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on Radio !!!
over 2 years ago | Rohan Kini: Confuscionomo
I cant believe I almost passed the chance of being on radio !
Got a call from Radio City asking if I could be on air the next morning (day before). They were having a show on Bangaloreans doing things a little differently. And I got called for biking to work and because of BumsOnTheSaddle
Didnt think too much about this, was only worried about screwing up as this was going to be a live show ! What if you say something wrong, what if you are unable to say anything - in front of tons of Bangaloreans !!! Sheesh. What a way to start a day.
RJ Vasanthi at the Radio city studio - in action
But then I must admit it was one helluva experience. It was the Breakfast show, with the award winning RJ Vasanthi who was extremely nice and made me comfortable in no time at all :) The next time you are listening to the Radio City Breakfast show this is what Vasathi is doing - playing music, checking sms's which are pouring onto here system, taking calls from listeners, figuring out what to talk next to the guest on the show, drinking coffee, taking personal calls and chatting away with the guest and at the same time doing short segments on the show like traffic update etc etc. All at the same time. Kinda incredible !
Moral of the story - never say no to things like this. Go. Experience !
Just when I was starting to get comfortable and was all loosened up to talk it was all over ! Sigh.
Did manage to talk a little bit about the bicycling scene in Bangalore and what it takes to bicycle to work. Wish I had a more planned agenda. Figured Radio is a really powerful medium that can reach so many people at once ! Next time :)
came out to a familiar Bangalore scene. Traffic Jams. Sigh !
Balloon pricked.
TVs Still rule compared to the radio. A quick look at Google Analytics stats after this short interview on radio showed
Till date nothing has generated traffic like the interview on CNN IBN did. Interesting huh.
rohan_kini @ 2008-01-12T17:21:00
over 2 years ago | Rohan Kini: Confuscionomo
Spirit of the Marathon - trailer.
the solution
over 2 years ago | Rohan Kini: Confuscionomo
parking lots
over 2 years ago | Rohan Kini: Confuscionomo
(Video should load up in a bit)
Cycle of Change : Video Coverage on CNN IBN
Kiruba has a more detailed write up on his blog of what the plans are.Currently there are two sets of bikers - one in Chennai and the other in Bangalore who are looking to accomplish something small in 4 weeks. We are supposed to document the whole process on tape so that CNN can show this as a part of their citizen journalist show.
In Chennai - these guys are looking to organize a bike to work day and maybe have a bike race in January
in Bangalore - we are looking to introduce bike parking stands in the city.
Dunno what the status quo is with the various groups. But been so freaking busy that I have had no time to do anything for this at all. Very sad. Would have very much liked to have contribute more than what I currently am.
ActivMobs on Economic Times
over 2 years ago | Rohan Kini: Confuscionomo
ActivMobs, featured on Economic Times.
Nice writeup
Bicycle parking
over 2 years ago | Rohan Kini: Confuscionomo
Design a bicycle parking stand - NOW (Poster designed by Chaitanya)
The bigger picture. We at BOTS have been wanting to slowly start improving the bicycle amenities in the city. Bicycle lanes, bicycle parking lots, safety awareness for bikers, simple products that can make your life easier etc etc. Some are in the pipe line and some have been gathering dust, due to lack of time, not interest.
Recently CNN IBN got in touch with us and asked us to take up one activity related to biking and take it thru in a span of 4 weeks for some programme of theirs. We were extremely hesitant as we were swamped with work and all these short term thingies really dont work out. But then there was another group in Bangalore which was enthu about this too. Formerly called A.I.R, now renamed Go Cycle. We met up a few times and decided that parking lots for cycles was something that could be addressed.
So here goes. We are going to introduce bicycle parking lots in 3 places in the city and see how it holds and then introduce them all over the city. Hopefully. So stuff to do
- identify locations for the parking lots
- design the stand
- figure out funding
- execute it
One place that we identified was outside Lalbagh. Its a shame to see 100s of folks who ride/drive up till lal bagh. Walk inside and then drive back. Seems utterly pointless. Atleast 10 of these could be converted to biking till there and then biking back home. There were a few other locations.
- design the stand. We are asking some person to design it. But it would be really nice if interested people could take a stab at it and see if they could come up with something interesting. I want to design some really nice posters on this and see if we can have some kind of bicycle parking lot design contest (lack of time is a problem here). Should be a lot of fun.
- funding and execution. Seems far away !
Overall pretty exciting. Parking is an issue right now.
Only problem is time.
Root Cause
over 2 years ago | Rohan Kini: Confuscionomo
Winning the DARPA Grand Challenge
over 2 years ago | Rohan Kini: Confuscionomo
Rajesh had pointed me to this a LONG time back, but a bout of sickness and joblessness made me check it out today.
Amazing stuff. Inspirational, to do what I dunno. But good eSthuff.
Trek University
over 2 years ago | Rohan Kini: Confuscionomo
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nikhile and I had a chance to attend Trek University. Till date whatever we know about bikes was self learned - by experimenting, making mistakes and reading from books and the internet, which is a kinda slow process.
For the first time we met guys, technical guys from Trek who have been doing this for over 30 years, who really loved their bikes and it showed ! The time that we spent with them was brilliant. They knew what they were speaking about and even better, understood why they were doing it. And they rode bikes ( sarcasm, but important :) ).
Kinda makes me understand why the age old tradition of a Gurukul was so awesome. If you are really interested in something you might not be able to learn it by just attending a session or two. You got to live the path and a fast track way would be to stay and work with a person who is substantially better than you in that field.
The little time that we spent with these guys gave us an insight into the way Trek works. Apparently these guys go around the world taking dealers through what Trek stands for, what their bikes are capable of and the kind of research thats happening in this field.
