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Lesson learnt

2004-10-11T17:01:00.000+05:00

I wanted to make this announcement in my blogspot blog, but sadly it has to happen this way. I have moved my Tamil and English blogs to my own website http://www.kparthas.com. English blog is hosted here: http://blog.kparthas.com Tamil blog is hosted here: http://tamil.kparthas.com (Tamil blog hasn't been setup properly yet). Coming to the sad part, in the process of backing up my blog entries

Hilarious....

2004-10-05T18:17:00.000+05:00

Watch this piece Conan O'Brien & NBC's IT Dept it is from the show "Late night with Conan O' Brien" (a little sarcastic though...).

WEBoggle

2004-09-13T09:30:00.000+05:00

Can somebody turn this site down?, I'm addicted to it! and can't order my browser out of it.

Major Upgrade

2004-08-27T16:28:00.001+05:00

The newly added blogger bar doesn't go well with my template (and I'm kinda bored with it anyway). I'm thinking of giving my template a major upgrade.

What do you want, Bling?

2004-08-26T11:52:00.000+05:00

Do you hear that "crack... crack..."? That's my blog counter, it has been limping for quite sometime, unable to take the sudden surge in hits. Thanks to my post on Windows SP2 (most importantly my mentioning about bling.exe). It is surprising to note that none of the major anti-virus co's have noticed the new trojan variant on the loose, bling.exe. I was struck when I tried to access some stupid(

Snip snip ...... Hawwww

2004-08-19T16:14:00.000+05:00

Somebody said to me that while getting haircut we lose energy and we'll feel sleepy. I sure would have believed that story today. I went to this "Macho" parlour (that's a name) and from the very second i landed there i felt cranky. May be it is due to the atmosphere there (That's one of those rare men's parlour without any photos/posters). Obviously not interested in messing up my hair by

Bluetooth anybody?

2004-08-14T01:23:00.000+05:00

With 512 MB storage, looks relly cool but not worth a tooth I guess. Read on...

Time travel with Windows XP SP2

2004-08-14T00:03:00.000+05:00

Yeah baby it is fun! In the last four hours I have travelled back to 2002 (a.k.a Pre service pack era of windows XP), through the windows black-hole (Lucky me, Stephen Hawking just discovered that we indeed can get information from within black holes) and at the end of the four hour exciting journey Now I'm back to four hours before. Okay before proceeding with the details of my journey, my two

"Duts" Windoze

2004-07-19T18:31:00.000+05:00

"Duts" First conceptual virus affecting Pocket PCs has been discovered. Apparently Duts is a shy guy, asks you permission before he can spread, reminds me of Sardar Virus.

This is cool

2004-07-16T09:45:00.000+05:00

I'm talking about Bloggers new composer. One very good thing about this is guys at blogger have given enough consideration for Mozilla too. The composer rocks in my Firefox. Some quick thoughts: Key board shortcuts are good, ctrl+L for adding links can be considered. Support for table? (I don't want to push it) Upload images, this can allow uploading images to photos.blogger.com,

Wimbledon after a looong time...

2004-06-25T14:54:00.000+05:00

Wimbledon surely has got that charismatic edge over the other grand slams. Until few years back I used to be glued to my television set during wimbledon. That probably was the only time (apart from cricket telecasts ofcourse!) I was tuned in to a single channel continuosly for long period, that too Doordarshan, can you imagine that. But recently in the williams era the game became monotonous. I'm

ASCII inventor dies

2004-06-25T12:01:00.000+05:00

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Newsmap

2004-06-18T14:15:00.000+05:00

While surfin the net came across this tool. Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator... The application is very neat. While fiddling with that I couldn't resist noticing one thing. The default view selects all the categories of news (Nation, World, business, sports etc.), news in the categories are horisontally ordered

GMail nearing end of Beta?

