20
Jun

One Year. Really?

By Toxic}{ermit 9 Comments
Categories: Miscellaneous

It’s been a year since I first paid for quality web hosting. I’d have never known it if not for a post I made earlier.

My final year in college didn’t seem all that boring or pointless. It basically didn’t feel like engineering.

In other news, I got my visa yesterday so thats one less thing to think about. It doesn’t really feel like it’s been a year since I wrote my GRE.

It’d be great to say I’ve come a long way since last year but unfortunately that isn’t true. Oh well, at least I get two more tries.

25
Feb

A digg like site for Indian music

By Toxic}{ermit 3 Comments
Categories: Internet and Music

I look in my shoutbox and I see a link to a site. Usually I have got this knee jerk reaction to delete it but in the few seconds it took me to navigate to the manage page I decided maybe it wasn’t spam.

A little clicking later I like what I see. A site that looks like a community driven site for Indian music. Nice idea! I wonder why I haven’t come across those types of sites before.

Anyway, here’s the site I’m talking about: Musicballroom. If you’re the weird type, you can ignore that link and click on the one that’s in the shoutbox. Check out the international section (their main site) too, it’s quite something. :)

Comment if you know any other sites like this.

24
Jan

Download Quality Music

By Toxic}{ermit 0 Comments
Categories: Internet and Music

With music services increasingly turning to DRM infested music files to squeeze every buck out of the customer, it comes as sweet surprise that a few sites out there do actually provide DRM free music at affordable prices. One such find is MusicMP3.ru which sells songs from about 4 to 15 cents depending on the length of the track. That’s quite an affordable price considering I’ve seen some sites charging close to a dollar for each song. And no, it’s not illegal, their faq page clarifies that they do in fact pay the licensing fees.

The Album Reviews give you a lot of background info which you probably won’t need but try out their sampler which you can use to hear a song before you buy it. I’ve bought a song from them and I’ve just played it on my computer and on my Discman. No DRM at all. Nice.

In case you’re one of those heavy downloaders you can try out their affiliate program where they will pay you for linking to them. The extra dough can be used to buy more music. An incredibly simple interface adds to the ease of use of the whole site. Check out their Music News section for an idea of what I’m talking about. Ignore the occasional grammar mistake since it’s a Russian site.

I’ve been finding it difficult to fund my account though. Presently, they don’t accept credit cards or PayPal. That leaves me with E-Gold which I have just exhausted. I’ve got to see if I’ve can fund my account off their affiliate program.

20
Jan

Why don’t Engineering colleges have a student union?

By Toxic}{ermit 12 Comments
Categories: College and Rants

Maybe I should rephrase that to ‘Why don’t the majority of engineering colleges affiliated to Anna University have a student union?’. This has been bothering me for one very good reason. Every Arts and Science College I see has one and they seem to do some pretty good stuff. Even with a 3 year course schedule they manage to find time for student unions and week long culturals while engineering colleges despite their 4 year course can just about find time for a one day symposium. I just don’t get it.

Lack of time due to a cluttered course schedule isn’t an excuse. Technically, we’ve got a whole extra year to work things into the schedule. No one in their right senses would say that there isn’t a need for a student union. On an average, Engineering colleges charge more than Arts and Science colleges so funding shouldn’t be a problem. So there, they’ve got the need, the time, the money and the students. Whats their problem then?

Another sad observation is that its becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish a symposium from a carnival. Nobody ever discusses anything worthwhile and half the time the food is what is most interesting. Its heartening though, to see IITM get it right. They seem to know exactly what they’re doing when organising Saarang and Shaastra. Why can’t their model be replicated? They’ve shown it can be done.

20
Jan

LBG

By Toxic}{ermit 3 Comments
Categories: Music

Little Babooshka’s Grind is a Chennai based band that has some awesome music to its name. If you’ve come here before chances are that I’ve told you all about them. Why? For once an Indian band had the sense to get a decently designed site. TAAQ’s got a decent blog though their site looks rather haphazard.

LBG’s got this rather nifty flash music player. The last time I saw they had about four songs listed from each album that you could listen to. Now you can listen to all the songs from both their albums. Nice huh?

Someone try out their ‘Buy Now‘ link and tell me if they support Cash On Delivery. Their form freaks me out. Too little info besides the text boxes. I don’t like those.

06
Jan

Project Work. Supposedly.

By Toxic}{ermit 16 Comments
Categories: Musings and Rants

I get a day off from college to do project work. I’m supposed to come up with an idea I’m interested in and then work on implementing that idea. Nice! Really. Of the 8 semesters that I’m expected to be in college I was hoping that this semester would be the most interesting.

