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PARAGLIDING AT ARMBOL
2008-04-06 11:51:00
PARAGLIDING AT ARMBOL Jump into the great wide open on a soaring flight from a takeoff point on the plateau along the beach north from Arambol in Goa. There's the possibility of landing on any stretch of nearby beach. Test your launches as you take off over a vertical cliff and fly for hours, kept airborne by sea breezes, or go tandem flying if you've never been gliding before. This is also a free site(just don't cross any forbidding fences), so if you've got the equipment, the air's all yours-- and particularly fine from October to March
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WINTER TREK TO CHOPTA TUNGNATH CHANDRASHILA PEAK
2008-04-06 11:50:00
WINTER TREK TO CHOPTA TUNGNATH CHANDRASHILA PEAK For the beginner we recommended an easy fourday trek of 14km from chopta (2600m)in Uttarakhand up to the Tungnath temple (3680m) and further on to Chandrashila Peak (3,950m) and back. Chopta is compared to Switzerland for it's alpine beauty and when blanketed by snow in winter, is something of a wonderland. Chandrashila Peak offers stunning 180-degree views of the surrounding Himalayas, while the Tungnath temple is considered very holy and is the highest shrine to Shiva among the Panch kedars. The cold only adds to the area's beauty, making December-January a good time to try the trek; but go around early spiring in February and you'll see the forests of rhododendros paint the mountainside red.
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KAYAKING ON THE RANGEET
2008-04-06 11:49:00
KAYAKING ON THE RANGEET Challenge the expert in you over a 70-km stretch on the Rangeet, which has some of the country's best runs of rapids. start at Sikip in southern Sikkim and reach Melli via Jarethang and Majitar. The waters of the Rangeet are femed for their turbelence, and are run by people with plenty of experience, for the pace, exhilaration, and sheer challenge offered. The river is best run winter, so get your spills, chills and thrills between October to April, which is high kayaking season.

CYCLING IN THE SHADOW OF KHANGCHENDZONGA
2008-04-06 11:47:00
CYCLING IN THE SHADOW OF KHANGCHENDZONGA Bike through the best of eastern India on a 15-day journey of approximately 190km, climbing and descending with the hills from Darjeeling to Sandakphu(3,363m), to Gangtok(1,600m) and down to the tea station of Kalimpong. This route puts you in line with the giants of the Himalayas,from Khangchendzonga to Mount Everest as well as Lhoste and Makalu. The peaks are ever-present in your journey as you bike through the mountain roads of the east, wending your way through rhododendron forests and tea gardens, sleepy hamlets and mountain tracks via Tonglu,Sandakphu and Phalut. Get the wheels turning from mid- February to April and October to mid-December.
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TREK TO NOKREK PEAK
2008-04-06 11:47:00
TREK TO NOKREK PEAK Take a trek renowned for it's beauty in Meghalayas Garo Hills, over some 45km and four to five days, starting from Tura and ending at Nokrek Peak (1,412m) via Tura peak(872m). You'll love it for the pretty views of hills and the rushing Brahmaputra, it's route through virgin tropical forests, and over streams and rivers that spring in the hills.And, of course, the fabulous variety of flora and fauna around Nokrek peak. September to May is the best time to go
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MTB HIMACHAL
2008-04-06 11:45:00
MTB HIMACHAL Test your strength,endurance and speed in this gruelling nine-day long mountain bike race over 641km in Himachal Pradesh, from Shimla to Manali via Shilaru, kullu Sarahan, Gadah Gushaini and Naggar.It's the only real race in India for the adventurous at heart and the fit of body. Pedal through the western Himalayas(reaching 4,000m) riding through uncharted back roads, dirt tracks, deep forests and along side rivers. Check www.mtb himachal.com for next year's dates.

SHIMLA--MANALI JEEP SAFARI
2008-04-06 11:45:00
SHIMLA--MANALI JEEP SAFARI Set off on a week-long drive through 650km of the most amazing countryside in himachalpradesh ,from lush and dramatic to strakand barren, climbing from 2,205m to 3,600m. Explore apple orchards in Saharan, drive along the Sutlej and through the breath taking gorges of the greater Himalayas, and visit Chitkul, the last inhabited village in the Baspa valley. The Spiti Valley's unforgettable mountain landscape will blow you away. Steer yourself there between October and mid-April.
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PARAGLIDING IN KAMSHET
2008-04-06 11:44:00
PARAGLIDING IN KAMSHET Spend as many days as you have money free-flying like a bird of your choosing. Set in the scenic hills of the western Ghats, Kamshet in Maharastra has perfect flying conditions every day through the season. And then there's magic hour--just before sunset when you get flawlessely smooth lifts across the valley. Cross-country flights are possible as is tandem flying, so there's something for everyone, beginner to professional. Take off between November and June.
