Today, that’s on 2nd July, Control Yourself, Inc. has launched a new microblogging service Identi.ca . It is similar to other existing microblogging services like twitter, pownce..etc. However there are differences. Loot at the features below.

Features of Identica

• Identi.ca’s underlying software is available under an Open Source license. It uses Laconica.
• It supports OpenMicroBlogging. This helps users to subscibe to updates / notices of other services which support OpenMicroBlogging.
• Content ( except for private user data such as password, email, phone number..etc ) posted on Identica will be open content licensed under Creative commons. So, it is true open service.
• By default, it provides ur1.ca url redirection service,  which is OSD-complaint, to shorten urls.
• It supports Openid. WOW!
• If you don’t like identica or got bored with it sometime later, you can take your data back, move on to another server or service of your choice or even on your own server. WOW! WOW!!.

I have already registered an account. I am 225th user. Subscribe to me at http://identi.ca/harsha

I have also added it to my gtalk. Considering the features mentioned above, I think it will get a huge success. Lets hope.

Veetrag tagged me …

On one fine sunday, you wake up late and find red coloured footprints all over your room. Being lazy to worry about such stupid things that spoil your sunday, You turn on the TV from your bed. And It’s all over the news! Strange Red Footprints all over the city. The newsreader says that it appeared all of a sudden and it is made up of some divine un-erasable material. Puzzled, you slowly get out of your bed and place your feet on the floor. Two new Red Footprints appear beneath your feet. You are the special one! And the only one! And all these Red Footprints that you saw on TV are all yours. So, If this really happens now, I have a few questions for you -

1. Which is the farthest place from home, in which humanity will find your Red Footprints?

—Tiruvannamalai, Tamilnadu.

2. What is the highest place(above Mean Sea Level) you’ve left your Red Footprints?

—I guess it’s Ooty, had been there two years back during mid-december.

3. What is the lowest place(below Mean Sea Level)?

—I am not sure about this.

4. What is the loneliest place you’ve been to?

—It is a small village near Alamatti, Karnataka.

5. What is the most crowded place you’ve been to?

—Venkateshwara Temple, Tirupathi.

6. What is the most sacred place you’ve been to?

—Annapoorneshwari Temple, Horanadu.

7. What is the scariest place you’ve been to?

— Roller coaster especially when it turns upside down.

8. What is the most enclosed place where you have left your foot prints? (like a cave?)

— Badami Caves. There are totally four caves in Badami and I have visited all of them.

9. Which place has the highest density of your Red Footprints(apart from home)?

— Gadag, Karnataka.

10. Before you die, Where would you like to leave your footprints for the eternity to see?

— Himalayas.

11. Which is the most undisclosable place you’ve been to? (Disclose it here if you want to. Otherwise, just think about it and feel… err.. ashamed!)

— Bravo.. I won’t disclose this.

12. Is there an unusual or weird place you’ve set foot on?

— I have visited tanda tribe.

13. Where have you defied gravity and placed your Red footprint? (Ceilings? Walls?)

— Believe me, I have jumped from 1st floor building when I was in 5th standard.  Ground was covered only with thin layer of sand. Fortunately, nothing  had happened to me not even slight wound or fracture. It was not because of sand but I was just lucky.

14. Who are the humans on whom you would find your footsteps?

— will never do that

I tag everyone whoever reads this.. Go ahead

I always wonder about the power of the words that we speak. words control us and our emotions. Words make us happy, sad, angry.. words hurt us.. words heal us.

Those who are in my gtalk list might have seen that for last 2-3 days.. I had put gtalk status  message as ” Sad “. I know it is weird to vomit our emotions on others, but sometimes I do that. Because, I need someone to share. When I can’t share with people, I use gtalk, blog and my sweet diary.

“I changed.. you changed.. life changed”

These are the words that made me sad. That is the power of words. Sometimes, knowingly or unknowingly, we hurt our loved ones. Why we hurt our loved ones? Is that another form of love? Or we taken them for granted or we just not able to understand them properly. Yes, we do fail to understand our loved ones no matter how deep our relationship is..

Loving is not about finding similarities but accepting differences. Relationship starts with the process of finding similarities. It is the initial stage that make us to feel, that we are identical Gradually, we realize that, we are not identical, we too have differences just like any other person  in this world. The survival of relationship depends on this entire fact,  “Differences that make relationship and not similarities”.

In order to build a long lasting relationship, there are some responsibilities from our side irrespective of whether the person from other side does it or not.

• Never stop loving. Never stop caring. Hope for best but don’t expect anything. Love will become divine when you don’t expect anything in return. It is the form of love that a mother gives to her child. Love that hurts will turn to love that heals when it becomes divine.




