Looking forward for TECHKRITI 08 and my first cubing Video

Having great time last year at Techkriti last year waiting for Techkriti '08. This time theme is Rubik's cube! Oh great this would have been my first wish! So what would be my role. So here is the call for all the cubers of India. Start practicing. If everything goes well you may see a cubing event in India hopefully WCA recognized.

Currently I am in contact with organizers of Rubik;s cube event's in US University's which have been recognized by WCA. One Miss Ambie Valdés says they didn't have any problem arranging it other than location. As per the recognition of WCA we would get it easily. It only requires a WCA delegate visit to the competition and there you have the official WCA Rubik's cube championship at IIT Kanpur!
But that was back in US of A. This is India! Will they be agreeing to come here? And supposing they agree, who will be paying for the delegate's trip. If it is us, then scooping out bucks worth up and down USA flight from Techkriti budget will be a great deal.

It has been 3 days and I haven't yet got any reply from WCA officials. Only info I have is from emails from Valdes and another Tim Reynnolds. Both of them say that getting WCA delegate visit is the only main thing. Everything else is trivial (as far as it seems now).
I have also mailed Ron van Bruchem and Tyson Mao who is the same person who taught Will Smith to solve cube for the famous movie Pursuit of Happyness.

And here is my first filemed Rubik's cube solve:

StockSim Working!!!

Finally got the update program working. Now stock quotes are updated every 3 sec. So you can enjoy live trading! Go to: http://students.iitk.ac.in/stocksim/index.php

It's 5 in morning. So gochaa sleep. :()

Compilation

It seems to be a time of compilation. Lots of things compiled for studies. These include Optimization, manufacturing... and other such stuffs. Lots compiled to put on blogs. This semester sees me blogging very rare. Is it that I've little to say to myself? Is it I have little to say to others?
Anyways, I am devoting much time these days in reading newspaper(hardcopy- The Hindu). The Hindu is such a quality that I find TOI crap. Read Hindu 10 days and then read TOI for next 10, you will know whatg i'm trying to say. Also participating in all the practice GD sessions of the wing and finding myself bellow par there. New organizaton notice of intern: Schlumburger. Let me try on this also. Got a big work of completing my resume for that.

Today had hard time bearing the absurd blabs from HOD in the AME meating. Stuffs like, "You should stand on your onfeets. Don't take monry from anyone. See Americans", "Mumbai is much easier a place to travel-in than Kanpur". Can you bear such nonsence for 90 min?

Stock up with java program of StockSim. The program is running but after some time- 30 to 40 min- it pops an error "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space." Now I dont know how to tackle this? I'm calling System.gc() many times for garbage collection but of no help.

With two Quizes in the near future and the miserable results of 1st mid-sems, it's going to be a study-packed week ahead.

Stuck with StockSim

Here is the link of StockSim that I amde in summers. The java program to update the quotes isn't working on server (it's working fine on my comp.). Im stuck at it. I wa susing JDBC to write to sql table. After that took all the pain to rwrite the code to first write table to file and then copy it to sql via a php page. But that one too is infected!

Kush told that he talked to Ashwin for holding a workshop on Rubik's Cube in spite of my saying no to him. I have tried to teach some impatient fellows and got frustrated. People are only fascinated, they don't want to scratch their brains. That's why I don't want it. Let's see how things shape up. Probably I myself will force for it if Ashwin agrees on ordering DIY cubes from cube4you.com.

Learning Solidworks these days. Having a good time on it.

Now with a personal best of 65 sec, I think I am fastest cuber in IITK!