Interesting ideas are not hard to come by. I can’t say the same about reasonable professors. I don’t mind if my ideas are shot down because they aren’t feasible or are completely insane but rejecting it because some senior did something similar last year or because it’s mostly a simulation or because it’s a term they’ve heard of and hence its not cutting edge enough? Seriously, WTF?!

The best recommendation they could give me was to go to a project centre. After spending a month trying to convince them that I could do a project on my own and failing miserably, I finally go to a project centre. These people hand you a booklet with projects that are nicely categorised under headings like IEEE, Embedded Systems, Networking, Communication, VLSI. How nice? Like vegetables arranged in your neighbourhood grocery they’ve got everything all nicely arranged for your picking. You listen to their rehearsed, almost retarded explanation of the project, pick a project that sucks the least and pay up. Ask them what you’re expected to do and their answer is (translating quote from Tamil to English) “cash apart, you’re expected to attend classes and not mess with the kit once it’s handed to you (smile)”. And to think the project costs 20,000 bucks. They’re fleecing us and I can’t do a damn thing about it. The only consolation is that I’m assured of my project being accepted and a ‘guarantee’ that it’ll work.

Anna University finally lets us do something creative and my college goes and screws it all up. Another sem wasted. I’m not sure what I feel right now. I’ve run out semesters to make my college education worthwhile but that would also mean I’m done with this whole load of crap. Oh well, one less day of college per week. I guess I should be glad.

20
Dec

Spendthrift?! Me?!!

By Toxic}{ermit 14 Comments
Categories: Internet, Musings and Rants

Woah! I was looking through my PayPal account and I notice that over the past year I’ve spent $126 on stuff other than hosting. Now, hosting is a cost that I’m conscious of and willing to pay but 126 dollars on other stuff? Ridiculous. I don’t buy much online! Or so I thought.

The only big purchase was a gift I bought my brother for his birthday since I figured it was better to buy something online and have it shipped to him in the US rather than buy the same here and ship it myself. Another small portion was a few donations I gave out. Apart from those every other purchase was $10 or less.

Seeing that I don’t get much in the first place I’d better start managing what little I have better. I’ve never thought of myself a spendthrift. I’m way better handling physical cash and real bank accounts than online money. I think the problem lies with me subconsciously thinking of online cash as play money. (Reminds me, I used to be pretty good at Monopoly, Mayfair was always mine)

In other news, I’ve got a verified PayPal account. So now even the sending limits can’t stop me from spending.

28
Nov

Save that money, compare prices

By Toxic}{ermit 0 Comments
Categories: Ads

It’ll be Christmas time soon and New Year isn’t too far away either. With both of them about a month away it’s a good idea to check out places that offer the cheapest prices for things you intend buying. One such place to compare prices is SaveBuckets.co.uk.

The website has a clean interface that is rather intuitive and very familiar looking. If you’ve browsed through an online directory of some sort then you’ll have absolutely no problem with navigating this site. One great feature that the site has, is the ability to mention a price that you’re looking to pay for a product. Once that price is offered by any of their suppliers they’ll contact you. If, after two weeks, they can’t find anyone that meets that price then they’ll just mail you the cheapest price listed by their suppliers. Now how cool is that? They’ve also got an extensive list of stuff so using their search tools is probably a good idea.

My only gripe is that they could have offered better sorting tools. The present sort based on price or relevance doesn’t seem to help much while shopping. The lack of reviews or the popularity rating of the product is a minus but once you’ve got a product in mind, finding the cheapest price offered is a snap.

This site is definitely worth looking at before you go shopping.

14
Nov

Collisions. Lots of them.

By Toxic}{ermit 3 Comments
Categories: Freaky, Funny, Rants and Travel

I was driving around the city yesterday and you wouldn’t believe the sheer number of collisions I saw. I never kept track of them but offhand I can count at least ten. Apart from the normal bumps and not so subtle nudges, there were a few that were either weird, gruesome, funny (excuse my sense of humour) or just plain dumb.

First, I saw a car while trying to overtake another, went a bit too far and got one wheel over the stone dividers. The car went a small distance before colliding with a metal barricade that the police generally stick wherever they fancy. This was on the road between Gandhi Mandapam and Kotturpuram.

Next, at some place in Nungambakkam, a speeding moped turns sharply, whacks a guy standing near a median to cross the road and then smacks right in to a lady that was standing by the side of the road facing the opposite direction. Like all good citizens of India, the people nearby crowd around her to make sure any thought of fresh air is pointless. An auto driver, who eventually took her to the hospital, had to practically fight his way through the crowd that was unwilling to give up their ring side view of the setting.

