My Personal WebLog
Publicity Stunt – 3I & FPS
Jan 2nd
Dear readers,
After coming to know about the controversy relating to plagiarism, that 3 Idiots is almost entirely based on Five Point Someone (FPS), I’m forming an opinion that this is a mili-bhagat (rhymes with his last name, doesn’t it?).
Here are few points I observed from this controversy :
1) The readers of the book, after knowing about this, will go and WATCH the movie just for confirming whether it’s been copied or not.
2) The viewers of the movie, after knowing about this, will go and BUY the book to confirm whether the storyline has been copied or not.
Either way, it’s a benefit for the makers of the movie, and Chetan.
If you are thinking about the black-mark on the makers of the movie, and the pity face of Chetan, well, you must know that public won’t remember this incident for a long time. That’s how it works. Public’s memory is indeed weak, and is often replaced by the controversy of the upcoming movie.
I wonder how much Chetan was paid by the makers of the movie for writing this article on his personal blog :
http://www.chetanbhagat.com/blog/general/a-book-a-film-and-the-truth
Remember readers, he’s a great writer, and don’t get carried away by reading his blog article.
A couple of quotes from the above article :
Quote #1 : Still, don’t take my word for it – go read the book, watch the film.
Quote #2 : I urge you to not believe me at face value. Read the book, see the movie – and like the movie says – think for yourself and decide.
So my friends, did you get the point?
If you were to read these lines while reading the article, your blood would have boiled(supporting Chetan) and you would have gone this instant to the cinema hall to watch the movie.
But after reading my article, what do you say?
What an Idea Sirji!
Enter – The iPod Touch
Nov 28th
<This Blog Post is under construction>
Since my introduction to Computers, I’ve used Windows & Linux. The thought of using a Mac product was always present in the corner of my mind, until recently, when I got iPod Touch 3G 32GB
TFCHCNIM
Oct 6th
Highlights about this post :
- Twitter
- Facebook
- College
- Hairstyle
- CCNA
- Naruto
- IBM’s The Great Mind Challenge (TGMC)
- Mozilla Campus Representative
I’m back on Twitter, thanks to TweetDeck! It’s an Adobe AIR application, which helps you to post on multiple Twitter accounts, and Facebook account.
Catch me on Twitter :-
And that brings us to Facebook. I must confess that I was very much intimidated with it’s interface long back, and hence had de-activated my account. But, TweetDeck helped me overcome this, and now, I’m even more “social” (though I still loathe the stupid quizzes). Few of my school & college friends have also joined Facebook, and are using their “REAL” names (unlike Orkut).
And that brings us to College. I’m currently in the middle of 5th semester, and expecting the main exams to get over by 24th December 2009. Also hoping for Campus Placements this semester or the next one. I might carry on with my current hairstyle for the interviews too.
And that brings us to Hairstyle. I’ve not trimmed my hair since mid of July, and I prefer to keep the reasons for the same with myself.
Update : Got a haircut
No, that doesn’t lead us to CCNA, but I’m going to talk about it anyway.
I started studying for CCNA a couple of weeks ago. I’ve finished ICND 1, and half-way through ICND 2. It’s really really interesting and I created my own lab with 2 Routers and 1 Cloud.
I’ve configured “Akatsuki” router properly, and it can connect/ping/traceroute to Internet. I used Microsoft’s LoopBack adapter and shared the Internet connection from the Wireless LAN.
Here is the layout :
You might have noticed weird names for the routers, and that brings us to the next topic, Naruto.
I’m currently hooked onto an Anime (“cartoon” for those people who don’t understand and don’t want to understand different forms of cartoons) named “Naruto”. I started with Anime, and I liked it so much that I even started reading it’s Manga (“comic” in Japanese).
I’m also engaged in a project making competition organized by IBM known as The Great Mind Challenge (TGMC). It’s mainly a Java based project, which involves Project Planning, Modeling, Coding and Documenting the software. Me, along with 3 of my classmates, are doing Online Library Management System under the team name – BlueShadow (cool haan?)
And the last topic for this post. My friend Vikram introduced me to “Mozilla Campus Representative” program from Mozilla (duh!). It’s about promoting and bringing awareness about “The Open Web” and “Firefox” in your college. How do we do that? Well, Mozilla gives us something known as a “Swag Pack”, which is better explained here -> http://www.thechetan.com/2009/09/now-i-am-mozilla-campus-representative/
So, that’s the end of my 1st ever, fully linked, highly educative update. See ya after an year or so. I’m so damn tired!
(Psst…Try to decrypt the title of this blog post ;)
Google Voice & Me
Jul 16th
Thanks to Google Voice, now I own a US based phone number.
(816) 200-1626
You can use this widget only if you own a US number. Once you put in your phone number, Google will call you and me at the same time, and will connect us.
You can call me, and if I am online on Gtalk, then I’ll pick up your call and talk with you, otherwise you can record a sweet voicemail, which I would be checking on Google Voice’s homepage. You can also leave texts.
If you stay in the US, then I won’t be charged for outgoing calls from my side.
Please spam my number :)
