Sreejith’s NETwork

I’ve actually never been to a blog camp before. But I’m excited to meet up fellow bloggers in the blogcamp kerala.

If you are a Kerala based blogger, or a blogger from anywhere who can contribute to the event, do join in the wiki, the google group and contribute to the discussion.

Well, not many, but few keralites I know who blogs are Archana, Srijith (Srijit.info), Praveen (Angry-indian.com)

Know some bloggers? Link love them from your blog and let them know about the blog camp! And if you want to add yourself to the list here.

Psst: weird ! Both Srijit and Praveen’s blogs are parked domains now :/

Well, I sold my old Nokia 6600 for 4k and got a new N73 music edition . I was considering 3 phones - Nokia N73, N95 & Sony Ericsson K800i . The N95 being a bit expensive, I left it for good.
Now, as I’ve been a hard sony ericsson fan all these years, still have my 5 year old T610 with me, I did try to convince myself that k800i was better. But N73 was tempting, especially ’cause of the OS, Symbian S60 3`rd series. the K800i on the other hand comes with a proprietary os i.e i’ll be stuck with the Java softwares. Though I’m not a Symbian freak, I consider Microsoft Windows Mobile / CE better for smart phones.

The 3.2 megapixel cam is nice, and takes good decent pics. The front one is a VGA cam, for video conf. I don’t think anyone would ever use it for anything else.

The Sound Quality is superb ! I would say it can equal any Sony Ericsson Walkman phone, though my cousin’s SE w550i played some songs/3gp files a bit louder than my N73. But the best part is you can playback around 22 hours continuously through the Headset, unlike any SE which are known to drain Battery fast. It also has the Stereo Widening & Loud Option like in the w550i.

Buying a music edition means 2GB card in the box instead of 512MB, a more clearer screen + 100 songs selected by Nokia.

The html browser should really come in handy, any website can be opened also the ones with javascript. I checked on Sreejith.Net/orkut/Yahoo! which opened quite fast, this would be a pleasing experience for orkut and other Friendship/dating/junk freaks ;). The joystick controls the cute little cursor on screen, which is pretty easy to use.

Specification
- 42MB shared + 2GB miniSD
- Quad Band
- TFT, 256K colors
- Light sensor
- GPRS (Class 10), HSCSD, EDGE, 3G, Bluetooth, Infrared port, USB (2.0)
- Symbian OS 9.1, S60 3rd edition
- WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
- 3.15 MP Camera , 2048×1536 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, secondary VGA video call camera
- Stand-by Up to 350 h
- Talk time Up to 6 h

The smile on Indians planning to buy foreign goodies or holidaying abroad might have got broader but I am still in dilemma. The Dollar is diving like never before, it dropped almost 4 Rs in past 4 months. The rupee gained over 8% against the US dollar in the part year itself.

44.6 - April ‘06
46.8 - Jul ‘06
44.3 - Jan ‘07
40.9 - Apr ‘07

Now, If I had withdrawn 500$ from paypal in Jan ‘07 I would have 22,150 Rs and at the current rate if I withdrew now, I would have 19,825 Rs (Paypal’s showing 39.6 as exchange rate).

Not that I’m not happy that my country people are enjoying cheaper services, its my money thats getting down. Literally, I’m in a loss of almost 8 -10% of what I usually get. I must be the first Indian who’s not happy ’cause of this fact ! :/ .

Probably I should invest, buy more Dollar stocks. eh ?

I’ve never stayed at a place for more than 3 years, there are goods and bads in this. You get to visit different places, not just a 10 day tour where you see just what the people show you, but the real place, real people ! Its really hard to leave a place especially if you have many friends there, you get attached to the place. Imagine, you’re just getting to know people, have a bunch of good loving friends and all of a sudden you’re told that you can’t meet them anymore. Its sad real sad .

Three years ago when I came from Ambala to Kannur, I hated this place and I missed Ambala so much that I was thinking to move back there and kind of settle in my friends house or a find a hostel, but that never made sense. It was totally different here in kannur, like any North Indian might feel, I felt kind of away from what I am used to. You can’t speak in hindi to local people. Not that I don’t know malayalam, its their laugh, you speak to a person and the first response you will get is “You are not a malayali, are you ? ” , I just laugh it off but I try to talk better next time. If you are not malayali and you don’t speak malayalam its fine, but if you are one and still you can’t speak your own language properly, it can get embarrassing sometimes.

But .. now
Man I love this place ! its a tourist spot. First of all it has some of the best beaches. You feel bored and you can find a lonely beach where you can drive in or take cruise on your bike with your friend.
Now, I am a local ! I speak the language like any other local, I know the place very well, i can take you for drive and you’ll thank me for rest of your life. Thats it !
Did you like kannur ? Yes !
Did you have good time ? Yes !
Do you want to stay here ? Yes !
Oops! Sorry you can’t , time to go .

I’ll be moving out of kannur this week. … TVM here I come !

Yup! Thats right, after a long search I finally ended up on this great piece of art from Apple ! My MacBook Pro, my baby ! I love it . You can’t possibly find anything to hate in it. Everything is just so cool.
I do think its a bit heavy for its size but who cares when it offers such a wonderful configuration.


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First of all I am not going for another boring post of SEO . Its just that one in every three new Indians I meet on Internet are into SEO or are learning SEO or want to know about SEO from me! Ofcourse I love Search Engine Optimization, but its really a tight competetion right now.

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