Male Restroom etiquette

Male Restroom Etiquette All men of the world can find common ground in these simple rules of “evacuation” etiquette. Author: zsOverman Keywords: machinima overman sims restroom etiquette rules men toilet bathroom humor Added: September 13, 2006 You must see this!! Wonderfully done and hilarious yet thought provoking!! ;) technorati tags:fun, humor

October 3, 2006 · 1 min · Shivanand Velmurugan

AJAX Toolkit Shootout

AJAX Toolkit Shootout « Summer of Code ™ 2006

October 2, 2006 · 1 min · Shivanand Velmurugan

I wanna get on that plane

First Images of Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Cabin Virgin galactic is a spaceship/commercial aeronautic vehicle that is being designed to let ordinary people like you an me (well ones with $200,000 spare change) to travel to space and conduct “scientific” experiments (kiss in space? marriage in space? ahem … in space? **pervert**) and I wanna get my ass off to space in just that … 3 days out of the earth! That will mean a lot less coding. Maybe I will come up with the first-ever “out of the world” open source software, or maybe even a yahoo widget or two!! ...

September 28, 2006 · 1 min · Shivanand Velmurugan

HD-DVD and Blu-ray unite!

New technology could nip DVD format war in the bud That is what someone needed to do, build an abstraction layer over the various DVD/DVD-like media so that as a consumer, when I am choosing between Star Wars and Star Tre, I don’t need to bother with the media type and the version etc.. Just let me but the disc and get home to watch on the blu-ray drive or at a friends place on HD-DVD drive. ...

September 27, 2006 · 1 min · Shivanand Velmurugan

You gotta gimme one of these - Part 1

dapreview.net: content / meizu m6 (stand-alone review) That my firengi friends is why one needs to be in China!! Damn that is a kewl gadget, and that if built with good quality can beat the sh** outta any pod that any fruit in the computer industry can make! (for the uninitiated read fruit as “apple”). Check out the reviews at the link mentioned above

September 27, 2006 · 1 min · Shivanand Velmurugan

Online AJAX Training

10-week AJAX Training Course by Sang Shin

August 24, 2006 · 1 min · Shivanand Velmurugan

Tuning Garbage Collection

The much talked about and often cursed part of Java development is Garbage Collection. I often say, “Writing code in Java is easy, but writing good code is extremely hard” I have listed a list of links at the end of this article that provides more detailed information. Resources: http://java.sun.com/docs/hotspot/gc1.4.2/index.html http://java.sun.com/docs/hotspot/PerformanceFAQ.html#1

August 22, 2006 · 1 min · Shivanand Velmurugan

Return of Javascript!

After what has been ages, I have returned. Not that many are reading this, but I intend to use this for future reference in any case I have wanted to learn javascript, and this time I found a sustainable way. Learn a language by implementing something very huge in it. I’m writing, what I must say a very kewl application at work, and am learning quite a few tricks in javascript. ...

August 10, 2006 · 1 min · Shivanand Velmurugan

Detect that counterfeit and slap it!

Nice website this one! Counter Counterfeit Commission If you are enraged at people selling counterfeit Minis on Ebay, check out this link to vent your anger http://www.counterfeitmini.com/main.swf

July 5, 2006 · 1 min · Shivanand Velmurugan

How "The Alchemy of Desire" changed my life

The Alchemy of Desire by Tarun J. Tejpal This is an amazing amazing book. What prose?! and what a story?! This has rekindled my faith in Indian authors, Finally a book in “english” by an Indian author, without a thousand transliterated words from Hindi. It has made me see a few things I had forgotten, made me look and find new things, that I didnâ€(tm)t knew existed. Thank you Tarun, you need to write more! ...

June 5, 2006 · 1 min · Shivanand Velmurugan