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## 2026 · 27 posts
2026-06-12 [on-device · ai] the economics of on-device AI — zero API cost is not the same as free On-device AI eliminates the per-request API cost. It does not eliminate the engineering cost, the device cost, or the capability cost. Here is the actual unit economics. 2026-06-09 [minecraft · voxel] minecrAft — building a voxel game for my son My son asked for Minecraft. I built him one — a custom WebGL voxel engine, no game libraries, an Electron desktop app, and a web version at intrepidkarthi.com/minecraft. 2026-06-04 [seo · migration] migrating without losing SEO juice — the actual checklist Eighteen years of accumulated backlinks. One migration. The wrong move kills 80% of it in a week. The checklist that did not. 2026-05-30 [ios · on-device] the TwinEngine — building a personality model entirely on-device The TwinEngine reads a year of your journal entries and builds a model of how you think, what you care about, and what triggers your worst weeks. Everything runs on your phone. Here is how. 2026-05-22 [security · wordpress] what the 2022 webshell compromise taught me about owning my archive On September 4, 2022, someone dropped seven zero-byte PHP files at the root of my WordPress install. The site survived. The trust did not. Here is what I rebuilt around the lesson. 2026-05-15 [crypto · quant] the case for publishing your strategy — transparency as edge Why making your trading strategy public almost never destroys it, and why the edge from publishing usually exceeds the edge you lose. Five claims, one falsifiable test. 2026-05-09 [meta · architecture] 18 Years of WordPress. I'm Done. After 18 years on WordPress — through plugin rot, database corruption, spam floods, and one too many 'critical update' emails — I rebuilt intrepidkarthi.com from scratch on Astro, Markdown, and Vercel. Here is the full architecture, the migration story, and why I should have done this a decade ago. 2026-04-30 [crypto · quant] why backtests lie — survivorship and look-ahead bias in crypto tick data A strategy that prints 300% APR in backtest loses 40% live. Same code, same parameters. The seven biases you didn't model — and how the feaws backtest discipline avoids them. 2026-04-28 [ios · ai] DailyVox: Why I Built a Voice Journal That Stays on Your Phone I have been writing a diary for 20 years. When the habit started slipping, I switched to voice notes. That experiment turned into DailyVox. 2026-04-28 [feaws · quant] feaws — the quant lab is public, and so is the math A walkthrough of the feaws.xyz whitepaper in plain English. Five hypotheses, one engine, every trade public. The content IS the product. The trading IS the proof. 2026-04-28 [meta · archive] I like the way I am — what this blog used to be called Going through the old WordPress wp_options table during the archive migration, I found the original name of this blog. It wasn't intrepidkarthi. It was 'I like the way I am' with the tagline 'Earth is a nice place to enjoy our life.' Notes on the slow drift from one identity to another. 2026-04-28 [meta · archive] The Lost Archive — 58 posts that didn't survive the WordPress reinstall When I rebuilt this blog in 2026 from a cPanel SQL dump, 27 posts came back clean. 58 did not. Here is the memorial — the slugs, the years, the topics — for posts I wrote between 2010 and 2013 that exist now only in Google's sitemap and the Wayback Machine. 2026-04-27 [books · reading] Books I Have Read A complete list of books I've read over the years — from fiction to business strategy, self-help to thrillers. 2026-04-20 [privacy · apple] why 'Data Not Collected' is a moat in 2026 Apple's strictest privacy label. What it actually requires, why almost no app gets it, and why the gap will widen every quarter. 2026-04-14 [diary · writing] I’ve Been Writing a Diary for 20 Years. Then I Couldn’t Anymore. I’ve Been Writing a Diary for 20 Years. Then I Couldn’t Anymore. 2026-04-08 [ios · widgetkit] WidgetKit + AppIntents for habit-forming journaling The home screen widget is the highest-leverage retention surface on iOS. AppIntents make it interactive. Combined correctly, they convert reminders into recordings without opening the app. 2026-03-25 [ios · cryptokit] CryptoKit AES-256-GCM in iOS apps — what is easy, what is not Apple's CryptoKit makes authenticated encryption look like a three-line API. In production it is more nuanced. Here is the practical guide for shipping it correctly. 