The Anatomy of a Search Engine

With google coming here and all I have been trying to dig up stuff related to the way search engines crawl and index web pages. I stumbled upon Sergey Brin and Larry Page's paper on google. Should be an interesting read.

The lone rider

I woke up to a nice morning. I had my breakfast as today was a holiday (usually I don't). We had an Inspire meeting today at 10 in the morning. After taking care of that I went to see the EC fest which was taking place. Some of my friends suggested that I keep my project in the project presentation. So, as I had nothing better to do, I brought my project (a chess engine) over there.
I was surrounded by Electronics projects on all sides. Half of the projects had something to do with robots on wheels. I being the only CS guy over there. Also my team had only one member: me. Other teams had 2-4 people. The good thing was as the judges were from electronics background they couldn't ask too many tricky questions.
The results are not out yet, but at least I got lunch and tea so I'm happy.

The Big Bang

I walked into the college building expecting the same boring schedule to repeat itself. My eyes went to the notice board when I saw those 6 letters. On top of the letters was written "Are you feeling lucky today?" . I couldn't believe my eyes: Google was going to come to our campus!!!! Let's see what happens. Fingers and toes crossed and yes I do feel lucky ;)

Back again.

The moment you set foot on the station you get the same feeling: "Back to the same damned place again." The feeling hasn't changed since the first time I returned from Delhi, after my first year was over. Three and a half years gone by like the wind blows.

A late update

It's been quite a while since I put up anything here. Reason being that I'm having a ball in Delhi. The past one week has been a blur.
Everyday its like : get up, drop mom to school, have breakfast and then zoooom away with friends for rest of the day. I went to places which I always wanted to go (like cafe mocha). Best part is I'm now getting the car more easily (yahoooo).
I made mom watch Swades and she was pretty impressed by it. I also wanted to make her see Iqbal and we did go to wave noida, but unfortunately they had stopped showing it.
I hope the remaining week is even better than the week which just went by.

Exmas over !!!

My internal exams are finally over. Fortunately all of them went fine. I leave for Delhi tomorrow.

Confusion confusion

We have two internal exams scheduled for tomorrow (Networks and Neural networks). While reading the newspaper in the afternoon we noticed at one corner that PDP was going to call a hartal tomorrow. This started the panic wave (which is soo famous in CUSAT). A rapid exchange of messages over messengers, phone, word of mouth started. More people wanted the Hartal not to happen as this would jeopardize their (Onam) vacation plans. The 8' O clock evening news confirmed that the Hartal will be there tomorrow, which meant that the exams will be postponed. One hour later we get another flash news that the hartal had in fact been called off. So back to the books.
Among other things I feel very weak although no one believes me.

A week back we had nothing to do so we decided to do some stunts. This is just one of them.
The bottom tier of the "Human pyramid" is made up by Anshul, Rahul and myself. Sujit and Sourav are enjoying their stay on the top at our expense.
This stunt was preceded by me carrying Anshul (weighs over a ton) and Sujit together. I'm sooo strong :)
We even had two rounds of piggy back fighting, both of which my team won.

Note: These stunts were carried out by professionals. Do not try them at home.  

Another logo. This one for the quiz. Pretty simple enough I guess. The lightning is a bit Harry Potterish. 

Site statistics

One of my favorite passtimes is to keep track of who all are visiting my site(s). This lets me see how many hits I'm getting and from where all. My home page received the most number of hits (164) this month. My blog also received the most number of hits (300) this month. You can check out the stats for my site here. The site stats of this blog can be accessed by clicking at the counter on the bottom of this page :)

Programming event logo. Hurried up effort. This one deviates from the white background thing. 

Logo for the paper presentation. Among other things we have street lights outside our house yahoooo!!!!! We now have the power of sight in the dark.  

Another logo

Surprise surprise!! I made another logo. This one now adorns the make shift ACES site, courtesy myself. 

Growth in Indian Offshoring Slowing

Slashdot had an article on "Growth in Indian Offshoring Slowing". An interesting read. With companies opting out for places like Eastern Euprope, Latin America, China this was bound to happen.

More on Google talk

Google talk has a nice clean UI. The installation is very small (900K) and very fast. I did make a PC to PC call and it sounds very clear. The downsides are quite a few though.
No emoticons. When you try some of the emoticon combos like :) or :D etc they turn blue but you don't get any smileys. Font face and color cannot be changed. No avatars or buddy icons. No "buzzes", "nudges", "audibles" etc. All in all if google wants to stay in the IM race they will have to improve. I still like Yahoo messenger the most.

Google Talk

Google Talk is Google's newest offering. It is an instant messaging service based on the jabber protocol. I haven't tried it out yet, but I soon will :)

Dooba Dooba

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Originally uploaded by zadeus.

My brother is in TCS Bombay. He was busy clicking pictures in the recent flood. This one shows the scale of destruction which happened there.

Another logo. This one is for the web site designing event. It is a blend of the previous two ideas. The e is from Internet explorer and the background is from Firefox. I'm a fair person. 

This one I made for the gaming event. The name of the event hasn't been finalized yet so I gave it a name: "Headshot". :) 

I guess logo designing is getting to be the latest fashion these days (especially with Inspire and a lot of other fests coming up). So I said why not try my hand at this thing.

This one being a logo for an event which I shall be handling. The event is a set of progressive hacking challenges.