Thoughts

ICICI has different scale for companies like Infosys, Wipro and another MNC

2006-06-12T03:14:00.000-07:00

The difference is due to the volume of money rotated by those IT companies and the staff.Imagine paying a salary of average 25000 for 50K employees, and almost all of them have their salaries in ICICI.The net amount = 25000 * 50000 = some mind-boggling numberImagine a high paying MNC company assuming 50K per employee and for 1000 employees. This amount is relatively smaller than the 1st one.Go to

Hyderabad Real Estate Market

2006-05-18T05:48:00.000-07:00

The Hyd real estate market has gone into a wonderful amazing heights. The land price that was 8000 / 9000 per sq.yard (1 sq.yard= 9 sq. meteres) is sold today at 30000 per. sqyd.kondapur - 30000 Rs/sqydMadhapur - 25000 Rs.sqydGachibowli - 15000 Rs/sqydSrinagar Colony - 25000 Rs/sqydall these prices were nearly 10000 rs/- lesser in the last one year to six months.Why is the sudden raise in the

Google cheats its clients and pays back them the money

2006-05-10T01:47:00.000-07:00

Google, in yet another controversy to avoid a lawsuit in which it has been blamed for cheating its clients is paying back the money charged for the advertising clients.Click fraud concerns hound GoogleAssociated PressPosted Sunday , May 07, 2006 at 15:13San Francisco: John Thys still has not figured out how much his company has paid Google Inc for bogus sales referrals caused by 'click fraud' - a

RFID Systems

2006-05-09T23:39:00.000-07:00

what are the components of a RFID System?The basic RFID system consists of three main components , the coil, the transponder and the decoder (transreceiver). The coil works like an antenna to emit radio signals which inturn writes and reads the data that is available on the Tag.The Tags can be classified into two parts active and passive tags. Active tags are those tags which have a battery

RSI manufactures sub-15 cent gen2 RFID tags

2006-05-09T22:55:00.000-07:00

The RFID tags cost have come down to sub 15 cents. The prevailing rates are 40 cents per tag now, but RSI promised to give us tags sub - 15 cent. The constraint being we need to order 1 million tags => this equals = .15*1000000 = 150,000 $.The RSI also claimed that there is no reduction in standard or quality. So, this cost cutting should have been due to some of the best manufacturing practices

Gmail and Privacy issues

2006-05-07T22:49:00.000-07:00

I have a Google Gmail Account, and i found that there are privacy issues with Gmail.the story goes like this...I have an email id which is like xyz.abc@gmail.com and there is one another interesting friend of mine who has an email id xyzabc@gmail.com . All the emails (read it as confidential emails) comes to me which are written for xyzabc@gmail.com to me who is xyz.abc@gmail.com.Its a great

Estimation Techniques

2005-10-14T22:54:00.000-07:00

There are multiple ways of estimating. But most often we use the major two waysa) Program Complexity Model (PCM)b) Function Point Analysis (FPA)Let me classify the PCMThe program complexity model is again classified into three partsA) UI ScreenB) Middle-tier-componentsC) Database layersEach of the part can have multiple complexities and its based on the project. So ,

Worlds Safest Nuclear Reactor

2005-08-25T09:06:00.000-07:00

Where is the Worlds Safest Nuclear reactor located ?a) USAb) Russiac) Chinad) India.If your choice had been anything apart from D, you are still in the nascent stages of nuclear reactors. The latest news has been that , Mumbai based BARC scientists have created the world;s safest nuclear reactor.What is the take away?This nuclear reactor DOES NOT USE URANIUM, which is tough to import. This uses

Call centre behind the bars!

2005-08-25T08:47:00.000-07:00

Singapore Women are working on a 12 hour shifts as Telephone call center operators or as tele marketing exectuives.Whats the big deal ?It's pretty much the same as a commercial call centre, except it's behind bars,"If you are jobless in singapore and you are a women , you can as well go to jail to do some work.Read more info

Guiness Records - 13+1 by an Indian COP

2005-08-25T08:43:00.000-07:00

Have you ever thought how much India is popular with Guiness records. We have a cop from Tamilnadu who holds 13 Guiness records and looking to increase it to 14 in short time.Velmurugan other records listed in the Guinness Book of World Records include:Standing on one leg for 81 hours Swimming 157 kms in Periyar river Rotating one hand in one direction for 12,000 times Jumping into four-foot deep

Movies....Movies..Movies...

