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Update: I've bought a domain and now reside on http://rampr.net

I've temporarily started blogging(not much though) at http://ram.redanyway.com. Well it started with me not being able to add their widget on my blog here on livejournal. I met these guys in Ahmedabad and wanted to give it a try. I will be writing here too, but I still do keep reading all my friends' posts here and commenting on them.

Edit: Now a feed exists for my new blog, which can be added to the friends' list. Thanks  mystic_life  for creating the same. The new feed is ramprasad2

We guys were featured in the Ahmedabad edition of the DNA.

It's been only a week and it feels like I've been here for a long time. The campus is really good and am really enjoying my time. It feels like I'm back to college. We pull each other crack jokes as well as discuss intensely about our projects and our work which feels really good. The other major thing that we are allowed to roam around inside/outside the campus at anytime we want. I remember my college days which was kind of sick where we were supposed to get inside the hostels by 7.30 and nobody is allowed outside.

Gujarat is more a vegetarian and dry state, but I like the food in here. The city is lively in the evenings and people roam around even after 11(it is because of the heat and it is difficult to roam around in the day time) which is unlike Bangalore where the city sleeps by 11.00.

The facilities are good, we have access to all the outdoor games which I hadn't played for a long time and we also have a Wii here :) We have been getting a lot of mentors and more are on their way.

I'm learning Hindi since everyone around me is speaking in Hindi and finally an intern is joining us the coming week.

We made it to iAccelerator 2009 edition along with 5 other startups. iAccelerator is a ycombinator style fund based in India. We will be incubated at IIMA. I hope it is going to be great working with like minded people around us. Looking forward :)

It's official, Oracle is finally buying Sun for a total of $7.4 Billion.

What started out as a deal between IBM and Sun and after IBM Sun didn't work out, one of the major contenders seemed to be Oracle. Hope Sun is in safe hands and the Java, mysql community lives.

More on the deal - http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/index.jsp

This is the ad that I saw on myspace's home page.

Following things that I'ven noted to make yourself popular on the web (the list is not in any particular order)

1. Use Twitter
2. Be on facebook. Make your profile public. Facebook provides detailed control of what information you want to make public. Have a page on facebook for your brand/product
3. Use LinkedIn. Join communities. Ask questions and answer questions
4. Write a blog and post it often
5. Use IRC
6. Join technical/non-tech mailing lists

Update: After I wrote this, more things are listed here - http://onstartups.com/home/tabid/3339/bid/9008/Startup-Marketing-Tactical-Tips-From-The-Trenches.aspx

We got the game ported to myspace and orkut. We had them previously on our website and on facebook. Play Now and Have Fun!

Links : Loop the Loop on Myspace
Loop the Loop on Orkut

I'd been to the HP Service centre to get my battery replaced. After I filled up the form, I surfed through their policies/Terms and Conditions on the back of the form when something this phrase caught my eye "HP is not liable for .....fire, power act of gods and ......".

I certainly didn't expect such a phrase. It could have been natural calamities or atleast acts/forces of nature.

What do aethists have to say about this ? :P

Many a times I keep thnking about languages and this is what I've observed.

English is one language where letters have different sounds inidividually and different when part of a word, whereas other languages like Tamil or Hindi have the same sound when said individually or when they are part of a word.
Thus a word like 'Amma' in Tamil when pronounced is simply the sounds of each individual letter 'Aa' + 'im' + 'ma' whereas the word mother, each letter sounds different when the word is spelt and it has a different sound when the word as such is pronounced.
So probably Hindi or Tamil and such languages are easy to learn and read

One thing that was common between Hindi and English is the last letter of every word - in both languages they end with the short sound('it', 'il' etc. I don't know if it is supposed to be called the short sound).

And finally I figured 'OK' is one word in English where the letters of the word have the same sound individually as well as in that word :) Probably 'okay' is the right word

Guess, I've been jobless!