Atlast!!! Finally!! I got to lay my hands on the Creative Zen Micro I have been drooling over all these days! One of Guru’s friend’s finally agreed to get it here. It is much smaller that I thought it would be, but it is one of the coolest gadgets I have laid my hands on. None of the images on the web do any justice to the drool value of this pod-killer. The only disappointment until now, has been the need to shell out $40 for the charger, which I haven’t bought as of now. Need to find out how much they would fleece me for it in India. ...

Wowie!!! Yippeee!!! Yikes!!! That’s the sequence of emotional states that I have transitioned through over the last couple of days. Getting some rains after a long period of drought was nice, but then like most things in Chennai, it turns out a teeny weeny bit much, when I have to waddle through knee deep slush! Torrentials rains have gripped Chennai, for the last couple of days and today life came to a stand-still! Water logging everywhere, no power, nowhere to go to eat! More has been predicted for the weekend! Let’s hope chennai is not submerged by the time I get back from Diwali holidays ...

Have you heard about the latest ipod. http://www.bbspot.com/News/2005/01/new_ipod_implant.html http://news.com.com/5208-7354-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=4129&messageID=24004&start=-1 This is amazing.. Imagine being able to have a device implanted in your body, with which you cantrol with your thought, and which will use your brain as a hardrive, and use blood sugar as a battery cell. Eerie thought envelop me, when I think of what could be?!! Living the matrix ?!! It is not only the body heat that can be a source of energy (like in “The Matrix”), even human blood sugar can be harnesed! ...

What are we humans against the over-powering wrath of mother nature? Time and again, she warns, and tests the best of us, and ceases to amaze us with the brute diplay of power. With all the technology in the world, man still has to grapple with reality of the powerlessness of the human being against forces of nature. The recent display, in Pakistan and its surrounding, is simply astounding. One cannot, but feel empathy towards the innocent thousand (maybe millions) that have been trampled upon by the brute force of a 7.2 Earthquake. ...

SNMP being the bread and butter for me, I decided to dig up some tutorials and links regarding the same. For the uninitiated, SNMP is short for Simple Network Management Protocol, and is a protocol used to manage network devices such as routers, switches etc. Simple Web - Introduction to SNMP, and good set of tutorials Simple Times - technical articles and featured columns Cisco - SNMP Overview Cisco - whitepaper SnmpLink - Links to almost every possible SNMP resource

I need some ideas for my website and blog. I still have not been able to integrate and modify my blog well enough. Wordpress is great, but it sorely lacks some core CMS functionality, like for instance the ability to add pages to my site. I know you can add static pages, but I need to be able to create another changeable content page like what php-nuke provides for instance. I’m trying to organize some of the plugins and features I would like in my blog: ...

What a lousy week it has been… I’ve had this fever all week long, and is still poking its head around me now and then.. I have been down for the last few days with a viral fever. I also made the mistake of calling my family and telling them that I am unwell. They got very worried and came to Chennai in a taxi to pick me up (my mom). (That was embarrasing … but did feel well pampered). ...

As technology enters our lives, dare I say, invade our lives, the concept of radical design has been ubiquitous. It’s design, design and more design, for last few days for me. I came across quite a few very kewl interfaces and design concepts (a detailed listing below). Some much of what we do, is so dependant on how efficiently a product has been designed. How minimal and useful the interface is. ...

There was once a wondeful browser called “Opera”. The lucid interface, the smal memory footprint - it was simply browsing heaven. Then came the version loaded with ads, heavy, sluggish UI and a hug memory footprint in the name of new improved UI. The ads loaded version of opera turned out to nag-ware and I totally detested it and moved to other browsers (read Firefox). Get online and check websites out became “swimming” and not “surfing” ...

After a week long battle with my host sending email back and forth, I managed to get my site back online! Hopefully now, I can start posting some of the events of the last two weeks. Very eventful mind you. Check back in a couple of days.