about this website
Created by rocksea on 16 Dec 2005 | Tagged as: prakriti
History
Started this website way back in 2001, with a few pages in yahoo gecoities. As I grew up, the website also grew up in time and since 2004 I’ve been hosting independently. Idea behind this website is to use it as a portal for environmental, entertainment & educational purposes.
Content & Copyright
Almost all the content on this website are own original designs, from the graphics, photographs, cartoons to the write-ups and poetry. Even that woodpecker (black-rumped flameback) and the spider (theridula angula) carrying it’s egg you see on the top image were photographed from Kerala! Several utilities have been helpful in creating them, of which I wish to mention a few significant in Other Credits.
Other Credits
This website is basically structured on the weblog software WordPress, which uses php & html. Several themes and hacks have been added to this structure, from various sources. The graphics, cartoons etc were mostly edited using Adobe Photoshop, an image editing software. The content in Malayalam and other Indian languages were edited using baraha, a mult-lingual editor. JAlbum, a web photo album software, helped in organizing the nature photographs as a beautiful gallery. A recent addition is the genealogy section, a family tree database online which includes the Kollamparambil & Chengalathuparambil families and all related families. The genealogy section is powered by The Next Generation genealogy sitebuilding (TNG) scripts, which is commercially available. The offline database and gedcom files were managed by softwares like FamilyTreeMaker.
The Photographs
Nikon D80 + Tamron SP AF 90mm f/2.8 Di Macro Lens + Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f2.8 XR Di LD Aspherical Lens + Tamron SP AF 200-500mm f/5-6.3 Di LD (IF) Zoom Lens.
Olympus C770 UZ + Olympus TCON-17 Zoom Lens + Olympus MCON-40 Macro Lens.
Structure of the website
On the top navigation bar are the links,
- nature photography & insect photomacrography. Photographs of nature, birds, insects from Kerala, India and from Sapporo, Japan.
- poems on love, nostalgia and whatever. Poems and write-ups from when I was at school to a grown up young man.
- some snaps; effervescent. compilation of some photographs from my old site. mostly people and abstract images.
- the blue blue sea. A glimpse on my career as an oceanographer.
- japan, images. Japan, its culture and daily life through images.
- മലയാളം ബൂലോഗം. ബൂലോഗം = ബ്ളോഗ് + ലോകം. boologam = blog + lokam. ബൂലോഗം as in the lingo used by malayalam bloggers. Please check http://www.rock-sea.net/malayalam-unicode for rendering malayalam characters (including koottaksharangal and chillaksharangal) properly.
- Roots. The family tree. Genealogy of a Kerala Christian Family.
- Web Works. Web services offered at RockSea Networks.
On the side navigation you may see web pages related to the particular sections listed above or Blog Categories and recent posts in those blog categories. Blog = web log (online-journal) , another jargon used by bloggers online.
Related posts
on 16 Dec 2005 at 9:28 pm 1.Preethi said …
Fantastic work, Rock-sea.
Makes people want to know more about you. you have preserved the sense of intrigue in this website..
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on 26 Dec 2005 at 12:32 am 2.Kiranz..!! said …
Rocksea,
Great to know tat ur a nature’z lover..read ur kavitha,”hostel muriyude jaalakvathilkkal mazha ethi nokkiyappol kuricha kavitha,athu enteyum ivanioz hostel jeevitham ormippikkunnu”
Keep’up ur great work..
Best of Luck
Kiranz..!!
http://www.malayalamsongslyrics.com
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on 31 Dec 2005 at 1:58 pm 3.Makri said …
da the site looks greatttttttt!!! Spectacular…..I loved it…tooo kewl!!!
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on 02 Jan 2006 at 10:46 am 4.Anoop said …
Hi Roxy, it’s a nice site.. but the Malayalam sections r litl bit annoying, u know, becoz there r no ‘koottaksharam’.. all letters r split.. difficult to read also.. just feeling like killing our mother tongue.. if possible convert all Malayalam articles to picture format.. with proper letters..
Regards,
anoop
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on 03 Jan 2006 at 5:31 pm 5.rocksea said …
$Anoop. The koottaksharangal all shows well, if you use the font AnjaliOldLipi or similar fonts. I have pointed out in each malayalam article a link on how to set it. Thatz what all malayalam bloggers do. We all write out in Unicode malayalam. Putting malayalam in picture format is not encouraged by us.
Check this link for rendering malayalam properly:
http://www.rock-sea.net/malayalam-unicode
For a start, you can see the malayalam wikkipedia, totally in malayalam unicode:
http://ml.wikipedia.org
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on 18 Jan 2006 at 5:07 pm 6.renu said …
roxy
this couldnt be any better
good job
hard work paid well
congrats
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on 24 Jan 2006 at 3:41 pm 7.renjith said …
hi!!, iam here at ur kingdom cusat!!!!!!!!!! as an oceanography student
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on 24 Jan 2006 at 3:41 pm 8.renjith said …
hi!!, iam here at ur kingdom cusat!!!!!!!!!! as an oceanography student. nice
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on 25 Jan 2006 at 1:58 pm 9.rocksea said …
renjith, happy to see you. enjoy your life at cusat!
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on 11 Feb 2006 at 5:07 pm 10.ch said …
hi am also from cusat nw in bglore. its really a great thing.. a beautiful site it is …
after seeing ur photographs feel like im at home kerala. nw frm office feeling home sick ..
good work
bye
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on 12 Feb 2006 at 7:35 pm 11.rocksea said …
Thanks for the comment. You can go back to Kerala whenever you wish
i.e. it is not so difficult. What abt poor me 
I have to wait one more year to get back to home. so dont make me sick too :p What did you do at cusat? mca? Anyways, have a nice time.
