geek code

my geek code:

a s+:+ d--shorts GCS C++ L+ P+ E W+++ N w++ PS++ PE- tv+ DI++ e++ gm+
what is yours?

added shorts and gm+ to mean play games on the computer - online and downloaded. Need to decode?

useful utility - multiple desktops ... other ... free from MS

http://www.plime.com/l/132411/1/ Useful free software utility! http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/Downloads/powertoys/Xppowertoys.mspx

if you have windows XP you might like it.

---- PowerToys add fun and functionality to the Windows experience. What are they? PowerToys are additional programs that developers work on after a product has been released.

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Virtual Desktop Manager

Manage up to four desktops from the Windows taskbar with this PowerToy.

like linux have more than one desk top ... After install must uncheck "Shared desktops" ... http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/power-toy-microsofts-virtual-desktop-manager/ tutorial

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RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer

Are you a serious photographer? Now you can organize and work with digital RAW files in Windows Explorer (much as you can with JPEG images). This tool provides thumbnails, previews, printing, and metadata display for RAW images. Download or learn more. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/prophoto/default.mspx

Regards Tushar Kapila

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windsor manor junction sankey road, pedestrian crossing

after the traffic signals were removed a year back at Windsor manor junction sankey road,pedestrian nightmare

police man there should stop traffic coming from Guutahalli towards Windsor Manor every 4-5 minutes for 30 seconds so we can cross. even at 3pm etc its busy. after 5 pm very busy. else put lights back to stop traffic before they enter the circle area for 30 seconds every 4-5 minutes.

So we can cross even when police 'busy'. I asked a police man to help me cross he said he has to see other traffic - then he went back to taking to the garderner who was tending the plants in the middle traffic Island!

Or are we going to wait till some people get hit by speeding vehecles OR some big shot has to cross the road on the way to one of the 5 star hotels?

Regards Tushar Kapila

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bad end - Silver Star hotel, Palolem, Goa

1 star rooms and good food on the beach. Went off season (22nd July 2009 to 23rd) staff was helpful. Plain room - tv, western style loo. No soap, toilet paper, or hot water (but you can get most essentials at the shops 400 meters away). Owned by two brothers one of who I spoke to and seemed quite friendly.

 

Enjoyed my stay except - I was moving in to the Lalit Intertcontinental with my wife but wanted some clothes laundered. They agreed to clean them. When I checked out I did not ask for help and no one came forward to help with my 3 bags.

 

Realized the next day that I had the room key so I went immediately and dropped it off. All the staff was around the TV - slow days.

 

When I came back for my clothes on the 25th the other brother was there was he was not very nice. Said I owe him a days rent cause I had the room keys! I told him walking away with room keys is a common problem - that is why some star hotels have the paper or electronic keys now that can be easily replaced in house at a low cost.

 

He said how are they to know if I checked out or took the key along cause I meant to come back!

 

I reminded him : when I checked out I informed the staff that I was checking out, settled my bill and then left.

 

Then he started calling me a beggar and other obscenities, when I told him to shut up and cussed him one of his staff flew at me and had to be stopped by another.

 

Sad experience - will make me more wary of these low budget places in the future.

 

Regards
Tushar Kapila

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Google :

travians fraggelrock theme song:

Fraggelrock Guild theme song:

Dance your cares away,
Worry's for another day.
Let the music play,
Down at Fraggle Rock.

Work your cares away,
Dancing's for another day.
Let the Fraggles play,
We're Gobo, Mokey, Wembley, Boober, Red.

Dance your cares away,
Worry's for another day.
Let the music play,
Down at Fraggle Rock.

 

Spotted on www.travians.com a fun game where you can find me as user "Tushar Kapila"

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Bangalore BBMP (local government infrastructure)

to call for tree fallen / emergency road repair / water / other civic problems in Bangalore

22210-0032

22210-0033

 

22210-0034

+91-80-22210-0035

 

why don't people in India put a - or a space when writing phone numbers / long numbers ... makes it easier to read. keeps away the cross eyed lion syndrome :-)

Regards
Tushar Kapila

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Google :

Audio Introduction on SEO

For your hearing pleasure!

 

Regards
Tushar Kapila

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http://stephenbrooks.org/muon1/ Volunteer computer idle time to science, is run by a friend; he has helped me with 2 algorithms. A child genius was in oxford at age 17
www.thehungersite.com , and www.bhookh.com feed hungry , its free. www.ecologyfund.com
Please add these to your start-up how to: http://tusharkapila.blogspot.com/2008/05/s.html or bookmark all in one folder in your browser and open all together so you remember to visit all! you can even bookmark the individual tabs of the hunger site like this for child health

Google :

For the turtles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4bjH_lYZKc

What : say no to the big cos that are making a port in Dharma that further endangers turtles that use that area as a nesting ground. http://greenpeace.in/turtle/why-save-the-turtles 

  Who : we, against tatas, LnT ... read the other side http://dhamraportandturtles.blogspot.com/   Where and how : Near the Mahatma Gandhi statue , which is in the park adjoining the stadium. Going to carry a hammer and allow concerned people to smash my tatasky box. bring your box too. not a very large money loss if you consider that if you switch the other co will give you 3 months subscription free. anyway plan to carry a few photo copies of articles from the web on this too so people can read about it there if they have not seen yet. posters would be good too. 

