Blissful Life

Month: February 2009

  • One Great Educational, Astronomical Website – Chandra Harvard

    Since its launch on July 23, 1999, the Chandra X-ray Observatory has been NASA’s flagship mission for X-ray astronomy, taking its place in the fleet of “Great Observatories.

    This is what they have to say about the observatory. But, actually though this website is designed to be a connection between people and the Chandra observatory, it happened to include some great educational resources.

    If you are in the search of a great place to start your journey in inter-galactic science, then the chandra.harvard.edu, is your answer.

    And, if you are interested only in those educational resources, here is where you must go : Education

  • India vs Sri Lanka first and only Twenty 20 T20 February 10

    PATHAN BROTHERS DOING IT OUT FOR INDIA

    Set, a target of 172 by Sri Lanka who scored 171 / 4 in 20 overs.

    India lost Sehwag at the very end of the first over.
    The very beginning of the second over Gambhir out caught.
    Pressure mounts as Raina and Yuvraj makes a brilliant partenrship (67 runs) and takes the score to 81.
    Yuvraj falls 81/3
    Raina falls 99/4
    Even Dhoni fails 108/5
    Rohit Sharma slumbers 110/6
    Jadeja bowled 115/7

    What followed was breathtaking batting by the two Pathan brothers – Irfan Pathan and Yousuf Pathan

    Yousuf Pathan started it out by hitting 17 runs in the first 5 balls of his partenrship with his younger brother.
    After that he scored only 5 runs.
    But, on the other end, Irfan Pathan hit the remaining boundaries, lit by his brother’s chewing gum confidence.
    Four.
    2 runs.
    18 required of 2 overs.
    Yousuf takes a single, gives strike to Irfan.
    No run.
    Six.
    2 runs.
    Four.
    No run.
    just 5 runs required from the last over
    Yousuf again gives strike to his brother.
    And goes. Irfan finishes it in style with a bang six.
    And the brothers go jumping and punching into the air. Hug each other. Hug everyone. Gets love from everyone.

    Ends the drama.(real-life drama)

  • Kerala State Board SSLC Exam Scheme or Time Table for SCERT State Board Examinations of SSLC Kerala

    3 days rest will be given before English and Mathematics examinations.

    English and Social Science exams will be from 1:45 PM to 4:30 PM and all other exams up to 3:30 PM

    A cool-off time will be given for the first 15 minutes.

    Date

    Time

    Subject

    March 11, 2009

    1:45 PM to 3:30 PM

    Malayalam – 1

    March 12, 2009

    1:45 PM to 3:30 PM

    Malayalam – 2

    March 16, 2009

    1:45 PM to 4:30 PM

    English

    March 17, 2009

    1:45 PM to 3:30 PM

    Hindi

    March 18, 2009

    1:45 PM to 4:30 PM

    Social Science

    March 19, 2009

    1:45 PM to 3:30 PM

    Physics

    March 23, 2009

    1:45 PM to 3:30 PM

    Mathematics

    March 24, 2009

    1:45 PM to 3:30 PM

    Chemistry

    March 25, 2009

    1:45 PM to 3:30 PM

    Biology

    March 26, 2009

    1:45 PM to 3:30 PM

    I.T.

     

    Courtesy : Mathrubhumi (February 10, 2009)

  • BSNL Broadband India Best Plans

    I will agree to the fact that BSNL is the most economic, if not the best, broadband service provider in Kerala, if not in India. Because, apart from providing a range of options like USB, wi-fi, ethernet, it also has packages that allow BSNL landline to go along with broadband. And with my personal experience I am posting the best of those plans.

    For home users with BSNL landline phone at their homes, the best available option is the Home 500 C combo plan. Along with 1.5 GB free download and unlimited free download between 0200 hours and 0800 hours, it gives you 175 free calls @ Rs 500 / month (OR you can pay Rs 5000 for a year too .I.e. : Rs 5000/12 = Rs 417/month ). Moreover for government employees there is a 20% reduction for BSNL broadband usage only (and not telephone) which, in this case, is extended to the telephone charges too.

    If you are a computer professional working at home and needs unlimited plans, BSNL has got the best for you. They provide Unlimited Broadband for home users at just Rs 750 per month. Remember, it is not combo plan.

    For beginners BSNL has startup plans. But be careful while chosing these. BSNL offers a Rs 250 / month Broadband plan that gives you just 1GB free download and no free download during nights (happy hours : 0200 – 0800). So this can suit you only if you are just a beginner and are not going to visit youtube.com and also if you don’t have bsnl landline or you have them at lower rates. If you are in urban areas and have monthly landline charge around Rs 300, then Home 250 will make your bill Rs 550, whereas with Home 500 Combo you get only Rs 500, with almost the same amount of free calls (200 becomes 175) and much more download (1 GB to 1.5 GB + night unlimited).

