Trek sites reviewed

The holidays are on its way and all start planning for some tour. Discussion start and everyone settles down for a trek. But where to go? And how to go? These are basic questions everyone faces.
Open up the World Wide Web and you get dozens of sites giving information about treks. Which one should we believe? Well, you trust me? Then here is the answer.

{I} http://www.trekshitiz.com



Homepage of Kshitiz group, Mumbai.

Ins:
* Detail info about lots of trekking spots along with their history and different
ways to reach.
* Information also available in Marathi.
* Maps of forts is very special feature of this site.
* A user discussion forum is nice place to know more.
* Special section for rock climbing, and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
* Forts sorted according to different categories such as district, range, difficulty
level and alphabetically.

Outs:
* Image titles are many times not matching with the image.
* Sometimes fort appearing in one list (eg Districtwise list) does not appear in another list (eg Rangewise list).

Overall Rating: 8.5/10


{II} http://deepabhi.tripod.com



Personal trek-page of Abhijit and Deepak.

Ins:
* Short but accurate information of some important and common trekking places.
* Few but fantastic photographs (Blame it to Abhijit’s photography J )
* Regionwise maps and also the special GPS map of Harishchandragad.
* A list of many forts in Sahyadris can be useful for further trekking on our own.

Outs:
* Very few of the forts have been covered.
* Not updated so frequently.

Overall Rating: 6/10


{III}http://trekdi.tekdi.org



Trek’di group Pune (They call it Trek Encyclopedia).

Ins:
* Good user Interface.
* Announcements for regular treks organized by the group are posted online.
* The guys are always just a phone call away to help you.
* Tekdi Eco Portal is the best place to discuss everything about trekking.

Outs:
* Still under maintainance. So very few of the forts have been covered.
* The trek announcements are many times not updated.

Overall Rating: 4/10


IV} http://www.geocities.com/sta_pune



Sahyadri Treks and Adventures, Pune

Ins:
* Many little known places have been covered.
* Good user interface.

Outs:
* Very few photographs.
* Not updated for long time.
* Insufficient information.

Overall Rating: 5/10


V} http://welcome.to/chakram



Chakram Hikers, Mulund
Ins:
* Basically a site about Chakram hikers rather than general trekking.
* Regular updates about treks by the group are posted.

Outs:
* Not much information about trekking.

Overall rating : 3/10

Project IGI or Project DS

Hey guys..
How's your life?
My PLs going on and that's best season to sleep, play games and enjoy stuff..
Basically, I don't like computer games but sometimes, I enjoy playing..
So, here's what I do while playing...

Too busy to post

Hi folks
These days, being session of our exams, I don't get much time to post.
This post, I prepared 3 days ago but couldn't post it.
So, posting today...

It rained a lot today. These rains remind me of my childhood when I used to enjoy the panoramic view of rains through home window. I always wanted to go out and enjoy the rains. But due to health problem, was never able to.
Now, I do all these things I missed in childhood. Go and get wet. Welcome the rains with arms wide open. Let the rains feel good to shower you with diamonds of water drops.
Today, Abhijeet told me he wants to get wet and I just wanted someone to accompany me. We went on terrace of hostel and enjoyed rains for a long time.
These rains reminded me of the Tikona trek we enjoyed in heavy shower and also the Sudhagad trek where I enjoyed best rains till now….
Expecting some more thundershower to satisfy me desire…..

Best trek till date.....

Many of my friends ask me which is my best trek till date..
And i get confused each time someone asks me..

Peb was my first trek.
Heavy rains made the Tikona trek great.
Sudhagad was first trek i organised.
Katraj-Sinhagad was my first night trek.
Tung-Lohagad was also never forgettable experience due to the unusual way we used for climbing lohagad.
The dense forests of Vasota were unmentionablly great.. Also it was my best organised trek (I think so)..
And the beauty of Harishchandragad and Konkankada: well, no doubt about it.
I will always remember Vispaur for the unplanned night stay without food and water at the top.
First visit to Lohagad will be remembered for the "Suhana Mausam"...
Tung: This fort always played hide and seek with me and i got it finally in third attempt..
And also many more treks remaining to mention..

Well, here lies te biggest confusion.
Whch of these should i mention as best trek?

My fellow trekker friends, do you face similar kind of confusion when someone asks you about your best trek?
Now i pass on this question to all my fellow trekker friends.
Which one will you rank as your best till date?

Harishchandragad

Some more photos of our Clean-Up Campaign at Harishchandragad




Garbage we collected



Discussing our point



Graphiti removing



Beautiful sunset at Konkankada....


More photos Harishchandragad and Konkankada

Some jokes about S/W engineers

Ramu : I've just become a member of Rotract Club.
Somu : public member or private?

Ramu : Hey.. My submarine is not sinking into the water!! What could be wrong?
Somu : may be u have used float instead of double in the software.

PS : Hey Bull, Can you do me a favor? Can you pass on these 500 rupees to Suthi..?
Bull : Sure.. Why not? But tell me one thing. Tell me whether its pass by
Value or pass by reference.
PS : ???!!!

