How to parcel bike in train ?

Probably most of us haven’t come across a scenario of parceling a bike in train .Recently me and my friend went to parcel his bike via train from Ernakulum to Trivandrum . We straightly went to parcel booking office , purchased a form the counter .The guy asked about the parcel and placed a seal inside the form indicating two-wheeler . 

To get the form you need to produce a copy of your RC book and a valid photo ID card .

Fill the form with details of your vehicle the sender address  and the address of the receiving person. He suggested to empty the petrol tank before we parcel it.

There are guys who will get your bike ready for parceling  by wrapping your head lights with sack and cardboard to prevent cracking while loading and unloading .  So forget about your bike , it will be loaded into the next train for destination.


Now the story part ...
The packing guy asked my friend 
"Sir , how much petrol is in the bike ?"
My friend  replied casually 
"Barely half liter " .


 So he came with a empty Aquafina bottle and a small hose .He fitted it inside the valve .Seconds passed and the one liter bottle became full. My friend was confident that there may be one or two drops more .So the man again came with another one liter Biselleri  bottle .This time also he was lucky that the second bottle also became full . My friend now got into the depths of despair . At last the man was able to draw nearly three and a half liters of petrol from my friends bike .He moved all the three bottles hid it inside their resting place and came back with sack and card board ready to pack .


In the mean time my friend inquired about when the bike will reach Trivandrum .He said that it will be loaded into the very next train .So that’s  fine , but the double despair part is coming  only. 
Once the parcel reaches the destination ,until we go and collect it we need to pay Rs.10/- per hour as additional charge. In case of my friend he will reach Trivandrum only on Tuesday .So five days , 
5* 24 * 10 =  1200.00  rupees .


So the best part is we asked the packing guys to put the petrol back and we  gave him a liter of Petrol free . We drove back happily and he will be driving his bike all way back .


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XOLO X900 - the phone with Intel inside

If you still do not follow the change , you will end with a similar fate as that of Kodak . The kingpin of computer chip maker Intel has finally entered into an unfamiliar territory the mobile processor .With Indian handset maker Lava , it has launched a smart phone XOLO X900 in India . 

Powered by 1.6 GHz Intel Z2460 processor  with Hyper Threading the phone has Android Gingerbread as OS .

The phone is priced as Rs 22000.00 which will be available via Croma retail.

Please see the full specifications from the Official site .

Technical Specifications

Network	Frequency Bands	GSM: 850/900/1800/1900 UMTS/HSPA: 850/900/1900/2100 HSPA+: 850/900/1900/2100
	Edge/GPRS	Class 10
	WCDMA	Yes
	HSPA+	up to 21 Mbps (DL)
		up to 5.7 Mbps (DL)
Processor	Chipset	Intel Atom Processor Z2460
	CPU	1.6 GHz Intel® Atom™ with Hyper Threading
Graphics core	Clock speed	400 MHz
	Triangles per second	40 million/second
Design	Dimensions	123 x 63 x 10.99 mm
	Weight	127 grams
	Hard Keys	Power key
		Volume key
		Camera key
	Slots	SIM card slot
		micro USB
		micro HDMI
		3.5 mm audio jack
Display	Display Size	4.03"
	Resolution	1024 x 600
	Colours	16M
	Display Technology	TFT LCD Capacitive touch
		Corning Gorilla Glass
Operating System	Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) (upgradable to Android 4.0)
GPS	Yes
Camera	Rear camera	8 MP
	Front camera	1.3 MP
	Flash support	Yes, single LED
	Auto focus	Yes
	Touch focus	Yes
	Digital zoom	8x
	HD recording rear	1080p
	Video chat front	480p
	Burst Mode	15 fps, 10 images in <1 sec
	Modes supported	Auto, Sports, Potrait, Landscape, Night, Night Potrait, Fireworks, Text
Sensors	Accelerometer
	Gyroscope
	Magnetometer
	Ambient light sensor
	Proximity sensor
Audio	Dual Speakers	Yes, 0.3 W each
	Digital Microphones	2
	Ambient Noise Cancellation	Yes
	Voice Recording	Yes, 3GPP
	Audio codecs supported	MP3, MIDI, WAV, 3GPP
Video	Video recording & playback	Full HD 1080p@30fps
	Video codecs supported	MPEG4, 3GPP, WMC, H.264, VP8
	Video Player	Android Video Player, doubleTwist
Sync	Drivers for Windows XP	Yes
	Drivers for Windows 7	Yes
	OTA support	Yes
	Firmware download via PC	Yes
Connectivity	USB	2.0 Hi Speed
	Bluetooth	v2.1
	Wi-Fi	802.11 b/g/n
	NFC	Yes
	NFC Antenna	13.56 MHz
	WLAN support	Yes
	Modem	Intel XMM6260
Memory	Internal Memory*	16 GB
	RAM	1 GB
Browser	HTML5
Messaging	MMS	Yes
	SMS	Yes
	Email	Yes
Document Viewer	Yes
Battery	1460 mAh, 3.7V
	Talk time (2G)	up to 15.5 hours
	Talk time (3G)	up to 7.8 hours
	Music playback (earphones)	up to 43.9 hours
	Video playback (earphones)	up to 6 hours
	Total standby time	up to 14 days

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Second term for APJ Abdul Kalam

Her  Excellency Pratibha Devisingh Patil our presidents tenure ends on 25 July 2012 .With the support of Indian National Congress and the Left parties Madame President occupied the office on 25 July 2007.Why I am recalling all these things because a new Presidential election will be happening in near future . 