2005-08-24T13:48:00.000-07:00

For those who are not aware of me.. I am a movie buff. I watch all sorts of movies immaterial of whether i understand or not.The last french movie i watches was He Loves me ; He loves me not.What started as a romantic surprise....turned out to be a psycho thriller. I can never imagine the next scene. One of the best movies i had watched in French..The last but one English movie i watched was The

Daily fractal

2005-08-24T13:46:00.000-07:00

There is a website called sproutt. These people generate julia fractals every day and a new image is generated and displayed.Yes!! They do have archives and they archive it every day.If you would like to see the entire archive.

Fractals

2005-08-24T13:39:00.000-07:00

Fractals --- They had cropped up again in my mind. Remember i said exactly couple of years ago in my old blog that i am doing the research.A friend of mine rejunveated the need to study of fractals. I started enjoying the beauty and i thought you should also enjoy that :)The basic concept of fractals is that they contain a large degree of self similarity. This means that they usually contain

Google Talk

2005-08-24T13:31:00.000-07:00

Where is google heading to? What is google's core competency ?Google started as a search engine. Now is it becoming another yahoo kind of one. The latest release of its IM in whcih the users can talk is a new kid on the block for Google !ITs called google Talk.<<<<>>>>>>>They say talk is cheap. Google thinks it should be free. Google Talk enables you to call or send instant messages to your

Schools of its kind...

2005-08-23T21:24:00.000-07:00

Imagine a school where students decide what they want to learn and from which teacher and also have a say about how the institution should be run. Believe it or not, such institutions exist, and they are called Free Schools or Schools of Self Determination or simply Democratic Schools (DS).Recently, the 13th international democratic education conference deliberated on how to further enrich such

Asians see things differently ?!

2005-08-23T04:23:00.000-07:00

There is a recent survey on how the asians and americans see things and they have concluded that they both see things differently. When said asians, the survey was conducted only with the chinese folks and not with anyother nationalities :(The article still says that the Americans see the foreground and have a short view whilst the asians (read chinese) have a wholistic view and see the

Hand made rickshaws in US ?!

2005-08-22T12:51:00.000-07:00

As Einstein said if there is yet another world war, the next world war would be with sticks and stones. I dont know what einstein prediction gonna be true or not. But defintely technology changes from A to Z, it needs to be back at A sometime (probably more refined).The hand-rickshaws which are a very popular in India & Singapore is soon gonna make a comeback in US . Its gonna be fun watching US

Pollution in the city

2005-08-22T12:30:00.000-07:00

Chennai is considered as the least polluted City. Chennai is earlier called as Madras. This has one of the biggest bay of bengal harbour and its next to the Kolkatta harbour.This is the place i was brought up and i admire this place more than anything else.There are beaches all over, i would say one of the few lovely places i had been. Anyway, i am very happy to see that the pollution is least

kashmiri wedding

2005-08-03T05:00:00.000-07:00

I was doing some research on the kashmiri weddings and found the ritual to be interesting. the different things they do and the way they clean their houses and the way they welcome the newly-weds :) its all fun !!follow this link for more detail

being ready or waste of time

2005-06-08T14:18:00.000-07:00

Today we had a Firedrill at 2pm. I had been feeling tired all through the day. I know the reason is lack of physical mobility to this rusting body. When the firdrill begin, all the folks in the buildign were evacuated and we went down. I met the people around me (i was not the only comedian to go down with the laptop). We went down and once the building was evacuated we were aloof until the

in Redmond

2005-05-18T05:23:00.000-07:00

Flying to US is never been a big fascination, but then what motivates me to fly. the one i love who is in US or the company i work for. You guessed it right. ITs microsoft. I always been a staunch fan of Microsoft from teh day i started working. It was almost 9 years ago when i was 18 !! today looking back, i am where i had planned to be.Anyway, to cut the crap short. I am in redmond in Microsoft