    Also, never ever opt for Home 125 startup plan. It gives you just 150 MB free usage and the sites like Orkut, if you visit everyday are gonna eat up that in a few days. So you will have to pay another 125 for extra usage.

    Choose Wisely. Live Well

  • ‘Saraswati Vijayam’ by Potheri Kunjambu

    ‘Saraswativijayam’ (1892) is a malayalam novel by Pother Kunhambu (1857 – 1919)

    Saraswativijayam begins with the attempted killing of a Pulayan for daring to sing in the vicinity of a proud Nambudiri landlord. Although believed to be dead, the Pulayan survives, and the rest of the novel follows the two protagonists – the master and the slave – as each of them seeks out his particular salvation. The Brahmin goes to Kashi and cleanses himself of pride and ignorance, the Pulayan, through the space opened up by colonial education and Christianity, becomes a judge. At the end of the novel, the Pulayan presides over the trial of the Nambudiri and also marries his granddaughter Saraswati. The novel has the epigraph: Education is the greatest of all wealth.

    Source: Hindu

  • TIme dilation confusing

    In a science forum, when somebody asked

    “hey guys im tryin to explain to my older brother
    that time is relative to the observer… he’s kinda stubborn and I
    can’t get through to him. He says it’s not logical. I told him about
    the 2 atomic clocks and the jet and how time was deifferent on them
    afterwards but he said i must not know the full story… anyone here
    have an idea of how i can prove this? thanks    “

    Someone answered

    “The answer is that from both moving object’s
    view, the other object is moving, cause the universe wouldn’t know
    which one is really moving. So in real life both object ends up in
    different realities: both will experience that the other object is
    younger, and you will never see your real brother again. I’m sorry that
    is the way it is.

    You will never hear from me again. I will be someone else. The wine
    you bought is not the one you drink, the pizza you order is not the one
    you eat, the person who gave birth to you is not your current mom.

    They are all in alternate universes.

    There are universes caused by that the universe could not choose
    one way to begin, nor continue since the beginning could be said to
    continue, cause there were different possibilities of how it would
    begin and continue. Were should every particle be positioned? What says
    it should be so?

    And if there was no beginning, the question would still be: how
    should the particles in the continuence be positioned with what
    momentum?

    And there is this relativistic effect of your movement which make
    you in your own universe, seperated from those and that you learned to
    love, but with others that replace them.

    But it doesn’t matter, it is something you must learn to live with.”

  • About Me

    Note: This page is one of the oldest in this blog. I started this blog when I was in 8th standard. And I grew up with it. So, when you go down this page, you’ll see older “about me”s. 

    I am a medical student. I spend a huge share of my time learning new things in medicine/technology/culture/literature. You could actually read my wikipedia user page here to get a biographic overview about me.
    I am interested in a lot of stuff, and more importantly I have an opinion about most stuff. I believe in equality, liberty, and humanism.

    Update 7/12/2013 I used to edit this page in the wrong direction till
    this update. So the update immediately before this will be at the end of
    the post.
    —
    Older forms:
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    Well, that’s me in picture. In words:

    Now, if you haven’t read my profile, here it is (in its extended form)
    I usually waste a lot of time:
    playing chess with my father and almost always losing after being in a position of sure win
    Or reading all those PDF e-books I’ve downloaded
    Or watching the magic of Roger Federer on court
    Or trying to learn Einstein’s Theory of Relativity (General and Special – both still confusing me)
    Or drawing triangles and finding new formulas for finding their area
    Or watching Nat Geo
    Or listening what Obama has to tell
    Or reading the same chapters of My Experiments with Truth that I’ve read at least 5 times
    Or fighting with my father about whether God exists in a concrete or an abstract or at least an incomprehensible form, outside the minds of people, and failing to counter his point that it should be experienced and can’t be explained
    Or dreaming of becoming an IAS officer and changing the world (or at least the district I’m posted to), and then being the CM of Kerala and changing the state, then being the PM and changing the nation and then being the Prez and relaxing on the consequences of my actions.
    A small aim is a crime, right?

    Update on July 20, 2009:
    Well, interests do change, sometimes due to external pressure, and I’ve decided to take MBBS (over BSc and MSc) so that I can enter civil service, and resign, in case some minister is too much.