2026-03-18 [ios · ai] Apple Intelligence vs sending it to OpenAI — the actual tradeoffs Same prompt, same audio, two providers. Latency, cost, capability, privacy — what each one actually gets you, with numbers. 2026-03-08 [ios · coredata] CoreData + CloudKit encrypted sync without trusting Apple Syncing user data through Apple's CloudKit while ensuring Apple itself cannot read it. The architecture, the choices, and the one constraint that makes the whole thing honest. 2026-03-04 [trading · psychology] how to run a personal post-mortem on a losing week Most retail traders end a losing week by closing the broker screen. The professionals open a different one. The template, the rules, and the 30-minute constraint that makes it work. 2026-02-28 [fraud-detection · machine-learning] from insurance fraud detection (2018) to crypto fraud signals (2026) Eight years apart, two fraud-detection problems. Same shape, different data, different stakes. What transfers, what does not, and what I would do differently the second time. 2026-02-22 [ios · swift] SFSpeechRecognizer deep dive — what requiresOnDeviceRecognition really gets you Six characters in a single property flip the entire trust model of a speech-recognition app. What you gain, what you lose, and what the API will not tell you. 2026-02-15 [crypto · bitcoin] Feaws: How I Built a Bitcoin Forecasting Engine from Scratch I started working on Feaws in late 2025, not because I thought I could beat the market, but because the existing tools frustrated me. Here's the technical breakdown of what I built. 2026-02-08 [journaling · voice] from writing to speaking — the mechanics of switching journal modes Twenty years of writing a daily diary, then six weeks of silence, then voice notes. What you gain and what you lose when you switch from typing to talking. 2026-01-27 [india · stablecoins] INR stablecoins — when, how, who, and what could block them USD stablecoins moved $11 trillion in 2024. An INR-denominated equivalent does not exist at scale. The mechanism, the candidate issuers, and the three things that could prevent it from happening. 2026-01-25 [ios · swift] NLTagger for sentiment + NER + POS — gotchas nobody warned me about Apple's NaturalLanguage framework looks clean in the WWDC slides. In production it has six specific gotchas that cost me hours each. Here is the list. 2026-01-12 [habits · health] healthywealthy at year three — what the habit cost me Three years of a daily habit pairing physical training with financial journaling. The compounding showed up. So did the costs nobody warned me about.## 2025 · 17 posts
2025-12-29 [ai · agents] 2026: The Future Belongs to the Builders Since last year, I’ve completely transformed how I work by integrating AI tools into my 2025-12-15 [journaling · ux] why journaling apps die after 60 days Five UX failure modes that kill journaling apps before the habit forms. Built from twelve apps I quit and one habit I have kept for twenty years. 2025-12-01 [second-brain · on-device] building a second brain that stays on your phone Most second-brain tools assume the cloud. Building one that operates entirely on-device is harder, more interesting, and produces a fundamentally different product. 2025-11-04 [trading · journaling] journaling your trades — the meta-layer of feaws I am building feaws to make my trading transparent. The deeper benefit that nobody talks about: the journal becomes a forcing function that vetoes trades before they exist. 2025-10-21 [india · retail] how Indian retail traders behave differently from US retail (and why it matters) Indian crypto retail behaves measurably differently from US retail across position size, holding period, leverage tolerance, and venue preference. Build for India assuming US patterns and you will misprice the market. 2025-10-12 [journaling · ux] cold-start UX for an empty journal app Day one of a journaling app: zero entries, zero history, nothing to show. The cold-start UX determines whether the user writes the first entry or never returns. 2025-09-18 [polymarket · prediction-markets] Polymarket as a leading indicator — when it works, when it does not Polymarket consensus on 'BTC above $X by date Y' sometimes leads spot price by 24-48 hours. Sometimes it lags. The difference is measurable and tradeable. 2025-08-25 [journaling · ux] designing for honesty — how UI choices affect what people actually record A journal entry is only as honest as the interface lets it be. Five UI choices that determine whether users write the real thing or the safe thing. 