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| Total Unique Visitors: 710200 |
| Visitors Out: 1279 |
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| Chennai Rail Map - Updated |
| 2008-04-09 14:33:44 |
I’m bored of twiddling my thumbs.
The Chennai metro project seems to be making some progress. Why, they even have a half baked website up and running. Even more interesting is the presence of a logo, and it looks suspicously like the work of a dropout student from Andal Alagar Institute of Contemporary Design.
The only thing [...]...
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| they were’nt aussies |
| 2008-03-16 13:36:39 |
but a cruise load of whiny, north americans living their end years blowing away all their leftover stash of green, a dollar at a time. To document the events of the day might just require a new blog, so i shall just have to leave you with some interesting visuals, mostly from the rain drenched [...]...
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| The inadvertent tourist guide |
| 2008-03-11 14:17:09 |
There are a bunch of aussie blokes in town (three truck bus loads to be precise), and by a clever twist of fate, the person in charge of showing them around, knows someone, who knows someone, who knows my friend’s friend. They need ten local chaps to accompany the horde and fascinate them with cock [...]...
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| The quiz - pole positions II |
| 2008-03-08 14:12:29 |
< Season 1
20 done, and here’s the standings.
(answers/name/pic#)
4 Ravages 2 6 18 20
3 NavneethC 12 13 14
2 celacaw 3 5
2 Ramanujam 4 7
2 Shivasubramanian 8 10
2 Shyam 9 16
1 Marc 1
1 Slakhs 11
1 Navaneethan Santhanam 15
1 M Chet 17
1 Prasanna V Seshadri 19
What should the final winner get? a title? 1 plate idli?
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| It feels good to be back |
| 2008-03-08 13:59:28 |
online. And if the name Thalankuppam happens to rings a bell (normally it shouldnt), check this out. Its some Poetry, a rotting pier, one sunday afternoon and a beautiful sunset....
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| Neighbour trouble |
| 2008-03-01 09:08:58 |
Yep, they’ve installed a firewall. How do i know? cause i’ve been on their wifi till 10 days ago. now to go to the sucky bsnl office and get myself a wireless router, bleh...
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| Mapping the city collaboratively |
| 2008-02-17 00:45:53 |
Thanks to an email from ravages and sagaro, i find myself sitting in IIM B attending the FreeMap India workshop over the weekend. The focus is on the OpenStreetMap project and its related tools. OpenStreetMap is a mapping service like Google maps, with a twist, its a map that anyone can edit, just like wikipedia. [...]...
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| Off to the capital |
| 2008-01-09 13:15:54 |
Tomorrow night i will be leaving by the Tamil Nadu express to Delhi on a little post vacation holiday with two of my friends. Plan is to cover the golden triangle - Delhi, Agra and Jaipur, and maybe squeeze in a trip to dip in the ganges at haridwar to wash our sins away [...]...
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| A toy, after a very long time |
| 2008-01-07 13:11:49 |
My mom’s finally with me after a gap of a year, giving the florida beaches a break for about a month. And along with her she’s brought a spanking new laptop for her ever obedient son
So if you’re wondering what keeping me away, its roaming the city with my shiny lappie trying to [...]...
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| Chennai photo quiz 16 |
| 2008-01-02 13:30:50 |
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where is this?
Ravages is barred for this one, sorry mate...
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| Chennai photo quiz 14 |
| 2007-12-29 05:02:58 |
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This maybe a tad too simple, where would you find him?
Answer This is the statue of Swami Vivekananda next to ice house, on the marina beach - NavneethC...
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| Chennai photo quiz 13 |
| 2007-12-28 02:52:57 |
previousIdentify the location? Answer Its the junction outside the Hindu office on Mount Road - NavneethC The mrts tracks proceed to the chintadripet station located on the left. The Periyar statue which you can see in the centre was the clue....
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| Chennai photo quiz 11 |
| 2007-12-26 08:58:05 |
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As i came to find out quite recently, while guys like shiva breeze through whatever i seem to post, not everyone finds the quiz all that simple. So for their benefit i’ll be putting up a good combination of easy ones and slightly tougher ones at regular intervals. This should be one of the easier ones. Whats wrong with this picture?...
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| The quiz - pole positions |
| 2007-12-24 23:13:21 |
Just considering those who were the first to answer correctly, this is how it goes after 10 rounds
(answers-name-pic#)
2 Ravages 2 6
2 celacaw 3 5
2 Ramanujam 4 7
2 Shivasubramanian 8 10
1 Marc 1
1 Shyam 9
and a few stats:
Days running: 13
Questions: 10
Comments: 112
Given the interest people have shown, im going to have a chennai photo quiz feed up soon, [...]...
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| Creating the ultimate mashup |
| 2007-12-22 01:38:42 |
All the geek talk on the block somehow seems to revolve around mashups these days. Mashups, quite a tasty sounding word i know, but unfortunately its not something that you can put into your mouth, rather its the term for nifty little applications created by bringing together existing web content from different sources and integrating it into to bring you [...]...
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| Chennai photo quiz #8 |
| 2007-12-19 05:16:27 |
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I maybe heading out of the city for a little holiday, so maybe this one could keep you guessing for a few days and also satisfy those who wanted a tougher one.
Identify the locality. Happy guessing :D...
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| Chennai photo quiz #6 |
| 2007-12-18 04:25:38 |
#5 was a tough one, yet it got answered, still havent been able to stump you guys with anything
This sign look familiar?where would you find it?...