On a calm street in K.K Nagar there was this rather hilarious incident. A guy while riding his cycle was talking on his cellphone. He cycles right in to this open manhole and his front wheel gets stuck in it. Now, he wasn’t going particularly fast or anything but for some reason his back wheel lifts up in the air, swings to the left and he falls off his cycle and lands on a pile of coconuts stacked by the side of the road (The usual piles next to a coconut water vendor). The funny part was the expression on his face (kinda half shock, half glee that he’s still alive) while lying on a pile of coconuts and that he was still clutching his cellphone and I could hear that someone else was screaming on the other end. I helped him get his front wheel unstuck. I’m not sure he appreciated it though, maybe because I was laughing my head off right before that.

Lastly, the not so funny part, I’m waiting for the signal to turn green at the L.B Road - Sardar Patel road junction when some jerk decides that the best way to take a u-turn is by trying to power slide in to my bike and then get to the opposite side on the rebound. Total moron. Not only did he topple my bike and jam the kick start lever, he also managed to attract the cops. Luckily there were enough bystanders around that could explain what happened without me trying to do so in my pseudo-tamil. Actually, now that that I think of it, they never even gave me a chance. Not that I mind.

The whole thing seemed so unreal. A few accidents every now and then is normal in Madras but that many on roads that hardly support speeds of greater than 40 kmph? Seriously, I’m taking out the car next time. If someone wants an early end, at least I won’t have to tag along.

10
Nov

Top USA Online Casinos

By Toxic}{ermit 2 Comments
Categories: Ads

Link hopping is kind of my hobby. On one such jaunt I turn up at top us online casinos. I may not be into casinos much but I do play the odd lottery game every once in a while and this looked like a decent place to make amends.

The reviews of each online casino seem well thought out and informative. I like the way everything is laid out, from the side tables to the neat presentation of facts. They even tell you when the last update was made so you know if the reviews are up to date or not. The whole website has this no nonsense, no frills look to it. It’s a site that does reviews and it seems to do that very well. A bit more content would be appreciated but it’s probably a good idea to leave out casinos outside the top ten.

The site does have a few problems though. The ‘About us’ page doesn’t seem to be displaying anything. That’s something they might want to fix soon. The dowload link on the homepage seems to timeout everytime I try it. The domain name is very direct but maybe a tad long. Nothing a bookmark can’t solve.

Overall, it’s a nice small site that does exactly what it says it does. Free access to quality reviews of top online casinos in the USA. No more, no less.

21
Oct

Airtel and its tardy service

By Toxic}{ermit 4 Comments
Categories: Miscellaneous

Airtel has usually got my net problems sorted out pretty fast. The fact that I even bothered to write about it a few times, is saying a lot. You can imagine my shock when it took them over 20 days to get my net connection shifted from my previous apartment to the new one I shifted to.

Its not so much the lack of service than the pure lies and deceit. Customer care first asked us to send them an email. While paying the monthly bill, the Airtel guys (those that are supposedly opp. the HDFC ATM - one heck of a landmark that is) asked us to give them a written letter. First they say they’ll come over to pick up the modem and cables and install the same in the new place. Then they ask us to take the modem with us and they’ll come later and install the cables. Thereafter, over the course of a lot calls, one customer care rep says there’s no record of a request to move the net connection, another says that Kotturpuram isn’t covered, yet another says it’ll take time to lay cables and thats the reason of the delay and another says the guy is due that evening.

It takes about a week to get a complaint number. I got one sms mentioning my complaint number and a promise to get the job done by that evening. It wasn’t till another week that I got my net connection back. They duly sent me another sms a week later saying my complaint was closed. Absolutely brilliant.

What I find completely weird was that they refuse to reduce my bill amount for the time I didn’t use my net connection or refund me for the calls I made (They keep insisting that I use the Airtel phone. Sick sense of humour). Even more weird is when you’re in the middle of explaining your complaint, the customer care rep decides to completely ignore you, recites his/her well rehearsed closing statement, “Is there anything else I can help you with? This is -somename-. Thank you for calling Airtel.” and hangs up.

The whole episode reeked of gross incompetence. I just don’t get it. How can they mess this up so badly? They handled every other complaint of mine so well. I’m not sure what I really feel now, annoyance, disappointment, or both.

Looks like this isn’t a one-off occurrence. George had a similar experience: Airtel - Service Extraordinaire

03
Aug

Dilapidated buildings are everywhere!

By Toxic}{ermit 5 Comments
Categories: Freaky, Musings and Travel

For some reason a lot of my bus mates decided not to come to college today. I couldn’t go to sleep, hardly had anyone to talk to and forgot to bring a novel. A deplorable state to be in when you’ve got another 1.5 hours to reach college. The only thing I could do was look out the window, which I did.

While looking out the window, at all the newly constructed buildings with their fancy glass windows it was easy to pick out these old seedy looking buildings that looked like payment offices for the electricity board. What I was surprised to see was the sheer number of them all along my bus route. I was sure to see an old broken-down shack every 100 metres sandwiched between fancy looking buildings. Makes me wonder why they’re still there. All the places I saw were commercial areas that were adjacent to the main road. I just can’t get it.