2025-08-08 [crypto · perpetual-futures] liquidation cascades — the 30 seconds after BTC drops 3% The first 30 seconds after a 3% spot move on BTC, second by second. The liquidation engine, the insurance fund, auto-deleveraging, and why the cascade is structural, not panic. 2025-07-15 [crypto · funding-rate] funding rate arbitrage in practice — what 18 months of running it actually looks like The basis trade is mechanically simple. The execution is not. What 18 months of running it actually produced, with the numbers and the inconvenient parts. 2025-06-12 [crypto · stablecoin] 2025: The Year Stablecoins Leave the Crypto Bubble When I first noticed stablecoins back in 2020, they felt like a side 2025-05-20 [india · perpetual-futures] INR-margined perps — why they had to exist A USDT-margined BTC perp on an Indian exchange exposes the trader to two risks: BTC's price and USDT's stability. INR-margined perps remove the second. They had to exist. 2025-04-15 [trading · transparency] why I publish trades live Most traders hide their losses. I publish mine in real time. Here is the asymmetry that makes it the right call, with one warning about who it does not work for. 2025-03-28 [crypto · trading] Your Brain vs. the Bull Run: Taming FOMO Before It Ruins Your Trades If you're still letting FOMO control your trades, maybe the problem isn't the market—maybe it' 2025-03-08 [go · microservices] why I built another Go microservices boilerplate in 2025 There are a thousand Go microservices boilerplates. I built another one. Here are the specific opinions baked into it that the alternatives did not have together. 2025-01-14 [trading · psychology] why leverage feels different at 3 AM Same trade, same position, two different times of day. At noon you sleep through it. At 3 AM you watch every tick. The trade did not change. You did. 2025-01-01 [healthywealthy · life] #healthywealthy — two years and counting A daily streak post on x.com — walk, push-ups, plank, a small SIP, a few pages of a book. Two years in. The point is the showing up.## 2024 · 10 posts
2024-12-18 [crypto · perpetual-futures] funding rates, explained without the hand-waving The formula, the cadence, where the money actually goes, and how to read funding as a regime indicator. With real BTC numbers, no analogies. 2024-12-08 [india · web3] Web3 in India after the 1% TDS — what survived Two and a half years after the 1% TDS came into force, the Indian Web3 ecosystem has consolidated around a different shape. Here is what made it through, and what each survivor is doing now. 2024-10-08 [latency · trading] latency budgets — retail vs prop vs market-maker, in numbers Retail's order takes 200ms. Prop's takes 5ms. Market-maker's takes 50µs. The gap is what determines which strategies can exist at each tier. 2024-09-15 [crypto · perpetual-futures] anatomy of a perpetual futures matching engine What actually happens between an order hitting the gateway and a fill landing on the wire. Five components, a sub-millisecond budget, and the failure modes you only see in production. 2024-09-04 [books · library] the home library project — why physical books still win Eight hundred physical books on shelves I designed. In 2024 this is increasingly an exotic choice. Here is why I keep buying and what the library actually does. 2024-08-19 [software · tedx] the TEDx talk I would rewrite today — Building Better Software, 2017 revisited Seven years after a TEDx talk on building better software, the principles are intact and the examples are unrecognisable. What I would say differently in 2024. 2024-07-08 [trading · psychology] the behaviour gap — measure it in your own trade journal Dalbar's 2014 study found the average mutual fund investor underperformed the fund itself by 7.25%. The gap is real and the gap is in your trade journal. Here is how to find yours. 2024-05-22 [india · crypto] the Indian crypto winter was actually a regulatory winter Western commentary called 2022-2024 the 'crypto winter' driven by macro and the FTX collapse. India had a different winter, on a different cause, and the survivors look different. 2024-03-14 [india · crypto] 1% TDS and what it did to derivatives volume The 1% TDS was designed to kill speculation. It killed spot. It barely touched derivatives. Two years in, here is the data and what it means for the next phase of Indian crypto. 2024-02-25 [crypto · trading] position sizing for retail — the math no one shows you Most retail traders have heard 'size your positions properly.' Nobody has shown them the math. Half-Kelly, the drawdown ceiling, and why 5% feels safe but isn't.## 2023 · 4 posts
