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Why Kerala SSLC exam results Web site went down

If any of you tried to access SSLC exam results online, you would have seen that all Web sites including those of Kerala government went down when results were announced! It is funny since this time there was announcement that a lot of money is spend to make the system crash proof and C-DIT is [...]

Kerala Blogger Awards 2006 results and the winner is

We are very happy to announce the results of Kerala Blogger Awards 2006. It was a very close competition. Here are the winners,
Kerala Blogger Awards winner for 2006 is Just Jo by Joseph Thomas with 46 votes. Jo’s blog deals with a wide range of topics including music, politics and personal stuff. Jo takes home [...]

Masterpiece at Sanghumugam beach

Following sand artwork was done by a couple of guys at the sanghumugham beach in Trivandrum. On a sunday, the crowd at the beach is very large. It is the easiest way to get maximum audience for any event! So you can see budding artists, advertisement on vehicles and even bible speech on a sunday [...]

Land mafia in Kerala - How to loose your property

Do you own a piece of land in Kerala, but working or studying abroad? Then be careful! By the time you are back, you may find that somebody else is the owner of your land!
The land mafia presence is very strong in Kerala. They target properties which are owned by NRIs or people staying away [...]

Blog by Miss Kerala 2007?

Apparently Miss Kerala 2007 decides to start a blog. I am not sure whether this is a spoof, only time will tell
Feb 17 I looked at the world from a new perspective. Suddenly I was a voice that was heard. heard beyond my family and friends. Life has taken a new course. Hopefully [...]

We have a winner for the Quiz! - Unni

Unni wins the last week’s quiz. Congratulations! The correct answer was O V Vijayan, Kerala’s all time best novelist. The caricature is made by Sam Varghese. Check out his page for an excellent set of caricatures..
Unni wins any two books written by O V Vijayan as the prize!

Via Flickr.

Free Malayalam software for Windows

Ministry of communications & information technology has released a suite of tools for Malayalam language. You can download them here. The package contains,

Malayalam fonts (true type, open type etc.)
Malayalam spell checker
Malayalam-English and English-Malayalam dictionaries
Malayalam Microsoft word tool
Malayalam OCR (very useful!)
Malayalam text to speech tool

I don’t know how Achu mama will react with all these Microsoft [...]

Technopark - inside stories

Yesterday I wrote a post on the kerala sabdam article on ‘exploitation in IT companies in Technopark’. After writing this post, I happened to talk to a friend who works in Technopark. He had some interesting things to share,
Technopark is run by Kerala government. So like any government department, corruption is part of it. There [...]