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Monday, 27 April 2009 19:34 |
Originally the idea for having this blog was to update it weekly or biweekly with updates in the events of my life, robotics, the Fraternity, and issues of technology and stuff like that. However in the mean time, Festival of India 2009 occurred and all of my attention was drawn to that.
Festival of India is an annual event in which there people from all around the nation get together and celebrate our heritage in the form of a basketball tournament, talent show, and some social mixers in the evenings. It is an effort to prevent the loss of culture in this day and age, where our past can easily be forgotten in the marvels of technology and the future.
In the process I was assigned many tasks including working with sponsors, maintaining a website, and some aspects of everything. This past weekend FOI 2009 was a success. With over 1000 people coming from all over, this became the most successful FOI that the Beta Chapter of Delta Epsilon Psi has ever hosted.
While that was happening, my involvement in robotics was down to a minimum, but in that minimum I was able to critique the website and help train the Chairman's team along with my weekly briefings with Stuart Rampy (Team Leader) to assist in ways of advice and labor.
As the build ended and the Dallas Tournament came, I was proud of the P-51 Mustangs of Pearce Robotics, and was ecstatic when they brought home not only the well deserved website award, but also the Chairman's award which I had personally been trying to win while I was a student with the Robonauts.
Not only that, the people I have met in the course of these events has made me a stronger and better person. However sometimes I still wonder why some people refuse to ask the source and make decisions based on others' bias, often distorted, stories. This is something that I will never understand but I have been assured that this is quite common in this world. I just wish there were people searching for the cure as opposed to wasting their time on other useless drugs to make people taller or thinner. When I say I'm blunt, straightforward, and very liberal when it comes to speaking my mind, I mean it.
That said, the Pirate Bay lost their court case this past week and that deeply disappointed me. The biases of the judge hopefully yield to a mistrial and possibly a retrial to once and for all find my Swedish friends not guilty and let them continue their fine work.
Although there is more news and a great deal of other events that have taken place in the past few months, I do not have the time or the effort to write more as my studies are much important because are slowly approaching.
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Saturday, 28 February 2009 00:00 |
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Over the past few weeks I realized that my site was a bit old and out of date, not to mention updating it took forever, even for the most minor changes. Therefore I decided to dive into a content management system (CMS). Even though I used Wordpress as my CMS previously, it was only for my blog posts, and I realized that it would be more efficient if I used a single CMS and had a single back end as opposed to a back end for my blog and ftp and notepad for everything else. Also as I have been getting into more and more web development, I have noticed many professional sites using some sort of CMS based on Drupal, Wordpress, and Joomla with Joomla being the most common. As I intend to start developing my own templates and designs I was convinced that Joomla was the best system for me and have been working with this for a little while now. Without further ado, I welcome you to the new and improved TeknoBot.net.
Enjoy!
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