2023-11-12 [crypto · trading] the four mistakes I have made in every bull market since 2017 Three crypto bull markets later, the mistakes have not changed shape. Only the size of the loss did. The same four, every time, in the same order. 2023-09-12 [india · crypto] why FIU registration changed everything for Indian crypto The March 2023 gazette that brought VDAs under PMLA was the largest structural change to Indian crypto since the 2020 court reversal. Most of the market still has not absorbed what it means. 2023-04-30 [india · crypto] the cost of being early in Indian crypto Building a crypto exchange in India during 2018-2020 cost a specific tax that the 2021 cohort did not pay. Here is what that tax was, and what survived it. 2023-02-03 [india · regulation] Highlights on India Budget 2023-24 A thread on Indian Budget for the financia## 2022 · 3 posts
2022-07-04 [hackathons · google] Google Indic Hackathon — what we built, what survived Six years after the Google Indic Hackathon, the project we built is gone. The relationships are not. The lesson, late. 2022-04-18 [india · crypto] the RBI vs crypto exchange timeline — 2018 to today Four years of regulatory whiplash, in dates. The 2018 banking ban, the 2020 Supreme Court reversal, the 2022 tax regime — and what each step actually did to Indian crypto businesses. 2022-01-29 [crypto · web3] WAGMI in Web3 Decoupling a few queries about the Web3 eco system as simple as possible based on the attempt of deploying a couple of dApps as a hobby…## 2021 · 2 posts
2021-11-14 [teaching · curriculum] teaching 50 hours of full-stack engineering — what worked Forty-five topics. Fifty academic hours. Multiple sessions Aug-Oct 2021 over Google Meet. The curriculum I taught to non-CS engineers, and what I would cut today. 2021-07-11 [life · pandemic] What has been changed since the pandemic? I was having a casual chat with a friend who is a Group Manager at one of the India’s## 2020 · 8 posts
2020-12-31 [goals · missions] mission as a working list, not a bucket list A bucket list is decoration. A working list is a contract with the future you can read out loud. The difference shows up at year five. 2020-11-05 [webrtc · sdp] porting sdp-transform to Java for WebRTC on Android SDP — Session Description Protocol, RFC 4566 — is the negotiation language of WebRTC. The JS and C++ libraries to parse it existed. Java did not. I ported one. 2020-10-06 [blockchain · web3] Blockchain + Brands + Loyalty In the past 2 months, I am helping a startup as a consultant before I pick my next role. In the meantime, I was exploring a f 2020-09-15 [career · books] The Learning Never Ends This month I am completing my 11th year into my professional life. I have worked across MNC, Startups and Mid-size companies. Runni 2020-08-11 [hackathons · startups] hackathon → product → company — the pipeline that actually worked Most hackathon projects die at the venue. A few escape. The ones that turn into companies share a specific five-stage pipeline. Here is what each stage actually demands. 2020-04-15 [india · life] Will India Change in 2020? Since my childhood, I have heard our late ex president Dr Abdul Kalam’s words “India will become a superpower by 2020”. We are a… 2020-03-13 [leadership · engineering] Building a culture is bigger than building a product It has been 11 months since I joined with Sequoia Consulting Group, a leading provider of Benefits, Payroll processing, 401(k) management… 2020-03-11 [security · engineering] Maintaining secrets and credentials across environments At Sequoia.com, we are building an Enterprise B2B SaaS product for providing health Insurance, HR Benefits & Payroll processing. We are…## 2019 · 1 post
2019-06-15 [machine-learning · books] what writing two ML books taught me about teaching ML Two books, twenty months of evenings, royalty income that did not pay for the coffee. The compounding returns were everywhere else.## 2018 · 4 posts
2018-12-22 [privacy · ppdm] PPDM — privacy-preserving data mining before differential privacy was mainstream K-anonymity. Generalisation. Suppression. Perturbation. The pre-differential-privacy techniques I applied to insurance fraud detection in 2018, and what each one actually did to the data. 2018-09-01 [career · books] From hackathons to publishing — how 18 weekends turned into two ML books I bagged 18 hackathon prizes, gave a TEDx talk, and ended up writing two books on mobile machine learning. The connection between the three is not what I expected. 2018-07-22 [hackathon · swiggy] Swiggy hackathon — real-time anomaly dashboards before they were standard Three apps, one delivery network, Kafka and Apache Storm with PostgreSQL geospatial. A weekend in July 2018 building real-time anomaly detection for food delivery. 2018-06-10 [machine-learning · privacy] Insurance fraud detection — a privacy-first ML pipeline Five-stage pipeline: synthesize Indian insurance data, clean it, do EDA, anonymize with k-anonymity and perturbation, then classify with a decision tree. ~99% accuracy on a 91k-row test set.## 2017 · 1 post
