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Results: their means and value

Well, i know that this is an age old topic to write on and definitely not something i should be writing about now, especially after passing out of college with every thing intact. But, why i still write on this has two simple reasons, a) the bigger exams of life (and not the metaphorical ones) will begin after college gets over and b) age old results have a habit of coming back into our lives time and again and biting us in the ass. The university results of my junior batch came out today. And to say the least it was carnage. Failure has a bad of showing us things, true things nonetheless and today was no different. The tension before the results, the shock while reviewing it and the dismay after the story sinks in. Most people deal with it when they think of the ways to fix it. But keep this in mind, once its broken you cannot fix it. All you can do is to get another chance at it, but the failure will last.  It never goes.

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My favorite Class in College

I am a Computer Engineer. And i love my subjects. Having said that, i never really enjoyed any class in college when it was to do with computers to be very honest. I like doing practical work. Thats my nature. You can not change it. So that probably restricted me from doing a lot of work in class as such. And practicals would be taken care of in the hostel rooms rather than the practical laboratories. Again, fact of life, i hate working on someone else's time frame, a time frame mind you. Give me a deadline, and the work will be delivered. Do not give me schedules. And for the better part of my engineering it work rather well. But, i am not going to talk about the classes i did not attend or the ones which i did not enjoy. I am here to talk about the one set of classes i did enjoy.

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Content Management

This is probably the most difficult thing to do in a typical website. No wonder there are so many successful Content Management Systems in place. No wonder Narayanan Murthy stressed on data, as a very important part of any system. It is no wonder, that when it comes to developing world class websites most of us fail. It is not due to a lack of quality software or poor aesthetics. The underlying reason why any website fails in today's world of information is simply due to poor or no content management, or a lack of high quality content all together.

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