சென்ற வாரம் சனிக்கிழமை நான் வேலை செய்யும் நிறுவனத்தில் எல்லோரும் ஒரு நாள் பயணமாக கிழக்கு கடற்கரை சாலையில் உள்ள ப்ளூ லகூன் புகலிடம் சென்று வந்தோம்.
கைப்பந்து, பூப் பந்தாட்டம், திறந்தவெளி ஆட்டம் (கிரிக்கெட்), நீச்சல் என நன்றாக பொழுதை கழித்தோம். காலைவேளையில் கைப்பந்து மற்றும் பூப் பந்தாட்டமும். கடலில் நீராடியதும் அருமையான சைவ, அசைவ உணவு வகைகள். பின்னர் திறந்தவெளி ஆட்டம் (கிரிக்கெட்). இன்னும் ஒரு முறை நீச்சல் குளத்தில் நீராடியா பின் அனைவரும் வீட்டுக்கு வந்து சேர்ந்தோம். என் நிறுவனத்தின் இரு நிர்வாகிகளும் எங்களுடன் கொண்டாடினர்.
ஜூலை 04, 2008
ஜூன் 21, 2008
ஜூன் 14, 2008
Thenmerkku Paruva Mazhai
இந்த வருடம் ஜூன் மாதம் பருவமழை சென்னைக்கு வந்துவிட்டது. கடந்த மூன்று நாட்களாக மேகம் மழை கொடுக்க முயன்றது, புதன் கிழமை மழை பெய்தது.
ஆனால் ஊருக்குள்ளே எல்லோரும் புகைந்து கொண்டுள்ளனர், காரணம் வாகன எரிவாயு விலை ஏறிவிட்டதால்.
ஆனால் ஊருக்குள்ளே எல்லோரும் புகைந்து கொண்டுள்ளனர், காரணம் வாகன எரிவாயு விலை ஏறிவிட்டதால்.
ஜூன் 06, 2008
Goodbye to Kathiri
After 3 weeks of rolling, the kathiri veyyil is now gaining momemtum with the temperature soaring down between 35 to 40 (max) and 25 to 30 (min) degree Celsius. The humidity and the kandagam is now reduced to normal temperatures. Its in the month of June, it is kaarkalam wherein the wind blow will be a bit more with it takes the mud and dust particles from one place to another. So it is better to have a plain specs or a sunglass to be with you when you travel in bikes, if possible go for helmets.
Trying to create a small awareness about the global warming:
1. While you wait in the traffic signals and if you get struck in the traffic jams say for more than 30secs (make urself as a judge for timing factor) we shall turn off the headlights either in the bike/car to reduce the global warming and improve battery power/longevity, which is you know good for the vehicles.
2. At home during evening times, use a main tube light in the hall as it throws light to all rooms (depends on individual home designs). Using the CFL bulbs in the gate lampshades, porticos, side pathways, staircases improves the electrical efficiency and spares no of burning hours.
3. As many of us are office-goers in the morning times, do switch off ur UPS at home for the computers which you are not using. Once you switch on the computer to start using it, the UPS starts to gain its lost charge busters to balance the power level in the backup battery.
4. If you are not using the car for more than a week, the car battery start to burn down its charged levels and after 2 weeks you will not have sufficient power for ignition itself. For this what you can do is to disconnect one terminal from the battery and leave it as such. So the battery level will not go down, you can ensure that battery has its life (2+ yrs on nominal usage) further it would reduce emitting the lead gases to the environment and surroundings.
5. Why can't we start analysing the usage of Solar powered devices as the Chennai Metropolitan city has a lot of sun source available due to the less no of trees within the city. Though the initial cost is more, but on a long run it is profitable for house owners (main point to be noted).
Lot more to come...
Trying to create a small awareness about the global warming:
1. While you wait in the traffic signals and if you get struck in the traffic jams say for more than 30secs (make urself as a judge for timing factor) we shall turn off the headlights either in the bike/car to reduce the global warming and improve battery power/longevity, which is you know good for the vehicles.
2. At home during evening times, use a main tube light in the hall as it throws light to all rooms (depends on individual home designs). Using the CFL bulbs in the gate lampshades, porticos, side pathways, staircases improves the electrical efficiency and spares no of burning hours.
