Shriphani ‘PSP’ Palakodety

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220, Anna Salai – Hurdle Cleared

June 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment · Daily life, college prep., python

Woohoo, I’ve managed to clear the hurdle at 220 Anna Salai. But let me tell you guys, Chennai can drive anyone mad. Here is what I recollect from my trip (I do not have a camera so no pics):

We drop in at a 3 star hotel named Dee Cee Manor ( who rates these hotels [...]

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Visit to HPS R

December 15th, 2007 · No Comments · Daily life, college prep.

I am particularly sad today. I didn’t attend the Open Source Roundup at TWINCLING Society. Well, lets forget it. I went to HPS Ramanthapur this morning as I had some free time. Seemingly Parag is holding some position of importance in the HPS prefectorial committee and so is Saurav. Saurav is as tall as me [...]

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Back again

October 30th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Daily life, college prep., python

After a lull of 10 days (no internet), I am finally back, 512 KBps and unlimited download is what I picked. Now loads of things to do. I am working on making my very first firefox extension and I’ve found this: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/My_Chrome_Oven:_Generating_XUL_with_Python
So we now have no troubles whatsoever making our extensions. Apart from this [...]

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SAT 2: Recovering from the “Shriphani Conjecture”

October 6th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Daily life, PITA, college prep.

The Shriphani Conjecture states that:
“If something is judged by you to be impossible, then it is sure to happen to you.”
Well here goes. Two days ago I chanced to look at my Toefl iBT profile on ets’ website and clicked on the “View Scores” button and wonders of wonders, 117 on 120. So I am [...]

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SAT scores and aTOEFL goof-up

July 30th, 2007 · No Comments · college prep.

Yes I got my SAT scores a month back and sorry for not having posted about them. Anyway 2060 was my SAT score. The individual marks were:
640 Critical Reading
720 Math (one world class goof-up here)
700 Writing (who would have thought)
Anyway let us move on. Naresh Shah ( someone at FIIT-JEE) called me up soon after [...]

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