2017-02-08 [pipelinedb · hackathon] pipelineDB and what choosing dead infrastructure teaches you I built a real-time analytics dashboard on pipelineDB at a January 2017 hackathon. Within 18 months pipelineDB was acquired, deprecated, and EOLed. The dashboard rotted. Here is the lesson.## 2016 · 3 posts
2016-04-20 [hackathon · android] EmpowerWomen — 18 hours at Google Bangalore for rural India An Android survey-collection app for rural India, built in 18 hours at the Google Android Indic Hackathon. ODK on the front end, App Engine on the back. 2016-04-04 [mobile · app] Mobile app statistics :: One week after launch We have launched Teleport Call :: First ever VR Caller application on Android 2016-03-01 [mobile · india] Is India ready to face Virtual Reality? The first decade of 21st century can be categorised for smartphone and handheld devices evolu## 2015 · 4 posts
2015-12-29 [india · regulation] SAY NO TO FREE BASICS India’s poor deserves something better than Facebook and their advertisements. 2015-11-22 [hackathon · career] 3Ps of attending hackathons and events > Chase your dreams and not the money. Money will follow you automatically! It is still in my memory about th 2015-08-12 [hackathon · mobilesparks] OnTheGo — civic accountability at MobileSparks 2015 Thirty-six hours, three of us, one theme: Make For India. The civic-accountability app we built at MobileSparks, what it did, and why it never made it past the venue. 2015-06-17 [startup · founder] I Have An Idea And I Need An App For That Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. -Paulo Coelho## 2014 · 4 posts
2014-12-14 [life · career] What did I learn in 25 years? I have downloaded a random app from app store on my mobile in morning. There were a few initial screens with q 2014-09-19 [adserver · madserve] Running my own ad server — mAdserve on shared hosting Spent a weekend standing up mAdserve — an open-source mobile ad server — on a corner of intrepidkarthi.com. The Teleport Call install base is now in the hundreds of thousands and the question of how to monetise without ruining the call experience needs an actual answer. Notes on what mAdserve does, why I'm running my own instead of plugging in AdMob, and what I think the right ad model for VR voice calls actually is. 2014-09-15 [hackathon · healthtech] Medic — building healthtech logistics at Sequoia's 2014 hackathon A hospital → patient → pharmacy ecosystem prototype, built in a weekend at Sequoia Capital's 2014 hackathon in Bangalore. Shipped to the Play Store before we left. 2014-01-19 [security · vodafone] Vodafone is reading SMS/MMS — what I caught in the metadata Noticed something strange in the headers of an MMS that arrived from Vodafone India. Some metadata that does not seem like it should be there. Two screenshots and a few questions that I do not have good answers for.## 2013 · 2 posts
2013-09-10 [android · device-id] the four device IDs on Android — what changed since 2013 Secure Android ID, GSF ID, UUID, IMEI. Four ways to identify an Android device in 2013. The app I shipped to Play Store to expose them, and what happened to each over the decade. 2013-06-15 [rabbitmq · ubuntu] twelve hours setting up RabbitMQ on Ubuntu for an Android chat app Twelve hours. Ubuntu 12.04. AMQP. An Android chat app that needed reliable message delivery in 2013, before Firebase Cloud Messaging was usable.## 2012 · 3 posts
2012-11-06 [security · xss] An XSS cookie stealer, built as a teaching tool Three small PHP files I keep on intrepidkarthi.com/files/xss as a working demonstration of how a cookie-stealing XSS attack actually unfolds — vulnerable page, exfiltration endpoint, log file. For workshop use only. The point is to make the attack physically visible to people who have only seen it in slides. 2012-06-15 [presentation · foss] Presentation: Dive into FOSS and LAMP architecture Slide deck I gave this month on Free & Open Source Software and the L-A-M-P web stack. Built in impress.js, hosted at intrepidkarthi.com/files/presentation/lamp/. The agenda, the highlights, and a why-FOSS-actually-matters note for the engineers in the room. 2012-03-25 [tamil · thamizh] தமிழ் கவிதை — எதிர் வீட்டு ஜன்னல், தனிமை, and a few others I've been writing I've been writing Tamil poetry on the side. Putting up a few that I've illustrated this month — Edhir Veettu Jannal (the window across the road), Thanimai (solitude), and a couple of others. Notes on why I keep coming back to Tamil for the things that matter most.## 2011 · 2 posts