Microsoft Ends Activation Loophole

2005-03-03T09:17:00.000-08:00

For years there was an OS and then for another set of years there was piracy.. As long as software is present there will be piracy and if you make it open then the software will be crapy.. what a world!!Microsoft has come up with one of thier innovative plans to avoid piracy. Read this here

ajays thots now geekblogger

2005-02-22T08:57:00.000-08:00

aah! i solved the puzzle when one of my friend told me that i have not updated my blog and called me a moron for saying i do. The reason was i had an inital blog called http://ajaysthots.blogspot.com. This i named it as that one day i would become a great guy and everyone would think of my thots. But eventually it did not succeed and i foudn that to be too arrogant. So i rechirstened my blog as

Microlight Aircrafts

2005-02-22T08:34:00.000-08:00

It was quite sometime ago, when i was chatting with a xler (regular student) during our lunch about buying a MERC. We were discussing the various prices and models of merc. I admit my knowledge on merc is very limited and only knowledge i had is the experience of selling merc booking long ago (1995 dec to be precise).I was selling the E class booking and it was costing around 2,200,000 Rs/- for

Picture blog

2005-02-22T08:32:00.000-08:00

I thought of non-cluttering this site. So i had created a new blog site called http://lovableflowers.blogspot.com . I would update as and when time permits that blog. That one contains pictures and a year full of fun and laughter. I wish she would come back !!There is no sunshine when she is gone... that too gone too long !!

Railway optic completes 100 cities

2005-02-17T02:29:00.000-08:00

I was reading "The Hindu" and found that railway has 25000 miles of fibre optics connecting almost 100 cities. This is a nice piece of article, the fact is US has just started to do their fibre optic connectivity.The fibre optics in US is started by Verizon (where i worked earlier) in place called Keller in dallas. This is the first kind of thing which happened in US.Read this article here

ode to Dr. Shukla

2005-02-15T07:56:00.000-08:00

I would had prefer to call you madhukar, if only I had not met you in person!! The writings on your musings made me feel small and made me think that you are not that old as you appear. After reading the articles, if someone had asked me to guess your age I would have undoubtedly said around 30. The writings rejuvenate me and brings out the aggression which I had thought I had lost. Thanks for

49 Gmail invites

2005-02-15T04:10:00.000-08:00

I have some 49 Gmail invites. Drop me a line at ajay.kumar@gmail.com for an invite.

MSF and beyond!!

2005-02-14T00:30:00.000-08:00

Microsoft Solution Framework is one of the SDLC Models in the IT industry. This is a typical model on which Microsoft's solutions are built. This model is based on the TCO approach and to provide value realization process.There are 3 flavours of MSF available.1. SDLC2. SDLC Light3. SDLC Agilewhere they differ is there internal implmentation and the methodology of each phase. The difference in

Westernization of Indian TV Programs

2005-02-14T00:01:00.000-08:00

I seriously dont know where this young (40+) indian generationis going. People are becoming more americanized. I would not besurprised if yahoo chat opens up a new chat room for Indian idol event(they already have one for american idol event). I was speaking to one of my colleagues day before, and found a similarity betweenwesternization of programs in our culture. It was KBC and now its I2(

Graduated :)

2005-02-11T02:25:00.000-08:00

This is an interesting period, i had completed my 3 year Exec - MBA program from XLRI. I was just recalling the number of sacrifices and the number of managers. I managed to call up all the people responsible and thanked them!! Thanks to everyone who is involved in making me do this!!

Home loan int. Rates

2005-02-11T02:20:00.000-08:00

My boss and i were having an arguement if int. rates would go up or down. I was trying to explain him in economics (Thanks to Reshmi mitra and Veena pailwar, prof. of eco in xlri). I came up with this explanation. I hope i meet their standards ;)Usually, when rates are going up, investors avoid mid- and long-term bonds, even though they yield more than short-term ones, because when interest

Family picnic in MSFT

2004-10-30T08:01:00.000-07:00

Today we had our annual (is it??) family picnic. We had fun :) though, the crowd was not in expected lines (gee!!) i went to the picnic around 1.30 after finishing personal chores. It was a overall nice event. It was held in a place called Ramoji City, 40 -5o kms outside city. The driver kept on driving as if his job was to drive and nothing else. After quite some time we (amit and myself)