It didn’t help that the writing on a rusted board on one such dilapidated building said “Propoganda Unit”. I’ll take a photo next time.

17
Jul

Modems, GT and an update

By Toxic}{ermit 6 Comments
Categories: Internet and Travel

Last Saturday, past midnight, I was doing the usual rounds of websites to check if anything interesting was going on when all the pages started to give me ‘page not found’ errors. Assuming it was my wireless router acting up again I disconnected that and connected it to my LAN card only to find no difference. I did the usual sequence of checks and found everything connected properly. Restart modem. No difference. I noticed that my PC/USB indicator was red when it was actually supposed to be green. Another restart attempt and the thing doesn’t turn on. I thought I’d call up the Airtel guys but it was about 2 in the morning and for some reason I didn’t feel like calling them then fully realising that if I did push it off for later it’d be Sunday afternoon by the time I wake up. As expected I got up the next day at 1 PM just in time for lunch. I call the Airtel guys after that, tell them my problem, give them my phone number and just when I put down the phone I get an sms saying that my complaint was registered with them and it would be fixed before this time the next day. I was like, damn! these guys are fast. As promised the service guy popped up the next day, fiddled around with my modem for a while, changed the adapter and told me everything was fine now. The service that these guys provide is a whole lot better than what Hathway could ever muster (the only other ISP I’ve used is BSNL and we all know about their inexistent customer service).

In other news, we’re going on a tour (educational, they say) to North India some time next month. We’re planning to visit Jaipur, Agra, Delhi and Manali. The trip will last 9 days or so. I’m sure it’ll be fun if it comes through. The whole thing gets cancelled if AU decides to start their state wide placement drive during those 9 days. Not to mention what effect the sem results might have on the tour. Damn AU, they make it a point to annoy those that don’t want to be.

This update should last me a month, no?

08
Jun

New Host, No Trouble At All

By Toxic}{ermit 5 Comments
Categories: Internet

I’ve been through my fair share of hosts, free and otherwise. I’ve blogged about my previous paid hosting in this post. Surprisingly the paid hosts went down more than the free hosts. George attributes that to me buying paid hosting that he wouldn’t use even if it were free. Sound logic and unfortunately true. I’ve finally decided to buy decent paid hosting.

At first while searching around I couldn’t find any small packages, meaning, around 1 GB. I wanted a reseller and all those out there were either upwards of 5 GB or were atrociously costly for what little space they provided. I even created an excel spreadsheet (damn!) with all the details so I could look at the deals at one go.

I condensed that list to 6 hosts that I thought were worth buying from. Two hosts had awful reviews, another didn’t accept Paypal, one other had decent reviews but George didn’t like the domain name or the fact that they had spelling mistakes on their site. That left us with two more hosts that had few or no reviews of them. Luckily, I had tried them both out before. I had used one for about 7 days before I got pissed off with the support (I was on their free trial package, its possible they have different support for freeloaders) and the other host used to host the host where I bought my previous reseller from. A few emails later, I was all ready to buy hosting from the host that hosted my previous host (I like the sound of that). Come Sunday, I should officially be their customer.

Want to know which host it is? Well, y’all are smart enough. I left in enough clues for you to figure it out.

05
Jun

Smorty - Get Paid To Blog

By Toxic}{ermit 23 Comments
Categories: Ads and Internet

Marc’s blog seems to be sporting a few sponsored posts. While he’s cornered sponsoredreviews.com for himself, I thought I’d join in on the fun and went about searching for similar services. After a little searching around I found Smorty, a bright coloured, crisp looking site that has a very simplistic feel to it. All you need to know is right there on the homepage. Its a service connecting advertisers with bloggers and making sure everything goes smooth between them.

For the bloggers, what might seem interesting is the fact that they expect you to express your opinion and not push an advertisers product. They repeatedly emphasise on posting your opinion about any service or product. Their sign up is a single page and the whole process was a breeze. They took less than a day to verify my blog. My account already had 6 new offers under New Oppurtunities. The process here is that advertisers mention their offer and you select one that you’d like to write about. Once you submit your post it’ll be reviewed by both the advertiser and Smorty. Once its confirmed you’ll get paid within a week by Paypal. One thing to remember though is that there is a 400 word limit for each blog post. I’m not sure why they limit the amount of content. Also I was a tad disappointed with the offers. Almost all offered $6 for a blog post but since I’ve just started with them I’m guessing it’ll go up once I’m done with a few posts.

If you’re looking to be an advertiser then I guess you’re getting a pretty good deal. The testimonial page seems to rate them very highly. It seems like a great way to get high quality inbound links. Check them out if you’re interested:

Link: Get paid to blog

I wonder how long it’ll take for my post to get reviewed (Edit: It takes around 2 days). I’ll post what happens after I submit this blog post.

