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		<title>Poster for Free Binayak Sen Campaign</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 13:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Details on Campaign, about Binayak Sen http://www.binayaksen.net/posters/ for poster in orginal size Designed using Inkscape and GIMP. Basic Concept : K P Sasi Thanks : Anivar, Satya]]></description>
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</span><img class="aligncenter" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="Hiran Binayak Sen Poster" src="http://binayaksen.net/wp-content/gallery/site-graphics/have-a-heart-1.gif" alt="" width="450" height="636" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.binayaksen.net"><span class="drop">D</span>etails on Campaign</a>, about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binayak_Sen">Binayak Sen</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.binayaksen.net/posters/">http://www.binayaksen.net/posters/ </a>for poster in orginal size</p>
<p>Designed using <a href="www.inkscape.org/">Inkscape</a> and <a href="www.gimp.org/">GIMP.</a></p>
<p>Basic Concept :<a href="http://www.visualsearch.org/sasi.htm"> K P Sasi</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.visualsearch.org/sasi.htm"></a>Thanks :<a href="http://anivar.movingrepublic.org/"> Anivar</a>, Satya</p>
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		<title>Oscar Prediction : 70% gets right</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hiran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Milk splits over my predictions! On the 10 awards that I predicted through my last blogpost, three of them went wrong. It was for best actor, and two screen plays. Well I am happy with the 70% marks and awards for Rasul, Rahman, Winslet and Wall-e. Congrats to Oscar winners! Note : I never considered [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1013753/"><span class="drop">M</span>ilk</a> splits over my predictions! On the 10 awards that I predicted through<a href="http://hiran.in/blog/oscar-2009-prediction"> my last blogpost</a>, three of them went wrong. It was for best actor, and two screen plays. Well I am happy with the 70% marks and awards for Rasul, Rahman, Winslet and Wall-e. Congrats to Oscar winners!</p>
<p>Note : I never considered Oscar as the international film award. Its just a prestigious national award.</p>
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		<title>Oscar 2009 : predictions and wishes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hiran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following contains the loosely described predictions of this years Oscar awards. They are based on the published nomination and I have not seen all of them! Its personal, its my prediction not of any community or organisation I am working with, Here goes my prediction. Best Film : Prediction : Slumdog Millionaire Wish: The [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="drop">T</span>he following contains the loosely described predictions of this years<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award"> Oscar awards</a>. They are based on the published nomination and I have not seen all of them! Its personal, its my prediction not of any community or organisation I am working with, Here goes my prediction.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Best Film :</strong></span> Prediction : <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1010048/">Slumdog Millionaire </a>Wish: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421715/">The Curious Case of Benjamin Button</a></p>
<p><em>Why not Slum dog.</em> As many of my friends suggested, its worth to watch, but not for an Oscar. Though the film is greatly made with high quality photography, editing and screenplay, the story is not refined as,  Why do they characters sometime use Hindi sentences and is the final question worth for a 20million question extra comes to mind after watching the movie.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role:</strong></span><strong> </strong>Prediction : <strong><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000620/">Mickey Rourke</a></strong> for <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1125849/">The Wrestler</a></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role: </strong></span><strong> </strong>Prediction: <strong><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000701/">Kate Winslet</a></strong> for <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0976051/">The Reader</a></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role:</strong></span> Prediction : <strong><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005132/">Heath Ledger</a></strong> for <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/">The Dark Knight</a> Its sure. How else could!</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role: </span></strong>Prediction : <strong><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000673/">Marisa Tomei</a></strong> for <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1125849/">The Wrestler</a> or <strong><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004851/">Penélope Cruz</a></strong> for <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0497465/">Vicky Cristina Barcelona</a> Note: I haven&#8217;t seen<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0918927/"> Doubt</a> yet.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Best Achievement in Directing: </strong></span>Prediction :<strong><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000965/">Danny Boyle</a></strong> for <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1010048/">Slumdog Millionaire</a> . Its worthy! He needs it</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span><strong><strong>Best Adapted Screenplay:</strong></strong></span></span><span><strong><strong> </strong></strong>Prediction : </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421715/" target="_blank">The Curious Case of Benjamin Button</a></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen</strong></span><strong> : </strong><strong><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910970/">WALL·E </a></strong></p>
<p>It has to get that award. Story, the major factor of WALL-E is so stunning and the way of presentation is brilliant. Also will be a great inspiration for the animation industry.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Best Animated Feature Film of the Year:</strong></span><strong> </strong><strong><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910970/">WALL·E</a></strong> Wanna bet?<strong><br />
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song: </strong></span><strong><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1010048/">Slumdog Millionaire</a> (2008): </strong><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006246/">A.R. Rahman</a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0347899/">Sampooran Singh Gulzar</a><span class="notes">(&#8220;Jai Ho&#8221;) Do that really owns a Oscar? For one who heard the awesome music of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._R._Rahman">Rahman</a> from his movies like <em>Roja, Minsarakanavu, Bombay and Dilse</em>, this song does get a seat in Best 100 songs of ARR collection.</span></p>
