I have always wanted to be good at public speaking, especially in front of large audiences. Although, I can address a gathering without a shiver in my voice, I nonetheless feel butterflies in my stomach all the time! I found some interesting links that might help soothe those tense moments! http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/presentations.html http://www.aresearchguide.com/3tips.html http://lorien.ncl.ac.uk/ming/dept/Tips/present/present.htm Most times, one hardly derives anything at the end of an hour long technical presentation, and more often than not, the content of your presentation is lost after your audience exits the room. ...

Been using Windows Live Writer as my blog writing tool. Here are some plugins that I would definetly make my life much easier. If you are insterested in writing a plugin or would like to add to these requirements, do get in touch. Extended Link insertion Link to different Search Engines (Google, Google Blog Search, Code search, Sun API search, Technocrati search etc.) Link to various product sites (Amazon, RitzCamera etc) Link to previously exisitng Posts Recent Links Links from clipboard Auto-link insertion based on certain keywords Multiple link inclusion - when this mode is enabled every word that is clicked on / selected should be added to a bucket, which can then be used to create links on. Note-taking Separate interface for storing notes/ideas for blog entries Allow search across notes Auto-complete using phrases from existing notes (optional) Plugin for Firefox and IE to enable addition of notes by selecting text on browsers Monetize # Support for various ad tools like adsense, amazon associate etc. Wordpress Style Support# Review Publishing#* Wordpress plugin that allows to create a set of reviews for various products Allow access of reviews separate from posts. (can use a set of categories for this - similar to asides plugin) Allow posting to this through categories, or allow through a plugin in windows live writer as “write review' Drafts sync# Allow multiple instances of windows live writer to share drafts. upload selected drafts to wordpress check-box for using wordpress drafts instead of local drafts button for pulling drafts from wordpress and adding them to local drafts # - might require extending existing XML-RPC (should be possible with wordpress) * - might require wordpress plugin ...

I’m now officially one of the self-obssessed techie guys, sitting in public places and completely ignoring all the life-forms around me. Got a very nice deal from HP. Here is the config! HP Pavillion DV2124TU Intel Pentium Core Duo 1.6 Ghz 1 GB (2 X 512 MB) DDR2 SDRAM Intel 945 800Mhz FSB Motheboard 14.1" Widescreen Display LightScribe DVD-RW drive 802.11 a/b/g wireless Bluetooth Infrared Altec Lansing Speakers Built in modem and ethernet ports 3 USB ports 1 DV based USB SD/MMC-Pro/MS/XD card reader Remote control for DVD player Windows XP Media Center Edition ...

I’m now officially one of the self-obssessed techie guys, sitting in public places and completely ignoring all the life-forms around me. Got a very nice deal from HP. Here is the config! HP Pavillion DV2124TU Intel Pentium Core Duo 1.6 Ghz 1 GB (2 X 512 MB) DDR2 SDRAM Intel 945 800Mhz FSB Motheboard 14.1" Widescreen Display LightScribe DVD-RW drive 802.11 a/b/g wireless Bluetooth Infrared Altec Lansing Speakers Built in modem and ethernet ports 3 USB ports 1 DV based USB SD/MMC-Pro/MS/XD card reader Remote control for DVD player Windows XP Media Center Edition ...

After a whole month, of wearing a cast, I got my hand back today. This is the first time, in 30 days that I am using both my hands to type and it feels good to be back (atleast partially). Here are some pics of my hand. That is the result of a 4 cm incision on my elbow, to re-align a 3 cm X 2 cm piece of cartiledge that had broken and had torn into my tricep. The doc says, that upto 10 cms of the tricep was torn by this piece. They have affixed this piece to my elbow with a screw to keep it in place. ...

Trying to get the Sony Ericsson W800i has been by far the most traumatic experience of my life. I tried everything possible, but still was unable to get it recognised on my home PC! So, finally I decided to resort to the most reliable way to get anything to work with a PC. Do a google search!!! Found a wonderful link, (on a forum that solved the issue). Here is the fix suggested, (I have organised in to be more of a step-by-step guide. ...

With advent of web 2.0, and some habits cultivated over the last decade, I have a certain list of tasks that I do everyday. I current visit a bunch of websites more than once a day, and an integrated interface would do me so much good. mail, a whole set of accounts, gmail, yahoo, etc feed readers blog editor orkut del.icio google notebook What is lacking, is the ability to have a single sign-on/account mgmt capability, a common dashboard, ability to cross-launch/cross-post content. ...

On the 2nd of Jan, I fell off my bike and fractured my elbow. Been out of action since then. Thanks for all you guys, who kept me company. Special thanks to Guru, Tanigai, Rajsekar, Shankar (my bro), Swetha (my sis). My mom, granny and dad, for nurrsing me back to health and for putting up with me (I know how much of a pain in the ***, I can be!) ...

The following is something I wrote 14th Dec 2005, on my trial account with one of the earliest Web 2.0 spplication services, called backpackit.com The site still continues to be a hot seller, with over 200,000 subscriptions. You can find the link to the original article here. I post the whole content here, well coz I like my content in my own space! Now there is a feature that no web 2.0 application allows. Why can’t content reside separate from the service? Every application from gmail to backpackit, want you to trust them with your content. I think that should change, mebbe we shoul called that web 2.5? ...

Having broken my elbow, I have spent the last two weeks typing away with a single hand. With nothing much to do, I went about looking at ways to improve the capabilities of blog editors. I use BlogDesk for my blogging needs. It is a wonderful editor, that let you do all operations provided by MetaWeblog API. However I wanted to do more than what was provided there. I wanted to add some features for plugins that I used. ...