2011-07-20 [symantec · norton] Norton Ninja — security suite for your Android Notes on Norton Ninja, the Android security suite I'm working on at Symantec. The threat list is growing fast — premium-rate SMS Trojans, Bluetooth auto-pair attacks, SD-card payloads, contact-list exfiltration. The mantra: whatever the enemy is, we have to win at last. 2011-06-24 [symantec · android] Bandwidth test files — and why mine are filled with Celine Dion I needed two files of known size — 100KB and exactly 1MB — to test mobile-data throughput on Android phones. Filling them with random bytes is boring. Filling them with the Titanic theme song, repeated until the byte count is right, is much more on-brand for what we are actually testing.## 2010 · 4 posts
2010-10-16 [trip · orissa] Orissa trip — Bhubaneswar, Konark, Puri Long weekend in Orissa — Bhubaneswar's temple cluster, Konark's sun temple at the coast, an overnight at Puri. Notes from the trip and twenty-four photos that survived. 2010-10-14 [trip · srisailam] Srisailam trip Long weekend at Srisailam — the Mallikarjuna temple, the Krishna river dam, the ghat road in. Notes and photos from the trip. 2010-02-14 [tamil · thamizh] Three Tamil poems for February — உலக காதலர்களுக்கு, என்னவள் யாரோ, நண்பா நண்பா Three short Tamil pieces from this month. One for the world's lovers, one for whoever my own happens to be, one for a friend. Putting them up together because they came out the same week and they're all asking some version of the same question. 2010-01-15 [tamil · thamizh] எனது முதல் தமிழ் படைப்பு (My first Tamil work) First Tamil-language piece on this blog. Putting it up properly — the writing, the small image I drew for it, and a note on why Tamil is the right language for the things I most want to say.## 2009 · 17 posts
2009-11-26 [college · tce] TOSS and C-Star — what we shipped from the CSE lab this year Two student-team projects that shipped from the Computer Science department at Thiagarajar College of Engineering this year. TOSS — a developer-focused Ubuntu spin, live ISO out yesterday. C-Star — the first fully online intra-college programming contest at TCE, ran in February. 2009-10-15 [tcs · fresher] TCS days starts — orientation tour through Bangalore, Cochin, Ooty, Trivandrum Joined TCS as a fresher last month. The induction took us on an orientation tour — Bangalore, then Cochin, Ooty, and Trivandrum. Photos and notes from the first weeks of the post-college life. 2009-09-15 [autosyngen · nlp] Automatic Synonym Generator — live AutoSynGen is now live at intrepidkarthi.com/autosyngen. Plug in a word, get back a multiple-choice question with one right synonym and four distractors picked using WordNet's synset graph. The MPL trick is doing the work. 2009-05-10 [college · events] Post - after a long busy time It has been a long time since i posted my last post. I have involved with various things. To start with it, treat in aarthy drive inn for conducting FOSSConf'09… 2009-04-15 [college · tce] Final-year projects: CCura+, Give Away, eShelf, AutoSynGen Four BE projects from the final year at TCE. Encryption, peer-to-peer file sharing, semantic search, and a synonym-based question generator that uses WordNet's synset graph. 2009-03-01 [college · events] FOSSConf 09 As a new cap on TCE's feather, this time we have hosted FOSSConf, a national level conference on Free/open Source Software on Feb 27,28 and Mar 1st(today). It w… 2009-02-28 [oltest · osquest5] Deploying osQuest5 — the engine behind the online C test The C++ online test I linked a few months ago points to itworld2.com. The version I'm running on intrepidkarthi.com/oltest is built on osQuest5 — an open-source PHP/XML quiz engine I forked, fixed, and pointed at my own test bank. Notes for anyone trying to do the same. 2009-02-10 [college · events] TOSS inauguration It was my great pleasure to tell about the release of TOSS(TCE Operating System Services), an operating system has a full compatibility and capality to debian a… 2009-02-05 [madurai · travel] Kutladampatti trip!!! Last sunday, me,aswin,mahesh,kannan,naagu,mani went for a bike trip to Kutladampatti nearer to Alankanallur and Paalamedu. It is 35 kms away from my home. We st… 2009-01-26 [events] Successful iCCC We have started TecUthsav by conducting the first contest for it. Yes, we have successfully conducted iCCC(internet C Coding Carnival) regarding TecUthsav comin… 2009-01-23 [tecuthsav · iccc] iCCC — Internet C Coding Carnival, tomorrow We are running an online C programming contest tomorrow as part of TecUthsav 2009. Four hours, gcc-only, no IDEs. Code from anywhere with internet — hostel, home, CCC. Notes on the format and how to enter. 