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Had a three days (nov 7, 8, 9) trip with family involving visiting seven or eight temples. Here is temporal order of visits Nov 7, 1100: Ashtavinayak snapshot Temple at Mahad Nov 7, 1300: Vinayak temple at Pali Nov 7, 1900: Vinayak temple at Ojhar Nov 8, 0900: Ramkund Nov 8, 1000: Trayambakeshwar temple Nov 8, 1900: Shani Shignapur Nov 9, 1100: Shirdi I seem to not remembering one temple that we possibly visited. It has been more than 5 days of trial and errors in recalling but am unable to. So be the list restricted to 7. Trip was fine and pleasant courtesy brother. But road trip was hectic and tiring as Chevrolet Tavera SUV isn't a comfortable drive. Though I do like to visit temples but seeing them turning into business sites is not a good feeling. Except for the Mahad version, all other temples were used for reaping monetary benefits. It felt like God was being made work overtime by multiple supervisors (designated pundits) across multiple sites (designated temples) across hours. God must be really astonished how good business people we are, specializing in selling and buying of him/her. Probably it's time to say - May gods be blessed
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2006 - http://peeyush.livejournal.com/263576.html, http://peeyush.livejournal.com/263757.html, http://peeyush.livejournal.com/263981.html, http://peeyush.livejournal.com/264322.html (*), http://peeyush.livejournal.com/264456.html2005 - http://peeyush.livejournal.com/143282.html, http://peeyush.livejournal.com/143569.html, http://peeyush.livejournal.com/143732.html, http://peeyush.livejournal.com/144120.html, http://peeyush.livejournal.com/144199.html, http://peeyush.livejournal.com/144400.htmlNo entries in year 2004, 2007 and 2008 |
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This is my 769th post. Mmm, more than enough. Let me finish off with few jumbled thoughts.
It started sometime, somehow. It continued to flow, blogs were more or less very personal. In the recent past its character got changed drastically. Personal touch got washed away completely. Certain kind of political hue, a certain way of looking at issues started emerging. It was not conscious. As I look back, some issues triggered it. (Leaving NCST pygmied my favorite themes, I lost my favorite characters around whom I made a world. That environment never came back.)
My last phase in mumbai coincided with the rise of whole sale dealers of marathas - MNS. That was a phase in which I started developing a dislike to be in Mumbai. To be an alien in a place is unbearable. For me I was as much an outsider as a UP wallah or Bihari was. Not so long after that I shifted to bangalore. Bangalore received me with serial bomb blasts - on the very day I landed. Then another nuisance - namely SRS started lifting its head. There was nothing humorous to write, climate was not suitable for my thoughts to wander.
Man being a social animal has to be aware of his surroundings, politics, social issues, economics. He should be aware of the developments happening in and around the world. In short a responsible citizen has to be an informed citizen. That is my view. Otherwise I will be an illiterate literate. Being an illiterate literate irritates me. Myself, being from the land of politically conscious kerala, where fire spitting discussions on any world issues happen with fiery spirit, under palm leaf thatched tea shops, over a cup of tea, I had no option but to succumb. (90% of software people are not informed as these kerala tea shop social beings.)
That is the main reason why my posts took a different way. I believe that my recent posts would have given a regular reader an idea of why I think in a particular way. It is worth it if someone sees some sense on it, or at least it will give a different perspective of looking at issues. But the downside of it was the blog seized to be a data bank sort of thing where materials of interest got posted with the intention of future reference. With this I am putting an end to blogging, as I will not be able straighten it up - that is going back to the original personalised blogging - I have lost me somewhere.
Yo, my 769th blog. You stay here for ever :)
-Roopesh
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Very nice article :
http://beta.thehindu.com/opinion/open-page/article45377.ece
The author says : Dear co-parents, some of us might hear a small, fading voice making yet another attempt to reach us. Some thing we ignore. But are there any schools with alternative methods in India?
-Roopesh
There is yet another, even smaller, even weaker voice, not even making an attempt to reach us - those who are denied even basic education, those who are forced to quit the school, those who are branded as school dropouts. We should write for them too.
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You should not speak in hindi, said the MNS. You disgraced maratha said Bal Thackeray.
Friends, it is better for your well being to follow me. Speak less! Try to convey your ideas using different forms of actions.
Start trying it from now own. It will come to your safety in future, not so far, when people would get killed for speaking and not for speaking particular languages.
If you need any technical advice, like how to convey something using sign language, you are always welcome to contact me. I might think of charging some fees if the response is overwhelming.
