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well, about a coupla months back, I got myself a guitar and having been since then, utting my fingers at it on and off (mostly after midnight). I have finally learnt how to play a few bars of “Ilaya Nila”, the song that really pushed me towards learning the guiatr in the first place. After numerous attempts to find the notes myself and failing quite miserably at that, I found this amazingly true reproduction of the original, Guitar Lesson #8646 at WholeNote: Ilaya Nila by Ananth Narayanan. Kudos to you dude! ...

Thanks to kottke.org, I found a very engaging game, to keep my busy during the long hours of installing applications at work! Check out Fastr. Oh Yeah, btw, it uses AJAX to update the scores. Welcome to Web 2.0

I have been away far too long this time around. But, I finally find some time to do my bloggy thingy! I managed to finally migrate to Wordpress 2.0 with the latest K2 theme. (btw great work with the theme guys) It has been a very hectic month, and very busy and interesting start to the year! Some of the stuff I have been dabbling in since the begining of this year ...

Nice sunny day, and a huge auditorium filled with half of Chennai’s Java crowd… well mebbe not exactly have, but close 2500 java programmers attended this year’s Sun Tech Days held at Chennai,India. This is my first time at a Sun conference.Well, it is not a JavaOne kinda event, where it is all techie, but atleast you do get to meet a few like minded, hard-core, think-OOAD-in-the-shower guys. There were some very kewl speakers. I especially enjoyed ...

I have been wondering for sometime now, how K2, added an entry in pages, but the content was controlled from the one of the php files in the theme directory. It turns out that is is very simple (yet elegant … hat’s off to wordpress guys). I used this to integrate FAlbum into K2. Okay, let’s get on with the tutorial: *WARNING*: Take a backup of your database before you proceed with the following ...

I wanted to get the pod nano initially, but I chose to get the Creative Zen Micro instead for reasons listed below: Why the Nano is a piece of junk 1. Cracked screens – heard quite a few reports of that and since I live in India and the Nano cost about 2 as much as it is in the US, I didn’t want to risk it 2. Flimsy – the entire player bends with little pressure applied, a little more I’m sure I’d end up with two pieces! (Definitely not suited for 40deg C and extremely dusty conditions that I have to go through everyday to work and back) ...

Yippeeee!!! Last weekend I finally got my long-awaited very won Suzuki Swift ! The delivery of the Swift is by no means swift! Anyway, I had a ball of a time. Here are some pics! (WARNING: eye-candy) Some pics of Bunty and Bubbly too: Some pictures taken on the wya back to Chennai (a coupla weeks back):

PHP is an incredibly easy to use scripting language and yesterday I had my first meeting with it. Yeah, I know I support and fix some issues in wordpress, but that just requires programming knowledge, and not exactly great php exposure. But yesterday, I wrote a small tool to track some timesheet info, in php and the whole thing took about 1.5 hours to complete. Slick UI, storing and retreiving from DB et al! ...

I have been wanting to integrate photos that I take into my Wordpress blog for over 6 months now! I finally found the best suited solution for me. Well almost! Probably the second best thing I can now do the following: Insert images from my flickr stream into my blog. Present a gallery of images based on my sets The visitor can now search images based on flickr tags ...

I found a very interesting bug report on ubuntu! If you haven’t heard about Ubuntu, then this bug report is definetely a must read. Check it out! Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix. Bug #1 in Ubuntu - Microsoft has a majority market share I tried to see how the latest release of Ubuntu has addressed this particular bug, and I see that it is still pending. Although, the open-source OS guys are striving a lot for features, but somehow everyone has forgotten the root-cause that made unix so popular. ...