• It is more important to trust your relationship than anything else. Trust gives strength.. a strength that bears the pain of wound caused by the other person in a relationship.




• Be honest. It is not necessary to share everything. But whatever you share, make sure that it is true. Being honest is very important for the survival of relationship. You spoke harsh words. You hurt the person. You spoke a lie. You cheat the person. Love can heal the wound made by hurting, but it cannot heal the wound that caused due to cheating.




• Understand the situation. Everyone has their own duties. All are busy in their own lives. Still, they try to get the time for their loved ones infact they try their best.  Most important is understanding the person in a relationship. We do everything for that person but we actually fail to understand him/her. Thorough understanding adds another 100 years to the life span of your relationship. “I can’t cry.. that doesn’t mean I am heartless”




• Forgive and apologize.  We need to learn to forgive when others make mistake and we need to learn to apologize when we make mistake.

Love heals everything. Hmmm… That’s a secret for long lasting relationship.

Poonam tagged me for the expansionist Meme. Here it goes:

Please thoughtfully consider the following, and choose one item for each of the categories below. (Be sure to describe your reasons for choosing)

One religious work from a non-familiar tradition you’ll read:

Koran. I have read children version of Kuran ( which will have selected chapters ) long back.  Some quotes from it are really thought provoking. I definitely want to read complete Koran when I get time.

One music video–that you like–from your “least likely to listen to’ genre:

I rarely listen to ghazals but these two are exceptions -  hosh waalon ko kya khabar ( Sarfarosh ) and aahistha ki ji baatey ( Pankaj Udhas ). I just love these two songs. Latter one is awesome, the best ever from pankaj udhas.

A book from a genre you almost never read, that you have read, or you will read (promise!):

Classic books of Romance.. I never read romance series written in old English. I want to read those.

Somewhere you’d never thought to go on holiday/vacation, and why it might be fun to go there?

I want to go to Timbuktu.  i want to see those mud mosques. museums, terrace gardens and water tower.

A specific food you’ve never tried, but will because of this meme, honest!:

I am veggiee. I never ate non-veg food. I will try it once.

A sport or game you really hate, or haven’t tried yet, but are willing to give one more go:

Golf. I hate watching it. I never tried it. People say it is fun playing golf. Let me try once.

A style of dance you probably won’t try (we won’t make you promise on this one):

Grinding. Most probably I can’t do it and I won’t try.

A career job you don’t feel you’re suited for, and why:

Salesman. I am bad at selling. And also I hate jobs which have same routines daily. I can’t survive in routine jobs.

An item that’s “thinking out of the box’ for this meme that hadn’t been included:

This meme could have questions about your wild wish or weird wish. Another question would be If you had chance to choose your name by yourself, what it would be?..

It’s there’s one thing in life you wanted to do, and will do because of this meme, what will it be?

I haven’t tried many of water sports. I am planning for a Thailand trip within next two months. I can try all types of  water sports in Thailand.  And also I want to fly to space as a tourist. But I don’t have that much money as of now. Hope I will do it before completion of my tenure on this earth.

I tag Shuz, Veetrag, Lallopallo, Neela and December Stud. For rest who want to do, just steal it.

Today is Sunday and surprisingly I have woken up early today.. I mean at 7.45 AM.

Twitter is killing a blogger in me. I don’t know whether I should recommend it to you or not, but it’s too addictive and consumes almost all of your time. At the same time, it is quite informative, you will get to know about almost everything that is happening around your friends circle and around the world. This post is not meant for that. I will write about twitter some other day.

A major newspaper steals a blogger’s photograph and gives no credit. We should not allow this to happen further to any blogger. Spread the word.

One more new development happened in my life this week. I started writing a Diary. Yes, after 6 months of year beginning, I started it. Shopkeeper gave a surprise look when I went to purchase a diary.

And there is one good news as well. I have been through random selection process of H1b US visa. I am so happy. Waiting for an visa interview call. Lets see…

Movies update-watched Forbidden Kingdom and Iron Man this week. Both are good films in their own way and are worth to watch. Indiana Jones is pending yet.

Attended Infycamp ( Barcamp for Infoscions ) on Friday. It was good.

I denied to meet a friend who had come to Bangalore from a long distance of 2000 kms. Sometimes I  behave crazily and I don’t know why I do like this. I am very sorry dear If I have hurt you by not meeting you. Please forgive me.

Btw, I got addicted to penguin game which i got to know from Ish’s blog. I heard that highest so far is 328. I managed to score 321.1 till now. Here is a proof. I have taken a snap.

