Karuthu a new tamil site to express our views

Karuthu is a Tamil word means View.  Karuthu.com, a new web forum to express our views, thoughts on any general issues or happenings. Click for latest topics on board. The forum even supports Tamil. The site was launched this sunday and holds Freedom of Speech, Expression & Views as their Caption. To know more click here.

The highlight is that, Karuthu.com was started by Karthik Chidambaram, son of Union Finance Minister P.Chidambaram along with Kanimozhi, daughter of DMK Chief Karunanidhi

Also, Mr. Karti Chidambaram, owns Myvakil.com, a legal advisory site.

Update : Its really nice to see, Karuthu.com with nearly 3800 entries (replies & posts) in just 45 day!!  Well, the truth was, there wasnt a good, reliable site before to throw peoples' karuthu. .

Now we can call this as a good initiative, rite.

People who have access to their raw logs can use Awstats, Webtrends or Webalizer etc, to get a better view of their websites visitors statistics. Hopefully who don't have access to the logs, may use the free service from Stat Counter, Shiny Stats etc., But this is something interesting from Google, thats  Google Analytics, as usual a free service.  So this can be a very good alternative,mainly for people, who blog in blogspot, or Live journal.

About Google Analytics, the installation is very simple & its just the 5 lines of code to add in your page. I have installed it now, may be tomorrow morning (12 hours later), I hope to get access to my reports!!!  The reports are grouped for three types of people :  Executives, Webmasters and Marketing Officials. 

Im waiting for the report. Soon, I will update this with the snopshots.

Update : Nothing special happened in Google's Analytics report. I don't know how long I have to wait. Its like, they have registered the  domain Google-Analytics.com more than 4 months back

November 3^rd is considered as World Usability Day, by Usability Professional Association (UPA) . World Usability Day is a project of UPA : promoting usability concepts and techniques worldwide. Around the globe the event is happening in more than 200 places. And in India, as on date, the event is going to happen in three places, viz., Bangalore, Chennai & Hyderabad.

If anyone is working / interested in Usability then feel free to attend   And there is also a blog for World Usability Day - Chennai.

Venue :

            Anna University,
            Hall of Guines 68,
            Department of Manufacturing Engineering,
            Sardar Vallabhat Patel Road,
            Chennai, 600 002

UPA also has a Indian chapter based in Pune.  Also Muthu, a Usability Engineer is blogging about Usability, which is named as Usability in India. Worth Clickling 

Its raining for more than 12 hours non-Stop, here in madras. Weather forcasting are towards the same result for few more days. I couldn't go to office today, due to rain. Im getting many SMSs saying "Nearly 50 people died due to power cable fell into the rain water, so avoid going out." I searched in the net for these news, but nothing turned up. I think it must be a rumour. Anyway its a +ve one.

Like BBC Weather, most of the weather forecasters say the same : Temperature as a Max of 31 for next 4 days & 24 as the Minimum. And they are confirming that the rainfall will be less for the following days, when we compare it with today.

Hopefully, Chennai won't suffer any water scarcity next summer. The forthcoming Assembly Election in TamilNadu will also fall on the same summer. So, there is a possibility that : a small % of voters may cast towards, the current J Jayalalitha government, since water scarcity is the major problem Chennai (Madras) is facing every summer.

Update : Just now I checked Chandroo's Blog, from there I found that there is blog created for Chennai Rains as Chennai Help.

2nd Update (28-Oct-2005):  Today it didn't rain, no drizzling, even a drop!!!. Sun was glowing, and most part of the city was very very normal. 

As I said in my Floods in Bangalore blog, water was absorbed in a fast rate. On the way to my office in RA Puram there was nearly 2 to 3 feet water yesterday, I noticed. But this morning, I couldn't find a drop!! To my surprise, it was normal as if nothing happened !!! Many trees stood horizontally, which was also cleared. Government is also doing worthful work.  Its not exactly like what SUN TV(a private TV channel owned by the opposition party Head) is spreading. 

And atlast the Slums are the affected.