Token against port in Orissa which is endangering the Olive Ridley Turtles http://www.greenpeace.org/india/news/don-t-let-tata-terminate-the-turtles Am switching to airtel or sun DTH will decide Saturday. Also shunning their other products like salt and tea.   ---- On http://dhamraportandturtles.blogspot.com/ ... why only against tatas, what about the fishermen, other cos who are involved ... expose one report or another. even if some activists distort facts it does not change the fact that the turtles who nest there are going to be affected. some of them are killed by fishermen's nest. I wish there was a way to limit that - maybe education on where not to fish but don't see much headway in that.   anyway if there is too much traffic near my house - I don't want more to be added cause anyway a few die in accidents - so what difference if a few more ....

tata to Tata for the turtles

What : say no to the big cos that are making a port in Dharma that further endangers turtles that use that area as a nesting ground. http://greenpeace.in/turtle/why-save-the-turtles

 

Who : we, against tatas, LnT ... read the other side http://dhamraportandturtles.blogspot.com/

 

Where and how : Near the Mahatma Gandhi statue , which is in the park adjoining the stadium. Going to carry a hammer and allow concerned people to smash my tatasky box. bring your box too. not a very large money loss if you consider that if you switch the other co will give you 3 months subscription free. anyway plan to carry a few photo copies of articles from the web on this too so people can read about it there if they have not seen yet. posters would be good too.

 

 

I'm going to crush my tata sky set top box this Sunday on Mahatma Gandhi Road near the statue at 5pm in Bangalore India

Token against port in Orissa which is endangering the Olive Ridley Turtles http://www.greenpeace.org/india/news/don-t-let-tata-terminate-the-turtles Am switching to airtel or sun DTH will decide Saturday. Also shunning their other products like salt and tea.

 

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On http://dhamraportandturtles.blogspot.com/ ... why only against tatas, what about the fishermen, other cos who are involved ...

expose one report or another. even if some activists distort facts it does not change the fact that the turtles who nest there are going to be affected. some of them are killed by fishermen's nest. I wish there was a way to limit that - maybe education on where not to fish but don't see much headway in that.

 

anyway if there is too much traffic near my house - I don't want more to be added cause anyway a few die in accidents - so what difference if a few more ....

 

if its more than one co than tata - so be it - tell them all. but the message is the same "let the turtles have their nesting sanctuary, we humans can develop elsewhere or maybe redefine development to include the right for other species to live.

 

I can afford a car but don't. rather use public transport, borrow my dads,  hitch a ride or higher a taxi if there is a dire need  ... still have a big pollution footprint ... but minimise is the aim.

 

I think we owe it to nature for being the most powerful and smart to do more to stop its destruction. and the best part is that it pays back. in the long run more sanctuaries means more plants and trees ... a better world.

 

 

down voted/ deleted content on public sites

i wonder if other social book marking/ news sites has a recycled bin like http://www.plime.com/d/

Regards
Tushar Kapila

I love Java , PHP, VBA, mysql, J2ME, VB6, oracle, linux win 2000+

i love Java. Solve near every problem. Even UI with applets, J2ME and swing.

Java , J2ME mysql, apache web server - with them can solve most business problemns.

VBA - great tool - have delivered more than 10 projects using this language and it has helped with data and analysis with nearly all my other projects (in conjunction with Excel and Word). 

VB6 - the full programming part of VBA

 

Windows 2000 was when windows OS got on par with unix and beat it in usability.

 

Oracle for showing all that a database can be.

MySql for being free and now powerful too.

 

J2ME for being easy to put apps on mobile devices

 

Linux for great performance ++ and all free

 

thank you all the folks behind these technologies!

Regards
Tushar Kapila

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http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ Volunteer computer idle time to help find cures for disease and other big world issues supported by IBM and other big corporates

no buy - tata tra, sky, salt ...

I stopped using tata sky, salt, tea and other products by them that I used to buy. i hope you shun them too till they change for the better.

Write to them . http://customercare-cv.tatamotors.com/contact.asp

 

TATA corporation is in the global spotlight as they launch the Nano, the world's cheapest car. But the spotlight ought to be on a costly little secret: TATA's giant port at Dhamra, which threatens the nesting grounds of an  endangered turtle species.

Merriam-Webster has this entry under 'ta-ta'; Etymology: baby talk-used to express farewell.


That's apt, considering that the TATA corporation could soon be making us say goodbye to of one of India's largest marine reserves - Gahirmatha, and with it one of the world's few remaining Olive Ridley turtle nesting grounds.

Every year, between 200,000 to 500,000 turtles make their way to the mass nesting beaches of Gahirmatha on India's east coast. This is just about 12 kilometres away from a giant port being constructed by TATA at Dhamra.

TATA is India's largest corporation and has a growing international empire, with its recent acquisitions of Anglo-Dutch steel maker Corus and the Jaguar and Land Rover brands.

In India, the company's reputation for social responsibility has been considerably tarnished over the last decade, and its performance on the Dhamra project is one of the reasons.

When the original environmental impact study turned out to have holes big enough to drive a fleet of Nanos through, we asked for a fresh, independent environmental impact study to be made, and for construction to stop until that is done. Seems like a simple demand, right?

But so far, we've hit a brick wall.

People are emailing, faxing and calling the Tatas on an hourly basis. But the port hasn't stopped.
200 scientists (many with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature) have speakon up. But the port hasn't stopped.
But guess what? We're not giving up.


Thank you

Tushar Kapila
tgkprog@gmail.com

Regards
Tushar Kapila

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