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37 TREK TO STOK KANGRI
2008-04-06 11:43:00
37 TREK TO STOK KANGRI As a mountain desert, Ladakh is home to some of world's most unusual landscapes. See the best of it on a moderatory demanding, three to four-day trek starting 5km from Leh at Stok village to Stok Kangri Base Camp and on to Stok Kangri Peak(6,153m) in the Zanskar range. From the summit are stunning views of K2(on a clear day), the Karakoram Range and a spread of the Himalayas. You don't need previous climbing. Wrap up and set out between mid-July and mid-September.
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THE FROZEN ZANSKAR-CHADAR TREK
2008-04-06 11:39:00
THE FROZEN ZANSKAR-CHADAR TREK Walk on and along the ice sheet that is the Zanskar river in winter,on a 15-18 day trek of around 105km from Chilling to Padum and back, or Chilling, Hanumil, Pishu and back.Temperatures can fall to -30degrees at night, rising to a match warmer zero degrees during the day, and the area is hopelessely remote. That's right, it's a cracker of a trek. Start and finish at Chilling (no pun,really),55 km from Leh, anytime from January to mid-February.
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What you shd be doing rite now
2008-04-03 15:26:00
If you are a web2.0 fan and someone who attends a lot of conferences on web2.0 or startups you should attend this live session from Amsterdam, its all about web2.0, startups and next gen webhere is the link: http://www.silverlightstreaming.eu/tnwc20 08/silverlight.post written at 7.00PM India time on 3rd April 2008

20% discount at iTasveer
2008-03-13 13:13:00
This is the best time to get all those mugs, calendars and t-shirts printed. www.itasveer.com is offering 20% flat discounts on all th products for this Holi season. To avail the discount , use the discount code 'HOLIHAI' at the checkout.
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Men will be men, thats what....
2008-03-12 15:05:00
Men will be men, thats what was the subject line of the email that I got from a friend with this image attached with the mail. It says it all ;)

15% off on posters at Snapfish, coupon code included
2008-03-12 14:46:00
Dear Kumar,As a valued customer, Snapfish has a wonderful offer for you! Here is a terrific opportunity to blow up your favourite picture and print it! All you have to do is pick your favourite picture and the size of the poster you want. And get 15% off!Hurry! Offer open until 31st March 08 only! Enter your coupon code while checking out, to get this low-price offer.coupon code "SFINPOS"
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Valentine's Day, Speed dating, Love, Friendship and Relationships...
2008-03-08 18:59:00
Valentine's Day, Speed dating, Love , Friendship and Relationships ...The Valentine's Day is gone but I just read this story today and its worh a read. Here it goes :Hey you!Happy Valentine's Day! Are you guys ready for it? I hope ya have all the cards, chocolates and roses ready. If you're out of ideas, you can get tulips too. Just showing up with a bouquet of flowers--especially red tulips would cheer up her heart... Cheer Up!I was really depressed last week after talking to Jeffrey about his Valentine's Day surprise to Kate. I was reminiscing about Aaliyah when Megan called to help her with the computer. I guess I was looking really depressed and more quiet than normal, so she asked me what the matter was. I told her about how I used to plan stuff for Aaliyah too and how I really miss her. Megan looked helpless. We talked about my date with the redhead and how it went so horribly wrong. Sometimes I think I'm the one who's doing all the wrong moves. Maybe I'm just oblivious ...
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Latest top music hits and how and where to find them....
2008-03-04 13:09:00
What do do when you get bored of your music collection or feel that you are missing on the latest top music? This happens to me quite often and I really waste a lot of time digging here and there in search of something good. Lately I found this trick(maybe its dumb but it's good enough for my need ;)) that works: -Once in a while or whenever I feel the need I do a google search for "top hit music of the month" . -Scan through the result and pick one that looks good to you, once you go through it you will get an idea about what's good and what's not. -Thats all, you have the list of the top latest music hits that you can source from wherever you want. -I found this one really easy to use site www.musicdumper.com that comes up with almost everything and gives an option to listen online or download for free but I would always suggest to buy the original music. Original is legal and it gives the best quality you expect.Here is the list of top 40 hit music I found recently on wor...