Speaker s  for FOSS. IN ( Linux Bangalore / LB ) 2005

FOSS. IN announces its speaker list for the forthcoming FOSS. IN 2005 event. We have unexpected set of people... Thanks Atul for making it.

The Key speakers are :

He is the co-author of what could probably be called "The Bible of Linux Development", in which he uses his keen knowledge of the Linux kernel and its design to show people how to develop device drivers. No one in India would even *think* of trying this without referring to his book, now in the third edition.         He is Jonathan Corbet, co-author of "Linux Device         Drivers", and editor of LWN.NET, aka "Linux Weekly News".
His code safeguards millions of networks across the world, and can be found in virtually every consumer router these days. And when he isn't writing code, he makes the world a safer place for the GPL, by relentlessly tracking down and exposing corporations who "don't get it" when they use GPL'd code without following the rules of the game, and provided the first precedent of the GPL standing up in court - and winning. From Germany comes the chairman of the netfilter/iptables project, and the man behind GPLviolations.org - Harald Welte.
He speaks Japanese, German, English and a variety of other languages, but most importantly speaks Geek as well. He had a knoppix CD before people knew what that was, and can lie in the sun for hours without getting a tan or a sunburn. He is Mr.Wizards-of-OS - Volker Grassmuck.
Every time you go to the web to access information, you are using technology that this man has had his eager fingers in. His work is one of the first instances of a FOSS project almost completely demolishing the proprietary competition, and is used in a majority of all web servers across the Internet. The man behind the Apache project, COLLAB.NET's Brian Behlendorf.
He started off writing something to make it easier to maintain his personal home pages, and ended up changing the way the world created websites. He is Mr.PHP - Rasmus Lerdorf.
When she speaks, people sit up and listen. She was behind the open sourcing of the project that today gives FOSS a place in every office and in every home, and is also part of the organization that decides what's Open Source, and what is not - literally. The Diva of Open Source - Danese Cooper.
As one of the world's best known bloggers, he has played a vital role in getting his highly influential organization to play nice with FOSS. He loves to dabble with things ranging from Linux servers, databases, to PCs, gliders and now powered aero planes. He is Yahoo's Jeremy Zawodny.
The world of sound and music is a fascinating one, and there has always been a deep connection between code-hacking geeks and music. It is, therefore, hardly surprising that a lot of effort goes into making FOSS platforms "music compatible" - not just in the playback department, but in the music creation and recording department. The man behind Linux Sound and Audio - Dave Phillips.
He is probably one of the most recognizable faces in the FOSS world, and at the same time one of the most respected names, as well. His contributions to Linux rank with those of all the greats out there, and that includes Linus Torvalds. He has been the official kernel maintainer, and little happens in the Linux kernel today without him having some say in it. He is Alan Cox.

The regular drizzling rain in bangalore gone crazy last week, making bangalore a mini-bombay. Southern- Karnataka (mainly Bangalore), have good under water level, not like Tamilnadu. Even in Madras its raining most of the time. But the speed of absorption or the amount of water sucked by the soil/earth will be very less when compared to Madras/TamilNadu. So it might take more than a week to go out. And the climate won't help also.  Here in madras, it rains, but all of a sudden the sun plays well in the same day.

Atlast, Madras is becoming a mini-Bangalore & Bangalore has become a mini-Bombay, in the climate alone.

To say the truth this blog entry is to get more clicks from search engines. Im getting many clicks from the search engines for this flood in bangalore, not for proper keywords. So I thought of doing something to get a better keyword importance.

So please bear this :: please don't read below. Just look the stills below...

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Actually Bangalore is affected a lot due to this flood still (stills are below), bangalore city is more surrounded with water /  flood,  full of water, bangalore flood pictures images, flood stills,bangalore in water, flooded bangalore image, stills

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More stills, nearly 20 are in the power point file.[Link]

ThanX to Umaka & Anandha Balaji for forwarding it. Also Narasiman, my graduation friend & a native of Trichy for explaining the situation.  

I have blogged about Bangalore's pathetic Traffic situation illustrated in Jokes before too.

One more photoblog with the similar news is here. [Link]