Datagrid in Winforms

2004-10-27T23:29:00.000-07:00

uff!! i was looking out for customizing datagrid to contain various columns with different column styles. i want the first column to have option buttons i want the next 3 columns as texti want the next column containg a reference field (reference field are those which acts as foreign keys to the particular data ) . These data are brought from different table so it would act as a combo columnI

uff!! aabbaaaabbbababaaab (long time no C)

2004-10-21T06:00:00.000-07:00

Its been a wonderful week and i feel like a new kid having a new gizmo. Yes!! joined Microsoft as a program manager. Though i feel quite excited, good things come with responsibilites and more responsibilities. Accidently being Ajay is a boon :) on day 1 when i joined another Ajay also had joined . So being a gemini means two!! so two ajay's are fun!! The day i joined, i happened to know many

MSFTED

2004-09-17T02:11:00.000-07:00

Hi.......... Very excited to share .. Got a new job in my dream company... 5 years ago i had told my project manager in my first ever proper appraisal that i wanted to work in Microsoft and i told her its my dream....today i have realised it.. it took me 5 long years (5 short years) and i am going to work there. What else i can say .. Quite happy and very excited !! Ajay

Gmail Invites

2004-09-06T22:49:00.000-07:00

I have couple of gmail invites left. If anyone wants mail me and would provide the same :) Ajay

Visual studio

2004-08-11T11:14:00.000-07:00

VSTS what is this new animal ? A horse , buffalo...man!! this is the latest Visual Studio Team Systems The VSTS is a powerful combination for all the stakeholders of the project. we call them Project Managers Leads Developers Testors Business Analysts , So on and so forth. the tools which each one of them use is tied with the visual studio .

Teched !!

2004-08-10T22:36:00.000-07:00

Teched 2004 has started. This is one of the biggest events for microsoft . And this is for 3 days in chennai :) 11,12,13 <> ... so almost 6 days of not working ;). I am doing nothing unlike Anand who is handling a session on T-SQL and Ado .NET 2.0. I envy him.... anyway, its good for him too and hopefully for those who are attending it. Having tatoos all over me (jus 2 ). So, will keep

Blogs...Blogs....

2004-08-09T04:23:00.000-07:00

What happens when you had been jobless for consecutive two days... Thank god!! internet was there otherwise life would be a sahara. Anyway, i was reading few blogs (gee!! mostly journalists, caterers and non-techie people) for a change. I felt belittled, few ppl have 40 posts and still has over 50000 visitors but i have almost 147 and yet cud not reach the 2k mark. too bad !! why dont u all

What fruit are you?

2004-08-09T04:05:00.000-07:00

You are a Mango...luscious, exotic and sinfullysweet...you inspire passion and lust ineveryone you meet... What Kind of Fruit Are You? brought to you by Quizilla

My picture blog

2004-08-05T00:52:00.000-07:00

I have created a picture blog for myself. This contains all the flowers and other beautiful things which we fail to notice in daily life.. This were all beautiful memories of the togetherness i enjoyed with my friend :L:

Open Soure Software - Myths

2004-07-27T05:03:00.000-07:00

This is one of the few good articles i ever read. This discusses abt the myths in open source software where every one should go through.

2004-03-24T23:02:00.000-08:00

21 days Its been 3 weeks since i wrote... its all due to the ban on internet and email systems in my company. Suddenly, few of them thought we need to do a security vulnerability check and they assessed it at last i got my i-net connection and email. It s a good excercise we came up with diff solutions for all vulnerabiliites .. I am planning to write down my findings piece by piece and each

2004-03-04T08:22:00.000-08:00

18 reasons why you should outsource "One Singaporean worker costs as much as three in Malaysia, eight in Thailand, thirteen in China, eighteen in India".... Economic times article by Tom peters tells all ... probs many of the bloggers would be interested to debate on it ... joel .its for you 2 :)