Edit: Haha… The post was declined because I linked to Marc’s blog. A rule I seem to have missed - “Post can only contain sponsors links”. Resubmitting post.

02
Jun

Radioverve - Revamped!

By Toxic}{ermit 7 Comments
Categories: Internet and Music

I’ve blogged about Radioverve before (here), while their site was not much to talk about before they’ve gone ahead and revamped the thing into a total kickass wordpress based website. Their integration of flash and AJAX with the wordpress theme is mind blowing. I really like their flash player and its intuitive interface. It all fits in quite well with their site. They’ve got loads of new content and they’ve split it up into different channels - Rock, Metal, Gospel, Jazz, Classical, Konkani, folk (yet to come) and their usual mishmash of everything. I find that especially convenient when I’m not quite into a song on one channel I just switch channels to something more interesting.

They’ve still got a few rough edges but none serious enough to spoil the experience. They’ve got a program schedule but in its present form I can’t see how its of any use. I’m not even sure if the program schedule is correct. Their rock channel schedule states that the LBG show should be playing at 10:30 pm but its 10:48 PM now and ‘Medicis - My World’ is playing (awesome song that. Gotta buy their album.) Also, it sounds like their promos have gone from bad to worse. It sounds like bloopers that they’ve taped and stuck in between songs, maybe its supposed to be funny but the humour completely escapes me. It gets pretty annoying after a while. I actually liked the Demon stealer records advertisement (a metal compilation of hardcore, metalcore and nu-metal - That guy had an awesome voice) better than the radioverve promos. Talking about promos, radioverve now has a badge that you can use.

Radioverve Badge With Text

Radioverve Large Badge

And finally the one I think I’ll use - Radioverve Small Badge

That large badge looks like its been badly cropped. Anyone willing to do the honours?

All in all its a good step forward and I’m sure everyone will appreciate the new content on radioverve. A few creative promos and a little tweaking with the site and they’re made.

31
May

Scourge Begone!

By Toxic}{ermit 6 Comments
Categories: Musings

I’m done with the last of the exams today. Finally, the whole mundane process of trying to memorise stuff until 6 in the evening, being partly successful after that, actually achieving it past midnight, writing all that crap for 3 hours, coming home late for lunch and dozing away the rest of the afternoon.

Thats not my idea of life but unfortunately its something that can’t be helped. So now that the exams are over maybe I’ll have some time to do some stuff.

Oh btw, I’m going to Tirupathi tomorrow. No, I won’t be shaving my head irrespective of what a certain libellous status message might suggest.

Recommend a book that I can read during the trip.

22
May

Stem Cell Cartoon

By Toxic}{ermit 12 Comments
Categories: Funny, Musings and Rants

I’ve got bleddy exams now and its around this time that I’m at my most annoyed and bitter mood. To refrain from making savage four letter descriptions about exams, anna university and the loon that heads it, I’ll try to concentrate on telling you people that I won’t be updating much during this time. I hardly feel like doing anything online when I’ve got exams. Its this horrible feeling deep inside, something like the guy in ‘A Clockwork Orange’. Maybe worse.

Ok people, go on now, enjoy yourselves.

Testing

09
May

Contact and Hosting solutions

By Toxic}{ermit 10 Comments
Categories: Miscellaneous, Musings and Technology

I thought I’d add in a forum thats integrated in to wordpress but that would be too easy, functional and effective. After due consideration I’ve decided to add in two forms to contact me, one when I’m offline and the other when I’m online, which can be accessed on the contact me page. It is to be noted that both are routed to my online dustbin.

To provide effective support to my hosting service I’ve decided that the most comprehensive method would be to install a shoutbox. That should be somewhere on the right. I hope you appreciate my concern for your problems.

30
Apr

List of Indian Rock Music

By Toxic}{ermit 99 Comments
Categories: Indian Rock and Music

A list of all the songs I’ve downloaded over these past few days and those that I’ve had earlier. I’ll try listing the sources if I remember them. No point in making people search like mad to find these songs.

Edit: I get quite a bit of traffic from Orkut and after reading a few messages I thought I’d clarify something. All links to music on this post are legal. They aren’t ripped versions or pirated copies. Bands wilfully offer their songs for free download to publicise their work; so you can listen to what they sound like. Bands are not losing out on revenue when you download these songs. I encourage you to buy their albums if you like their songs. Spread the word, pass on this music to others, help bands get more exposure.

