Author: Pradeep

  • Going into Text mode again

    I don’t really understand this, but I am going again and again to text. I seem not so good with images and making things interesting. And I’ve switched from the in-your-face Cutline to the sublime-and-mystic Tarski. Love that theme. But, there is some problems on how it shows comments on the individual posts. Nothing I can do about it though – so scroll down to read the comments on a post if there are any!

  • Space Weblog

    I’ve decided to not post my space posts here. Half of the reason is because I am lazy and the second reason is so as not  to confuse people.

    You can find all my space posts here.

  • I know you’ve seen this hundreds of times…but I just love this

    Yea, I’m on twitter too… http://twitter.com/pradx is where you can find me. And here’s the 404 message on Twitter.

  • Why pradx?

    If you’ve seen the url properly you will see the words pradx.

    This is not supposed to be some sort of an odd gen-x thing. I am using x as a variable as used in algebra and stuff in pure mathematics.

    All my ids have only one constant thing – prad. The rest of the id changes. eg. it’s prad2609 on Yahoo!, it’s pradeepnair on YouTube…etc. etc.

  • Digital Library of India

    Some of the premier Indian institutions are working together along with IGNOU (that’s Indira Gandhi National Open University) to make their books available for free online. It’s an ongoing process and so you might find new resources tomorrow that you did not find today.

    The website is here.

  • Unniarcha

    Legendary warrior figure, sister of Aromal Chekayar, mother Aromalunny. The songs and chronicles to this day kept the legend alive. She was born in the Puthooram Veedu family. The famous warriors, Aromal Chevakar and Unnikannan were her brothers. Like her brothers, Unniyarcha was also trained in the arts of war. She is praised in Vadakanpattu. She is considered as a heroine and symbol of female ability.

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  • Photos

    I do not like to mix photos and text. Just one exception though. I might end up using more time studying and so I might just put up photos on my blog. Photos like the ones I put up yesterday. Hopefully I have some 150 MB of storage space. WordPress gives me 50 MB, Picasa gives me 100 MB, and some from Flickr. So, not a bad thing all in all.

    Hope you like the photos. These are my picks. Also keep an eye on my link blog in the sidebar to see the stuff that I am reading on Google Reader. This change to photos is happening because I can’t afford to write for about a month now. I can upload photos even within an hour. Not so with photographs.

  • Talking meche

    I have been trying to write a few things about my course work on this blog. But, it’s not really fair to write about something you don’t experience. And, what I experience in my course work is just the lethargy of doing applied mathematical problems that seems to apply differently in different cases.

    You would understand how these mathematical concepts are applied, perhaps if you understand their limits and why they are applied.

    When my tutor explained to me about how the gas turbine really works and why the terms in the formulae are used in the way they are, it made more sense and much more easier to apply. For example,problems deal with pressure ratios and other ratios, because you cannot really quantify some of the mechanical properties of the machines. Understanding that, made it easier to deal in ratios. Maybe, it removed some block in my mind or it made one less thing to think about.

    So, no matter what course you do in mechanical engineering, be sure to take a look at its underlying form. It is very difficult to do that practically but there is no other way around it.

  • March 30, 2007

    Spend today listening to lounge music.

    I have to remind myself that a lot of maintainence work needs to be done in this weblog. I prefer the fuller version.

    Talks of Web 3.0 abound. Guess we have to talk of many things in that language. The old description of “The beginning of a new era” was so much better. Atleast, people don’t say life 2.0. If they did, I don’t know which version number I would be.

    I was wondering. Is the world really such a complex place? Or is it the Governments making it that way?

    Some word on Enigma, because I’m listening to it now, from the CD literature:

    Enigma is the brainchild of Michael Cretu, a Romania born electronics and studio wizard who blended various global sounds to catchy samples and incredible sound design. While Cretu composed and produced the music, his wife Sandra chipped in with haunting vocal passages. The music cuts across all barriers and appeals to all generations.

    Learn more about Enigma from Wikipedia

    I wonder what will happen to this weblog once they become passe or when..What happens to all these words logged in notebooks with several of the people’s thoughts have been typed in. And yet, there are many things that are not online. We will become mature about the Internet only when we set it’s limitations – in terms of time, affect on offline life etc.

  • Drawing on the Wall

    Is the habit of children drawing on the walls the result of our ancestors drawing on their wall centuries ago?