Blog Action Day 2008 – Poverty

Today (October 15) is Blog Action Day.

We all understand clearly that poverty ‘exists’. So where I stand in the fight against poverty, what I have done, and what I could do? I was just thinking of these simple questions and I find no answer within me.

Poverty is something that the mankind has seen from the days we first had wealth. So this is not another new crisis. But the so call big headed economist and policy makes of the world had failed badly in finding a solution to eliminate poverty from the world. They have just kept the deadlines extended from 2000 to 2020 to whatelse. But nothing has changed in a big scale.

But, still we can make a change, if every individual things of way he/she can help in this path of eleminating poverty. As an individual, I don’t have proper plans upto now what I’m going to do about this. But I’m going to use this as an opportunity to read on this, learn on this and then try to execute those what I can.

I do invite everyone on this is Blog Action Day, to read and adopt some of these things and action you can do as individuals.

This video prepared for the Micah project in Australia highlights some of the actions mentioned above, so if you haven’t the energy to read, just click play!

With the hope of seeing a world without poverty,
NiMaL a.k.a. TalkOut Trojans
(Skandhakumar Nimalaprakasan)

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Record Skype Calls with CallGraph

Have you ever wondered how to record a Skype call? You might want to record a Skype call to do a podcast, just for fun, or for some other reason. I stated searching on this topic months back and found many Skype plugins that could record calls. But I was satisfied with none of those as the were non-complete or commercial and not free. Many other popular Skype recording applications like Pamela let us record only up to 15 minutes for free.

Then only I found CallGraph, which is a free call recording application for Skype, developed by a Bangalore based start-up Sedna Wireless. Call Graph can be used to record Skype calls (Skype to Skype, SkypeIn, SkypeOut, Conference calls) in a mp3 file, and we can manage, search, order, filter the call records easily.

CallGraph also offers a web service called CRIMS (Call Record Indexing and Management Service) for online storage, sharing, search and transcription of the call records.

[Update: March 2011]

CallGraph is now called scribie, but they still offer the same products and services, specially the free CallGraph Skype Recorder for Windows.

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Done with Exams: My Thoughs & The Twitter Way Back Machine

Its another semester that has ended with the last exam today. I was thinking atleast we have a two week vacation, but now it seems have to work on the final year project. So it going to be no big difference.

I was just Tweeting through out the semester exam, and here are some of my ‘real time’ thoughts of the exams. I could see how my mind was changing through out this period, and some crazy thoughts on my exams, papers, and questions.

Its interesting and I feel like this is a ‘way-back machine’ to my thoughts.

  • talkout: Exams: Done!!! Level 4 Semester 1.
    about 3 hours ago – View Tweet
  • talkout: Exams: One more to go…. :) :( :X
    1 day ago – View Tweet
  • talkout: Exams: Today Compiler Theory…!
    1 day ago – View Tweet
  • talkout: @senaka seems u r done with exams:)
    2 days ago – View Tweet
  • talkout: Exams: Done with ADB, knew what was asked, but not the answers… :(
    3 days ago – View Tweet
  • talkout: Exams: ADB sucks big time… I don’t remember a lot which I thought I know… :(
    4 days ago – View Tweet
  • talkout: Exams: Thought there is less to study in ADB, but seems there is lot more :(
    5 days ago – View Tweet
  • talkout: Exams: Next Advanced Database; Studying Bioinformatics.
    8 days ago – View Tweet
  • talkout: Exams: Done with ToC…. Paper seemed easy, but answering was hard… 5 Done…. 3 More…
    9 days ago – View Tweet
  • talkout: Exams: ToC… ToC… ToC… !!! FA, DFA, NFA, PDA, D-PDA,, TM, Chomsky……. :(
    9 days ago – View Tweet
  • talkout: Exams: Management exam was ok… had 1 hour more.. but nothing to write… Tomorrow ToC…!!!
    10 days ago – View Tweet
  • talkout: Exams: 5 more to go….!
    13 days ago – View Tweet
  • talkout: Exams: Next week Management and ToC ToC ToC (Theory of Computing) … !!
    13 days ago – View Tweet
  • talkout: Exams: Linear Models paper was in a different model than expected… Better than others…!!
    15 days ago – View Tweet
  • talkout: Exams: Tomorrow “Linear Models and Multivariate Statistics”. Hope at least this would be a better deal… !!
    15 days ago – View Tweet
  • talkout: Exams: Computer Security paper was a cipher. Didn’t get the key to decrypt…. :(
    16 days ago – View Tweet
  • talkout: Exams: Computer Security – Lost a handout at group studies… Now last minute googling for clues :(
    17 days ago – View Tweet
  • talkout: Exams: 7 more to go… Next Computer Security…!
    17 days ago – View Tweet
  • talkout: Exams start with “SAD” which was sad…!
    18 days ago – View Tweet
  • talkout: Exams!!!! Need to check on Pligg (http://www.pligg.com/) after Exams. Might be an option for http://kurungkavi.yeanthiram.com/tamilblogs/
    18 days ago – View Tweet
  • talkout: Tomorrow exams start…! First one is SAD (Software Architecture and Design)
    19 days ago – View Tweet
  • talkout: Exams from 15th to 3rd….!
    20 days ago – View Tweet
  • talkout: Exams…Oooo…Exams…. SAD, Security, …
    22 days ago – View Tweet
  • talkout: Exams start next week…. :(
    24 days ago – View Tweet
  • talkout: Level 4 Semester 1 ends… exams from 15th…
    28 days ago – View Tweet
  • talkout: Done: System Design Document for Project eID. Next to Come: Bio Informatics, ToC, Compiler Theory, SW Arch…. then…. Exams….!!! :(
    28 days ago – View Tweet
  • talkout: Done: System design Document for Project eID. Next to come: ToC, Compiler theory, SWArch…. then exams….!!!
    28 days ago – View Tweet

[via: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=exams+from:talkout]

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New! in Picasa Web Albums

Seems guys at Google are really excited this week, with Google Chrome, Picasa 3, and more new features to Picasa Web Albums

Some new stuff in Picasa Web Albums:

  • Name tags in Picasa Web Albums – Put a name to a face
  • Discover photos from around the world on the Explore page
  • Upload photos by email. See Settings to get started
  • Add Creative Commons licensing to your photos

[more...]

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