yes ,one person who looked like taking pakistan out of its mess is now gone .

http://www.ibnlive.com/videos/55114/benazir-shot-deat-at-rally-pak-erupts-in-violence.html

years of flirting with terrorism and perpetrators of terror is now being felt hard .
sadly it is the people who are feeling it than the people in power as civilian security and democracy keeps dipping down .

Twitter was always fun and now iam starting to do some things with it .

Inspired from Myles ,but his work was in ruby and i dont know much of it and iam lot comfortable with python .

so here is how you can get all the cricket updates of india matches right on your mobile when you are out roaming or on your gtalk while the cricket sites are banned in office .

• Login to your twitter account at http://twitter.com
• go to http://twitter.com/meninblue and choose the follow option
• or if you are logged in to your gmail,gtalk then give ” Follow meninbue” command and you should be receiving my updates
• And yes if you want to have the scores on your mob ,then dont forget to give out the phone details in the account section

And i must warn you ,this script runs every 2 min so incase you dont want to be spammed ,follow only when you are comfortable with it !

http://twitter.com/meninblue

and thanks to sp2hari for helping out with html parsing and 2s for telling me about XPATH ,i figured out html parsing is lot tougher than XPATH and would definitely recommend it more than html parsers !.

And yes ,dont be surprised if some posts are truncated ,twitter allows only 140 chars and so i had to truncate the commentary else, it wont get posted !

PS:the libraries used are twitter,urllib,urllib2,sgmlib and XPATH ,source code will be up here soon,or if u want it then mail me at theyaga@gmail.com. will mail u the code

“It is not the way I intended to live my life. It is a dangerous, tough, thankless job… but someone’s got to do it. It’d be nice if society did not need people like me but while it does… I will be right there.”

Another one of those remarkable stories that I have loved listening to and would like to share .

It is not often that i feel like writing but today was indeed special ,i was talking to perimaa about her association with uthavum karangal . She has been a patron of the organization for long enough. She would always ensure every diwali and pongal that she donated her grand child’s dresses to the children in the ashram .

What makes uthavum karangal so special ?

I think its the founder ,pappa vidyaakar. Great stories are weaved around great hearts and people and the story of uthavum karangal is one such inspiring story, not only for me but for all of us who love to share. It all started when vidyaakar found an abondoned child near the ticket counter…

I love seeing unread mails but today wasn’t a good day .I just recieved the news that Thamarai selvan passed away .No he wasnt my friend but i did get a chance to interact with the team .I wished he lived longer not to be though .

I did what i could ,donating a small amount of money and also help spreading the word by blogging on My own blog and At Archie’s . He has been under treatment for more than a year for Aplastic_Anemia .

Archir behen anduday bhai were generous enough to donate the money they earned through their blog for a year for his cause and i take this chance again to thank them for this gesture ,it may not have saved him but it atleast tells me ,there are still enough souls alive who don’t mind giving their bit for others.

It makes me feel very sad and upset such things have to happen but also a grim reminder all our days are counted as well .

I convey my deepest condolences to Thamarai selvan and his family and also a word of appreciation for KCG Tech and his friends for making this effort until the last breath .

We might have been unlucky this time around but iam sure some day some other person ,some other place we might be able to save other’s life .

I know i have been away from my blog for some time ,but i this news was too big for me to handle ,so i thought may be i should share it with you guys .

Keep Faith !

I reproduce the mail i recieved from Alex below

atul alex <atulalex@gmail.com>		hide details	7:35 pm (1½ hours ago)
	to			S Theyagarajan <theyaga@gmail.com>
	date			Oct 24, 2007 7:35 PM
	subject			sad demise of thamarai selvan
	mailed-by			gmail.com

sir

with great sorrow and pain, i inform you about the sad demise of our dear friend thamarai. he passed away at 6pm, today 24th of October, in Vellore CMC Hospital. he had undergone two operations, which were unsuccessful. the funeral will be held at his place tomorrow.

may his soul rest in peace.

Students of KCG College of Technology

Yeah ,we had a hindu correspondent in campus last week and he was talking to a few bloggers in our college .Myself,sp2hari,suren were there .

And today when i landed up in college ,swami showed me the paper which had my name right on the second column

here are the scanned copy of the paper

I think its pretty cool ,although a link to my blog would have been great. You never know some traffic is welcome .

Yes NIT-Trichy follows the big league.Now students have their own blogs from the college .

Its great to see that we are one of the first in the country to offer blog space for students.Other big universities that offer student blogs are Stanford and harvard .

It comes with a lot of aniticipation and also interesting how the content in the blogs will be monitored.No matter how much of freedom is given ,content on a institute sponsored site has to be monitored and i wonder how delta will rise up to this challenge .In the meantime enjoy http://delta.nitt.edu/blogs and btw these blogs have just been released and will be online soon .NITT is undergoing a sea change here ,what with paying fees is just a click on the ATM machine.No more filling up chalans,waiting in Q and what not .

For those who cant wait here is the screenshot

The plans have also been updated to include feeds from college alumni although they wont be having accounts here ,i think its a good idea to build a closer network of your college alumni .

Its a happy day ,i got through to my first job in the campus .Its not the best job that comes in the campus but there is no other feeling like sitting early and get through to a first job . I cant reveal the names yet ,iam not supposed to .Thats what the college rules say .

My representative told me may be if i can wait for the bigger companies to come than sitting too early .But somehow when you have decided to do an mba ,i think placements are only going to be a backup .Get a job early and slog for CAT .Thats what i chose to do .

The selection process was very cool.A written test and about 40 % were selected for the next round (PI) and then finally they took some 18 students from all departments .And one thing that i was really happy about was that my interview lasted for around 160 seconds . yes  two HR questions like ” tell me about yourself ? ” and “Your short tem and long term goals ” and also one more ” Explain your dip from high schol marks to college grades ” I said ” I got to do more in college than a school and although there is a dip in my grades i find myself more confident with the grades and activities than just high school marks . and couple of tech questions. And he said ” You can leave ” . i was surprised ,i thought interviews went for a little longer and i was worried if i had messed it up and then he finally put this question ” We have only IT /tech work, is that ok for you ? ” and i knew i had this one .

Now that i have cleared one =wish me luck for my CAT ,its the one i want to break  .

Thanks a ton archie ,uday and loriz dont forget to wish me for this one too