Priyanka's Scrapbook

Before I went in for the movie, a friend had said, this movie is more than a love story, its a love saga. Now, after watching the movie, I know what he meant. Samar and Mira's love story was very well expressed in the first half of the movie. Yash Chopra's magical power of making the audience feel the love going on on-screen could be felt once again. The rich, beautiful lady Mira falling in love with a guy full of life (but no bank-balance) was brought out really well. Mira was a girl who had great faith in Jesus and used to offer some great deals in exchange of what she wanted Jesus to give her like 'let the guy coming to see me today not like me, and I will give up chocolates forever' and so on. It was all well, till Mira decided to make the biggest deal with her God, to give up her love in exchange of his life. She, is all her faith, decided to leave Samar, after Jesus saved Samar's life (after Samar met with an accident). The broken heart-ed Samar returned o...

9th November is the birthday of Firefox, the browser that has always made browsing experience a great fun for all users. This November Firefox turned 8. All over the world, all Mozilla supporters and Firefox fans did celebrate this day in their own unique ways. I was a part of the celebration in Kolkata, India. A few ReMos and Mozilla volunteers had gathered in the evening in a place called Hiland Park, in South Kolkata. A very informal meet up....lots of chit chats, some sharing of thoughts.  We couldn't get the cake, but the gathering can be called a success. Meeting people is always fun. Communicating via mails or on Facebook can never bring the same outcome as meeting people face to face and it indeed was so today. Before departing, we indeed did plan a meeting again in two days... that's the level of energy Mozilla always gives us!!!

On the 4 th of November 2012, the Wikipedia team of Localisation Engineers were welcomed at SICSR for an Engineer’s meet up. The team consisted of some very important Engineers from Wikipedia Foundation like Alolita Sharma (Director of Engineering at Wikipedia), Srikanth Lakshmanan, Brion Vibber, Pau Giner, Siebrand Mazeland and a few more. The meet up was mainly to get a user’s feedback regarding the Wiki Translation and Localisation work and also to introduce some new Wiki tools that translators could find useful like ‘Translatewiki.net’. They gave a small demo on how translatewiki can be used. The talk also contained a brief detail of how wikipedia’s localisation tools were engineered and how these jQuery IMEs can be used by all common coders for translating any website easily. Some SICSR dignitaries were also present during the session, who are regular contributors to Wikipedia like Mr.Harshad Gune and Mr.Sudhanwa Jogalekar. Most SICSR students present for the session were eit...