3. As many of us are office-goers in the morning times, do switch off ur UPS at home for the computers which you are not using. Once you switch on the computer to start using it, the UPS starts to gain its lost charge busters to balance the power level in the backup battery.
4. If you are not using the car for more than a week, the car battery start to burn down its charged levels and after 2 weeks you will not have sufficient power for ignition itself. For this what you can do is to disconnect one terminal from the battery and leave it as such. So the battery level will not go down, you can ensure that battery has its life (2+ yrs on nominal usage) further it would reduce emitting the lead gases to the environment and surroundings.
5. Why can't we start analysing the usage of Solar powered devices as the Chennai Metropolitan city has a lot of sun source available due to the less no of trees within the city. Though the initial cost is more, but on a long run it is profitable for house owners (main point to be noted).
Lot more to come...
மே 21, 2008
மே 16, 2008
A victim of cyber crime? Here's help
Have you ever been stalked online, blackmailed or received email threats? If your answer is "yes", you are among the thousands today who are being attacked by Net criminals.
Like other parts of the world, India too is constantly under the threat of these heinous acts. Those of us who use our computers at home without proper security measures are often the easy victims for these crimes. In the physical world, if a crime is committed, we usually know what to do. Usually the nearest police station comes to the rescue. But what should you do for something you have no real proof, or someone who is not even visible? We bring you some tips which will help you get help quickly.
Cyber stalking or online harassment
This is one of the most common cyber crimes in India. If you are being stalked or harassed, don’t take it as a passing phase. Act fast.
• Avoid all contact with the stalker. Be assertive and diplomatic while communicating with him/her.
• Don’t change your phone number; instead let your answering machine or voice mail take the calls. This will prevent him from adapting ulterior contact strategies.
• Safeguard any evidence of threats like letters, email and voice messages. All this would be needed for legal action.
• Report it to the nearest cyber crime cell.
• If attempts of physical attack take place, file an FIR immediately.
Online Fraud
If you suddenly find out that your money has disappeared from your bank account or there have been discrepancies in your credit statements, your accounts might have been compromised.
• Contact your bank and start the process to ensure that you don’t lose any more money. Ask your bank how you can dispute charges and recover funds.
• Set up a fraud alert with cyber crime cell.
• Watch your credit card and other statements and see if there are transactions that you have not made. This is to ensure that there has been no identity theft.
• File a police report in your area
Spam/Abuse
If obnoxious unsolicited emails fill your inbox every day and refuse to go away, the simple solution is not just to delete them. Effective reporting of spam will ensure prosecution, fining or even jailing of spammers.
Report to: Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email, India (CAUCE India)
Web: http://www.india.cauce.org/
Hacking
If you find out that you have been hacked, there are broadly two ways to fix the problem.
Rollback: Backup all your important data and reinstall Windows.
System clean: You may also use freely downloadable utilities like Fport, TCP View, etc to clean up the files left by the hacker), but this is not recommended for the novice computer user since it requires a certain degree of technical know-how.
However, it is best to start afresh by reinstalling the operating system so that you can be sure that you machine is void of any infection. Call your service engineer for this. But if you have lost data, or credit card and other critical numbers, it’s best to speak with your banks and get necessary changes done to ensure no money loss occurs.
Cyber crime helplines
a) Superintendent of Police, Cyber Crime Investigation Cell (CCIC); Web: http://cbi.nic.in/; Email: cbiccic@bol.net.in
b) Resource Center for Cyber Forensics (RCCF); Web: http://www.cdactvm.in/; Email: cyber@cdactvm.in
c) India Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In): http://www.cert-in.org.in/
Have you ever been stalked online, blackmailed or received email threats? If your answer is "yes", you are among the thousands today who are being attacked by Net criminals.
Like other parts of the world, India too is constantly under the threat of these heinous acts. Those of us who use our computers at home without proper security measures are often the easy victims for these crimes. In the physical world, if a crime is committed, we usually know what to do. Usually the nearest police station comes to the rescue. But what should you do for something you have no real proof, or someone who is not even visible? We bring you some tips which will help you get help quickly.
Cyber stalking or online harassment
This is one of the most common cyber crimes in India. If you are being stalked or harassed, don’t take it as a passing phase. Act fast.
• Avoid all contact with the stalker. Be assertive and diplomatic while communicating with him/her.
• Don’t change your phone number; instead let your answering machine or voice mail take the calls. This will prevent him from adapting ulterior contact strategies.