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EDIT@08:16 UTC/GMT. Wow. That was ugly. I expected it to go for 30 minutes and have maybe 1 minute of broken connectivity. Instead it lasted over 4 hours and we had 10 minutes of downtime directly related to the load balancer upgrades and then another 5-10 minutes of downtime when our primary Pingback database server crashed and the secondary couldn't take over; which could have been indirectly caused by the network upgrade missing a self-VIP. Anyways, we're up, we're working, the load balancers are barely breaking a sweat right now and I need some food and a shot of whiskey. I don't even *like* whiskey!! Thanks ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) mhwest and dnewhall for helping out! --- On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice. Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials. We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait! As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work. |
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1. People whose reasoning gets over-sucked by the past f*** their future. Most isms seem to be a built-up of past observed pseudo-correlations. 2. There seems no end to the political evil; if you eradicate casteism, religionalism, sectism, regionalism etc. and say that mottos and slogans should focus only on developmentism, who would decide what is the right path of development? the leader who can influence the best! If he defines development in terms of military prowess then so be it. He who has the right support is right. "RIGHT" for the sake of million jobs might not be right for the society/nature etc. but so be it!
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Two new books :
Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein
No Logo - Naomi Klein
Thinking of posting chapter wise gist.
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The empire strikes backIn recent weeks, we've taken huge steps towards blocking spam accounts on LiveJournal. In fact, we've suspended as many as 30,000 accounts in a single day! We've implemented several pre-emptive measures to prevent the creation of spam accounts, and we've honed our detection of suspicious content. Spam bots are a crafty lot, so we'll continue to refine our tactics and keep up the good fight to keep you safe from spam attacks on LiveJournal. RSS feeds againIf you're addicted to , ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif) icanhaschzbrgr, or other syndicated feeds, we're pleased to report that we've resolved the update error that was mucking up your RSS feeds. While content was being pulled correctly, it wasn't being posted to the feeds themselves. Late last week, we finally nailed down what we hope was the root problem, so content should post properly. We thank you for your patience. Wii have killer CSI Deadly Intent contests! c_s_iIf you're a gamer who loves CSI, have Wii got news for you! c_s_i is sponsoring killer contests. Simply post a question to a member of the CSI crew. The winner will get a free copy of CSI: Deadly Intent for Nintendo Wii (with a retail value of $39.99) and get their question answered by a member of the CSI writing team! There's also a fantastic monthly contest. To enter, join c_s_i, play the online version of CSI: Deadly Intent, and respond to a two-part query for a chance to win a Wii! Entries will be judged on composition and originality. Sorry, but you must be a U.S. resident and over 18 years old to participate. Check out the rules here. Enveloped in postcardsLast week, we asked you to send in postcards to help us decorate our drab concrete walls. Here's a photo of the results so far! Thank you so much and please keep them coming! You can mail them to Frank the Goat, Esq., c/o LiveJournal, Inc., 539 Bryant Street, Suite 210, San Francisco, CA 94107. Be sure to include your username, since we'll be giving ten random users paid account credits.  Photos of the weekIf you haven't visited our new LiveJournal photo community, you're in for an amazing visual trip. LiveJournal users from around the world will take you on a scenic journey to everywhere. Post your own pictures or kick back and enjoy at lj_photophile. You can view some of this week's awesome photos after the jump. Please start tagging with geographic location, since we'd like to track all the places around the world represented in this community. Keep on commenting too! ( Read more... ) |
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In between all the news of media corruption I will tell a personal incidence. I am staying in a house for rent, the house owner is an ex journalist, now he is a news planter :) Corporate companies and all prefer news instead of advertisements. Means if a company introduces a product, instead of an advertisement , the company can approach a news planter. The news planter has a journalist network, he will only create the news, gives it to various media houses, and it will come as a news item. Business journalism...
-Roopesh
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Senior Journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta talks about the rs. 50,000 cr (10 billion USD) 2g license scam pulled of by Communications and Information Technology minister A. Raja
http://newsclick.in/?q=node/739
Another excellent article by Prabir Purkayastha
http://newsclick.in/?q=node/734
Do read it...
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http://newsclick.in/?q=node/748
Please watch the interview. Seema Mustafa's last point is worth following - of a media commission to act as a media watch.
FYI.... NewsClick.in brings an alternate perspective to that of the corporate media that dominates the world today. This possible as it is based on voluntary efforts and contributions of readers and our well wishers who want to see an independent voice on matters that affect them. It will address the key issues in today's world -- issues from the point of view of the poor, the working class, the farmers -- all of which are virtually missing from the coverage of the corporate media.
http://newsclick.in/
Please keep following it...
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During day sleep which I happened to enjoy on couch in living room (hall), some social worker person came in and talked to mom about donation thing. I didn't wake up but somehow heard a few bits of their conversation. The funny part was the dream that I happened to see post that conversation. It was an awkward dream so no talking about it further. However, the point being that whatever I heard in sleep resulted in some related dream. Seems like brain loves to work overtime :P.
2008 - http://peeyush.livejournal.com/417930.html, http://peeyush.livejournal.com/418158.html2004 - http://peeyush.livejournal.com/51710.htmlNo entries in the year 2005, 2006 and 2007 |
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