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on 20 Feb 2006 at 7:25 am 12.Vinu V Namboodiri said …
Hello,
Gr8 work. Nice to meet u again in the web…..after a long time !!!.
Site looks cool !!! Well organized….and no “CHAVAR” !!!!!!!!!
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on 21 Feb 2006 at 7:29 pm 13.rocksea said …
hello!! happy to see you here
i had gone thru your website as well and downloaded some pdfs.. but couldnt comment there as the guestbook wasnt working. have a nice time!
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on 05 Mar 2006 at 3:15 pm 14.Binu said …
I was searching for bird pics in google got your site ..grihathuratvam niranju nilkkunnu….. “this website is a collage made up of your minds screen shots” …
Binu
toonbird.com
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on 07 Mar 2006 at 11:07 pm 15.rocksea said …
binu, i was stunned to see your web, so nature friendly and animated! i love the thunnaran at the welcome page.
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on 08 Mar 2006 at 7:08 pm 16.Kundan Kumar said …
Hi Rocks,
I m a regular visitor of ur site.Basically i visit here for Civil Services related Materials.
Previously,u had put NCERT books on ur site(http://www.rock-sea.net/ncert-text-books) but now that has been removed.We need that urgently.Even the books in chapterwise format was really very helpful specially for people like us who are in Job.
Kindly make those books available for us.We will be very grateful to u.Looking forward for ur positive response.
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on 08 Mar 2006 at 7:37 pm 17.rocksea said …
Dear Kundan Kumar, am sorry for what happened, it seems yesterday or day before yesterday i accidently deleted that post instead of a comment. Only now when you mentioned this i am aware it is the whole post of ncert books. I will replace it in 2 days or so. Thank you.
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on 08 Mar 2006 at 8:43 pm 18.rocksea said …
Kundan, thanks, i have restored the post and some of the comments. You should be able to download now. Phew! it was some work searching through an old database and going after some SQL commands!
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on 09 Mar 2006 at 2:17 pm 19.Kundan Kumar said …
Hi Dear,
I have no words to thank you.Really i m feeling very good as i got that treaure.Thx a lot Once again.Thx for the pain you have taken to search it.
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on 05 Jul 2006 at 8:54 am 20.Nebu said …
Roksea san,
Ogengi das ka..watashi wa nebu das…sorry thats all the little japanese i know..im fro san jose in california.your site is really wonderful..try using canon eos20d instead of the current one.keep up the good work
arigatho
Nebu
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on 14 Jul 2006 at 7:29 pm 21.Sibish said …
Great Work Roxy…
Photos are really good
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on 17 Jul 2006 at 8:00 pm 22.rocksea said …
hey nebu, genki desu. nice to see you here. yes, am thinking of getting a new one by the time i leave japan.. thanks for the suggestion. will check the eos20d also. think itz expensive.
sibish,
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on 18 Jul 2006 at 1:10 am 23.nice site said …
nice work
congras
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on 06 Sep 2006 at 4:54 pm 24.Sarah said …
Ahem! when I saw this site first, I was honestly darn impressed! Well, as much as wished, I could go through it like I wanted, I was not able to. But before being a part of it and still, I would say that this is absolutely wonderful work Roxy chetta. The best part of the site is that everything is ORIGINAL…like saying ‘Purely me!’
The ideas are great and the subjects, lively. 
this comment took pretty long to get onto the site! I did not want to hurry up for a cool site like this! That should say it all.
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on 13 Nov 2006 at 1:57 am 25.MANU said …
Thank u for reminding me how i plucked my son’s teeth… so tirkly.. by telling stories… tieing thread on it and all
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on 14 Nov 2006 at 12:03 pm 26.Savannah said …
You look like you are up with all things Japanese! So please help me if you can to find out when Yosakoi Saran, Sapporo, is on in 2007.
Is it true that they only announce the dates at the last minute?!
Savannah from Perth
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on 14 Nov 2006 at 12:09 pm 27.rocksea said …
savannah, it is usually in the 1st half of June. i think dates will be announced at least 2 months in advance.
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on 05 Dec 2006 at 4:43 pm 28.Vinaya said …
Well I will not write something praising your website bcos its truly one of the best sites I have been to with some amazing photographs. Commendable. Great work Rox, Love to see more pictures and more of poems. What strikingly impresses me is the originality. Keep in touch through mails. Take care.
Fond regards,
Vinaya
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on 05 Dec 2006 at 5:13 pm 29.rocksea said …
hey vinaya, long time! hope you’re keeping happy n healthy. yes, i wish to add more content but am in a tight situation as am in the final stages of my phd. let it finish and i’ll surely have some quality time!!
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on 07 Feb 2007 at 9:43 am 30.skdash said …
Dear Roxy,
Can you get the picture of snow scuplture of India (Giant Buddha) - 2007.
If you picture the statue then kindly post it or forward to my email.
It was a nice event to see.
by the way how is your research going on ?
regards
Dash
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on 18 Jun 2007 at 8:48 pm 31.prabhakaran said …
hi man thanks for the psycology books it was really helpful .please do inform me if you have some more books on the same subject
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on 05 Jul 2008 at 4:27 pm 32.ബെന്നി said …
റോക്സിയേ, കുറേ കാലമായല്ലോ കണ്ടിട്ട്? ഇറ്റലിയിലാണല്ലേ ഇപ്പോള്?
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rocksea replied on July 6th, 2008 4:58 pm:
ഹലോ ബെന്നി! അതേ, ഇറ്റലിയിലെ ‘ബൊളോണ്യ’യിലാണ് ഇപ്പോള്
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