2004-03-03T22:55:00.000-08:00

Swisscom chips help bust the al-qaueda network The nytimes article shows how amazingly snooping is done. Its a wonderful must-read article :)

2004-03-03T01:03:00.000-08:00

Indigo I am planning to write about indigo on this site...lets see how it comes alive

2004-03-02T05:54:00.000-08:00

Wanna grow ur business Does this sound like a spam mail alert ? it is not !! william moore's blog says it all .. how brands are created and how to grow business.. the real way to grow business is to grow the consumer and the way to grow ur consumer has to be word of mouth.. This i found it in moore's blog

2004-03-01T03:28:00.000-08:00

Atomized I have been atomized.... you can do atomication of my blog and atomify me !!

2004-03-01T03:02:00.000-08:00

The datediff function If you had been a programmer (anytime in life) you would have tried to find the diff between two dates you know what i say !! . There is a function called datediff in VB, SQL, and in VB.NET also in VBA (office products for novices)!! . This function when it is compared between two dates and asks to check for the year diff its rather funny (in sense, it sticks to its

2004-02-29T21:59:00.000-08:00

Visual studio installation is the BEST people voted for the best installer . This was forwarded by one of our MVP's...

2004-02-29T21:58:00.000-08:00

oops!! I sinned Its been very long time, i was under the cloud and i thot things are fine... And i forgot to update my blog...i am back from my MBA classes i think i will be active once aaagaain

2003-12-17T08:34:00.000-08:00

My visit to Redmond - Synopsis Words will become limited if i had to write down all the feelings i went through.... so i am writing down all the synopsis which hapened in this blog :) Day Zero: Day checked in the hotel, had a nap and woke up @ 11 pm and found that every dinner restaurant is closed down. so went to wendy's and had a nice veggie ham burger and the jetlag had affected me i went

2003-12-10T15:13:00.000-08:00

Writing blog from Microsoft Redmond Writing blog from Microsoft Redmond is a fascinating experience. The two day conference is coming to an end. I am the only non-microsoft employee to attend both the days conference . Also, i am the only Indian to attend the 2nd day of the conference on VB.NET and i am the only indian to attend both days conference (excluding the couple of indian s/w prof who

2003-12-07T15:28:00.000-08:00

Welcome to Singapore Changi airport yeah!! i am writing this from the shopping spree airport. Singapore airport is one of my favourites (i have been here more than 4 times, infact if i am not wrong its 5). I some or how feel like home in this airport. I have my flight @ local time 9.45 (i.e.) indian Time : 7:30. Today is a wonderful day, today is lakshmi's birthday. I wish her all the

2003-11-28T00:47:00.000-08:00

Microsoft Research Microsoft started its research awhile ago. Most of the work was done by Gordon Bell ,who is head researcher for Microsoft, he was working for years now on the project called MyLifeBits Project; which was based on CyberAll: A Personal Store for Everything white paper. Gordon Bell bases his research on paper written in 1945 by Vannevar Bush, " As We May Think". It is amazing

2003-11-24T07:00:00.000-08:00

I am going to Redmond I am very wild happy with a Capital "H". There are 2 many things happening around . I have been invited by Microsoft for their .NET Security Experts meet to be held on the 9th and 10th of dec 2003. You know what, i am the only guy going from India. ....and you know what .... i had been sponsored by Microsoft . What a great feeling it is..... Anway will try to blog in

2003-11-21T09:03:00.000-08:00

New functionality of Windows 2k ....Turn your monitor upside down Press Ctrl+alt+ down arrow key... after logging into Windows 2k machine. Check otu what happens

2003-11-14T05:56:00.000-08:00

More on F# F# is an implementation of the core of the Caml programming language for the .NET Framework, along with cross-language extensions. The aim is to have it work together seamlessly with C#, Visual Basic, SML.NET and other .NET programming languages. In particular it is the first ML language where all the types and values in an ML program can be accessed from some significant

2003-11-14T05:53:00.000-08:00

F# F# is a relatively small research project designed to demonstrate that it is possible to easily implement ML-like languages for use on the .NET Framework. There are no current plans to commercialize F#, and the source code for the F# compiler is due to be published in June 2003. F# is public, on-going research, and Microsoft Research regularly and openly collaborates with universities on

