Me and Mozilla!

I was thrilled when i was announced one among the 20 people shortlisted for mozilla design challenge 2nd phase.

Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?

Celebrity Collage

MyHeritage: Family trees - Genealogy - Celebrities - Collage - Morph

Friendship and Loss

There are times in friendship when the gap between two diminishes to nil and ones loss becomes others too. The pain is shared rather than being multiplied and tears wiped instead of being shed. Loss is soon substituted with love and care. Pain forgotten and life restored to normal.
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I did my best! World did its!

I was busy inviting and requesting friend to download firefox on the download day;
and now i'm happy!

This is one of those moment when 'Open Source' proves
'BiG'

Manorama Lies Again!

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"The third most read news site; speaks our mother tongue(malayalam). This is a promo by Manorama seen in all major cities in kerala! But stats are against them"
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This is not at all good. Manorama a news a media giant of kerala with maximum subscribers are repeatedly seen in indulging in forging facts and spreading lies for no good reasons. Before this they where exposed by Kairali People channel for a misleading and fake advertisement. When I saw the promo out curiosity i conducted a research. Comparing the stats with some of the popular news sites online. But the facts where shocking. I compared the Manorama with nytimes.com, gaurdian.com, wsj.com(wallstreet journal), washingtion post, timesonline.com, bbc.co.uk, cnn.com, timesindia.com, times.com, chinadaily.com.cn, euronews.net.

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"Keeping the committment to people, the ones who pay for Manorama; Manorama should correct this error. Say that you have started competing with Int'l players but dont say you have backed third! If you want say you are in the race...just don't say the race is over and you are third!!!"
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The results where good for Manorama but they mad it ugly in their greed for higher scores. Though Manoram is not third its notable they have went above washingtonpost several time. Keeping the committment to people, the ones who pay for Manorama; Manorama should correct this error. Say that you have started competing with Int'l players but dont say you have backed third! If you want say you are in the race...just don't say the race is over and you are third!!!

You Can get live graphs from alexa.com; I didn't embed the graph here beacuse they keep on changing. Go and have check for yourself!

All Data from Alexa- Alexa is the standard way to measure traffic!

A Father’s Dream, from his Eldest Son.

Ya it’s about me and my dad. But I think it’s similar for all of you who are the eldest to your dad and the earnest too…

My dad has been abroad in K.S.A for last few decades. Half of his youth and the lions-share of his whole life itself were there. Away from his native, in that desert with wild climate he worked and his only concern was his family. 6 Children and his beloved wife was his universe and their prosperity his primary concern. At first my dad lived with all of us there in the kingdom… and thank god was happy to be together. As usual time played the tricks and things changed. His children grew and had to leave for education. And so did the family left back to native. In the city build on desert with wild climate my dad lived no… strived! For his ‘six’ and the beloved wife! His children his greatest treasure is now learning at different grades; which he is seeing with great dreams, great expectation! And among them is I the humble.

Though second child from top I’m the eldest Son and so the Second in Command! And me a college student. Each time I face an exam dad calls me and inspires me, but I seemed to look as if I’m aspired for something else. Each results though were in average, where far below my dad’s dreams. I feel he was not wrong to dream as I never have strived for any exams I faced.

So now here I stay in middle of my so called life at the point where my dad actually took the responsibility of his whole family, mom, brothers and sisters! Now at this point, my dad’s dream echoes in my mind… it haunts me and forces me to accept with shame that I’m nowhere near my dad when he was at my age. Now at this point of time look at me still standing high forgetting that the sand below me is solid only because of my dad’s support. He still is there in that Kingdom so called as Saudi Arabia, no rest, no pause working for his Six and the beloved.

When is this Son of his going to take the responsibility and Say, “Dad now you rest and watch your children prosper and let me do the task of supporting.”

Now I shall remember in my each step, each breathe and sigh… that there in the Kingdom there is a noble man… my dad, striving for me and all! That it’s me and me alone who holds the key for him to come back to his native and live with his six and the beloved! And God Willing; I shall make that happen.

Prarambha (The Beginning)

Prarambha (The Beginning), directed by renowned cinematographer and director Santosh Sivan, features the South Indian Superstar Prabhudeva as a truck driver who discovers a little boy in the back of his van. The boy is on a journey to find his mother, who left him upon discovering that she was HIV positive. Prarambha is one of four short dramatic films by cutting-edge Indian directors Mira Nair, Vishal Bhardwaj, Santosh Sivan and Farhan Akhtar that aim to dismantle myths and misconceptions about HIV/AIDS.