Author Archives: Justin Joseph

Learning English with the angels

Monday was the third class that I was attending for the kids who came to learn spoken english. As usual, Jyothi was doing an excellent job, coaching these kids. And as usual, I was sitting there, wondering how am I supposed to contribute to this initiative. And after nearly 1 week of contemplation, it dawned on… Read More »

Film and movies

Dad’s friend works in film society and since I wanted to see how a film roll looks like, and badly wanted it. He was checking with his friends and found about this particular person. He got two rolls of film for me. Both of them from the malayalam movie ‘Pavam I A Ivachan’ It was… Read More »

A new youtube channel – A new home

Prologue Our band wanted a new home and after discussing with Melvin we decided to go with a new channel in youtube. This is our new address https://www.youtube.com/freemusicsoul Below are the steps to create a new channel and configuring it First go to channel switcher – http://www.youtube.com/channel_switcher Click on ‘Create a new channel’ Enter the details as… Read More »

Meeting angels for the first time

  It was at Narmadha’s system that I saw about the Cognizant outreach program. I checked with her and she told me that its an initiative by Cognizant to visit schools for differently abled institutions and support them with the help of volunteers from CTS. I was amazed by the fact that this initiative has… Read More »

Stay at Trichur with parents

Learning to Drive I know its a little late, but nothing it too late, right ? Based on the input from the shopkeeper, dad found that there was a ground very close to our next to the church, where people from other driver learning school comes for learning Monday Morning : decided to got and… Read More »

An awesome gift – Yamaha Keyboard PSR i455

The initial plan was to buy PSR 433. As per the suggestion from Melvin, called up Reynolds and Sound Glitz and both the places only i455 was avaialbe. Googled for difference between the two and found that i455 would have more Indian based rhythms and sounds. Melvin was here on Saturday and some time in… Read More »

Look at the stars

  Thanks to quotes from Facebook as well as several other sources, I am beginning to have a better outlook on the so-called ‘bad’ things in my life. But then the problem is, there is stuff which you are supposed to act as if it mattered to you because otherwise people around you might be… Read More »

Code comparison tool

The idea about writing my own source code comparison tool The problem As developers we have to check in our source code to multiple source control systems including clear case and TFS ( Team foundation server ). Most of the times, the local copy in my hard disk might not be in sync with the… Read More »

Finding the best webhosting provider

I am on the search for a web hosting provider. I have been hosting on bigdaddy ( my current webhost ) for sometime and I faced two difficulties After the honey moon period, they will double the hosting charges. In my case, from 300 Rs month to 600 Rs / month Most of the sites… Read More »