This is the blog for the Web Design Team that would be responsible for giving exunclan.com the necessary facelift. We haven’t started posting anything yet, but this should at least get us started.

exunwebdev.blogspot.com

Ok guys,

I want to thank Karan for letting me participate and post blogs here. To start off, i used to be an advisor for Exun back in 98-99. I’ve seen your guys website for the exunclan, and i wanted to help in giving it a facelift. I wanted to start off by designing the logos. and here’s something i’ve come up with.

Looks very simple, but its good for printing and nothing too fancy. i want your guys input as we go on from here. i want help in giving this website i facelift, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

We’re just at the beginning phase of development but any input, criticism is welcome. This will lead to a stepping stage for a really good, interactive website.
I also need to ask anyone of you who’s interested in volunteering for this, email me at KhanKrm@aol.com, with the following info:
1.Your name
2.What can you contribute towards the development.
3.Skills.

So, first lets get a team started, and then we’ll work towards our targets.
I do have access to a lot of resources which will definately help us accomplish our goal(s).

The launch of EnUn – Entrepreneurs Unlimited – a company that shall offer integrated solutions for absolutely anything related to computers – is on the cards. An idea that, when executed, shall help Exun tap vast potential available and chanellize it positively for returns in hard cash. That’s stand-alone income generation for Exun and the employees of EnUn. Post your ideas as comments.

–Gopal

Prospective CEO

EnUn

Yeah Yeah.. VK Sneaked ahead of us … We all need to Buck Up a little

The Following won at FORCEFEST

Debate – 1st Prize

• Ishita Kapur(XI-I)

Quiz – 1st Prize

• Karan Misra(XII-H)
• Maanick Nangia( XII-M)

Crossword – 1st Runners Up

• Karan Misra(XII-H)
• Maanick Nangia(XII-M)

Programming – 1st Runners Up

• Prateek Rungta(XII-H)
• Nisheeth Sharma (XII-H)

Congratulations to the four of you.. CodeWars Coming up in about 3 weeks.. Buck up for that. We have to win that comprehensively

-The Sleeping President (Hey, Atleast I was awake during Quiz and Crossword!!)

Questions

1. What is the test-bed for IPv6 called?
2. What was originally called “Two birds on a wire�?
3. SNOBOL is derived from String Oriented Symbolic Language. What is SPITBOL derived from?
4. What does the ‘cal’ command do in Linux?
5. Which instant messenger of a popular email service now allows you to send SMSs?
6. Where are you most likely to read “Insert Motto Here�?
7. What is Series 40 or 60 in cell phones?
8. What does the ‘nice’ command do in Linux?
9. SWF/LFM-926; what is it?
10. What is the name of the first virus in Symbian?
11. Like Yahoo has different specific IDs, which other popular email service has started it? Give 2 countries for which it has been started?
12. When you log onto Baazee.com you can pay by ‘Paisa Pay’. What is it?
13. What was the code name for the Amiga?
14. What are cherry and membranes types of?
15. Which company is Oracle trying to take over? When was its last bid rejected?
16. What is a quad band cell phone?
17. Why does the screen of a cell phone get stuck to 1 image when it is kept in the freezer?
18. On a QWERTY keyboard, what comes after Y?
19. Which company makes Across Lite?
20. What are Atom, Electron and Archimedes types of?
21. Which company makes the MuVo MP3 Player?
22. What is the most likely file extension of Java games for your mobile phone?
23. Which company has the slogan “Think Broad�?
24. How many pins are there on a Pentium I chip?
25. Which company made Commander Kene?
26. What is iLipi?
27. What’s a dongle?
28. What type of virus was/is Melissa?
29. What does Spybot do?
30. AGP is rapidly being replaced by which technology?
31. Most polyphonic ring tone files are of what type?

Click here to download the Word file with Q&A.

Tie-Breaker Questions

1. Which anti-virus software does Apple endorse for its Mac OS?
2. Who wrote the book “Art of C Programming”?
3. What is QT? (not QuickTime)

Answers

1. McAfee Virex
2. Donald Knuth
3. A graphics rendering engine (used in KDE)
   

–Karan

Thanks for those sites Rohan! It was fun generating ambigrams. First, I got a real ambigram for iPod.

Then, I got an ambigram for Exun Clan.

Since I’m a sadist, I won’t show their inversions. Crane your neck and see for yourself.

–Karan

I’ve always been a staunch believer and a blind follower of apple’s product designing fundas. I had a startling revelation, thanks to my sister(aka current junior exun member saumya) who brought it to my attention, that the phrase “ipod!” by itself is an ambigram!

Those who have done a thorough research on the works of Dan Brown, responsible for masterpieces like DaVinci Code(duh!), Angels and Demons, Digital Fortress and Deception Point, would better understand the concept of ambigrams if they have bothered to go through the prequel (somewhat) of DaVinci Code, Angels and Demons. Anyhow, for the uninformed please refer to the following sites for more information on ambigrams.

http://www.ambigram.com

http://ambigram.matic.com (interesting)

http://www.johnlangdon.net

Anyhow, without much further ado, i bring you the ipod ambigram :

That’s All folks 🙂

once again cheers to apple.

Rohan & Saumya

P.S. : i DO realise that the ipod ambigram may not be intentional but, oh well, with apple you JUST never know 🙂

I’ve posted information here, on lnexun:

http://www.lnexun.com/20041123crossword.gif

–Karan