Technology. Without Error

When I chose to blog about technology as well as physics, I did not realize that physics was quite an unpopular subject for bloggers and web 2.0 enthusiasts. Most probably since noone is interested in boring physics classes. Even in school I was least interested in Physics lessons, primarily because my school lessons focussed on the focal length of lenses and how mirrors reflected each other. Then atlast, I came across Einstein’s theories which intrigued me and made me look at physics with new and renewed interest.

I had discussed about tachyons in one of my earlier posts. Tachyons are theoritical particles which could move at a speed faster than light. However, these particles merely exist in theory because it is impossible for any particle to exceed the speed of light. If a particle were to exceed the speed of light, then it would in fact be able to fly back in time, since it would have arrived before it arrived it had left. But, there is no way any body could exceed the speed of light since, it simply would not be allowed. Let us assume there was an engine which could possibly accelerate to light speeds (299,792,458 miles per second) But after reaching the speed of light, it simply would stop accelerating anymore. So now, the engine is pushing out energy and the body is not moving any faster. Where does the energy go? It gets converted to mass and the mass of the body starts growing to gigantic proportions, but still the body would not move any faster.

The example The speed of light which nothing can overtake is represented by a c which stands for ‘Celeritas‘, which is the latin word for swiftness. This post would really need a more elaborate explanation under the shadow of the all encompassing E = MC² which you could watch out for. or rather not.

The story behind this website is that, one fine morning…My buddy Sathyanarain wanted to know why I had to have 3 blogs…That made me think of getting my own domain name and here it is.

and as usual, here is my hello world post with a quote from “The Matrix”

I don’t know the future. I didn’t come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it’s going to begin. I’m going to hang up this phone post this blog, and then I’m going to show these people what you don’t want them to see. I’m going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.

So….Welcome to thunderror.com

Thanks to mom (for helping me become what I am today) and to my darling wife (for being with me even when I wasn’t the one I am today) and to all my dear friends who stood by me always….*alright, I didn’t steal those lines from an academy awards nite speech…

June 30, 2008

• Updated the link to my page at deviantart.com
• RSS feed at the bottom of the page now links to the plain feed
• Got the CC license for the site and linked it up

July 3, 2008

• Got permission from the SAP network to link to their site.
• Updated blogroll to exclude my old blog at wordpress
• Included a link to the SAP feed the hungry program

July 13, 2008

• The new logo for thunderror.com is here. I guess that makes it look good
• too much of fiddling with the code to do that.
• now I really want to know how to take that black box which is around the logo

July 14, 2008

• Took out the dirty box around the logo
• Thanks to Summaro for telling me how to do that!
• Cleaned the title area and header

I wanted to review Plurk when I started using it..but never got around to writing this post…Plurk basically took the idea of using status msgs/microblogging to the next level by a little bit of social networking features as well.

Plurk allows its users to update their current status using 140 characters (just like twitter does) But, their similarities end there..Plurk uses a concept of a visible timeline (all your posts are chronologically arranged on an animated timeline) This is in contrast with twitter’s way of presenting your (and your friends’) posts in a fashion similar to an RSS feed. A follower is someone who is informed of every update of yours and a friend is a follower whom you follow as well.

The most talked about feature of plurk is the karma feature which tracks the level of your interactivity and assigns a number to it. Higher karma allows you to unlock more smileys, more interface changes etc. Karma could very well encourage people to interact more, but would also make them very well spam to increase karma. Plurk is soon revamping its karma system..so that should be taken care of..

Another much appreciated feature is the ability to carry out entire conversations over an update. This allows users to interact more freely and responses are chronologically ordered and grouped with the original status message allowing users to follow a complete conversation from beginning to end. For the first few days I used plurk, I completely ignored twitter..but after the new shine washed away…I use it alongside twitter. Plurk unlike other web 2.0s does not share its API..However, there are many sites such as hellotxt, lifestream, ping.fm which already support integration with plurk.

Join me at Plurk!

Yesterday I was down with a terrible headache and I had the reminder on my mobile for the blogger’s meet at 4. I decided to hurry up and leave with just 10 minutes on my watch. Got stuck at the Doraiswamy subway for about 15 minutes. Somehow managed to reach the venue 15 minutes late. But then, no parking space..I poked my car into the only space available..little realizing that it was a ditch..I tried pulling it back…but it was too late…

I decided to ditch my ditched car and go onto the meet. The meet started quite late and it was great fun, especially since I managed to sit in the 2nd row with a few fun people which offered a conducive atmosphere to comment upon others (lol, haven’t done that in a long time now…all right..no offence please…)

The intro by the indiblogger’s team was followed by many members introducing themselves and their blogs. That was pretty cool now that I have more interesting blogs to read during my idle hours The session was interrupted for tea (and snacks of course…) It was more of an ice breaking session with everyone interacting and getting to know each other..There was a great presentation on mobile blogging by Kumar from the sacrificial altar (http://atthealtar.blogspot.com/), followed by a humourous play from Rebelz http://www.rebelz.in/ This was followed by a play by the Indiblogger team and a presentation on Microsoft live writer by Sandhya…We had a group foto taken (do give me the link to the picture plz…)

And last but not least thanks to all those dear dear souls who helped me put my car back on solid ground (video link plz) from the deep valleys of despair dug by Chennai corporation…

This was a quick blog on the event. Do check out my blogbuddy’s posts @

• The altar
• whimsical mind
• Da blog

Sorry kumar, Blogspot is blocked @ office, couldn’t comment on your post in the morning..will do it when I go home…;) Do give me the missing links..

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