Ramu : I am very very sure that the guy who just talked to me is a
Software engineer...
Somu : how do u say that?
Ramu : he asked my physical address instead of my home address!

Ramu : I think the SW Engg who is sitting in the next cabin must
Be a farmer before ...
Somu : How do u know...?
Ramu : he asked me today that is there a way to cultivate the bit fields..!!

Computer : Please sit over the hard disk to compress the files!

Computer : please pour Engine oil in the floppy drive to enhance the
Performance of Search Engine.

Ramu : why people are beating that SW engg black and blue?
Somu : it seems, he asked one of them that whether "vande mataram" is
New kind of RAM in the market!

Ramu : Hey.. I think that SW Engg is very very naive..
Somu : How do u say that?
Ramu : He believes that there is an Arabian Sea++ next to Arabian Sea.

Ramu : Hey.... what’s time now?
Somu : System time or local time...??

Ramu : Hey.. I have a problem. My system is not booting up!
Somu : may be, its internal buses are on strike.. Check out!

Ramu : (while browsing the TV) what is this? I have heard of Star Sports, Star Movies and Star Plus. What’s this Star Equals??? Is it a new Star Channel?
Somu : No. = operator has been overloaded in Star Channel.

Geetha : I think that SW Engg is very naive..
Seetha : how do u say that?
Geetha : He believes "Rascal" is a new version of Pascal!

Ramesh : Hey.. U know.. Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 has got everything...
The Developer Studio can really do magic...
Umesh : Can we use that to develop the photo-negatives?

Ramu : why are u wiping ur terminal very often with a cloth?
Somu : clear command is not working properly for my terminal. that’s why?

Babu : yesterday I bought a new TV whose terminal is compatible with
computer... but its audio portion is not at all working :-
Gopu : may be its compatible only with dumb terminals???

Vani : We have shifted our home to Pune now..
Soni : right shift or left shift??

Kannamma : do u have Design Specs for brinjal sambar?
Ponnamma : u mean recipe..?

Ramu : Somu, I am going to file a case against my landlord yaar. He's harassing me too much.
Somu : What case? Upper Case or Lower Case?

Vanish : Hey.. why is that sardaarji inserting a cover into the floppy drive?
Bull : He wants to send an e-mail it seems! (E-mail == Empty mail)

Essay on a cow.....

This is the FUNNY essay on "The Cow" which was (supposedly) written by some student in the course of completing the "Indian Civil Services Examination" :


CALCUTTA's Telegraph has got hold of an answer paper of a candidate at the recent UPSC examinations. The candidate has written an essay on the Indian cow:

The Cow:

"The cow is a successful animal. Also he is quadrupud, and because he is female, he give milk,but will do so when he is got child. He is same likeGod,sacred to Hindus and useful to man.But he has got four legs together.Two are forward and two are afterwards.

"His whole body can be utilised for use. More so the milk. What can it do? Various ghee, butter,cream, curd, why and the condensed milk and so forth.Also he is useful to cobbler, watermans and mankind generally.

"His motion is slow only because he is of asitudinious species.Also his other motion is much useful to trees, plants as well as making flat cakes in hand and drying in the sun. Cow is the only animal that extricates his feeding after eating.Then afterwards she chew with his teeth whom are situated in the inside of the mouth. He is incessantly in the meadows in the grass.

"His only attacking and defending organ is the horn, specially so when he is got child. This is done by knowing his head whereby he causes the weapons to be paralleled to the ground of the earth and instantly proceed with great velocity forwards.

"He has got tails also, but not like similar animals. It has hairs on the other end of the other side.This is done to frighten away the flies which alight on his cohoa body whereupon he gives hit with it.

The palms of his feet are soft unto the touch.So the grasses head is not crushed.At night time have poses by looking down on the ground and he shouts his eyes like his relatives, the horse does not do so.

"This is the cow."

P.S.: We are informed that the candidate passed the exam

Source: Kedar Bhave's forwards

Powerful UNIX

These are some things that many Unix operating systems will print in response to various commands. What the user has typed has a "% " in front of it:: Enjoy


% cat "food in cans"
cat: can't open food in cans
% nice man woman
No manual entry for woman.

% rm God
rm: God nonexistent

% ar t God
ar: God does not exist]

% ar r God
ar: creating God

% "How would you rate Quayle's incompetence?
Unmatched ".

% [Where is Jimmy Hoffa?
Missing ].
>>> >

% ^How did the sex change operation go?
^ Modifier failed.

% If I had a ( for every $ the Congress spent, what would I have?
Too many ('s.

% make love
Make: Don't know how to make love. Stop.

% sleep with me
bad character

% got a light?
No match.

% man: why did you get a divorce?
man:: Too many arguments.

% !:say, what is saccharine?
Bad substitute.

% %blow
%blow: No such job.

/* not csh but sh */
$ PATH=pretending!/usr/ucb/which sense
no sense in pretending!

$ drink
bottle: cannot open opener: not found

Puzzle you can never solve

Hello ,
try to solve this. or look for the answer below......

What is the next number in the series?

21, 12, 12, 1, 2 ...
Scroll down for answer.
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Only Ganguly knows it. Because these are his scores in the Test series
Ha,Ha,ha

I got it !!!

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