YuviSense: Codin Kid

I had a sneaky suspicion…

…which I confirmed a few minutes ago:

I’m the first Indian on the Techmeme Leaderboard! Yay!

You can grab the CSV file showing all the sites that have been on the Techmeme Leaderboard, for “atleast” one day. I checked all the sites manually, and The Statbot is the only Indian site there. Yay!

I’m making a big fuss of this small thing, simply because this came at a right time – I could present this too as “proof” of extracurricular activities when I’m submitting my College Application to SSN.

Update: No, Om Malik doesn’t qualify – He’s an American Indian (Update #2: NO, I didn’t mean a Native American – In India, Indian-born American Citizens are called American Indians )

I know it’s a problem on my end (DNS sucky), but still funny…

Not that this is goanna last long, but….

…I just went past Louis Gray!

(Shuts up, and goes to sleep)

Never thought I’d be there this fast, eh?

Thanks to LouisGray for noticing it way before I did. He must be part of a collective working for him…

Thanks fly out to all people who made this possible (Rob Lagesse, Louis Gray, Sudar, Rory, and those I missed)

This goes into my Extra-Curricular-Activities-That-Can-Help-Me-Get-Into-Good-College folder

Twhirl duplicates the original twitter messages to Jaiku and Pownce, and the Friendfeed duplicates them again. Unwanted noise, which is different from just noise.

Steps to Repeat:

1. Go to anyone’s FriendFeed Page
2. Click on Page 9
3. 9^th Page of updates appear
4. Click on Page 12 to try go to 12^th Page of updates

Expected Behavior:

1. 12^th page of updates appears

Observed Behavior:

1. 11^th page of updates appears. Trying to access ANY page past Page 11 gives me just page 11.

Now, can someone PLEASE fix this? Thank you.

Blaaast!, by YuviPanda.

I love late-night low light photography out of fast moving vehicles

Hiiigh Court, by YuviPanda.

This one is like, a few feet from our School. I often stay after school, so this one was during one of those days…

This year was an extremely, needlessly stressful one for a lot of people, involving myself. The reason being the +2 exams which determine whether you go to a college where the professors think that Windows was written in VB or to one where the professors argue with the students about the advantages/disadvantages of microkernels vs monolithic kernels. However, some fella with a brain the size of a rat’s meal figured out that the best test to see whether you were fit enough for the second category is testing if you can remember enough Chemistry equations with all the speeeling and grammer mistakes in it.

Anyway, I somehow managed to come out alive (though not mentally unscathed), and last week (yes last week. I am lazy), I got my marks. Here they come!

YUVARAJ PANDIAN T ( 675154 )

There you go. Those are the “numbers” which will impact my life pretty heavily. I have ’bout 94% of marks, and a Science Cut off (Physics/4 + Chemistry/4 + Maths/2, used for Engineering Admissions) of 190.75/200. Sounds good on paper, but in reality, it’s not. I could get any college I want, except the really good ones. Sigh.

Hope I get a good college. Wish me luck, ‘coz that’s how lives are decided here.

(If I sound a tad, err, pissed off here, then it’s because I am. I’ll put in a new post ’bout why I’m pissed off at this education system soon)

I launched TheStatbot.com. Yaay! I’m putting up 3 posts a week, which is good. I plan on going at that pace as much as possible. Also, there are some new dynamic leaderboards coming - stay tuned

Coding the technology behind it – GoodFather and Avee, has been an extremely awesome experience for me. I made a lot of mistakes, and learnt from them. Also, I spent quite a bit of time with the architecture, which has paid off by giving me an extremely extensible base to build off. More technical details in a later post. And, btw, did I mention that GoodFather was named for Rob Lagesse and Avee for my friend Avantika?

Also, a lot of things in my life are changing, leaving me in an inconsistent state. Sometimes, I wish I had can issue a ROLLBACK. I fancy I’ll get through though. Again, more info on this in a new post.

So folks, subscribe to thestatbot.com for your weekly dose of web stats J

Naturally., by YuviPanda.

Class/English Teacher.

The time is 3.46 am.Everyone else back home are on their scheduled trip to Narnia.I am wide awake, my mind seems sharper than ever and I’m typing using only the light from the computer screen.I tried to get back to sleep, mind.I counted sheep. Didn’t work.No amount of staring at the ceiling worked either.I think I’ll read something academic.That should put me to sleep.

Coconut Chutney

There seems to be an entire eco-system of bloggers from my home city that I have somehow managed to miss all this time. Simple, non-techy folks who write darn well. There’s a whole community of ‘em here! And I never knew! So, discovering more of ‘em, and adding them to Google Reader…

Met ‘em via IndiBlogger. Coolness
Also read: http://varshamohan.blogspot.com/ This 12 year girl beats me in elegance of English used.

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