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Sunday, October 26, 2008

Keep guessing!

Two people sit facing one another in silence. A few feet apart, each can smell the other and hear every breath. They focus with forbidding intensity on the space that separates them. Sometimes one looks up and searches the other for meaning, mood, an idea. Occasionally their eyes meet until too much is revealed and one glances away. Hours pass. They sweat with strain and the passionate need to overcome. They are pushed to the limit. Bodies are separated by a table, but minds are dancing in a common dream until the bodies fall away and all that is left is thought and emotion and a shared journey through a jungle of complexity.

To be updated soon...
Thanks!

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Two C language books top the most selling tech book list


Bangalore: As the book lovers are busy discussing about general best sellers like Amitav Gosh's latest 'Sea of Poppies' and Jeffrey Archer's thriller 'A Prisoner of Birth,' Siliconindia made an attempt to know the most selling technology related books in the IT capital of India, Bangalore.

'Object Oriented Programming with C++' by E Balaguruswamy and 'Let us C solutions' by Yashwant P Kanetkar were considered the most selling books in the last month. While the former is priced at Rs 250, the latter is available at Rs 225 "We sold around 50 copies of the each book last month," said Higginbotham staff N Nagraj. 'Let us C solutions' is a compilation of some problems in C programming language and its solution, while the other one deals with C++ language in a detailed way.

'PMP - Project Management Professional Study guide' by- Josheph Phillips is considered the second most selling book, which is priced at Rs.595.

ALE, EDT and I DOC Technologies for SAP, which was co-authored by Arvind Nagpal and John Pitlak made it to the third place. The book dwells upon the basics and delves deep into details of the core topic. The fourth best seller is Oracle OCA Oracle9i Associate DBA Certification exam guide by Jason Couchman. Priced at Rs 625, the book is mostly preferred by professionals for the certified exams.

In the fifth place is CCIE, which covers the papers of CISCO exams including BSCI, BCMSN, ONT and ISCW. Written by Yusuf Bhaiji, the book is priced at Rs.2300.
While 'A+ Certification Training Kit', 3rd edition, brought out by Microsoft and priced at Rs 695, stood at the sixth position, 'SAP R/3 Certification Exam Guide,' which covers FI, CO, MM, PP and SD modules plus ABAP/4 Development Work Bench is at the seventh slot. Written by Stewart S. Miller, the book is priced at Rs. 575.

'Computer and Financial Accounting with Tally 9.0' by Vikas Gupta is in the eighth place. Priced at Rs.249 this is a course related book, mostly preferred by institutes and students. e-Governance by Ashok Agarwal, priced at Rs.495 and Management Information System by James Obrien , priced Rs.399 are occupying the ninth and 10th slots respectively.

Monday, September 29, 2008

Return of the Primitive - Quote

Nice quote:

But I lean on no dead kin,
My name is mine for fame or scorn,
And the world began when I was born,
And the world is mine to win.

--Ayn Rand, in the Return of the Primitive

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Robocon 2009 Team Selection for Nirma University

Postponed.

Keep an eye on Robotics @ Nirma

Saturday, September 20, 2008

The crowd cheering Team Nirma at International Robocon '08

Friday, August 15, 2008

The Fountainhead

Recently, among other things, I'm reading The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand too. Just go through the Wikipedia link. I feel too small to try appreciating the philosophy portrayed therein in my own words :D.

Team India, Asia Pacific Robocon 2008

Hi folks,


I'm blogging after a long, long time. I was busy preparing for the Asia Pacific Robocon 2008 to be hosted by MIT Pune, India this year on 31st August. After winning the National Robocon 2008, 7 people from Nirma Institute of Technology, Ahmedabad are going to represent India there. 17 countries will play for the Robocon championship title. Being a part of Team India was one of my greatest experiences ever. After three months of working day & night, now I'm back into the regular college life. Although the preparations are almost over, I can't stop thinking of the next challenge, National Robocon 2009, the next chance to prove ourselves...


Chak De India!!