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Download top music videos of the week for free in HD Divx format
2008-03-03 15:23:00
Go to this not so good looking site http://xmusicvideos.com/ or any other site that gives you a list of all the latest top music videos titles with their artist names. Once you have the list ready, visit http://www.stage6.com/musicvideos/ , search for the music video one by one and download the HD/Divx quality videos absolutely free. I searched for about Top 20 music video titles on http://www.stage6.com/musicvideos/ and found all of them in HD/Divx quality :)-End Of Post-
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Free GlassFish online training wort $70, directly from Sun
2008-03-03 14:59:00
Here is the mail that I got from Sun about the free training they are offering on GlassFish, same course otherwise is worth $70. I have signed up for the trainig and will go through it over the weekends. Thought it will be helpful to those readers who wants to get a glimpse of Sun's GlassFish technology. Dear Kumar Deepam,Getting into GlassFish? Free and discounted Sun training can help you make the most of enterprise features packed into the open source Java EE application server.• Introductory Training : Explore the fundamentals of GlassFish development and deployment with this free course — a $70 USD value.• Web Services Training: Learn how to build interoperable Web services on GlassFish with five Web-based courses for just $280 USD — a savings of 20%.Grow Your GlassFish IQ with Sun Training Explore GlassFish features, including Java technology and Microsoft .NET interoperability, secure and reliable Web services, high availability and clustering, and more.Get training Â...
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Heroku for RAILS, everything you ever wanted
2008-03-02 18:16:00
It feels like sitting on top of the web with Heroku (www.heroku.com). Everything I ever wanted that would ease my pain of developing and deploying my RAILs app is all built in here. After you get on to Heroku, all your nightmares of developing a RAIL application on a local box, choice of IDE for development, portability to the hosting server and the scary thoughts of failed deployment will all disappear.Lets talk about a few features that got me so excited about Heroku:-Your application is live on the internet from the moment you create it or import it from somewhere else.(off course you have the option to keep it completely private, share with a few you want to or go it publicly open to everyone)-With full Ruby environment you will never have anything missing, every ruby you want to run will run on Heroku.-An awesome, inbuilt development environment. You wont need anything else ever.-Rails console, if you want it to do those console things that you would generally do when you are d...
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Watch this, do whatever it takes
2008-02-26 15:14:00
What would you say to the world if you knew that this is the last chance that you have got to share everything that you want the world to know. If you knew that you have only a month or two left before you will say your final goodbye to the world. Yes, this was the last lecture of Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch and he knew that he had only a few days left of his life as he was about to die from pancreatic cancer. I don't want to try to interpret and misinterpret his words, so go ahead, watch this video and see for yourslef what you can learn from it. If you can't stop those few drops of tears from your eyes, it's ok, it shows that you are still alive.Thanks Abbas for sharing this.
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Ruby on RAILS jobs, immediate requirement
2008-02-26 07:26:00
I got this mail a couple of days back from Anu and basically she wanted to know if I was looking for a job.I am sure there are many of you who are Ruby on RAILS expert and would be interested in taking up on this opportunuty.Here is the mail(posting this mail here with Anu's consent):Hello Mr Kumar We need ROR expert and looking at your description i am sure you are good with Ruby.I am from London and our company in London deals with real estates as i mentioned. The company we are outsourcing is in hyderabad in Punjagutta. Work will primarily be on ROR to develop one of our websites called Link Up properties (www.linkprop.co.uk), we are trying to reconstruct the whole website with all advanced features. I assure you will love this Job. We are looking for 2 ROR experts so if you are interested or have anyone with relevant experience please come back to me.Please feel free to contact me, the salary will be to your expectations once you are selected. Please forward this email to any o...
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Barcamp5 at Google Hyderabad, pics and little RAILS
2008-02-20 08:45:00
Passionate RAILS developer Murali (sorry, if thats not the correct spelling) talking about RAILS and its usefulness for startups, the above picture from Barcamp5 at Google Hyderabad lists a few of Murali's recent favorites RAILS applications.Ruby on RAILS in 10 points, yes thats almost all you need to know :).Click on the "Read more" link below to have a look at a few more interesting pics and read..Mantra of Ruby on RAILS framework, follow the convention and forget about the configuration.This whole flow stuff looks complicated at the first glance but this makes life of a web developer so easy, everything has its own space to live in, there is no mess in RAILS unless you really want to mess it up.If you are still lost in the sea of resources and trying to figure out where to start. The above stack of books is enough keep you busy for months. Though "Agile Web Development with Rails , second edition" is not included in the list above, I would recommend it to anyone who is still try...

Who is it god for? MyBlogLog Profiles Going Dynamic
2008-02-16 19:29:00
So, this email I got from yahoo, it seems their MyBlogLog service is going dynamic. It means that yahoo will start aggregating all the content that you create/generate on other services like Twitter, Last.fm, Digg, and YouTube and will display a link to those content maybe along with a small snippet and description on your MyBlogLog profile page.Is it good?? yes for yahoo it is good they get more content for free :) Is it good for you as a MyBlogLog user?? depends.. All these big players are finding all the possible ways to get hold of user created content and expand their internet assets. Hello, MyBlogLoggers:It took a long time for word to get out about our changeover toYahoo! IDs. Lesson learned. This time we're reaching out to you viaold-fashioned email.In a couple weeks, we'll be launching a new feature called New withMe. This feature will use the URLs on the Services tab of yourMyBlogLog profile to aggregate your latest activity on sites such asTwitter, Last.fm, Digg, and Y...
