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Random Thought...

i was thinking about a sms to forward to my frens.. but instead composed these few lines:-- WATER WATER ALL AROUND... RAINING FROM SKY.. TEARS FROM EYES... SAME YET DIFF. IN HEART... A HARMONY UNSUNG... MAKING ME REALIZE HOW SHORTLIVED THIS BEAUTY IS!!! Well there's lots i wanna write but witing for the right time.. will update soon...

Three letters IIT sometimes makes a lot of diff...

This article is a result of a chat i had with Amit Aggarwal an ex IITian who is the creator of 'mnemonic dictionary' Everyday you read in newspapers that "Someone from IIT (or IIM) rejected big placement offer to do abc" Some IITians are now authors of top selling novels { Chetan bhagat , Tushar raheja },many have started their own business,Some are rolling out projects like 'mnemonic dictionary' and 'vakow' and strangely some like Kaushalendra have even opted to sell vegetables. They are rejecting huge pay packages to start with something that may not be very promising but 'IIT this three letter tag can easily get you media attention even if you haven't started anything great and once you are able attract media half of the work is done soon you'll get people who are ready to invest in your dreams. But does that mean only IIT and IIM students think this way ? Well I won't agree to that, students in other institutions are also very cr

Y360 to wordpress--Mission accomplished

Finally i managed to transfer my blog from Y360 to word press... As you all know i transferred all my blogger blogs to my self-hosted word press blog and this was the last blog left but unfortunately it was on yahoo 360 and since their's no export-import mechanism in y360 i couldn't do so but because y360 is taking its last breath it was very important for me to transfer this blog and after a lot of hard work i found this great tool called " Y360 to word press " but after using it i realized i was expecting too much,it was not an easy task as it didn't worked the way it promised firstly i had to remove all videos and polls even after that it was giving error while converting so i had to start from the last entry and by taking 5 or 10 entries at a time i had to convert them in xml format and then upload it to wordpress then the most difficult task delete the entries thaat have been successfully transfered you might be thinking what's the difficulty in that well