Started reading “Illusions” by Richard Bach. Often, I feel, that a book comes in your life, when you are ready for it. It presents itself, in ways you never would have imagined. I have heard of this book for the last 10 years. There has been a sopy at my parent’s place (where I stayed for the better part of the last 10 years) and it never occured to me, to pick that small book (of about 200 odd pages) and give it a read. ...

FIR of a virus on a phone! A very warm welcome to the world of computing! Soon we will need antiviral software running on our phones all the time and that would mean that your phones will get more processing power. If phones take the way PCs have, the day when we will have a phone with a huge Pentium or whatever processor and tons of RAM won’t be too far away. ...

What a lousy feeling it is, when you hold shares of a company, whose customer you have been for more than 2 years and have paid everyone of the bills in time, and when you have an issue, you are brushed under the carpet!That’s what happened to me today. I have been with Airtel (cell phone service provider in Chennai, India - for the uninitiated ;)) for the last two years. I had an automatic debit facility enabled. In January, the credit card I had enabled the auto-debit facility on expired. Airtel, promptly disabled the facility and disconnected my service asking me to call customer support. Well, I tried to do just that, but you know what?, the call to customer-care wouldn’t go through coz they disconnected me!! Wonderful! ...

Hi folks!! This weekend I got myself a website and a domain name. I’m yet to get my site up and running. I am looking for ideas for my site content. keep checking http://www.shvelmur.com

Today has been a very sad day. I bid farewell to Mr Subramaniam. He was my grandfather’s nephew and has been my a great inspiration to me in my life. One of the bravest and knowledgeable persons I have known. One who lived through life with conviction and was as clear at heart as they come. He has always been there for my family at good and bad times. A devout and practising Hindu, and a learned man in vedic chants, I have always envied him of having lived in my grandfather’s company. I think, what I know about my grandpa, is what “mani thatha” (what I used to call him) has told me of. Having lived in the pre-independance era, he has offered many insights into the lives of my forefathers. ...

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/design/ This site deserves a visit, but don’t try it with anything less than a T1 line! ;) (T1 = high bandwidth high speed - for the uninitiated) A very new refereshing interface. Quite an enjoyable experience.

JavaScript Tutorial This site has the most comprehensive tutorials for almost everything that I have seen offlate!!! Really work a visit! If you are looking for anything related to the web from HTML, XML, CSS, Javascript, DHTML, SQL, ASP, .NET, VBScript, SOAP, RDF,WAP ..etc.. and the list goes on forever, you can find it at the aforementioned site!! hats off to whomever that maintains the site!

This is a very kewl gui toolkit for J2se, .NET, J2me . Very neat and neat indeed. Zaval Light-Weght - Visual Component Library It is available under GPL and comercial license.. Need to try using it with a coupla tools I have in mind. I know that there are zillions of open-source utilities out there, but I am looking for ideas for applications and utilities that you would liket o use at home/work. ...

Been offline for quite a few days now!! Work, work work!!! Loads of it!! and I am luvin’ it! Btw, my latest acquisition in my digital brigade is my new (well not so!) Delll Axim X3 handheld!! Check out these sites for kewl development utils for the pocket pc http://mifki.ru/pocketgcc/index.html http://mifki.ru/pcsharp/index.html

Wired 12.11: How I Learned to Love Larry This article by the former CEO of RIAA is quite intriguing. In today’s world of “digital creativity”, are the copyright laws really as relevant as in yester-years? Does copyright laws curb creativity or are they in place for safegaurding the poor content creator from being cheated out of their pride possessions by 12-year-old, computer weilding school kids?! Check out these links too ...