoy them. My favorite atm is Curveball. Read the stuff there and just enjoy.

Click here to goto my arcade thingy

If you have any contributions or any reason to contact me then you can do it by using my Contact Page. Tell me if you have more such games, or if you could just make a simple layout for that page then be sure to drop a line at my Contact Page.

Legal Mambo Jambo: All rights belong to respective owners. This is just for fun so dont take it serious or anything

My dream domain has always been Jalife.net but that will cost me some money that i havent saved up to at the moment so i got a domain name Jalife.Be (Update: Now Jalife.net!)

Jalife is short for Jatonian Life for all you lovely newbs who didnt figure it out yet

Thanks again (for the millionth time) to -dt- for all the help that he provided