kinshuk sunilit aint no, dessert if therez no caek

Hello

For some time now, I had been running a fun & humor blog called Abu Sez.

From Today, Abu Sez will be an independent entity. While, I will continue with publishing the funny emails that we all recieve, soon Abu Sez will move in to original comic content, including cartoons and satires. I have plans for opening up Abu Sez for commercial authors as well (but not in near future).

Please visit http://abusez.in, go through the content and subscribe to the feed.

Also note that now there is a new twitter account to handle everything Abu Sez. Connect to me at @abusez then.

I am actively working on writing focussed blogs. The segregation of Abu Sez from KinshukSunil.com is step one. Soon, I will discontinue the reviews category from the blog and only focus on personal endeavours and insights at it aint no dessert, if therez no caek.

More Later
Kinshuk

Afterlife is a science fiction novel I am working on. Currently in talk with some publishers (do recommend me to some if you find it worth it). This is an old copy of the initial 3 chapters as old as 2006. Will soon update with more details. Matrix and Harry Potter are acknowledged inspirations :)

Afterlife tells the story of Rahul Sharma, a prodigious software engineer from India, working for the best Virtual Reality company in the world. During his researches and his work, he designs a powerful neuro-electric simulation program, which is soon licensed as a successful MMO. The company, though, in their greed overlook common development wisdom and rush through the development cycle. The long and winding road soon brings Rahul on the crossroads where the interest of his family will conflict with the benefit of the world. he has to choose his own path, forge his own destiny. He is no hero.

A compilation of some statistics about my domain: kinshuksunil.com for 2009, First Half.
These are very small and insignificant numbers, but at least they are milestones I am progressing forward from :)

The Source for these statistics is Awstats. I have started using Google Analytics, absolutely, from June 20th only. All subsequent stats will come from it.

VISITORS

Unique: 12991 (6 Month Average: 2165)
Page Views: 35655 (6 Month Average: 5942.5)
Hits: 361009 (6 Month Average: 60169)

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Windows (All Versions): 60.8 %
Linux (All Distributions): 33.6 %
Mac OS (All Versions): 5.3 %
Symbian (All Versions): 0.3 %

BROWSERS

Firefox (All Versions): 49.1 %
Internet Explorer (All Versions): 26.5 %
Opera (All Versions): 8.9 %
Chrome (1.0.x): 5 %
Safari (All Versions): 3.6 %
Nokia Mobile : 1.6 %
Sony Mobile: 1 %

SOURCE COUNTRY

India: 56.4 %
USA: 23.7 %
Brazil: 5.2 %
Phillipines: 4 %
Russia: 3.6 %
UK: 3.6 %
Canada: 2.7 %

My existing company business cards suck bigtime (and thankfully I am out of stock). So I need new cards, and I tok the opportunity of getting a new design altogether. So I asked my dearest friend kitty aka yadu to design em some. Unfortunately for me he is out of ideas and time, but is trying his best to help me out. He infact designed quite an unconventional business card but that needed some tweaking. Inspired by it, I picked up GiMP 2.4.5 (these days I am running Fedora 9 Live) and set about the task of designing me a card.

Ideally, a designer should work on what is a very crucial conversation starter – one’s Business Card. But the heck! I have no designer. So i have to trust my logic and my understanding of stuff that is around to do so.Below is the card I finally made. Lets call it Draft 1.

Business Card - Draft 1 (Click for Full View)

Now, I’ll attempt to discuss its features and describe why I think it is good. Feel free to contradict me at any point (don’t forget to log it as a comment).

• For some reason, I have always believed that a business card should always be minimalistic. Carry only what is essential, do away with all the crap.
• It should be different. Business Cards are very strong conversation starters. Something different, something unconventional, something uncommon are great tools to break the ice.
• It should be YOU! Its your card isn’t it? And it talks about you – who are you, how to reach you; right?
• Don’t waste the backspace. A lot of cards don’t use the backspace. True! Most Cardholders don’t show the back space, but when you hand out the card, the person will look at the back too. Dont miss a chance to create an impression.

Go on now! Sort out that itch you have; post a comment…

MozillaCamp Delhi is being organised on February 10th, 2009 at the Indian Social Institute, Lodi Road New Delhi.

MozillaCamp Delhi
http://barcamp.org/MozillaCamp
February 10th, 2009 10am to 5pm
Indian Social Institute, near Sai Baba Mandir, Lodi Road

MozillaCamp Delhi will see web developers, designers, media and students coming together to celebrate emerging web technologies, localisation, internationalisation, and standardisation of web the Mozilla way.

Highligts of the event are:

• Discussion led by Seth Bindernagel, Director of Localisation (Mozilla)
• Discussion led by Arun Ranganathan, Standards Evangelist (Mozilla)
• A Talk by Mozilla Labs on Open-Web Development (through conferencing)
• An open Hack session led by Mozilla Labs through Conferencing.
• The event will also be live streamed on Mozilla AIR.

Registerations are beign made at the Barcamp wiki (link mentioned above) and if you use any Mozilla Toolie or are a Mozilla Loyalist, you wouldn’t want to miss the event. Over 80 regsiterations have been made. We know teh event is on tuesday but since Seth and Arun will be in Delhi only on Tuesday, so we cant be flexible about it.

Mohak has been doing a lot of hard work for organising the event. I have done my best to aide him. My company (OSSCube) has gladly sponsored us and is meetign all the expenses of the camp.

Organising and Sponsorship details include:
Unorganisers (its an unconference afterall!): Mohak Prince and Kinshuk Sunil
Organising Sponsor: OSSCube (My Company, Yay!)
Organising Partners: Routeguru, Pringoo, Innobuzz, Pictualize, Innovation R&D
Online Media Partners: BlogAdda.com
Youth Media Partners: YouthV.com
SMS Channel Partners: Indyarocks
TV Media Partners: Sahara Samay, NDTV, CNBC, IBN Live
Print Media Partners: Linux For You, Indian Express

For any more details, you can contact:
Mohak Prince, +91-9868669175,+91-9811230042
mohak.prince@gmail.com
http://twitter.com/mozcampdel
Kinshuk Sunil, +91 9910024895
kinshuk@osscamp.in
http://twitter.com/kinshuksunil

Mailing List: http://groups.google.com/group/mozillacampdelhi

Graphics for the event were made by the talented Kitty aka ‘Yadu’. Check some samples. In my attempt to show them in a cool way, I ended up showing them in a weird sideline way. Have a look at them, click on the image for a full view. connect with Yadu at his blog.You can also follow him at his Twitter.

MozillaCamp Delhi Banner by Yadu

MozillaCamp Delhi Standee by Yadu

MozillaCamp Delhi Web Gfx by Yadu

MozillaCamp Delhi Poster by Yadu