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A one stop shop for all your google needs! http://www.google.com/downloads/ These guys are doing awesome stuff aren’t they?! What’s next? a self-aware OS?

Yup, been a very long time since I blogged!! but I am back again! **Thanks to my fellow util-seeker Sudhin for this bit of news ** Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Macromedia (Nasdaq: MACR) in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion. Under the terms of the agreement, which has been approved by both boards of directors, Macromedia stockholders will receive, at a fixed exchange ratio, 0.69 shares of Adobe common stock for every share of Macromedia common stock in a tax-free exchange. Based on Adob ’s and Macromedia’s closing prices on Friday April 15, 2005, this represents a price of $41.86 per share of Macromedia common stock. ...

Free ebooks are available for download from Apress. A Programmer’s Introduction to PHP 4.0 Dissecting a C# Application: Inside SharpDevelop Writing Perl Modules for CPAN Programming VB .NET: A Guide For Experienced Programmers COM and .NET Interoperability NJoy!

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!