    Update on Feb 6, 2010:
    I’ve found an interesting career path.
    MBBS, then higher studies in neuroscience, then find how mind works. Then go for IAS or anything. The question is whether I would be interested in IAS by then. Because I’ve developed a liking for science more than people of late. Let’s see if we can find a bridge connecting them.

    I started blogging just out of my characteristic enthusiasm and will to learn anything.

    I thought I would make easy money through ads and set up all my blogs to show ads.


    But later, I understood that my blogs should not have any ads. Now, my blog is a non-profit blog.


    Ads are again here, because, I think it may come useful.


    Again my blog is ad-free because when google adsense showed no sense in putting non-sense malayalam ads in my blog, i regained my senses, and removed unnecessary ad blocks. [Updated on April 7, 2009]


    What is wrong in displaying ads in my blog?? [Updated on April 9, 2009]

    Well, though I could add ads, they’re just messy and I don’t like them in my blog where ‘serious’ matters are discussed [:D][Updated on July 20, 2009]

    I had links to copyrighted, pirated materials in my blog earlier. But, as I learned that those things are completely illegal and hurting I decided to remove them.

    Now, my blog is a user friendly one designed to carry my ideas forward.

    BIO DATA
    Name : Akshay S Dinesh
    Alias : ASDofIndia
    email : asdofindia at the best email service on earth .com
    password : **************
    Phone: (+91) Nine billion four hundred ninety seven million two hundred thirty five thousand three hundred and eighteen
    Passion : Nation
    Favourite sport : Tennis (Roger Federer, to be precise)
    Films :

    Like only which have got timber

    Of late, I hate films, except those hollywood classics. [update: Aug 18, 2010]
    Favourite activity : surfing, blogging,

    orkutting
    facebooking [since joining chinmaya], sending emails, googling, e-learning.

    Currently studying :

    10th standard at Sree Sankara Vidyapeetam, Mattanur


    11th standard.
    well, I can’t be the same 15-year-old kid for ever. From June 11, 2009 a student of the Science Stream (Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Maths), at Chinmaya Vidyalaya Kannur.
    Entered 12th standard. Getting entrance coaching from T.I.M.E. (Triumphant Institute of Management Education)
    And by being rank 1675 in AIPMT, I got into Mysore Medical College, in August 2011, a week after Independence Day

    Worldly achievements:
    Started learnlearn.in on July 1, 2012
    INOI 2011 qualifier
    Got into the interview level of KVPY, (from 11th std, in 2010) but then they failed to realize who I am

    Won NTSE from 8th std in 2008
    Won Rashtrapati scout award in 2008
    Participated in State Camporee of Scouts conducted at Calicut University (2009, i think)

    Life interests:
    Developing artificial intelligence (using categories)
    learning to create firefox addons, google APIs, android apps
    learning C++, C#, perl, lisp, python, xhtml, css, java, javascript (all of which i’ve a rudimentary knowledge of)
    customizing linux
    teaching computer
    teaching: physics, human body, philosophy (value education)
    beginning an entrance coaching/tuition institution where the emphasis will be on learning methods
    learning quantum mechanics (What’s the big deal?)
    learning tennis. (playing federer?)
    going on a world tour
    going on an all India tour (including Himalayas) with a laptop and wireless connectivity. (not with mathi. we go alone)

    Contact me:
    card.ly
    Click on your mail server
    gmail
    yahoo (or ymail, or rocketmail)
    hotmail
    any other
    Profiles in various websites:
    Orkut



    Facebook
    Twitter
    Hi5
    koottam
    bosslinux
    extramarks
    wikipedia
    windows live
    My important posts at other places:
    How to study

  • Google Docs OR How to create PDF files easily and without using any softwares

    Most of the PDF creators or readers now available are at least greater than 5 MB in size. So, if you are a slow internet user or are unable to download those softwares or use them you could be int trouble. But that’s where the mighty google comes for your help.

    Heard of Google docs?

    You think it is just an online virtual drive where you can store your files? Absolutely not.
    Google doc is like MS office in the web. It helps you to do virtually anything – creating, editing, saving, storing and downloading documents.

    All you need is a google account, some know-how about documents like presentations, PDF, etc. and an internet connection (even that is not required nowadays with offline functionality).

    So, how to create PDF files?

    Create a new document using the buttons. Type it. Make it what you want it to be. Then from file, select download it as PDF. That’s the way. And you have much more things to do.
    Let me first learn them.

  • What is lavalin

    There is a presentation describing the SNC lavalin case at snclavalin.blogspot.com


    If you want to know more about the snc lavalin scandal including valid documents go to snclavalin.blogspot.com