2003-11-11T07:07:00.000-08:00

Architecture - Diagram Longhorn The architecture diagram of Longhorn *(points to MSDN) is "> here

2003-11-11T06:59:00.000-08:00

Longhorn - certain definitions Lornhorn - The new gen of Windows Avalon - An even bigger leap forward for the Windows Graphics Subsystem than the introduction of DirectX. XAML will play a big role not only in WinForms, but look for a XAML to ASP.NET renderer as well. Aero - The look and feel catches up to Mac OS X, and introduces some interesting twists, such as Common Dialogs for

2003-11-11T06:53:00.000-08:00

Why i like tablet PC A wonderful "> article on why tablet PC is more important in today's lives. I had a great trouble in noting down the math formulae and physics formulae in my book (for my handwriting was the worst in my class). So my teachers had tough time correcting my papers, infact i used to impress my mom by talking to her all about the studies whatever i did (inspite of that i got

2003-11-11T06:49:00.000-08:00

A new CLR Profiler The CLR Profiler includes a number of very useful views of the allocation profile, including a histogram of allocated types, allocation and call graphs, a time line showing GCs of various generations and the resulting state of the managed heap after those collections, and a call tree showing per-method allocations and assembly loads. You can download it from here.

2003-11-11T06:45:00.000-08:00

Webservices vs. Remoting My teched blog has an article on webservices vs. remoting. You can have a look at it . If it is interesting write me back , then i will be motivated to write more :).

2003-11-11T06:44:00.000-08:00

Patterns in ASP.NET Maxim has a very intersting article on the patterns in ASP.NET .

2003-11-10T06:59:00.000-08:00

Verizon - Topcoder winners Seems verizon topcoder winners have been announced. My boss (Louis Fox) had appreciated the talent in chennai. Looking @ the way the chennai guys have done. It makes me feel proud to be in chennai. Anyway.. Krishnam Raju Jampani was the top scorer of the 25 finalists in the two-hour championship round held at Verizon's TIDEL Park facility here on November 7, and

2003-11-08T06:27:00.000-08:00

Blogging from Microsoft - Experience Boy!! you got to believe this i'm blogging from Microsoft building in blore from Deepak's cubicle . Ok!! jus an update of the day(s). Yday was asusual as promised (as usual -= behind schedule) and we had few sessions on lots of things (ofcours!! one of them was technical by Deepak on longhorn). We had visited the Microsoft new building thats coming up in

2003-11-06T02:30:00.000-08:00

MVP SUMMIT There is a MVP Summit happening over in this weekend in Bangalore. I am going for it. So Would be oof for next couple of days.

2003-11-06T02:29:00.000-08:00

Linux users worry about desktop products' fate READ HERE This mail has been sent by our MVP Lead Deepak . “While SuSE's high-end server products retail for $450 or more, SuSE 9 Professional--which includes publicly available Linux server packages--only costs $80”. Ok I know that the free in GNU is not “free” as in commercial aspects of things but its still worth a mention because it’s a

2003-11-03T00:29:00.000-08:00

Design patterns We had a nice discussion on the patterns on saturday in the CNUG -DAM .

2003-11-02T23:38:00.000-08:00

Security at a glimpse A security threat . Do you do this??

2003-10-31T07:16:00.000-08:00

CNUG Sponsorship Verizon is sponsoring CNUG events, So we will be having the CNUG meet in Tidel park premesis, for those who do not know what tidel is. Tidel is a big Software Technology park whcih contains almost 40 software companies (if i am not exaggrating). anyway, now CNUG meets are nearby i can attend them easily. Ajay

2003-10-30T06:13:00.000-08:00

I am a part of the matrix You are Agent Smith, from "The Matrix."No one would ever want to run into you in adark alley. Cold as steel, tough as a rock,things are your way or the highway. What Matrix Persona Are You? brought to you by Quizilla

2003-10-30T03:36:00.000-08:00

Indigo I bet you would like to know what is Indigo ? why it is used ? what is service ? what is a client ? Why is service orientation important? and when it will ship....blah...blah...blah... Hold your breath. For all your questions, there is a FAQ . Have a look @ it. Ajay

2003-10-30T03:26:00.000-08:00

Longhorn The new longhorn is throwing me blonkers. Have a look @ Eric Rudder's presso in PDC @ the winsupersite. There are lots of longhorn movies and longhorn pics to watch in this site.