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		<title>New look for new year</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hiran.in is on air for the last 85days. The site is redesigned now. With the latest wordpress I am using modified version of the theme light by Elad Domb. The major change the design had is introduction of side bar. On those days I tought that having side bar as something unnecessary for the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="drop">T</span>he<a href="http://hiran.in/"> hiran.in</a> is on air for the last 85days. The site is redesigned now. With the latest <a href="http://wordpress.org">wordpress</a> I am using modified version of the theme light by <a title="Visit author homepage" href="http://wordpress.reviewitonline.net/">Elad Domb.</a> The major change the design had is introduction of side bar. On those days I tought that having side bar as something unnecessary for the page. But, having some responses for the design specially after the realase of Rufscript, I started knowing the need of links from the main page. [As per Google Analytics Rufscript page has 7800 pagevists, and with 5433 unique visitors, and very few of them had navigated to more than 4 pages <img src='http://www.hiran.in/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' />  ] Look at the page, and express your reaction. Also have a look at my <a href="http://hiran.in/wishlist">wishlist</a> <img src='http://www.hiran.in/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<h5>Happy GNU year wish to all!</h5>
<p>Note : WordPress 2.7 rocks! I&#8217;m louving itt!!!</p>
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		<title>Five happenings, December 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 07:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1.Free Software User Group Thrissur. The Window to Freedom event conducted by FSUGTSR, become a grand success. I was there, as a speaker to provide an introduction to free software ethics. More details at here, here, here and here. 2. A Trip to Vagamon. We Rocked. vagamon 3. Free Software, Free Society Fsfs.in2008 4. Marathon [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2><strong><span class="drop">1</span>.Free Software User Group Thrissur.</strong></h2>
<p><strong><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-465" title="3083975722_7610b3968e_b" src="http://www.hiran.in/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/3083975722_7610b3968e_b-300x168.jpg" alt="3083975722_7610b3968e_b" width="300" height="168" /><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-466" title="3083982190_2174f5b849_b" src="http://www.hiran.in/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/3083982190_2174f5b849_b-300x168.jpg" alt="3083982190_2174f5b849_b" width="300" height="168" /></strong>The Window to Freedom event conducted by FSUGTSR, become a grand success. I was there, as a speaker to provide an introduction to free software ethics. More details at <a href="http://pramode.net/2008/12/05/a-window-to-freedom-report-on-dec-4th-free-software-users-group-thrissur-meeting/">here</a>, <a href="http://aswinatgec.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/fsugtsr-a-window-to-freedom/">here</a>, <a href="http://alexp0205.wordpress.com/2008/12/06/the-success-story-of-a-window-to-freedom-organised-by-fsugtsr/">here</a> and <a href="http://vexvortex.blogspot.com/2008/12/fsugtsr-window-to-freedom.html">here</a>.<strong><br />
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<h2><strong>2. A Trip to <em>Vagamon</em>. We Rocked.</strong></h2>
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<h2><strong>3. Free Software, Free Society</strong></h2>
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<h2><strong>4. Marathon Poster Designing. 30 posters in 10 hours</strong></h2>
<p>That was the best part for FSFS from my side. I was there at SPACE office a day before and in 10 hours I designed nearly 30 posters for the need of poster exhibition. Some posters were about the free software replacements of commonly used software and some were based on FCI&#8217;s <a href="http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/IfYouAre">If You Are</a> Page. They are released here under<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/in/"> CC BY-SA license</a>. They are available <a href="http://hiran.in/content/poster/">here</a>.</p>
<p><strong>and 5. Laptop battery is dead. Lap now works on AC only <img src='http://www.hiran.in/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' /> </strong></p>
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		<title>Welcome to my new home</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My dream is happening. My own web page. It was a great experience to recreate the design in mind to css/ wordpress theme. The technical details are 1. This is wordpress powered 2. The theme is a ugly modification of slide-O-matic, the modification is so done that the only similarity now is the one column [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="drop">M</span>y dream is happening. My own web page. It was a great experience to recreate the design in mind to css/ wordpress theme. The technical details are 1. This is<a title="http://wordpress.org/" href="http://wordpress.org/"> wordpress</a> powered 2. The theme is a ugly modification of<a title="Slide-O-Matic" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/slide-o-matic"> slide-O-matic</a>, the modification is so done that the only similarity now is the one column design. 3. The site is hosted at <a title="http://dreamhost.com/" href="http://dreamhost.com/">dreamhost</a>. 4.A<a title="H Wiki" href="http://wiki.hiran.in"> small wiki</a> installed for personal activities is powered using<a title="http://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki" href="http://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki"> Dokuwiki</a>. 5. The title and other designs are done using <a title="http://inkscape.org/" href="http://inkscape.org/">Inkscape.</a></p>
<p>Thanks list contains some more in numbers,</p>
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<li><a href="http://anivar.movingrepublic.org/">Anivar</a>, who helped me alot on making this web.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.j4v4m4n.in/">Praveen the j4v4m4n</a>, whose DNS made me to think of own DNS.</li>
<li><a href="http://pramode.net/">Pramode</a>, who is always my inspiration for doing something.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.swaroopch.com/">Swaroop C H</a>, the blog i read regularly who made some posts on<a href="http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/category/tech/web/"> web designing recently</a>, made me to work.</li>
<li><a href="http://nimbupani.com/">Nimbupani</a>, designer who designed swaroop&#8217;s blog in last month which made me to select wordpress over drupal for my page.</li>
<li><a href="http://swathanthran.in/">Shyam</a>, the one who is always eager on the status of hiran.in who has visited the page than me.</li>
<li>To my classmates, who always paid attention to my activities</li>
<li>To <a href="http://nicubunu.ro/">Ninu</a>,<a href="http://mihmo.livejournal.com/"> Máirín</a> and others of #fedora-art who helped me much for designing</li>
<li>And finally to my sister Hitha, who started <a href="http://thonnyaaksharangal.blogspot.com/">her blog</a> last week which was the real inspiration for me to move to my domain.</li>
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<p>The blog will be tagged under two categories, english and malayalam, so as feed subscribers to get <a href="http://www.hiran.in/feeds">either the whole or language based.</a></p>
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