2004-06-18T09:54:00.000+05:00

I guess the GMail premiere is just around the corner. I have got another round of GMails invites to spare. This time I've got five invitations. Anybody there without Gmail account? Just ping me (if you include a reason that'll help me put you first in the list) at Kannan dot Parthasarathy at GMail dot com.

EPOC.Cabir: The worm that went mobile

2004-06-16T14:15:00.000+05:00

Epoc.Cabir is a proof of concept worm that replicates in Nokia series phones... Mobile vulnerabilities aren't new, couple of months ago there were a few security alerts exposing vulnerabilities Bluetooth enabled phones including Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Ericsson models. The process is called bluesnarfing or "bluetooth wireless link hijack". A bluesnarfer can make use of the bluetooth wireless

Kill that popper

2004-06-15T16:10:00.000+05:00

The first thing I did when my Yahoo showed 100MB next to the storage space is shutdown Yahoopops (It stopped working anyway). Yahoo pops was very useful when my mailbox was filled with spam. 6MB surely is not enough for the Spam that Yahoo produced (or Yahoo invited). Now with the 100 MB thing they are forced to improve their spam bot too, afterall who would want to fish their mail in 100MB spam

More Gmail

2004-06-15T13:55:00.000+05:00

Looks like Gmails storage servers are set-up sooner than expected. Invites are pouring in.. I've got three more now. Suddenly my yahoo seems to be faster, better. With 100 MB space it surely looks better than before, will have to wait and see if the service (esp. spam control) improves. There are several hickups in Yahoo's new UI as of now. Some of them are: It generates many Javascript errors

What can a Gmail invite get you?

2004-06-09T13:26:00.000+05:00

* Well it can get you a long distance phone call from Germany dei chandru nee bangalore vaa unna gavanichukaren (yeah that is in Greek :-)). * New best friend status ... and * A treat offer and a T Rajendar style kavithai (see below) machi machi ni weightu... I dont have one yettuu... Please put my name firstu... I know that u the bestu... Pls send me once u gettu.. :-)

Gmail Invites

2004-06-09T09:17:00.000+05:00

Gmail has started sending another set of invitations. This time I have got 3, one extra from the last time. Ye all Bloggers go check your Gmail accounts.

Bangalorean

2004-06-04T09:32:00.000+05:00

It started three and a half years ago, but before I could realize I'm caught onto it. Yep guys I'm slowly becoming a Bangalorean (though it doesn't sound as cool as Chennaiite). I have now officially moved my parents from Tiruvarur to Bangalore.. blame it on Urbanisation.

GMail new features

2004-05-25T14:33:00.000+05:00

This post is not for the underprivileged YKWIM :-). I got a mail from the Gmail team with a preview of the new features of their preview product GMail. Good news is they are planning to add Import/export facility for Contacts (which I had requested for). The other features in the trunk are: - Automatic forwarding of your email to another account - Plain HTML version of Gmail - Import/export

Why so dumb?

2004-05-19T12:01:00.000+05:00

I had to talk to the customer service cell of Indian oil (Indane) today, being a perfect software engineer I searched all over Google to finally stumble at their web site. It is very good to see all the govt. agencies maintaining their websites. But the dumbest thing about the IOCL website is, it promptly throws this message when i point my Mozilla towards it. "This site is best viewed with

GMail goes Tera?

2004-05-19T10:42:00.000+05:00

Look what I see in my Gmail box 1000000 MB?? I havent filled 1% of the 1GB yet. Well, this could be a bug, but see other posts too.

Commies a.k.a. Left Parties

2004-05-18T14:22:00.000+05:00

Every time I see everybody say they (are) left, but I'm yet to see them leave.