2003-10-29T07:14:00.000-08:00

Verizon Chennai Hosts Topcoder This is a great news, Verizon, chennai is hosting a competition to the fellow developers in the industry. This is done with the topcoder . Winning this would be a great thing. Coz, not only for the money it wud be a great recognition in the industry ...and what might (someone who wins might get a offer from verizon india with a fat cheque ...might be ;)). Keep

2003-10-28T01:09:00.000-08:00

forget cards ....pay thru phone does it resemble my old article on this blog. Yes! if you had earlier read mine, otherwise its somewhere in the bottom of the page why dont u have a look at it ;). Anyway, as i was saying that we shall be moving into a era where the plastic cards will be thrown out and plastic machiens (aka mobile phones) will play the dual role. Yes!! now almost mobile phones

2003-10-28T00:49:00.000-08:00

syndrirella waves magic I just downloaded the latest version of syndirella. boy! those guys are really doing a good job... well, they are competing with sharpreader. The only thing that does not appeal me in syndriella is their icon. The sigma icon does not jell with the aggregator, sharp has a better one (it resembles c#). Anyway...why bother ,,as long as they do their job . I jus moved from

2003-10-23T04:01:00.000-07:00

A PC on a PC on a PC Wish someone would buy me this

2003-10-23T03:47:00.000-07:00

21st century solution

2003-10-23T00:58:00.000-07:00

walker ..thou... a nice bio- motion lab in progress. Check out how everyone of us walk :)

2003-10-23T00:52:00.000-07:00

WSDL Unleashed.... A nice article on the wsdl . Have a look

2003-10-17T01:09:00.000-07:00

Tired Jus amazingly tired.. wonder what would happen to a person for continuosly who had been enjoying 8-10 hrs of sleep suddenly transports into a different environment where its 3 hr nite every day and u wud sleep around 3.30 am and wake up @ 7 - 7.30 for the next class is at 8 hmm...life has been pretty bad...will be back in a week's time. Will enjoy office. office is heaven , all my

2003-10-03T08:06:00.000-07:00

Ten commandments of .NET 1. Thou shall learn XML, now! If .NET is an angel from Microsoft then its wings are woven with XML, and you need to understand the basics of XML before you can fly with .NET. XML is used for configuration files, SOAP,Serialization, and it's tightly integrated with ADO.NET. You can get away without knowing XML, but you won't get far. 2. Thou shall become an

2003-10-03T07:53:00.000-07:00

Microsoft ....again in news...but this times its good Microsoft has opened an IT academy in the flourshing state of Jharkand. For all those, who dont know abt jharkand. Jharkand is the earlier brother of Bihar. Bihar was one of the big states and the state was split into two for convenience and the richer of the Bihar is called Jharkand and the poorer is known as bihar. Bihar is ruled by a

2003-10-03T07:39:00.000-07:00

Do you sport a beard /moustache or both ? ..then read this There is an ongoing competetion for those who have partial or full beard. Seems to be fun.. But alas, there are no Indians, 2 bad. Probs i need to ask Anand to participate in tis one .He has a good small beard, but neverthless i think he is pretty ok.....and moreover today is his birthday.

2003-10-03T07:22:00.000-07:00

all-in-one psx game device Sony Corp , the world's biggest consumer electronics maker, said on Friday it would unveil its all-in-one PSX game device to the public next week.The PSX, which packs a TV tuner, DVD recorder, hard-disk drive, and the Playstation 2 game player into a single white box, will be unveiled at the CEATEC Japan 2003 industry show in Makuhari, near Tokyo, on Tuesday, Sony

2003-10-03T07:20:00.000-07:00

BE proud to be an Indian I donno how far it is true to separate people on their region, that too when the world has shrinked and we call it as a global village. But, I still feel that i need to proud about being an Indian. for these reasons 1. Indian American elected top 10 Scientist 2. Indian CBI director has been elected as V-P for Interpol 3. Indians are the most sought after people to

