Space Tourism Group Sets Price, Date for First Suborbital Flight

A private space tourism firm has set both the price and timeframe for their first passenger-carrying launch of a suborbital spacecraft.

AERA Corp., which is developing the six-seater spacecraft Altairis, has set ticket prices for its first flights at $250,000. The rocket is slated to make its first launch in December 2006, AERA officials said.

"With our design completed and our agreements in place to use Cape Canaveral for launch, flight logistics and landing, we are now ready to begin ticket sales," said Bill Sprague, AERA founder, CEO and chief scientist, in a statement this week.

I really want to have a tour to space. You know I wanted to be astronot from my childhood, but somehow I became computer engg. So sad :-(
OK OK. Stop crying, I will try to bue couple of ticket. One for me and another one for my partener, is there any B U Tful girl wants to come with me ? ? ?

Koorg trip

We had a nice and adventuras trip to koorg, karnataka, which is around 250 km from Bangalore. We were 20 people having 2 days trip, where 11 others joined us second day. We had a nice time there. First day we visited Nagarhole national park, a safari to deep jungle(unfortunately got nothing other than beers and elephants). We had tracking at urupi falls, It was more like rock climbing there. then we took bath at the water fall. Next day we 20(Tata Institute Treckers) met the other 11 BB(Bangalore Buffelows). We went to Tala Cauvery(starting point of river Cauvery). It is on a hill. then we went to tip of a hill, what a nice scene was from there, I realy liked that. We went to aby falls at evening where we took the bath and enjoyed the water.
At the end we took little more time to a place near the water fall, played some games and started back jorney to Bangalore.

My brother Ankit

today my brother ankit has come for interview of IIITB.
he has interview tomarrow.

what a stupid I am?

Hay one of the biggest mistake I have done yesterday.
2nd may one of the unforgetable date.
You forgot ideot.

At around 10:00pm at 2nd may. I am talking to my friends. I got a missed call. Who is this? This is my sweet sister. I got again a missed call from her. I thought why she is giving me missed call?
I called her and now it was one of the most shamful moment for me, in my life, she asked what is date today? Then I recalled today is 2nd may my sis' B'day. I wished her with a great sorry. But it was not new for her. She knows I don't used to remember the things, even my own B'day. So she gorgave me immediately, but I couldn't myself. SO now I am not going to forget anything important for others specially.

KAAL

Today I wached KAAL which released today only.
What a nice movie. I like Ajay dewegan Saying

"Kaali to bakta hi rehta hai, aur aap hain ki maante hi nahi."

Nice suspense thriller, shooted in jungle. The full movie is in jungle. I like sexy Esha in the movie. After a long time I wached a movie in the theater. Last one was Black as I remember.

Lesson from the movie: "Don't break the rules"

So now I made a new punch line for me:

I don't break the rules.
I make the rules.

How's that?

No new plan for tomorrow.

after a long break

No post for a long time?
Monu what are you doing?
Hay sorry I am back now with full enthu to post even everyday.

So start...

Text-twist with out word power

Its routine in our lab(LITEC) to play text-twist (a yahoo game where you have to generate different meaningful words from a set of 6 characters). I dont used to play it because of my weak word power in english. But I think nothing is impossible, so can I have a high score in text-twist?
Let's take little help of computer, let's learn little scripting. So I tried to grep the word list provided in dict in the systems to look for permutation of given characters. Then I came up with a shell script using which I could get all the meaning full words of length 3,4,5 and 6, from given set of 6 characters. I helped one of my friend to get a high score in text-twist using the script.
Now let's have a game...

welcome back

Hay I am back to blog.
I was busy with showcase and other stuffs.
Now I am ready to blog again.

What to do....

Just playing games. I have to do many things but even I don't know what to d owhen. It's allready 4:26 am in my watch, I have to attend class also tomarrow, so I am thinking to go to sleep, but today I didn't do much productive things. I slept at 8:00 am , Wokeup at 5:00 pm, had snakes at mess. At 5:45 attended meeting for 'the duel' which I fixed at 5:30. Went to pizza corner at 6:30. Went to T.V. room at 7:15. Took dinner at 8:30 Watched movie "the incredibles" at night went to T board at 2:30. And since then I am playing Yahoo! games.
Tommarow I ll attend web modiling class at 10 am , I ll do some project work up to 12:30. I ll be sleaping up to 3:00 after taking lunch. Attend daa class at 3:30 At night, I ll make some changes to my code of dcument clustering.

Sell yourself

Today I tried to sell myself on as much mamount I could.

Started project again

Hi,
At last I started my project work seriously again.
I am reading some papers (read only one yet). I have downloaded dataset to start some experiments, but first I have to clean my code and improve it, optimize it. Then I am planning to add labling on my document clustering system.
This time I am going to work harder. Planning to have time table which I am going to follow.
Tonight I ll read one more paper and then I ll try to add stop word remover also on my system.

showcase blog started...

I just started showcase blog which will be having current news regarding CSA Showcase 2005.
You can check it at:
http://csashowcase.blogspot.com

Enjoy Madi

My plans

Hay it is my first posting.
Here I am going to plan my future. I am going to have a time table which, I will strictly follow.
This week I didn't have much productive work, but now onwords I am going to perform my best.
I am going to have full concepts of networking up to 22, dec, 2004. By 22 dec I will have full knowledge of networking from Richard Steven 'Unix network Programming'.
I am planning to make my C concepts sound. I ll start from 'K & R C'. Then I will read expert C programming, I will read Unix Programming of Richard Steven also.
My next target will be Operating Systems. I'll start from Bach, then hare comes the Casati and Vahalia.
In parallel of these interesting things, I'll be working on my Project also seriously.
This is a brief plan of my next one month. I have to do many things, and I have limited amount of time, But I know I can make my dreams come true and I WILL.

Wishing All the Best to Himself
M@NU Agrawal
Make Your Own Way.
http://people.csa.iisc.ernet.in/monu