Congress Policies No Alternative (to BJP)

2004-05-18T11:50:00.000+05:00

The Congress party ruled the country for over four decades. Its policies and record of government contributed to the present plight of the people and the country. Its failure to strengthen the foundations of democracy, secularism, federalism and its anti-people policies laid the basis for the rise of the BJP and its coalition government. The Congress has not learnt lessons from the past. The

Prime Minister Outsourced

2004-05-17T16:40:00.000+05:00

Welcome to the new open world. There is an interesting pettition (not the pettition plea, but the discussions and responses). BTW Sonia Gandhi is an Organization (http://www.soniagandhi.org), she is online answering your queries(http://www.soniagandhionline.com/) and she is in touch with the .com(http://www.soniagandhi.com/) and might come soon to the net(http://www.soniagandhi.net/). Oh boy!

Serious doubt?

2004-05-17T12:36:00.000+05:00

They won't join the government. They wont Run the government and they won't let others run it. What are the commies for?

The difference?

2004-05-14T10:31:00.000+05:00

Hey! on the other side (read it as marketing-side), my pasta recipie is in high demand now! go ahead, give it a try ;-)

test

2004-05-10T19:18:00.000+05:00

testing template changes

And finally....

2004-05-10T11:24:00.000+05:00

Blogger has realized what it is missing the most. Some user interaction. Welcome blogger comments :-).

Oh Gawd!!

2004-05-07T10:44:00.000+05:00

I lost my $$$$'s. GMail Invites are up for bid and they are priced upto $200. And there are soo many fools out there bidding .. gawd. When getting a gmail account is becoming easier day by day, i couldn't resist laughing at those bidders. Just this one link is enough to show the kind of demand gmail has. Gmail invites on auction

Whoa! GMail

2004-04-22T14:57:00.000+05:00

Yippee. finally i've got 1 GB of hosted email. Who cares if they scan my mail, I love the space. Ok here is a quick review of GMail. Pluses 1. UI is neat, and extremely easy to use. 2. I love the quick reply thingie. 3. Threaded display of message is one thing I've been longing for. I was so tied up (still am) with my mozilla Thunderbird for this feature. 4. Labels, again from Mozilla's trunk.

Books books books...

2004-03-22T17:33:00.000+05:00

After fishing out for more than two hours in Landmark, finally settled with two books: The Prophet by Khalil Gibran (for online version of the book click here) This is Thiruvilayadal style QA book. Fully loaded with Khalil Gibran's views about subjects like "What is marriage?", "Work", "Children", "Love" etc. This is a must read. He has kept his definitions short and sweet. For example

Political Compass...

2004-03-22T12:00:00.000+05:00

What do I do to break the boredom during a busy week? Well take a Quiz :-). (Wonder what ppl did before such quizes existed) This is what I did last week, here is me in the "Political compass" (why compass?) Economic Left/Right: -2.00 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.85 Well where do I stand? ... see it for yourself (Politicians) Take the test here ( test will judge your patience too

Goodbye Godzilla !!

2004-03-05T12:22:00.000+05:00

Well it is a 50 year loong service, finally Godzilla is taking a break. Well this might as well be a publicity stunt. Related thread. I hope Godzilla doesn't belong to Phoenix family.

Enetation sucks

2004-03-05T10:51:00.000+05:00

This is the third time it is happening. Because of enetation, my entire blog slows down. Moving to Haloscan (as I did for my tamil blog). Now Haloscan provides Trackbac too (there is no reason why somebody would link my blog, but still) cool.

The Singhsons

2004-03-04T17:46:00.000+05:00

I absolutely love this

Yipppeeeee

2004-03-04T15:18:00.000+05:00

Finally Landmark has found its way to Bangalore. Let bangalore be a pub city or an IT city or green city, but what is a city without nice bookstores. I really miss Landmark, Higginbothams and others. yeah, there is one Higginbothams in Bangalore, but that looks like a dungeon. Gangarams is better than the rest but no good. I had to settle with Oxford book center (and the Cha bar ). To show

Brits are back!!

2004-03-04T11:15:00.000+05:00

Sixty years after they left India, they are coming back here to make their careers. Interesting story In my recent visit to UK, i saw this myself, some Brits asked me about the market and "prospects" in India.