Awesome stuff.
worth of a tree ?
over 2 years ago | Rohan Kini: Confuscionomo
A Friend recently gave this to me. Not sure how the numbers are arrived at.
But the gist was pretty important :)
Ruby IDE - Netbeans ?
over 2 years ago | Rohan Kini: Confuscionomo
are you simply waiting for your frozen up IDE to unfreeze while working in Ruby ?
The past month or so have been kinda painful working with IntelliJ. The IDE used to just freeze up, with and without JVM optimizations
Have always been meaning to get back to Netbeans and give it a good shot. Use it for a bit and see how it holds up.
And the past two days have been fabulous. Have not been able to check out all the features, but its good enough. The only issue being unfamiliar key bindings, but thats just sometime before I remap all the key bindings to what I am used to.
Instead of re-iterating Netbeans goodness, here is a good post by someone else detailing it ( with lotsa nice screen shots )
Flash videos
Tor Norbye actively writing about his progress with the Ruby support on Netbeans
Net Beans Ruby wiki
Download location
its all here. Get onto a better Ruby IDE .... for now :)
Save Nanda Road dot com'd
over 2 years ago | Rohan Kini: Confuscionomo
Save Nanda Road ( http://savenandaroad.com )
I love this stretch and I am glad there are folks who feel the same and are doing some thing about it.
small pleasures
over 2 years ago | Rohan Kini: Confuscionomo
a friend pointed this out.
Searching for Firefox bicycles pulls BumsOnTheSaddle as the first result. Above Firefox bikes, the company that actually makes them :)
Like I mentioned. Small pleasures. :)
Cycling lanes in Bangalore
over 2 years ago | Rohan Kini: Confuscionomo
Cycling lane on Cubbon road
Came across a cycling lane on Cubbon Road in Bangalore. pretty neat
rohan_kini @ 2007-10-08T00:45:00
over 2 years ago | Rohan Kini: Confuscionomo
Samim and Vibhor get quite a welcome :) I think they deserve it !
More pictures
join the victory lap
over 2 years ago | Rohan Kini: Confuscionomo
Samim and Vibhor are back from their month long running (Bangalore to Mumbai) and cycling (Mumbai to Bangalore) endeavor.
They will be at Mekhri circle at 9:45 am and at the G.P.O at 10am. nikhile and I are planning to join them on their last leg along with other cyclists, to cheer them on.
Wanna join us ? Just dust that cycle sitting in the corner and come along :)
Ruby + IntelliJ getting on your nerves ?
over 2 years ago | Rohan Kini: Confuscionomo
Using the RubyPlugin with IntelliJ can cause serious hair loss at times when IntelliJ freezes up as it goes on a tangent doing Garbage collection and god knows what else.
We made some small changes to the jvm parameters which seem to help enormously.
now my idea.vmoptions file looks like this (tweaked some numbers and added the last two lines. The idea.vmoptions file sits in the bin folder on linux).
Basically swapped in a different Garbage collector (the concurrent low pause collector) and also used the server mode for the JVM.
-Xms300m
-Xmx512m
-XX:MaxPermSize=99m
-ea
-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
-server
Thanks Chris.
TreesForFree
over 2 years ago | Rohan Kini: Confuscionomo
TreesForFree
The power of blogging and the internet.
We recently got to know about this group called TreesForFree who are planting trees in and around Bangalore. Our group, TheGreenForce, wanted to do pretty much the same. Looks like its time to just join up forces instead of fragmenting and starting something new.
Peddle an Invention
over 2 years ago | Rohan Kini: Confuscionomo
ZYB
over 2 years ago | Rohan Kini: Confuscionomo
Store your phone contacts on the net, securely !
I dont have GPRS enabled on my phone but this sounds so freaking cool ! Plus the site is really really nice.
Time to complicate life and get GPRS enabled on my phone.
Airtel and GPRS not enabled ?
- send SMS ALL to 2567
- you would receive some settings in a few seconds
- accept them and then restart ur cell (I was advised to keep the phone switched off for a minute)
- and your good to go
Activation if free and the call centre dude mentioned that surfing is also free. I almost fell off my chair and was damn excited (dunno why) and asked him a plethora of questions. He then mentioned that I would be able to access only the Airtel website. * Sigh *
Ruby with InteiilJ ?
over 2 years ago | Rohan Kini: Confuscionomo
Looking for a good Ruby IDE ?
I find IntelliJ the best. ( Maybe cause I am so used to it. I WANT to use Netbeans and Aptana, have downloaded them multiple times but have never been able to like them enough to use them )
They have a bunch of features which is decent enough to do some pretty painless development with.
How to get it.
What to look out for
Immersing the one
over 2 years ago | Rohan Kini: Confuscionomo
One of the advantages of having an SLR is that you are always 'Press' :) and folks tend to always let you thru - barricades and mental barriers !
Some recent shots of Ganesha's being immersed in Yediyur lake, Bangalore
cycle walla the bicycle doctor
over 2 years ago | Rohan Kini: Confuscionomo
about this video
A pretty interesting interview with a road side bicycle walla on his day to day life.
Its always interesting to know what a day looks like for different people.
we dont smell the air !
over 2 years ago | Rohan Kini: Confuscionomo
Interesting article
Its interesting to know stuff like the fact that Bangalore adds more than 1000 vehicles onto its roads every day *shudder*.
oh ya .. its coming !
over 2 years ago | Rohan Kini: Confuscionomo
Atlas to sell merida bikes in India.
Oh ya .. its happening :)
India is so ready for a biking revolution. Trek has no idea how ready India is and how it could have captured a market if it had entered in a slightly bigger manner.