2003-10-03T07:15:00.000-07:00

Bad news for the America Dreaming Indians (ADI) There is an article in the Economic times , a finanical newspaper in India about the cut off on the H1- B visa cap. Seems, though US had passed the bill for 65000 Visas, it seems what we really get is all about 65000-7000-18000 = 40000 Visas only for this year. Its gonna be a roller coaster ride for us. Wish US had kept the Visas to be @

2003-10-03T07:09:00.000-07:00

Hackers : Good or Bad I am totally against ethical hacking. Do you still call a rapist as a virgin checker. Sounds weird right, its same when its called ethical hacking. I wonder how people can make others fools when they speak on both the sides . Look @ varun, whom i always liked for his techtree site. His article is totally out of way and i reject varun's thots. Anyway, the +ve way of

2003-10-03T07:01:00.000-07:00

I have sinned I dont know how to write this paragraf, for i know that i am sinned and this is a bigger one. I have to go back to my classes. Yes!! i am currently doing my MBA (Executive-MBA) in one of the top institute (top 3 ranking) called XLRI , where life is called classes and food is called books and punishment is termed as assignments. I had a lovable break and i am off for 2 weeks.

2003-09-30T08:23:00.000-07:00

Induction Program you would not have seen any articles for the couple of days. I was in an induction program, getting inducted to verizon (been there for more than a month). It was a cool one... infact there is a young gentleman who happens to be one of our Executive directors (shankar) he impressed me a lot. Boy!! i just knew that i am jack of all technologies, but never knew that i am

2003-09-26T07:29:00.000-07:00

My blog crossed 100 Though i had this blog since long time, until the 18th of september i wrote nothing technical. I started writing technical from the 18th onwards and then i also added a counter to my site ;). I found that my site had got 100 hits until this day since 18th. Wow!! its a good thing and that motivates me to write more . 2 Bad my aggregator gave up on me.. my aggreagator has

2003-09-26T06:27:00.000-07:00

How to check whether .NET Framework 1.1 is installed I Installed the .NET framework, then i installed the 1.1 upgrade, suddenly one of the chaps who report to me told that, mine is still 1.0 and not 1.1 (smart chap!!) he went to the IDE, help-about, but it still displayed 1.0. So, was wondering how to prove him that 1.1 is installed. The first step is given in the link the second one which

2003-09-26T02:06:00.000-07:00

Technosis I was reading the trivia of techtree i found this word That goes like this : In their book 'TechnoStress', it is mentioned that the growing dependence on technology affects us negatively, and that we count on our machines to do so much that when something goes wrong with our technology, we are thrown into a tailspin. Some people become so immersed in technology that they risk

2003-09-25T10:13:00.000-07:00

Back to technical Virtual PC I just installed the virtual PC which i downloaded from my MSDN subscriber download. man! thats the coolest one. I had earlier worked on VMWare, probs jus becoz its from Microsoft now i had started liking virtual PC. I installed the windows server 2003 in it and it now yet to be activated. My host is w2k and my guest ins w2k3 server. I got to install biztalk ,

2003-09-25T09:04:00.000-07:00

Smart Worker Vs. Hard worker The couple of days (today & yday) had been terrfic. yday was the first part of teched, and today happen to be a special meet with Deepak on WML (word markup language) and Infopath. Boy!! those are really cool. I liked it and thanks a lot to deepak. Infact the best thing was the smart tags, those were literally brilliant. I wrote a smart tag @ my PC, whenever it

2003-09-25T05:25:00.000-07:00

Teched - I & Architecture The teched part I of III is complete. Yeah!! it was not the best of the teched's which i had gone, but still it was fun. The cool one!! though it was little disappointing on new Gadgets for display ( I was expecting the SPOT on display). But only it was presented on the screen. Whidbey was fine, longhorn still got to wait :(. Infopath was good, but ML for word *

2003-09-23T09:41:00.000-07:00

Geek Horoscopes I personally dislike horoscopes.. But this one, is fun and almost true. Infact the keyword is my fav one.. Anyway happy horoscoping .