Artist Search: A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

A:

Agni - Agni <<Download>>
Agni - Angel In The Wrong Heaven <<Download>>
Agni - Blues For Radha <<Download>>
Agni - Darkening Light <<Download>>
Agni - Desh <<Download>>
Agni - Doggies Do (I Do Too) <<Download>>
Agni - Et Tu Brute <<Download>>
Agni - Kashmir <<Download>>
Agni - Mann <<Download>>
Agni - Maya <<Download>>
Agni - Mrityunjaya <<Download>>
Agni - Tandav <<Download>>
Agni - Wind Dance With Fire <<Download>>
Agni - Within <<Download>>
Amidst The Chaos - Last Page <<Download>>
Amidst The Chaos - Melancholy <<Download>>

B:
Bhayanak Maut - Invitation To Bleed <<Download>>
Bhoomi - Dead Time Stories <<Download>>
Bhoomi - Vertigo
Bhoomi - Voice of Bhoomi <<Download>>

C:
Cassini’s Division - Only For a While <<Download>>
Colourblind - Bang a Drum <<Download>>
Colourblind - Blast <<Download>>
Colourblind - Colourblind <<Download>>
Colourblind - Falling from the sky <<Download>>
Colourblind - Firebreath <<Download>>
Colourblind - Fragile <<Download>>
Colourblind - Hu will I be? <<Download>>
Colourblind - Legit Freak <<Download>>
Colourblind - Souls on Parade <<Download>>
Cyanide - Lucid Dream <<Download>>
Cyanide - Untold Misery <<Download>>

D:
Decibel - Naagin The Lady Cobra <<Download>>
Demonic Resurrection - A Darkness Descends <<Download>>
Demonic Resurrection - Frozen Portrait <<Download>>
Demonic Resurrection - Spirits of the Mystic Mountains

E:
Exhumation - Among The Dead <<Download>>
Exhumation - (Dis) Grace (I Am My God) <<Download>>
Exhumation - Nothing But Misery <<Download>>
Exhumation - Oceans of Hatred
Exhumation - Orphanage Carnage <<Download>>
Exhumation - Racial Slaughter <<Download>>
Exhumation - Under The Knife <<Download>>

H:
Human Abstract - Seeker <<Download>>

I:
Indus Creed - Believing <<Download>>
Indus Creed - Best Friend <<Download>>
Indus Creed - Book of Dreams <<Download>>
Indus Creed - Bowl of Madness <<Download>>
Indus Creed - Can’t wait anymore <<Download>>
Indus Creed - Celibate <<Download>>
Indus Creed - Chains and Black Leather <<Download>>
Indus Creed - Cinderella <<Download>>
Indus Creed - Crazy <<Download>>
Indus Creed - Cry <<Download>>
Indus Creed - Die for your Country <<Download>>
Indus Creed - Fly <<Download>>
Indus Creed - Karen <<Download>>
Indus Creed - New Day <<Download>>
Indus Creed - Ode to Scooby Doo <<Download>>
Indus Creed - Play <<Download>>
Indus Creed - Polyvinyl Lady <<Download>>
Indus Creed - Pretty Child <<Download>>
Indus Creed - Prisoner of Passion <<Download>>
Indus Creed - Rock ‘n Roll Renegade <<Download>> - The song that started it all!
Indus Creed - Screaming Out <<Download>>
Indus Creed - Sleep <<Download>>
Indus Creed - The Enemy Within <<Download>>
Indus Creed - Thrown it all away <<Download>>
Indus Creed - Top of the Rock <<Download>>
Indus Creed - Trapped <<Download>>
Indus Creed - Turn it On <<Download>>

J:
Joint Family - Drummer’s Advice

K:

Kastadyne - Live as India(Forget the Govt) <<Download>> <<Lyrics>>
Kastadyne - Nightmare <<Download>> <<Lyrics>>
Kilang Pongen - Heaven’s Celebration <<Download>>
Kilang Pongen - Miracle <<Download>>
Kilang Pongen - River of Life <<Download>>
Kilang Pongen - Rolling <<Download>>
Kilang Pongen - Submission <<Download>>
Kilang Pongen - The Answer <<Download>>
Kilang Pongen - The Potter <<Download>>
Kilang Pongen - You’re My Hero <<Download>>
Kryptos - Descension <<Download>>
Kryptos - Expedition To Abnormalia <<Download>>
Kryptos - Forgotten Land Of Ice <<Download>>

L:
LBG - Little Child <<Download>>
LBG - Revolution <<Download>>
LBG - Shannigan The Rat King <<Download>>
LBG - Wrong <<Download>>
Lucid Recess - Find My Way <<Download>>
Lucid Recess - If I Could <<Download>>
Lucid Recess - Painstaking Obsession <<Download>>

