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.

Placement opportunities for freshers : http://www.shredskerala.org/

I am sure it is old news for many, but just for the record. If you are a fresher and looking for placement opportunities, you may want to use the http://www.shredskerala.org/ website to attend some interviews.

ANTLR for custom data formats and configuration definition

ANTLR can be used to define data formats instead of using XML  /JSON/YAML etc


What is ANTLR?
ANTLR, ANother Tool for Language Recognition, is a language tool that provides a framework for constructing recognizers, interpreters, compilers, and translators from grammatical descriptions containing actions in a variety of target languages. ANTLR provides excellent support for tree construction, tree walking, translation, error recovery, and error reporting. There are currently about 5,000 ANTLR source downloads a month.

ANTLR has a sophisticated grammar development environment called ANTLRWorks, written by Jean Bovet.

rediff.com bloopers

Checkout the screenshot. Read the title of the first news item. I am not going to elaborate. Normally rediff has titles that people end up clicking and reading. Not sure if its one of their stunts!