Prashanth HN

As many of you already know, I’m a big music lover, I like all kinds of music. Well, yeah, whenever I say that many people chip in saying me too, me too But normally these folks listen to 20 rock bands & say I love all kinds of music

I rely on last.fm most of the time for music though majority of my 750GB hard disk is filled with music. It just costs as much as a visit to CCD, so that’s fine, I just love it. When I wake up, I normally play Manish Vyas tag radio on last.fm which includes Manish Vyas, Prem Joshua, Tabla Beat Science, Karunesh, Talvin Singh, all Indian classical & new age artists. Listening to this kind of music brings some kind of smooth start for the day. Later in the day, my listening depends on the mood, so it’s normally random. If I’m in a romantic mood, I listen to Bollywood, kannada, tamil, telugu music, if something is fucked up I listen to Linkin Park!! If feeling down, Coldplay. When there is a little headache, I listen to metal, preferably Iron Maiden. Even the research says listening to loud music releases some kind of hormones in brain which gives ‘feel good’ feeling!

When my mood is normal, I listen to rock, punk, hip hop, dance, trance, electronic, metal, alternative…etc. My normal playlist includes Green Day, The Prodigy, Fall out boy, coldplay, 3 doors down, Dream Theater, Flo Rida, Bon Jovi, Poets of the fall, Lifehouse, DJ Tiesto, Deadmau5 and lot others. I listen to lot of Indian bands too, motherjane, Junkyard Groove, Swarathma, Sona Mohapatra, Zero are few of those. When I get bored of all the music I have (thats very rare!), I just hit last.fm & listen to ‘world’ tag radio & discover some music which is in some language which I cant figure out!!

I have the habit of listening to music as I sleep! Normally I play instrumental tracks at this time, create a playlist worth 30 to 40 minutes & sleep. Thanks to this winamp plugin which automatically shuts down the computer once the playlist is done! I think Blackstartblues is the most played artist at this time for me. And not to forget my new favorite ‘Rodrigo y Gabriela’, acoustic guitars on steroids!!!

And forgot to mention about my last.fm profile, do check it out & add if you are on last.fm. Most of the music I found are via last.fm & last.fm friends. If you are a music lover, you should be using last.fm. It keeps track of all your listening & gives suggestions based on that. And also helps in finding music compatibility with your friends. Personally, I’m very addicted to Last.fm radio, especially when I play “My Library”  or “My loved tracks”. 3USD a month is really great for what it offers.

I’m yet to find kind of music I hate, any suggestions??

1. I don’t use twitter like a group chat! Ex Tweet: “@A @B @C @D LOL @Efff must be named Fuckasura Lol ”
2. I don’t tweet about products which are #Fail. If you don’t like it, don’t give a damn about it. What’s the point in tweeting “iPad sucks” for 100 times & making it trending! For record, I tweeted only once about iPad, that too I guess about that spoof ad.
3. I don’t participate in making some lame #hashtag trending. Ex: #Nityananda. For those who were part of it, what do you think you achieved by making that trending? All phirangis woke up to see Nityananda trending, they go search what’s it is about. You know what kind of impression they might have got about our culture? our nation?
4. I don’t tweet about #IPL (Seriously)
5. I don’t participate in RT & win contests, let it be an iPod or a Mercedes car!
6. I know the difference between RT & @Reply!
7. I’m on Twitter for valuable conversations which used to happen in early 2009 & 2008. And all those folks who were adopted to that kind of Twitter aren’t active today. Because, the other kind of people outnumbered them in a large volume.

When somebody ask me what Twitter does, I always say “It doesn’t do anything, it’s just a platform, you can use it any way you want to!”.

Well, this is my personal opinion, the way I wanted Twitter to be, I’m not enforcing my thoughts, you can go ahead & use it the way *YOU* want it!

To conclude this little post, my handle on Twitter is @hnprashanth

A sample demonstration of Google wave embed!! You can wave with me right from here. Though you need to have a Google wave account to do it. A detailed post coming up on my Google Wave blog, keep an eye on it! Blogpost is up over here.

I met this tall guy Vikas SN at a random tweet up around a year ago! Which essentially means we were following each other. I used to pull his legs saying “You are a human RT bot ”, he never took it seriously & went on & on!! Then after few months I realized that, without knowing, I had  started a practice!!! Whenever I’m busy & couldn’t check Twitter whole day, I just visit his timeline at the end of the day!!

This is his typical timeline!! Any thing interesting or impressive happening of the day, it must be present on his timeline! His handpicked RTs could never bore you. Today, this timeline made my day by linking to a “20 Essential Tips and Tricks Every Flickr User Should Know” where I discovered really awesome tools which can help me use my “Pro” account at it’s limits!!

Hope this dude continues doing this great job! You can follow him @tsuvik

Google Search for “prashanth” and you can see me in third place! First two results are about Tamil star Prashanth [DAMN!!] & the third is mine So effectively I’m the second most popular “Prashanth” on internet *right now*. Why I’m stressing on *right now* is, Google results are dynamic, they can change drastically at any point of time! I’m happy to get there since “Prashanth” is very common South Indian name.

Some of the facts about Orkut which I found with set of friends I have there, but it’s the same for most of you I guess.

• Most of the people on Orkut have personality disorder!! They pretend to be something which they are actually not.
• Though there’s a separate box provided by Orkut to update status, most of them still edit their First & Last name to update status. Like: “Rahul – back from the trip!”
• More than half of my friends don’t have their own picture to upload, they use some actor or actress’s pictures!!! <This annoys me a lot>
• “LOLZZ” is the most used word!!! in status messages, scrapbooks, etc…etc.
• They use some jinck-chack characters in their names, which takes a while to understand to read & understand who that person is! Like: ♥●• ♪Ğø|{$.. ♥●• …not lonely any more !!
• Some of them are so ego conscious, they force you to write a *good* testimonial for them, rate full on “Cool”, “Trustworthy” & “Sexy”
• Most of them are “Very attractive” or “Mirror cracking material”

That’s it for now!!!