E-Registration : Inclusion of name in Electoral Rolls

You can now register yourself to the electoral rolls in TamilNadu via the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer website.

Go to the below link  http://www.elections.tn.gov.in/eregistration/ to register.

SOHO creates jobs

The below is a portion of an article at equitymaster.com. I fully agree with it now. 


For eg., in India, real estate companies are taking huge loans and keeping large land banks. This means it is expensive for small flat builders to get more land to construct new homes. These loans taken do only one thing, they keep land out of reach to smaller builders and potential home owners. Who funds it ? Banks. Where do you put your life earnings, in the bank to be lent to the same builders. This is turning out to be a vicious cycle whereo  the main "inflated" profits are being shared by banks and its share holders. To be more fair to the situation, the larger "value created by banks" are also shared to their employees as higher pays. It is not fully wrong, but it has a cost to the rest of the ecosystem. So does it mean, there should be no banking, no. I do not know. But to be fair overall, the govt. should allow big banks and even real estate companies to go bust to train the system to behave.


SOHO creates jobs, large corporations destroy it in the name of profitability. The below article is about he US Fed. I really hope our government policies do not destroy our economy.

Why is unemployment so high? 
Well, who creates jobs? Small businesses. 
Big businesses cut jobs. That is how they maintain profit margins so they can pay bonuses to their over-paid managers. 
Small businesses...growing businesses...businesses that are adding value and building wealth...create new jobs.

Why so few new jobs now? Because more and more money - capital allocation decisions - are in the hands of the feds. The feds always favor existing businesses...big businesses that make campaign contributions and whose lobbyists take them to lunch. They never favor small start ups. The start ups don't have any money...or any lobbyists. The start ups have no political power.

The feds favor big businesses in direct, obvious ways - such as tax credits, bailouts and government contracts. They also favor big business by making it hard for the start ups to compete with them.

Let's just say, dear reader, that you wanted to start a new kind of bank. You saw that the big banks are ripping off their clients...losing money...and getting bailed out by the feds. So, you figure you'll do to the banks what Napster did to the music business or Amazon did to the book business. After all, moving money around is just an electronic, digital process. It should be dirt cheap to run a bank. You could even create a much better way for customers to hold their money. You could allow them to choose what currency they would like...or they could hold their cash in gold...just with a few clicks on a computer keyboard. You could set it up so no customer would ever lose money...because his account would be backed by, say, 100% physical gold. And you could cut credit card transactions and banking fees down to a fraction of what they cost today. 

Read the full article, here

Error in Starting Apache 2.2 with OpenSSL :

I got the below error while trying to get SSL setup with my Apache on Windows 7, Apache 2.2.

SSLSessionCache: Invalid argument: size has to be >= 8192 bytes

It seems it is because of a bug in Apache when the file path has Program Files (64) in it, i.e "(64)".  So I just replaced it with some folder i created such as "C:\Program Files\Apache_Logs".

SSLSessionCache        "shmcb:C:/Program Files/Apache_Logs/Apache2.2/logs/ssl_scache(512000)"

The below url was useful.

http://arfore.com/2009/08/24/sslsessioncache-error-on-apache-for-windows/


BTW to debug Apache, you could run the below in the command prompt too. It gives more info than the error.log. The SSL error above did not show up in the log file.

httpd.exe -e debug

Flynn Effect : Newer born children getting smarter

As per Flynn Effect, newer born children are getting smarter.  This is based on older tests taken by the newer children. It was observed that they score over 15% better. Read more about it here.

Chennai public transport system

Chennai on the move to build a pedestrian friendly public transport system....

Chennai all set for a greater transformation in the area of transport that includes coming up of grade separators,outer ring road formation, arterial roads up-gradation, construction of flyovers, subways and lot more.... 22 new projects have been announced by the state government.

Small roads in the suburbs would be improved thereby reducing traffic in the major roads. Grade separators and flyovers would reduce vehicular congestion.

Here are some of the major infrastructure projects being taken:

Monorail:

Monorail is yet another proposed project with the aim of transporting people within the city's congested areas. Focus will be mainly on the suburban areas.

Image courtesy: The Hindu

Major Grade Separators

1. Vijayanagar in velachery
2. Kaliamman Koil amman street junction Jawaharlal Nehru salai
3. Pallavaram kundrathur road – GST road Junction
4. Kolathur red Hills road

Grade separators (or flyovers as some of us call it) under construction

1) Mint Junction

2)Thirumangalm

Rail over Bridge

1. Rangarajapuram
2. kathivakkam high road -Conchrane basin road

Rail Under Bridge

1. Villivakam
2. Monegar Choultry Road (M C Road)

Pedestrian Subways

1. Near Little mount on Anna Salai
2. Ekkaduthangal on Jawaharlal Nehru Salai and Kasi theatre
3. MKN road junction on GST road

Widening of Bridges

1. Bridge at Tiruvottiyur
2. The North Buckingham Canal
3. Ennore Expressway between Kargil Nagar and Satyamurthy Nagar. 

Below is a graphic courtesy The Hindu of the fulll rail transport system proposed for Chennai.

Mother's remedy to beat cancer!

Having a healthy lifestyle is not a guarantee against cancer. But if we follow some simple tips we can help ourselves.

A cut on our body heals by itself without our thinking about it...then why not cancer?? Our body springs into action when some changes happen in our body ....

For that we must keep our immune system working fine! Here are some tips to keep our body and our immune system healthy

1. Stay away from junk food like French fries, soda, refined sweets etc
2. Avoid keeping food items, water ,milk in plastic jars... instead use steel containers
3. Avoid smoking and exposure to smoking
4. Limit red meat and animal fat
5. Do not cook oil on high heat
6. Include as much as garlic on your daily diet
7. Increase your fibre intake
8. Replace non stick pans with iron pans as teflons used in non stick pans releases toxic gases when heated to certain temperature

King pair in Cricket or Golden pair!

If a batman gets out for a duck on the first ball of two innings in a match, that's a king pair.

From Wikipedia :

King pair (also Golden pair) 

a batsman who gets out off the first ball he faces in both innings of a two-innings match, without scoring any runs in either one.