M:
Medicis - Dead of Night <<Download>>
Medicis - Disturbed <<Download>>
Medicis - Stay Far <<Download>>
Messiah - Knocked Out Mouse
Messiah - Then We Go Out <<Download>>
Moksha - Can I play With Madness
Moksha - Four Horsemen <<Download>>
Moksha - Chasing My Life <<Download>>
Moksha - Dine With the Devil <<Download>>
Moksha - Stay <<Download>>
Motherjane - Broken <<Download>>
Motherjane - An Ode to Life
Motherjane - Disillusioned
Motherjane - Maya [Download the ‘insane biography’ album here ]
Motherjane - Mindstreet
Motherjane - Prison Chains
Motherjane - Questions
Motherjane - Soul Corporations
Motherjane - Sssh… Listen
Motherjane - Walk On
Myndsnare - Layers of Hypocrisy <<Download>>

N:
Nirvikalpa - Antim Sanskar <<Download>>
Nirvikalpa - Bach’s Brandenborough Concerto <<Download>>
Nirvikalpa - Kramashayan <<Download>>
Nirvikalpa - Sum Of All Energies <<Download>>
Nirvikalpa - WarCry <<Download>>

O:
Old Jungle Saying - Mangal In The Jungle <<Download>>
Old Jungle Saying - Three’s Missing <<Download>>
Old Jungle Saying - Ye Olde Jungle Sayinge <<Download>>
Oritus - Many a Mile <<Download>>
Oritus - Jack the Ripper <<Download>>

P:
Parikrama - But It Rained <<Download>>
Parikrama - Load Up <<Download>>
Parikrama - Open Skies <<Download>>
Parikrama - Superhero <<Download>>
Parikrama - Till I’m No One Again <<Download>>
Parikrama - Whiskey Blues <<Download>>
Pentagram - Ten
Pentagram - Fight
Phenom - A Little Step <<Download>>
Phenom - CAP 5101 <<Download>>
Phenom - Coloured For This World <<Download>>
Phenom - Resurgence <<Download>>
Phenom - Unbound <<Download>>
Pin Drop Violence - Get ‘em Off <<Download>>
Pin Drop Violence - Gutterment <<Download>>
Pin Drop Violence - Independence <<Download>>
Prestorika - Hoist My Soul <<Download>>
Prestorika - Shameless Pride <<Download>>
Prestorika - Sycophant <<Download>>

R:
Rainvan - Crucified Hopes <<Download>>
Rainvan - Heal <<Download>>
Red Cube - Somewhere In a Corner <<Download>>

S:
Shoestring - Whose Line is it Anyway <<Download>>
Silent Lucidity - Eclipse <<Download>>
Skincold - Light of Elune <<Download>>
Something Relevant - In The Kitchen <<Download>> You gotta listen to this one!
Still Waters - Happy Go Lucky <<Download>>
Still Waters - In Love With a Stranger <<Download>>
Still Waters - Life In a Bottle <<Download>>
Still Waters - Live a Little <<Download>>
Still Waters - Paradise Lost <<Download>>
Still Waters - Rock to the Rescue <<Download>>
Still Waters - Standing on Thin Ice <<Download>>

T:
Them Clones - Awaken <<Download>>
Them Clones - Black White and Gray <<Download>>
Them Clones - Find My Way
Them Clones - In the Name of God <<Download>>
Them Clones - My Life
Them Clones - Wait for Me <<Download>>
Them Clones - Zoopertrip <<Download>>
Thermal And A Quarter - Bend The World <<Download - Torrent>>
Thermal And A Quarter - Chainese Item <<Download - Torrent>>
Thermal And A Quarter - Cynical World <<Download - Torrent>>
Thermal And A Quarter - Dead Inside <<Download - Torrent>>
Thermal And A Quarter - Galacktiqua <<Download - Torrent>>
Thermal And A Quarter - I Live Here <<Download - Torrent>>
Thermal And A Quarter - Intermission <<Download - Torrent>>
Thermal And A Quarter - Keep the promise <<Download>>
Thermal And A Quarter - Motorbyckle <<Download - Torrent>>
Thermal And A Quarter - Paper Puli <<Download - Torrent>>
Thermal And A Quarter - The Steal <<Download - Torrent>>
Tripwire - Bad In Bed <<Download>>
Tripwire - Norm The Guy Is Cool <<Download>>
Tripwire - Support Piracy <<Download>>

W:
Wax - Monkey Off My Back <<Download>>

Z:
Zebediah Plush - Alma Mater <<Download>>
Zebediah Plush - Aye, Candy <<Download>>
Zebediah Plush - Elastic Man <<Download>>
Zebediah Plush - Journey To Gondolin <<Download>>
Zebediah Plush - Roots <<Download>>
Zebediah Plush - Tea ‘n Toast <<Download>>
Zebediah Plush - Time Out of Mind <<Download>>
Zero - PSP 12″

If anyone has the time go to RSJ Online and try finding some songs. I’ve had enough of their bleddy interface.

