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. ...

Yet another wondeful ride on my bike, and I’m road wiser !! I rode to Pondy last Friday, (the usual weekend get-away). Having been long since my bike stretched its engines, this ride was a nice change for both me and my bike. Pitck black, it was, that night, but very little traffic on the roads. A cool breeze was working its way up my spine. Frequent drops of impending rain, threatened to drench me, my soul and my bike, as we streamed past Mahabalipuram. Stopped momentarily at Kalapakkam for a tea. The warm tea, quenching my raving hunger, the news that india lost miserably (yet again!) to South Africa, set my my pulse raving to get to Pondy to catch the highlights of India-trashing! (just wanted to see how badly our team can perform) ...

HTMLSource: HTML Tutorials I know I need to refrain from this incessant habit of link-blogging, but hey, somethin’ better than nothin’. A lot has been happening lately, but no time for that now! This is a wonderful site, by far the most useful and easy-to-find-info site for HTML and Javascript. They don’t assume that you have a PHD in web-develeopment before talking about some of these kewl technologies. Check it out! ...

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