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proto.in Chennai, January 2008, My take
2008-01-28 15:01:00
These are a few random pics that I clicked during the "Startup Presentation Sessions" at Proto .in Chennai , January 2008 . If I didn't click you I am extremely sorry about it :).Click on the image to see the larger version. To see a few more click on the Read more.. link below. I know I could have named it View more... ;)
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GOD -- Google Oriented Development, Developer's maai baap :)
2008-01-28 07:19:00
Please read this post only if you can read and understand Hindi. Otherwise its all gibberish content.Click on the image to see the readable(Hindi) text on the image.This Google Aarti Image was lying in my mailbox for sometime :) Thanks Prerna for sharing it with me.Below is the Hinglish version that was sent by Deepti:Om Jai Google Hare !! Swami Om Jai Google hareProgrammer’s ke sankat, Developers ke Sankat, Click main door kare!!Om Jai Google Hare !!Jo Dhyawe vo pawe, dukh bin se man ka, Swami dukh bin se man ka,Homepage ki sampatti lawe, Homework ki sampatti karave kasht mite work ka,Swami Om Jai Google hare!!Tum puran seach engine Tum hi internet yaami, Swami Tum hi internet yaami Par karo hamari Salari, Par karo hamari apprisal, Tum dunia ke swami, Swami Om Jai Google hare.Tum information ke saagar, Tum palan karta, swami Tum palan karta, Main moorakh khalkamii, Main Searcher tum Server-ami Tum karta dhartaa !! Swami Om Jai Google hare!! Din bandhu dukh harta, tum rakshak mere...
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An interesting video I stumbled on
2008-01-27 07:54:00
http://www.shoob.com/index.php/2008/01/24 /et-si-le-web-social-etait-une-soiree-de- djeunz/
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Make desktop clutter free, arrange desktop icons neatly - Windows XP
2008-01-13 17:25:00
All of us who use computer have tons of icons on our desktop, these icons might be shortcut links, files and folders. If you haven't arranged your decktop icons for a while now, you would know how difficult it becomes to swim throgh the mess of icons on your desktop to finally find out that one icon you are looking for. Its straining for your eyes, your hand and your brains.There are many different techniques and softwares programs that can help you keep your desktop arranged and easily accessible, the one that I came across very recently is this software named "DcolorXP", it works with your Windows XP machines and gives you a clutter free list view of all your desktop icons.Follow these simple steps to arrange your desktop icons to make your desktop clutter free and easily accessible.-Go to http://dliboon.freeshell.org/-Download and Install DcolorXP 1.2-Go to Start>Program Files> DL Software and run DcolorXp.exe-Right click on the little monitor icon in your system tray and select...
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New Year 2008 SMSes
2008-01-07 13:19:00
With the change in technology everything around has changed, from paper greeting cards the world moved to e-greeting cards and now its the world of SMS, no wonder this year all the new year wishes I got are all in the form of SMS. Forget about the paper card not even a single e-greeting, it was all SMS.Life is fast and people want to do everything with the click of a (if you thought a mouse button, think again) button on their mobile.Here is a selective list of all the creative and not so creative Happy New Year 2008 wish SMSes.This same message came from at least 5 different persons, strange but they all live in the same place Chennai."A Great Jan,a Lovely Feb,Peaceful March,No Worries for April,Fun for May,joy from June to Novand Happiness for Dec,Have a wonderful and rocking 2008."This friend of mine was 18 hours late in wishing me, so here is his creativity:"Before 18 hrs. I have entered in ur life to make u crazy, happy, successful, rich, healthy - yes i m 2008. Happy New Year"...

Easiest and the best way to display HTML code in your blog posts on blogspo
2008-01-06 00:15:00
Use <textarea></textarea> and embed all your HTML between them.link to myblog Everything in the textarea is displayed as it is, no html gets interpreted. "readonly" makes it even more beautifulScrollbar appears automatically if the content grows bigger than the textarea, for this example I have used cols="55" rows="5"
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A little bit of RAILS for Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications rea
2008-01-05 23:46:00
This post will be of use to you only if you happen to be a newbie to Ruby and Ruby on Rails and currently working on the Shovell web application from the book "Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications " by Patrick Lenz.This post will be helpful to you if you are trying to add a feature to the Shovell application where the users of the Shovell should be able to update/edit stories posted by them.After completing the Shovell application as guided in the book "Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications" I wanted to add edit functionality to my stories of Shovell application and after a few hours of struggle (I am very new to Ruby and Ruby on RAILS RoR) I was successfully able to implement the edit functionality to Shovells's stories.This is how I achieved it :) --Display a "edit story" link next to the "Submitted by" link on the show story page.(validation done: display the "edit story" link only if the current story being displayed is submitted by the current logged in user.)A...