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!

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

- 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 ;)

(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 :)

Link to About Me -> http://pragith.net/blog/about

Another quick reminder to my dear friends; These days, I have been talking in Third Person, so please please DON’T think that I am going wrong on this part (yeah, I do mess up with grammar sometimes).

For e.g. I solves Rubik’s Cube, I is hungry.

Web 2.0 is growing so fast, and I feel I am very much not updated to the latest inventions in this field.

If anyone feels that they are also lagging behind and are suffering like me by not subscribing to Tech Magz, then do the following things :

1) Install Flock
-Get used to the interface
2) Subscribe to the following feeds :
-Crave Gadget News
-Webware
3) (Optional) Start using Twitter

Both the websites are from CNET, and the articles published over there are completely authentic.

With love,
From Flock ;)

0) Be a man!

1) Take a nap, and come online.

2) Check your contact list, and target your victim.

3) Make sure your victim is chatting with your other friend.

4) Go and ping both of them, and ask about their recent conversations, and make sure they aren’t personal.

Now for the main part. Make sure your target isn’t tech savvy and doesn’t know much about Google, Yahoo! and MSN.

5) Give your friend few lines which only you and your target talk normally, and tell him/her to paste it in their conversation box.

6) Wait for your target to faint.

7) GOTO Step-5.

8) Then ask your dear friend to paste whatever your victim is typing, and respond accordingly. Do this until your victim gets frustrated and goes to gym.

9) Roll on the floor laughing.

10) Tell your mum about the whole incident.

Optional step (To be taken only when your victim is a n00b in Short Message Service too) :

–Tell your victim that whatever messages he/she is sending to your friend to delete the previous chats (which you might be reading according to the victim) are getting redirected to your email account.

Congratulations! Your friend just got Pragnetized!!!

I would say it was more like an Endurance Test, making us wait for our turns to come and show our NFS style driving and Dirt-Bike style riding skills. Yes, I am sarcastic on this part. They made us go few meters (without acceleration) in front, and few meters in reverse, and Bingo! I PASSED!
For Bike, they told us to go straight, take a left turn, and get lost!

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The beginning of the end of my first half of college life started on 5th Feb. For those who can’t compile that and are approaching the small “X” mark on the top-right of their window, it’s the 4th semester. I would go on mentioning how “excellent” the staff is, but I don’t want to mess with the institution which is responsible for graduating me.

Every time, I open the Control Panel of my blog, I am alerted by WordPress, “Please update”. That’s a very serious insult you know. And especially when you are someone who updates his blog once in a month. I actually got readers, and my informed sources (themselves actually) tell me that they have actually bookmarked my blog. Now that’s inspiring, and fills me with guilt for not giving them enough updates about myself. Don’t worry my faithful readers, I am not going to change.

PS3 updates – Got The Orange Box and a DualShock 3 controller for my beast. So, if anyone who wants to be humiliated by me in Euro 2008 and WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2008, well, I am game for them.

I have also been playing DotA, and I won’t tell you about the current status of my skills in that game, because it’s not my habit to insult myself in my blog.

I have apparently been watching a couple (+ 1) of British sketches, Not the Nine’O Clock News, Jeeves & Wooster, and Yes, Minister.
The duo, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie have surpassed themselves in P.G. Woodhouse’s dramatized series Jeeves & Wooster. And what more, they have convinced me to buy books of P.G. Woodhouse too. That’s something almost impossible you see.
They say that, Not the Nine’O Clock News was a competitor of A Bit of Fry & Laurie. But, I feel in no way NtNCN can beat ABoFaL.
Paul Eddington and Sir Nigel Hawthorne’s “immaculate timing” in Yes, Minister is something worth the BAFTA Awards.

A typical concluding statement to my yet another boring update, “That’s all for now!”