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| Chennai photo quiz #5 |
| 2007-12-17 04:45:56 |
#4 was once again, a lot easier than i had imagined. Im going to make things really challenging, so will even be cutting out any clues from the photos.This place is absolutely wonderful and peaceful, save fo a snake that came out of the bushes and chased me. What is this place called? Answer celacaw once again shocked me with the right anwer, which [...]...
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| Chennai photo quiz #4 |
| 2007-12-16 08:38:21 |
#3 doesnt seem to be getting to many responses, so ill go ahead with the next one.
This poor guy seems to have been placed into a not so attractive spot. Who is he and what is he doing there? ...
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| Chennai photo quiz #3 |
| 2007-12-15 00:41:20 |
#2 was answered within 10 minutes of putting it up, so im forced to put up a slightly more difficult one this time.
You would need to know a bit of chennai’s geography to get this one right. You can see 3 parallel road like features, name them (from left to right), and also the locality.
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| Chennai photo quiz #2 |
| 2007-12-14 10:27:10 |
#1 was easy to guess as the possibilities were limited. This (i hope) is a little more tricky. What building is this? be specific
one guess per person...
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| Chennai photo quiz #1 |
| 2007-12-12 01:18:50 |
So lets kick things off shall we. This should be a fairly simple one to guess, where in chennai would you find this station?
Dont mind that link above, its just for trackback purposes . Im wondering if i should frame some rules. Anyway, for now limit yourselves to one answer per person. Lets see how things go...
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| Starting the Chennai photo quiz |
| 2007-12-11 03:57:03 |
Well, ive been in Chennai for two and a half years now, and im fascinated by the city. Most of all, because of the treasures that lay hidden away from the eyes of the common man on the street. It takes more than an adventurous spirit to unearth the little tidbits of Chennai’s glorious past when it used to be called Madras. It takes some courage, some patience and a good supply of energy to overcome all that this south Indian city throws up at you.
Armed with my overused but trusty cybershot, ive seen and captured a lot more in my time here than the native madrasi has. I shall post pictures of objects or landmarks [...]...
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| Holidays, the lean blogging season |
| 2007-12-09 11:28:52 |
Im not sure why exactly, but during the hols you really dont feel like doing much, at least you dont feel like doing the stuff that you were upto during the normal days, and this includes blogging as well.
Its been 6 days into my vacation and ive made sure to keep myself busy the entire [...]...
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| Nooo, Orkut is closing down!!! |
| 2007-12-07 12:32:31 |
yes its true, looks like the infidel bots have done even google in this time. The bot accounts, those irritating ones that keep posting crap in you scrapbook have taken up so many names that only 57 are left, meaning that orkut was only designed for the current 40million users or .006% of the worlds [...]...
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| The strange green glow |
| 2007-12-06 08:27:46 |
Noticed this strange light in the evening skies. It seemed to be coming from someplace around Saidapet-Guindy or maybe further south. Anyone else seen this?...
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| Im going to write a book.. |
| 2007-11-29 05:43:19 |
.. and its going to be titled Punishing your son by making him join an Indian engineering college
I think i hear a few sadistic parents knocking on my door already.....
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| Chennai mrts, metro and suburban railway map |
| 2007-11-16 05:34:37 |
Since it hasnt been done before, here it is - Chennai in the future with the proposed metro lines
More on the:
Chennai Metro
Chennai MRTS
Chennai Suburban Railway network
Also of interest could be this google map mashup.
Now that i got that off my mind, back to studying DSP , aargh...
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| Endgame |
| 2007-11-10 14:31:41 |
So this is it, starting today, i have finally begun preparing for the upcoming semester exams. I fear it maybe a bit too late however, for the festivities begin in 4 days and everyone else i know seems to be awaiting the test of wits with much enthusiasm, organising study parties and other allied activities.
After [...]...
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| The Chennai Metro Rail - Its finally coming |
| 2007-11-07 13:16:48 |
Chennai will soon get a real metro, and it hopefully wont go the mrts way
As of this afternoon, its official - Chennai has got approval for its own Metro Railway on the lines of that in New Delhi. Personally, its been a long wait for this news. Chennai was the only city that took so [...]...
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| Through my eyes at 3:11pm 3/11/2007 |
| 2007-11-07 05:31:45 |
I was still undecided on wether to skip my test at college or take a photo instead, for the 3:11pm campaign . In the end i managed to do both, only because someone told me “you dont have the balls” Looks like i do :D See the rest of the photos at the photostream...
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| PlaneMad’s guide on how to get your friend into a soup |
| 2007-11-04 07:34:26 |
trrring
unknown number on cell at 10pm
me: um hello?
hello is this planemad? (name changed to protect identity)
me: yeah
this is x’s dad
me: uh, ok?
where are you?
me: besant nagar…
is x with you?
me: (uh oh, trouble) ummmm
me: mmmm
me: no...
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| A trial at capturing time |
| 2007-11-02 09:32:58 |
Time is a concept that can be quite baffling, its a quantity that cannot be defined in absolute terms yet its the single entity that keeps the world going and our lives ticking. Somewhere something is happening at any moment. Wouldnt it be just great if the whole world could be captured at one instant, [...]...
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| Chennai volvo routes and timings |
| 2007-10-30 09:36:26 |
Had the opportunity to meet with a senior MTC official recently and was able to extract some more details about the newly introduced ac volvo buses.
So far the MTC has acquired 10 buses deployed on 6 routes:
A1 (1) Central - Thiruvanmiyur (via Mylapore)
E18 (2) High Court - Guduvanchery (GST Road)
19G (1) Broadway - Kovalam (ECR)
21G [...]...
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