The ability to put together a set of innovations into real-life use and build something that reaches the lives of common men, making it a tad easier, a tad more fun .. that I think is the most amazing ability that a person can have. We were discuss this among many other, at office the other day, when we decided to go to a movie. Now, I have this habit of watching a movie at “Satyam” - chennai’s very own sofisticated multiplex. Aparently, they have a website through which you can book tickets. It is one of the few usable flash based sites, that I have seen. What was amazing for me was that, they also have an option for you to choose the snacks that you would like to eat when you are there!! Kewl uhh?!! ...

I was always intrigued and amazed by the ability of human beings to give up their lives at some of the most beautifiul places. Why do people like to jump of cliffs that provide a breathtaking view, or bridges like the one at SFO with its capability to produce “suddenly-surreal” images! Check out some statistics on the suicides at the SFO gate SF Gate: Multimedia (image)

There is an issue with installing the latest version of boast machine v3.1. The message displayed during install is this Error message : Invalid default value for 'author' The problem is due to the following code in install.php author INT(10) NOT NULL default ' ', This should be changed to author INT(10) NOT NULL , install patch for Boast Machine 3.1 *Note: Right-click and save target as / Save link as ...

Crash (2005) (Widescreen Edition) Some one tell me what the hell are they talking about in this movie!!!! It is the mind-numbing experience of watching 7 movies at one go. I must give it to the director though, for tying together each of the sub-plots, but man.. you gotta tell me something by the end of the story!! See more about Crash (2005) (Widescreen Edition)

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) ...