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. ...

Though many disagree, and think of software development as a mundane, non-creative task, as Kevin Carlson@DDJ puts it aptly, it is a work of art! “I suppose the question is this: “where are the limits of the scientific approach in software development?” I mean, we are, ultimately, talking about an act of creation” - Kevin Carlson (note the nested quotes! ;) ) Many of my non-IT friends have asked, how I keep myself interested and how I stand to sit (pun intended) in front of the PC for such long hours and not get burned out?! The reason for this question is partly, I guess, because not every developer that writes software, thinks of it as an art form, and hence most software automate mundane tasks .. users often do very boring stuff with computers .. stuff like filling forms, writing email etc. ...

Nice idea this one. So, here is my list Chennai, TN* Pondicherry, PDY^ Bangalore, KN* Delhi, DL Madurai, TN Kodaikanal, TN ^- weekend visits * - multiple times (weekdays) ;) I have another idea. A chronologically organised milestone-events list for a year. Maybe that will take some time to compose! Good for another post eh?! [tags]2006 summary, year in cities, travel[/tags]

I just downloaded Windows Live Writer At first look, it looks good! I haven’t been able to say that about most Microsoft products off late. The last product that was awe-inspiring was perhaps VC++ 6.0 (such wide range of features), IE 6.0 (it was big deal when it came into the market) and maybe, to some extent Office 2003 (a lot less buggy and smaller file sizes than previous releases). ...

It is not just M$ that struggles with frequent patches for its products. Mozilla just released a whole host of bug fixes in a new release 2.0.0.1. You can download it here or use the direct links below. Http Direct Links to Oregon State University’s Open Source Lab Windows Linux Mac Ftp mirror: ftp.osuosl.org Firefox 2.0.0.1 home dir: /pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0.0.1/ windows: $home/win32/en-US/Firefox Setup 2.0.0.1.exe linux: $home/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-2.0.0.1.tar.gz mac: $home/mac/en-US/Firefox 2.0.0.1.dmg There are some issues upon upgrading. Some plugins have trouble working, notably Google Accelerator. You might want to disable that for a while and wait around for an upgrade. ...