End of Hibernation

2004-01-21T14:32:00.000+05:00

"I should have done this already and doing this now means i have not done that already." Well that was the outcome of two weeks of sleepless work in the holiday season (work = not just office, being a good boy at home also counts ). Well now that I'm back in bangalore i'm back to blogging.

2003-12-31T14:29:00.000+05:00

Dad, Why? I read the threads on Saddam and US in Venkat's Blog, that instantly reminded me of a mail that was(is?) cicrulating few months ago. Here it is: Dad, Why? Q: Daddy, why did we have to attack Iraq? A: Because they had weapons of mass destruction. Q: But the inspectors didn't find any weapons of mass destruction. A: That's because the Iraqis were hiding them. Q: And that's

2003-12-18T17:38:00.000+05:00

Haww.... It has been a loong sleep here . Actually I have started a livejournal. Hmm now I have three blogs and three times the guilty of leaving them unupdated.

2003-12-10T09:54:00.000+05:00

Gender Genie I had always been wondering about the gender of certain bloggers with strange, whacky blog ids. Kudos to Gender Genie tool, it uses a computer algorithm to findout gender of the author. Just copy & paste a section of text from the blog (or author's article, story etc) and hit "submit", voila! the Genie finds out the gender and so far with all the my tries, the result has been close

2003-12-08T16:27:00.000+05:00

'Pariah' While surfing random pages, I came across this news: Continued suspension from the Commonwealth made Harare the pariah of southern Africa. 'Pariah'? I had no idea what that word meant, how to pronounce it (I read that as "paraeeyuh"). I then promptly used the desktop application 'Gurunet' to seek the meaning of the word, it read: pa·ri·ah (pə-rī'ə) n. A social outcast: “Shortly Tom

2003-10-13T18:56:00.000+05:00

Cha Bar If you are a "Chai" lover, if you like books and if you are in Bangalore, do not wait anymore run to "Cha Bar". Cha bar is a cozy Chai place inside Oxford book store in Leela palace. Can you believe it, there is a joint just for Tea and you get more than 40 different varieties of tea to taste ??. I had been there yesterday and boy!! I love it. And my random selection from the menu "Thai

2003-10-10T16:25:00.000+05:00

The English Language This is a snip from loong but nice forward I rec'd :-). ---------------------------------8<------------------------------------------ If you've learned to speak fluent English, you must be a genius! This little treatise on the lovely language we share is only for the brave. Peruse at your leisure, English lovers. Reasons why the English language is so hard to learn: 1) The

2003-10-09T16:05:00.000+05:00

Nice one A motorist was driving down the highway and all of a sudden he hit a sparrow. He pulled over, picked the poor sparrow who was still alive, but unconscious. He decided to take him home. When the motorist got home, he put the sparrow in a cage, leaving him some bread and water inside. When the sparrow woke up, he looked around and said: "Bars, bread, water... Oh my God!! I have killed

2003-10-09T15:53:00.000+05:00

Flash mobs Kewl... that's what I said to myself when I first read the idea: Flash Mobs. Surprisingly it hit the streets of India sooner than I expected. Needless to say this was in Mumbai. Anyway I would've expect ed Bangalore to be the last place to do this. Somebody in my office volunteered to host a Flash mob in MG road, but as expected ppl were so lazy to move that far :-). But it was all

2003-10-07T20:13:00.000+05:00

Will Pulli Raja get AIDS? This can be announced as a millon dollar question at present in Tamil Nadu. The stakes might have gone higher as I noticed this very late (more than 700 bloggers are ahead of me in promoting this). This type of advertising is not new to us, there was Digen Varma (thanks to Badri, my database had flushed his name looong back). These type of advertising are called

2003-10-01T14:33:00.000+05:00

கடலை: After searching nearly half of the available blog servers and after hundreds of vain attempts to secure a spot with some letters in my name, I had to settle with this blog space. Any way I'm happy to announce .... this eKadalai TM blog space of mine. :-)