I usually like small games like the one above. Feeding frenzy, peggle, dynomite and super collapse are other small games that I play regularly. Yes, I have purchased all of them.

I yet to complete my SCJP certification. I must finish this asap. One year and eight months of experience and I am still not Sun Certified Java Programmer. But I am lazy as usual.

That’s it. And I will try to reach that 328 score whoever has done that and will update once I am done.

Appraisal !!! So how it happens, here is simple graph ( drawn by me ) that explains a bit

• Appraisal meeting starts with the Start point when your manager calls you in meeting room.
• So the process begins, with smile exchange, and then small two or three sentences friendly and smiley chit-chat. You are at Smile Camp 1 now. This is the base camp which prepares you to take to the peak of Mount Everest ( i.e. 13th floor ).
• Your manager says, “so this is your self rating.. ah?”. Your Smile Camp 1 dips a little lower now.
• Now, the plane takes off. You will be showered by lots of good things about you. Soon you will reach the peak of Mount Everest. You reached 13th floor now. You must be telling yourself, “How sweet he/she is ? “.
• You are bulls eye now. So what people will do with bulls eye? They hit it!!! Now, your manager opens his/her Haywards 2000 and 5000 deadly, lethal arrows and starts hitting you one by one. You are bulls eye, right? And Haywards arrows never miss bulls eye, you know.
• Soon you will reach the bottom of Mount Everest. Now, understanding the critical situation of yours, your manager does some first aid so that you don’t die before next cycle. You will get election promise of giving higher rating next time or something else as a compensation. You are at Smile Camp 2 now!
• Smiles exchanged again. Meeting over. You come back to your seat. Now you realize that you are at the same level where you started! That’s your Finish point. You finished your race of this season and as usual you are lost.

PS: NOM to anyone. This is Just for laugh post.

Sitting 8-9 hours in office giving no chance of physical activity, sleeping whole weekend, eating all those oily and spicy foods, having high-calorie ice creams, cold drinks and all coffee flavors of Cafe Coffee Day has transformed me !!! Yes from one year and eight months my cells have found abnormal growth and made me fatter and fatter and fatter…

People who have seen me in college last and if they see me now, they will bring out all types of expressions on their faces. confused, shocked, surprised and also the expressions that can’t be described. Okay to illustrate with facts, for last 20 months, my waist size has increased from 30 to 34 and i have put on weight of extra 15 kgs. What a great achievement! Claps.. claps.

Although, I had no problem with this transformation, but my dear ones objected it very much. My family and my friends, everyone advised me to exercise, running, walking,  swimming, joining kung-fu.. huh..huh..

But who cares, I am the same old lazy boy.. doing nothing,, sleeping whole day if it is weekend or sitting in office starring at monitor, if it’s a week day. But my loved ones never give up. They used to pester me everyday thinking of my future shape . But I used to procrastinate it. After continuous tries of 1 or 2 months, they finally succeeded. I agreed to join gym.

I joined gym which is near to my home rather than joining office gym thinking that I may not be regular at office gym due to ups and downs of workload. So it was decided, from morning 5.30 to 6.30. OMG! I have to wake up at 5.00 AM then.. but I was not alone. I had made my other two friends to join with me.

So, we three of us all set to jump in. It started finally, after three snoozes but 15 minutes late. This means, the 15 minutes cut in the gym time because we can’t comprise on office time as company buses won’t be 15 minutes late like us.

First day went fine, second day was little heavy, third day even heavier than that. Burning fat is not so easy as building it, you know. Although, we were feeling energized day by day and we were also feeling exhausted by exercises at the same time. We call each other before leaving so that no one misses. Four days continuously at gym, that was record. But this was annoying to the laziness that was within us. Finally that laziness succeeded on 5th day. As usual I called my friend before leaving. But, he didn’t pick the call. That conformed, he is not coming. This gave us a reason, we other too also skipped along with him.  Next day it was my turn to not to pick the call as I had slept at 3 AM before night. So that 6th day also skipped. Later some of us become busy in our work, one got heavy work in office so he has to go early to office and other was not well for 1 week.

All these made us to quit gym for good.  We are back to our normal life with all eating, sleeping and sleeping and eating. Few days in gym made me to eat even more. Now the condition has become worse than before. Now my family and friends have given up in forcing me to go to gym. They know that I am dog’s tail!

I am planning to join gym again. But this time it would be office gym, so that i can’t be regular due to work. This way it satisfies both my laziness and hope of keeping myself less fatter.

Lets C.  But I have not yet become UNCLE. I am still HUNGRY YOUNG BOY