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03:57:25 pm on April 9, 2009 |
Re-activating Chennai Romeos! Romeos, what are up to?
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01:34:14 pm on January 5, 2009 |
Congrats Suresh & Pam on your awesome new house!
Also, thanks for hosting the New Years Party. It was tons of fun and the pics speak for it.
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01:55:47 am on January 3, 2007 |
Wishing everyone an awesome 2007!! I guess it is time for us to come out of hibernation and get this place active again. What do you guys say?
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06:46:32 pm on November 6, 2006 |
Just came across this video posted in a blog.. I have to say this is one of the best Tamil Hip Hop mix i have heard!!!
Watch it and I guarantee it will make you tap your feet.. shake your head and make your heart jump!!
A great remix of one of Raja’s great songs!!
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04:04:20 pm on November 4, 2006 |
Fellas, have you noticed the Romeo Chat at the bottom of this page? Meebo is a web 2.0 app. It lets you sign into your IM’s from a web page without the IM client installed! Plus, if you are signed on to Meebo, and you are visiting Chennai Romeos, you can chat with other meebo users who are reading our site!!
How cool is that??? So after you sign-up, next time you are here surfing around.. make sure you login to Meebo and maybe we can chat a little!
Also, Ravi. S asked a while back about how to keep track of what’s going on in this site. Some of the recent comments do appear in the side bar. If you are looking for comprehensive info on what’s been going on over the last month, get into the Dashboard and now WordPress has a neat way of displaying current activity!! I just love it…
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03:05:34 pm on November 4, 2006 |
If you are like me and try to keep track of your task lists at work and at home and on the quest for keeping things organized.. look no further! I think I have found the holy grail!!
Everyone has heard about Wikipedia and there wiki’s popping up everywhere. From this was born TiddlyWiki. From Wikipedia,
TiddlyWiki is a single self-contained HTML file that includes CSS and JavaScript code. When the user downloads it to their PC, TiddlyWiki can save the entered information by overwriting itself on the user’s disk, at the user’s request.
It is a non-linear way of storing information. The great thing about it is it’s portability. Because it’s all in a single html file, you can email it to yourself or store it in a USB flash drive or put it up in a web server and you can access it anywhere!!
Now you know what TiddlyWiki is. let’s move on to a another method for an organized nirvana called Getting Things Done by David Allen. Again from the Wikipedia,
GTD rests on the principle that a person needs to move tasks out of their mind and get them recorded somewhere. That way, the mind is freed from the job of remembering everything that needs to be done, and can concentrate fully on actually performing those tasks.
I came across an application which was a marriage between TiddlyWiki and GTD naturally named GTD TiddlyWiki on Lifehacker. That article has some nice instructions on how to get started with this. This was really nice but after reading the comments in that article I came across another variant called the Monkey GTD.
GTD TW was nice but lacked a way to organize tasks into Contexts/Projects and checking them off as I got done with them. Monkey GTD has a snazzy Dashboard with checkboxes for tasks which you can check off as you finish them. It was not very intuitive to start with.. but after playing with it for a couple of days, I am addcited to it now!!
I started using the MonkeyGTD and shuttling them between work and home through mailing it to my Gmail account. But, soon it seemed like a lot of work. Now, I had to remember to email myself at the end of the day and again email myself from home before I leave to work! There’s got be an elegant solution. How about hosting it on a web server and accessing it anywhere? Voila.. a great innovative idea right? I felt like Archimedes.. Not!
TiddlySpot has already done it and they offer various flavors of TiddlyWiki including MonkeyGTD. And for FREE.. yep free as in beer! And the registration can’t eb any easier.. it takes 10 secs to get your own site. You can make it public or private!
If anyone is interested in learning how to get started with MonkeyGTD, please leave a comment and I will follow up with a post on how to use it! I am not claiming to be an expert but I can share my experiences..
Get organized now!!
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08:12:35 pm on October 29, 2006 |
Came across this story in rediff about a claim from a 125 year old man before his death. Think one of the greatest misteries has been solved? I guess we will find out soon enough?
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12:28:30 am on October 29, 2006 |
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04:25:48 pm on October 28, 2006 |
I didn’t spend much time on checking out the various themes available and went with the look we had. In the coming weeks, I am going to change the look and leave it on for a week. Based on our romeos feedback, we can settle on a look we all like. Please comment on how you like this one!
Personally, I like this one better just for the fact you could change the header image to anything we want!! Right now, the spotlight is on the few of the romeos…
Right to left..
Myself (had to sacrifice my face for the romeos ;-p), Guru, Ravi.S., Suren, Ravi Kannan, K.Ramesh, Ramesh & Thiru!
Please comment on what you think guys!!
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05:30:40 pm on October 26, 2006 |
Just stumbled across this blog.. Chennaiist. It is similar to what we are doing here.. a multi-author blog! Just about Chennai!!
I think this blog says a lot about how I visualize our blog to be in a year or so.. It’s not just a medium to share information between us.. we could make it interesting to other readers as well!!
To guage a little bit more about whoever is visiting our blog these days.. I am thinking of posting a few polls this week!
Right now, please do leave a comment on how you would like this blog to shape up.. like which categories do you think we should post more on and such!