I want People’s president to get a second term. Truly I am referring to the our beloved Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam . 

A man who has shown how what are the powers of a president and how it can be wisely used. After his regime only we came to know about Presidents executive and judicial powers. In most of the cases the President  to assume office will be behaving like  a ‘timbre en caoutchouc’ of the government which supported to achieve the presidency . Dr.APJ incumbency was an exception. This led Madame Patil to  assert that she would not be  a rubber stamp president in one of her statements .

During the UPA regime , there were lots of lock horn incidents between Kalam and UPA, like the controversial office-of-profit bill   . So Dr.Kalam will not be a preferential candidate for UPA. Unlike Madame Patil who is surrounded by lot of controversies like diverging of funds to relatives trust , Dr. Kalam’s life is an open book . 

So the best man for the suite Rastrapathi Bhavan the  President's Abode is only and only Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam , a man with a vision and a mission.I want everyone to support this initiative as we can generate a mass opinion and let our government know whom people want to be  next President.

I am happy to hear from you and also share this as others can also raise their opinions.

Courtesy: www.wikipedia.org

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Lysistrata - for Mullaperiyar .

We are represented by twenty members in Parliament. It seems their voice is  not heard aloud till the recent tremors occurred in Idukki .To my first time readers (hope there will be ) am targeting your attention to a state dispitute about a dam named Mullaperiar in the Kerala –Tamilnadu border. The dam was made of stone and calcium oxide mixed with white of egg. The dam constructed in 1886 was given for lease to the Madras state for 999 years (Remember Dam 999).The diverted water is used for agriculture in the Theni, Madurai District, Sivaganga District and Ramanathapuram districts of Tamil Nadu. Recent earth quakes has create concerns over the safety of the dam and the Kerala govermnet  plans to construct  a new dam which is not agreeable for the Tamilnadu. A dam disaster will affect 3.5 million people and we always lack behind in preparing for a disaster and post disaster treatments.

The introduction is over. Lets come to the point for what we can do for the dam .

Aristophanes a greek play write wrote Lysistrata ,its an anti war comedy about an one woman plight to end the The Peloponnesian War.  In modern era the Lysistrata mode of strike has been successful or had played an important role in  the following situations

•  Belgium -  2010 Belgian government formation crisis
• Colombia -   Achieve a cease fire with Colombian guerrilla
• Kenya - aimed at politicians , also encouraged president and primeminster wife to join
• Philippines - fightinbg between villages
• Liberia - helps in ending 14 year civil war.  

If it can end fourteen year civil war in Liberia and a cease fire between Colombian guerrillas , sure it can solve our issue also.

Till now  I didnt reveal what is the strategy that was behind the  revolution. Its nothing but a non violent strike method 'Sex Strike ' , a form of temporary sexual abstinence .

Hope this is a good hint to make them argue strongly for the new Mullaperiyar dam.

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other details : wikipedia

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A Tribute to Dennis Ritchie

It was in year 2001 after joining  for B.Sc. Computer Science  I was  hearing about C .Our first semester  subjects include C++. But I had no idea what C++ was. One thing I came to know from my class mate was  that it evolved from C . At the time when I was joining for the degree , I hadn't even  done a single line of code or familiar with a computer . My friends had started showing me programs that generate graphic lines and their names rotating along with them while I watched with dropping jaws .The teacher started the first week class with writing

#include<stdio.h>
and
#include<conio.h>  ,

 she didn’t even bother about telling as what the stuff was . I by hearted the program codes for  printing numbers and text  reverse , Fibonacci series (was complicated ) and finding the largest of three numbers . The first semester result came with 29 point someone (influenced by Five point someone) marks for me in   C ++ which required 35 to pass. We had C in the second semester and I had to write a supplementary exam along with that . C and C++ made a better combination. I had heard many time my friends  that they are crabbed with this language and blaming its founder . Oh it has a founder , so I came in search for that person and  found it was Dennis Ritchie  . The C programming Language was also a rare piece  in our library .

Days and Years passed and everything changed,me too became a Software developer from a country boy who had seen a computer  for the first time when he was  at eighteen. Iconic products iPod , iPhone and iPad evolved , Steve Jobs became famous (inspiring , motivating ) more or equal to the company Apple , Facebook out smarted Orkut  , Twitter came out with 140 character micro blogging  and a lot more….  .

Steve Jobs passed away on October 5 , 2011 and there was a lot of mourning (iMourning) . Google posted a link on their home page that takes you to Apple site , a rare instance .Its first time Google is showing such a tribute to a rival company founder or for first time a link wass appearing on their home page.

Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie passed away on October 12, 2011 and I felt it like it was unnoticed. When Jobs passed away magazines, media ,everyone had something to say about Steve. May be the younger generation don’t know even who Ritchie  was , because he hadn’t developed something that is physical and may be not an industrialist  , but he had contributed even more to the computing industry  . 

The two things that change the industry are the first of its kind portable programming language , the C.

The Apple’s Objective C is a sister of Rictchie’s C just alike Stroustrup C ++  which is object oriented .Even C sharp (C#)of Microsoft is  another  casting of C . My favorite java has syntax similar to C.

The second contribution is the development of UNIX operating system where Linux Trovalds get inspired to create LINUX .

So Ritchie was a master contributor to the computing industry  with lot a lot more  .

I bow on this moment  .

#include<stdio.h>


main()
{
    printf("May your soul rest in peace !!!");
   
}



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