DAV Public school velachery website

Finally the DAV Public school velachery website was launched a few months back. The URL is

http://www.davpsvelacherychennai.co.in/

This however does not come up in Google results for some reason. Hence this blog post to give it a link.

B-Tree database index algorithm - low cardinality field

Good article describing B-Tree database index algorithm. I was specially looking at impact of using an "index on a low cardinality field".

http://mattfleming.com/node/192

Microsoft calls ZOHO the "Fake Office". http://fakeoffice.org/ is born.

Microsoft calls ZOHO the "Fake Office". http://fakeoffice.org/ is born.

In a recent interview Microsoft called Zoho the 'Fake Office'

Fake? Well, if by "fake" Microsoft meant that there is no CD or DVD to buy, no bloatware to download, nothing to install, no hundreds of dollars to pay... then yeah, we agree.

Why would Microsoft want to discourage you from trying the Fake Office? If it was truly a "Fake" Office, then we wouldn't pose a risk to them, would we?

Sign up and decide for yourself. Takes less than 20 seconds

Original post:
http://blogs.zoho.com/general/microsoft-calls-zoho-the-fake-office-so-does-that-mean-bing-is

Touching Video. 25,000 people die of hunger out there.

Touching Video. 25,000 people die of hunger out there.  Let us not waste food and other natural resources.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGNmvNIgqlY&feature=player_embedded

Recruiting IT folks in India ?

Recruiting IT folks in India ?

Good article by Atul.

http://atulchitnis.net/diary/showentry/503

Kerala's Syrian Christians face ageing, dwindling numbers

:-(

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala's Syrian Christians are an unmistakable elite among all major communities in the state in socio-economic indices. But
material contentment apart, the community's future appears dreary, as rapid ageing and dwindling fertility rates push the group towards the negative growth zone.

Social scientists fear that the community could go the Parsi way in the country in the near term.

A study by KC Zachariah of the Centre for Development Studies here points to the size of the Syrian Christians likely to hit a maximum of 30.21 lakh in 2011 and then decline to touch 28.51 lakh by 2031. Their net growth rate during 2001-31 is projected to be negative 0.19% (-0.19%) per year, and the percentage of Syrian Christians to the state's population is likely to drop from 9.5 at the beginning of the century to 8.4 by 2031.

"The trend has its roots in the already declining population rate, compounded by the fact that migrating Syrian Christians go to countries from where they are unlikely to return, as against those who migrate for a few years and return to the state", Mr Zachariah told ET.

Syrian Christians' bleak future in terms of population growth is in stark contrast to the community's accomplishments on the socio-economic indices. On a socio-economic scale of 1 to 5, with rank 5 being the most desirable, Syrian Christians are the only ones who have a rank higher than 3, while Nairs, Ezhavas, Latin Christians and Muslims all have a score between 1.5 and 2.

But with such a glittering feat in socio-economic indices, the community will be hard pressed to ensure that it thrives in the future, as it faces the twin issues of fewer children and an ageing population. Mr Zachariah's study shows that while the last century began with an elderly population of 4% in the community, the century ended with the elderly making up 10% of the community.

The first quarter of this century is likely to witness the elderly population in the community touch 25% of the total, growing at 3% per annum, as against a negative 0.35% growth for the total population.

Not surprisingly, Syrian Christians have done more than any other community in establishing homes for the elderly. A couple of years ago, it was seen that nearly 50% of the 125-odd old-age homes in the state were in Kottayam and Pathanamthitta districts where Syrian Christians abound, and that the Syrian Christian community managed 95% of these homes.

While there is concern that the community's clout could dwindle alongside its falling numbers, Mr Zachariah points out that it need not be so. He says the community's clout can be maintained or even increased by developing its human and material resources, and that a policy option for the community could be to invest an increasing share of its resources for the development of its human and material resources

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/Keralas-affluent-Syrian-Xians-face-ageing-dwindling-numbers/articleshow/5044015.cms

Buried alive in what you do ?

The closest thing to being buried alive is the medical condition known as ventral pontine syndrome or pseudocoma. The below is a good article from indiatimes.

However some of us are really buried alive in our work with very little social interaction to speak off. Take care.

Without detracting from Bauby’s appalling experience, it’s still important to consider sometimes that, in a similar way, most of us are also locked-in in our kind of lifestyles. And that, generally, what we manage to accomplish during our brief existence can also be compared with the blinking of an eye while the rest of our potential lies seemingly paralysed. We too remain dimly away of what’s going on around us but feel helpless to participate or intervene. Fortunately, there have been exceptions again.

Prince Siddhartha Gautama was a locked-in in the suffocating microcosm of the palace of his father, King Suddodhona, living a life of paralysed luxury, hermetically shielded from the outside world and suffering for nearly three decades. But his blinking eyelid realised there was more and wanted out. Thus he was able to escape being buried alive in his pseudocoma and gain enlightenment which opened his eyes to spell out a teaching for a whole world to read.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Cosmic-Uplink/Locked-in-is-as-locked-in-does/articleshow/5040299.cms