2009-01-22 [college · movies] Project status before second review Till now we have completed simple search and also we have integrated wordnet api into our app. We have implemented simple search through every documents in our … 2009-01-17 [college · events] Gonna be busy From tomorrow onwards I am going to be busy, for project and tecuthsav works. I am always doing multiplay. This gonna be continue. Tomorrow morning I am going t… 2009-01-16 [movies] Movie Review - padikkadhavan Yesterday afternoon, I went to ganesh Adlabs with my school buddies, rajesh, Suresh,Selvaprabhu, Rafi,Vinoth to the film Padikkadhavan, starring Dhanush, Thaman… 2009-01-16 [personal] VHN Reunion On Jan 14th, the day on Thamizhar Thirunaal, all my school buddies were gathered together at Eco park, Mdu. We were around 35 people there. Our friend Senthil m… 2009-01-05 [college] project status I am on the way of finding a way of progressing to generate rules (owl files) for the raw data. As for now I have completed getting the files as input and index… 2009-01-01 [college · events] Bye bye 2008!!! Welcome 2009!!! Some important events on 2008 - My last birthday in college in December - Placement in TCS in May - Went to tirupathi on Deepavali - Started building our new ho…## 2008 · 19 posts
2008-12-24 [college · events] TecUthsav 2009 I am really glad to work with the TECUTHSAV team in my college. Oh, first let me tell about tecuthsav. Tecuthsav, a national wide technical extravaganza organiz… 2008-12-24 [personal · college] Wrote in mood out A short personal entry — a long evening fixing the TecUthsav registration form, an irritation, a headache, sleep. Saving it because the day was real even if the entry never got published. 2008-12-22 [college] Text Annotator - first module in project Text Annotator will be my first module regarding SSTS(Secure solution tracking system). Here with this module, i am going to get a file as input and parse throu… 2008-12-20 [college · events] Tecuthsav I am currently working on developing the website for tecuthsav09 with my juniors, second year guys. We are using LAMP stack where we have used Xhtml, css, java … 2008-12-19 [journal] Our new home We have started to build a new home for us in Old kuyavar paayam road, nearer to my school. It is exactly opposite to the mariyamman temple there in the main ro… 2008-12-18 [college] Project work starts From today onwards i am start doing my project coding parts. We have analyzed a lot for our project. Finally i have come to a conclusion to derive a rule genera… 2008-12-15 [college · personal] My Birthday Successfully I have crossed 2 decades of my life path, this is completion of 21 st birthday(12/12/08). First of all i thank god for giving me such nice friends … 2008-11-28 [college · tech] Final year project At last we have started working on our project. The name of our work is 'Solution Tracking System'.Our project mainly concentrates on providing eSupport for the… 2008-11-25 [college] Project confirmed atlast!!! At last our project title was confirmed today. It is 'Solution Tracking System', a project deals with rule based semantic search. The main aim of our project wi… 2008-11-22 [tech] C++ Online Test… Test ur Knowledge of C++ Online Test…… Free online test of C++ www.itworld2.com try it……… its nice 2008-11-22 [college · madurai] Madurai Madurai is a 2600 years old historical city surrounded by elegant natural plantations, technical institutes and textile mills situated in Tamilnadu, India. The … 2008-11-21 [blogging · college] SEO working!!! Our project title is still under consideration. May be it will be confirmed within monday. But i dont know whether it will be a research oriented or application… 2008-11-19 [college] Written in a confused state hi, today its wednesday. From the morning itself i am feeling somewhat uneasy. I dont know what happened. Feeling really very bored too. I am in a confused stat… 2008-11-18 [college · personal] Last