What should one do to get Google to listen to them.. Everyone gets an idea, but not everyone has the guts and the determination that Aaron has. Aaron has an idea, which he is trying to pitch to Google, by going to the googleplex. Already, he has had success in finding a few ears there, and thousand others worldwide. Check out his blog here. http://www.cangooglehearme.com Truly inspirational. (Speechless) All I can say is, “Way to go, dude” like a thousand others have already wished you. I hope that your pitch to Google, gets us yet another cool Google product, and I hope to see the day an announcement is made on some Google blog. ...

I wonder what’s happening to me. This is the third post in the last one hour. I must be going crazy. Anyway, this must the least used blog on earth, so what the heck. (I know there are a few of you out there, but you don’t say much on my blog!! :( ) Before I bore you into leaving this page, here’s what this post is about: Have you seen this somewhere? ...

Some news from the Kolloywood. Check out the latest pictures of Kamal Hassan in Dasa here. In other news, Vijaykanth is infurious.. Vijayakanth: Naan Jaya TV mela Case podanum..! Police : Yedhuku Captian? VK : Naan Katchi arambichathai “Vilaiyaattu Seithiyila pottu irukiraanga” End of the world nearing, doomsayer cry… _First world war 1914 ——- DEATH: 10000 __Second World war 1943 —- DEATH: 150000 _Ajith’s ALWAR 2006 —– Apocalypse … end of the world ...

I dropped my trusty ol’ Nokia 6610, from the third floor, at my office. After scourring the gazillion models and options that are available out there, I settled on two phones. Sony Ericsson K790 Cybershot Nokia N73 guess what, although the other phones seem to catch up on paper, in reality nokia still wins hands-down. Just hold the two phones in your hand, and you know that the Nokia oozes quality. There are a few gripes though, which I will reserve for later. ...

I have been twidling with HTTP Persistent connections in the last few weeks. Let me start at the beginning I needed to replace CORBA in a legacy application with something new. Ofcourse, there are a few alternatives out there, but I needed something very lightweight. The problem had two major parts Command Execution - Let the client, execute a function on the server-side and process the output data Eventing - Make clients register for events and wait until some events occur and the server transmits the required objects to the client side. The Command execution was simple. Expose all services provided by the server as SOAP services and make the clients talk SOAP/XML, however SOAP involves a lot of overhead in terms of serialising the object into an XML stream and later decoding that. Since both the client and server were completely in Java, I just had to transport the Java object itself The event part, however, provided a challenge. I had restrictions on opening ports on the clients (Issues like firewalls, NAT, SSL support etc etc). So I chose to use HTTP itself to do eventing. ...

After a long ride from Bangalore, whilst I was sleeping blissfully, some rascal, ran through our house, ate an apple, stole a couple of jars of Pickle (good ones at that), helped himself to the following: My Philips DVD player (it was skipping at most DVDs anyway) An old Sony Tape recorder/player (apparently, some was wrong with it, and needed replacement) 1 apple (worth Rs 25, but actually priceless since my wife got it for me) 2 bottles of mushroom pickle 1 bottle of mushroom, and 1 bottle of (the famous) panchranga pickle (five types of fruit and vegetables) Ohh.. also he chased my cats out. ...

It is quite surprising that there are hardly any open-source to validate XML out there. I had the need to validate a auto-generated XML output against a valid xsd, to see if the code that I wrote to generate XML was producing not only syntactically correct XML, but also XML that was data-valid. XML Validator, provides an UI that allows you to check the validity of any XML, in with reference to its xsd. It is free for Personal and Commercial use without any warranties. So don’t come to me if it makes your dog barks all night, or if your computer commits suicide. ...

Firstly, thanks Scoble.. I think I’ll stop reading other gadget/tech sites .. you are my new feed filter. Secondly, I got a whiff of yet another web 2.0 (does that even mean anything these days!) application site. Nexo is a wonderful wonderful site. just as Scoble says “It’s Yahoo Groups done right”. It took me the whole of 1 min to create my account, invite a few friends and setup my own group. Oh yeah, it also provides me with web-space to put my photos etc. ...

Yesterday, I was watching an interview with Mr Ankit Wadia (His website describes him as “The Computer Security guru. The Ethical Hacker. The Author. The Intelligence Consultant. The Entrepreneur.”) He was talking about how the web is unsecure today and how easy it is to crack passwords. Whilst, I was eagerly awaiting in anticipation to see how he hack into a yahoo password, he pulled a bluff on me, when he asked the presenter to enter his password and then he went about using Revelation to read the password from it! ...

My site is probably one of the least visited blogs in the world! Trust me on that one! ;) by linking to the following set of youtube videos, I know I don’t do much in making it reach more people, as it rightly deserves. Nonetheless, I consider it my responsibility to do it. and those of you who do read my blog, please do visit these vidoes and tell the author what you experienced. ...