Ahaan! My nerd score

Ahem! All readers ,Naveen Kumar M proudly presents his nerd score!!!



And nerdtest.com said "All hail the monstrous nerd. You are by far the SUPREME NERD GOD!!!
2% scored higher (more nerdy), and 98% scored lower (less nerdy). "

That was awesome!!!

The Quiz

Do see the end even if you dont read through the post

The day started at 11:45 am. I overslept and missed out the NCC class.That was nothin to say of the things to come.

Realized that there was a quiz at 2:30pm and immediately set out to prepare. Finished the regulars and went to the mess.

It was 1:30 pm already. Set out to Amit's(The Gen Sec for Technology for our Hall) room expecting to find the team members ready. Damn! The guys who were supposed to be there by 1:00 pm didnt turn up even by then(That I was no different is another issue). Countless calls couldnt reach Neeraj(another participant). It was 2:00 and we decided to go to his room. The breakthrough ! Shameless to call it that anyway.

Found all the guys and we set off.

Enroute the auditorium (where the quiz was held), the expectations!!!

Our Gen Sec.(who you could call as our manager) was not expecting much though he said that not finishing last would be the qualification for earning our refreshments(read: treat)!!!

Hmm....not a tough task...I thought.

The quiz began on time and we were scoring briskly and by the time 40 of the 80 questions were over, we were third.Smiling.

Then the stagnation started...the score just wouldnt move forward.We dropped to 8th...there were eleven teams,one from each hall.

An objection to our answer to the question "What was codenamed `Xenon`?" by two teams didnt help either.The questions kept coming and we continued leaving them unanswered.We couldnt help it. The team before us was so strong...they came third finally...the infinte bounds rule was hurting us pretty well by now.A reversal in direction didnt help either.We were sandwichec between two strong teams.The other team came second!!!

We finished off with 50 and a seventh place.Pretty good for the freshers, we comforted ourselves and left the place. Our refreshments were ready and we were more than happy to have them(geeeeeeeee)

Pretty good day to finish off. The result was not to my expectations but not everything goes yourself always ,right???

I think in the previous post I think I spoke of the need for a boost to self confidence and it did happen,I did get selected.This must be obvious by the fact that I went to the quiz but there is always something for the first-timers.

And what better way to end this post than by quizzing you...and no cheating...answer the question without searching on the net.

"What is codenamed Xenon?"

Post your answers in the comments section.

Happy quizzing ;-)

Revamping the Template

Whoa........

This is getting boring for me.The same old template and the look of the blog.Seems like I'll add some spice,more content in the side bar and whatever it takes.

There is so much to write about today but so lil time.It's almost 12 and time to leave this place(The Comp Centre)....May be I'll put it up later.

And this is exclusively for the guy from Sind,Pakistan who seems to be a regular visitor to the site.Excuse me for putting this message on a post but couldn't find any other way of contacting you.
Could you give me your mail id or any other way I can contact you?And,thankz for visiting.

A Breath of Fresh Air

Three days into the second half of this semester and it is feeling good.Real cool.Like a new beginning to the IIT life.

I'm managing it (my life) well.Seems like I've found a balance, Though it might be a little too early to say this.

No bunking classes, no long bhaats, no pending works.Completing my lab works on time. And labs are getting more interesting.And even classes....with new topics that have begun,I'm feeling more comfortable and confident.Lucky I have been a few times already.

With a tech quiz just around the corner, it is time to pull up my socks and prove to myself that I have not lost my calibre.

Diwali is also fast approaching and preparations for Illu- the annual interhall competition for lighting up the halls beautifully are in full flow with work going late into the night...even as I keep typing this my friends would be busy winding wires for some purpose.

Not even three complete months since admission into the IIT and I can feel the exciting time ahead.

As I live on, there is only one thing to remember, rejoice in the spirit of IIT and being an IITian.

To hell with Beta Blogger

Damn...I'm hating this.The first post after holidays being a complaint.

Let me say it again. To hell with Beta Blogger.

Editing the template took so 2hrs of time.I was trying to edit the template( this was the first time though), and it took me about an hour and a half to figure out that this bloody Beta Blogger needs all the code compliant to W3C standards and uses strict DHTML 1.0 coding."All the code has to be rewritten", I thought.But then I looked for some help online.On Google.The searches proved futile.One site after another. Still no solution.

Then, looked back into Blogger's other tabs and began experimenting.

A hour and a half well spent(?), there it was .It required that I type in the code as a HTML/Javascript snippet in the Template>Page Elements.

The previous Blogger supported the code( the same code) right on the template page itself.Then why doesn't Beta Blogger do?And more important is the fact that there is no mention of such differences between the previous version and this.

And ,providing something to cheer about is the fact that now the posting is really faster than the previous version.