semester starts From yesterday onwards, last semester of my college life started. Still we have a very few days to go to complete our college life. Now we are in the state to s… 2008-11-18 [blogging · travel] Our papanasam trip Hi friends, on friday night we have planned to go for a trip to papanasam to enjoy our holidays. It is nearer to tirunelveli. We reached there on saturday morni… 2008-11-14 [blogging · personal] Ikon begins!!! this is just about my first blog post 2008-11-14 [college · madurai] This is about me I havent yet told anything about me. First let me introduce nyself. Myself Karthikeyan NG, doing my final year BE(2008-09) in Thiagarajar college of Engg, Madur… 2008-01-08 [movies · tamil] Yo yo.. RoBo.. On d track… It is officially confirmed that Superstar Rajinikanth will feature in Shankar’s Robot! It might be recalled that Shankar had this project in mind a few years back with Kamal Hassan… 2008-01-02 [events · personal] New Year….. The World is three days: As for yesterday, it has vanished, along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work in it.## 2007 · 18 posts
2007-12-31 [events · personal] Let us walk on 2008!!!!! A New Year 2008 image-only post — the original Photobucket-hosted GIF is no longer reachable. 2007-12-30 [madurai · tamil] About MyCity –>மதுைர Madurai is a 2600 years old historical city surrounded by elegant natural plantations, technical institutes and textile mills situated in Tamilnadu, India. 2007-12-30 [news · tech] Factory waste produces enough energy for 750 homes…. Nice one…. This comes from an old story but it is more relevant today than ever! The photo is a typical rotary furnace sold today so you can get an idea of how it works. 2007-12-30 [tech] mig33 Get mig33 and you’ll be connected to people around the world. IM, visit chat rooms, send email, share photos, SMS and, of course, make cheap calls all through your mobile phone and… 2007-12-28 [programming] C++ Online Test… Test ur Knowledge of C++ Online Test…… Free online test of C++ www.itworld2.com try it……….. 2007-12-28 [college · personal] EULA Vs GPL Some features about software covered by the EULA (End User License Agreement) for Microsoft Windows XP: copying was prohibited could be used only on one computer with a maximum of… 2007-12-28 [tech] Google’s New Service Great new service from Google – GOOG-411.Make the call, tell them what city and business, get a list of business. 2007-12-28 [tamil] Kaadhal… 2007-12-28 [college · events] Kalloori……. Yesterday it was boring to me… I just downloaded this movie… Since i got Jaundice for the past fifteen days i couldnt able to go anywhere outside my home… thats why i keep on sitti… 2007-12-28 [news · personal] News today I am just in shock over hearing about the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. I was away from my computer for several hours, and saw it shortly after sitting down. 2007-12-28 [movies · tamil] Polladhavan… Hey its boring for me… So i watched the movie Polladhavan, starring Dhanush, sorry dunno heroine name exactly… Film full of fights for a bike(pulsar 200cc;-) )… Can see only once… 2007-12-28 [blogging · movies] Saw IV Hey, Dont get angry on me. I have no work to do. Thats why am keep on watching movies and blogging. 2007-12-28 [programming] Simple Triangle.. But 4 diff approach…. A program to draw like this…. first: include<stdio.h int main() { int i, j, base = 10; clrscr(); for(i = 0; i < base / 2; i++) { for(j = 0; j < base / 2 – i; j++) printf(” “); prin… 2007-12-27 [tech] MyBook Yeah.That is MyBook. A kutty software created for storing the details of our friends.It was boring for me for the past two days.So i have created this in VB.Net using visualStudio2… 2007-12-27 [tamil · personal] Natpu…. An image-only post about friendship — the original linked artwork is no longer reachable. 2007-12-27 [personal · philosophy] To my GOD On the white summit of eternity A single Soul of bare infinities, Guarded he keeps by a fire-screen of peace His mystic loneliness of nude ecstasy. 2007-12-27 [programming · tech] What is Memory Leak??? When memory is allocated using malloc() in any function ,it returns a pointer to the start of the data………and again we free the memory using free() wit the help of pointer.but it sh… 2007-12-17 [blogging · personal] Hello World — My First Post Am getting bored in my home… So here after I thought of writing a little about me here…Today 2007/12/17 3:47 pm I have started writing my first blog… I hope it will continue…Don’t… $ you scrolled all the way down? respect.