I was going to make a torrent out these songs. I’ll wait until I can find a few more songs. The present list contains a small fraction of the number of bands out there. If you’ve got any more songs, comment and I’ll add them to the list. If you find sources for any of the band’s songs then do tell me.

Repeating what I’ve mentioned at the top of the post, if you like the songs I suggest you buy the album. Most albums I’ve seen are rather reasonably priced, maybe the cost of a ticket to a rock show. You’ll find albums listed on musicyogi that are worth buying. They happen to be Internet Explorer junkies but I guess bad habits are hard to lose. If only those guys had more payment options I’d buy a whole bunch of albums.

If there are any broken links point them out in the comments section.

Stats: 184 songs listed. 174 songs with a download link, 10 without.

List Updated: 1st June 2008

29
Apr

Indian Rock Music

By Toxic}{ermit 0 Comments
Categories: Music and Musings

I’ve been on a collecting spree over the last two weeks searching for anything Indian, Rock and in English. Before that I never realised the quality of rock music in India. My previous encounters with Indian rock music was at IIT Saarang and the Unwind Center. I remember spending 100 bucks every week (or 75 bucks if you get the early bird tickets) to get my ears deafened at the Unwind Center every Friday. Except for this year, I’ve religiously gone to previous IIT Saarang rock shows. I’ve missed countless other shows that I’ve always meant to go to but just haven’t. I hate my college timings.

A good source of Indian rock music is RSJ Online. They’ve got decent content but while their present interface isn’t as retarded as before its still a pain finding songs for each band. Musictantra has a decent compilation of YouTube music videos of Indian Rock bands. One of the websites mentioned on RadioVeRVe is Green Ozone where you can download the Awake and Arise album. This particular album has pretty high rotation on RadioVeRVe.

An awesome source of info about Indian Bands and their albums is Gigpad. They’ve got useful content, nice reviews of albums and a functional interface. And unlike RSJ or Unwind Center, Gigpad actually does update their site. Their gigs list actually has information thats upto date. The Unwind Center website is offering tickets for gigs that were on June 2006! Thats nearly a bleddy year ago. I vaguely remember that they still claim the Unwind Center in Chennai is still in Nungambakkam.

22
Apr

Online Radio - Indian Rock

By Toxic}{ermit 9 Comments
Categories: Internet and Music

RadioVeRVe is this really great online radio for Indian Independent Rock music. I’ve been listening to them for a few days now. They’ve got a decent collection of songs and though their programs keep repeating I really don’t mind.

One of the RJ’s is pretty good and has something useful to say. I think the guy is from Phenom which is another great band. They’ve also got LBG on high rotation. Listen to them now. Here are the links to their streams:

Low quality - 32 kbps : http://play-lo.radioverve.com/

High quality - 64 kbps : http://play-hi.radioverve.com/

Ultra quality - 128 kbps : http://play-ultra.radioverve.com/

I can’t wait until they come out with their program schedule. I’d also appreciate a little less promos but I can learn to ignore them.

21
Apr

Flash games

By Toxic}{ermit 2 Comments
Categories: Miscellaneous

Well, no…

21
Apr

Sweet!

By Toxic}{ermit 6 Comments
Categories: Internet and Musings

I was randomly searching for wordpress themes and this was the first one I found. I didn’t like it when I saw the preview picture but I thought I’d check out the demo anyway. Was I blown away or what?! This thing looked awesome, it supports loads of plugins and its a snap to use. I got it up working in a few minutes unlike other plugin ready themes. I don’t think I’ll change anything except the header.

There were a few themes that Marc showed me, that were on xendx.com, that were pretty nice looking. I’ve shelved those for now. Maybe I’ll use them when I get bored enough or break this theme.

Only thing I noticed it takes forever to load but that could be because of my host. I’ve also got lots of plugins to install. Got any plugins to recommend? Comment…

20
Apr

New Host, New Troubles

By Toxic}{ermit 12 Comments
Categories: Internet, Miscellaneous and Musings

So after a few years of using free hosts I decided I’d give paid hosting a shot. One of the reasons was that I know a couple of fellows that, while using free hosting, have created blogs with decent content thats worth more than a free host. There are some pretty good free hosts out there like IGB but since this was the first time I had the means and inclination to do so I thought why not, lets get us some paid hosting. I went ahead and bought the cheapest hosting plan I could find. Its been rather bothersome to setup all the stuff and submit support tickets but now thats done I hope there’s some smooth sailing ahead.

The funny thing is at one point of time I was emailing more than 8 people about their packages and if they’re willing to give out a low bandwidth package for cheaper and I got a negative answer on almost all of them. For some reason within the last month I’ve managed to buy two hosting packages that seem like killer deals. Now to verify if they’re killer deals.

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