• Safeguard any evidence of threats like letters, email and voice messages. All this would be needed for legal action.
• Report it to the nearest cyber crime cell.
• If attempts of physical attack take place, file an FIR immediately.
Online Fraud
If you suddenly find out that your money has disappeared from your bank account or there have been discrepancies in your credit statements, your accounts might have been compromised.
• Contact your bank and start the process to ensure that you don’t lose any more money. Ask your bank how you can dispute charges and recover funds.
• Set up a fraud alert with cyber crime cell.
• Watch your credit card and other statements and see if there are transactions that you have not made. This is to ensure that there has been no identity theft.
• File a police report in your area
Spam/Abuse
If obnoxious unsolicited emails fill your inbox every day and refuse to go away, the simple solution is not just to delete them. Effective reporting of spam will ensure prosecution, fining or even jailing of spammers.
Report to: Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email, India (CAUCE India)
Web: http://www.india.cauce.org/
Hacking
If you find out that you have been hacked, there are broadly two ways to fix the problem.
Rollback: Backup all your important data and reinstall Windows.
System clean: You may also use freely downloadable utilities like Fport, TCP View, etc to clean up the files left by the hacker), but this is not recommended for the novice computer user since it requires a certain degree of technical know-how.
However, it is best to start afresh by reinstalling the operating system so that you can be sure that you machine is void of any infection. Call your service engineer for this. But if you have lost data, or credit card and other critical numbers, it’s best to speak with your banks and get necessary changes done to ensure no money loss occurs.
Cyber crime helplines
a) Superintendent of Police, Cyber Crime Investigation Cell (CCIC); Web: http://cbi.nic.in/; Email: cbiccic@bol.net.in
b) Resource Center for Cyber Forensics (RCCF); Web: http://www.cdactvm.in/; Email: cyber@cdactvm.in
c) India Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In): http://www.cert-in.org.in/
மே 03, 2008
A month is over with a fresh month started. The very first day was a nice experience for me as i enrolled for an awareness walk/run program conducted by Radiant Wellness Centre in aid of The Spastics Society of TamilNadu. It was called as "Run... Away from Obesity". After a very long time i did a cardio workout to discover abt my fitness level. Registered for the Walk/Run program at the Wellness T.Nagar Office. Got up at 5 am in the morning on a leave day was a fresh start for the entire month. Ready for the challenge and reached the Meeting point (Marina Beach Light House) at 6:15am. Dressed up in red T.Shirt and White pant. Shoes and cap were the accessories.
The Awareness run started at 6:50am from Light House (Marina Beach Inner Road) with the other end to be at Thiruvallikkeni (Preferrably Allikkeni MRTS Station Point along the Beach Inner Road) and back to Light House. Its a 5 km stretch, wherein we (55 people) completed it with running, walking and jogging fit to every individual. Though it was a early morning fresh air that Marina spread out, we felt the Chennai Weather moved up the slide with the temperature increasing.
We completed the run with the breakfast (Bread Sandwitch, Plum cake, Samosa) plus few glasses of Slice (remember the recent advt. - mango without seeds). I was able to run few meters, walk more and jog a little. Drenched with the body sweet it was a nice workout after a long time (retrospect of school day games - football, cricket etc.). Most of the people are the members of Radiant Wellness Centre, T.Nagar. (www.radiantwellness.in).
Coming to the wonderful things in the program - first we had the Chennai City Police Patrol guarded us during the entire time period, they were very conscious in using the mike announcements (noice pollution :-) , Secondly we had a person who i think works for Allsec Technologies a big tummy quoted, "I have taken 25 yrs to build this, why should i run and make this structure to go away", finally he also joined us. Thirdly Spastics Society people who has to be on time came late at 7am while we were in the middle of the run. Next I could see a lot of people doing activities like workout, walking, learning to driver car/bike, beach games - football, cricket, fishing, skatting, morning bath, etc.
Seeing all this i believe something is missing in everyone's life. We are suppose to maintain the cleanliness though there were signposts giving out the awareness to keep the longest asset of Tamil Nadu. To my surprise, Times of India captured the event and printed in the Friday main edition with the topic "Jog organised to raise awareness on obesity" under Times City. Try to go for a small walk, jog around your locality. Don't use bike until you have so much to hold them in your hand.
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