Back Online…

January 5th, 2006 I haven't taken the decision lightly. After due process and due consideration of all factors I decided I am going to shun all established Java frameworks and go back to basics for my next project.

February 1st, 2006 I was away for about a week for family reasons (read illness in family). I am now back.

December 7th, 2006 I am back from a business trip to USA. Last 10 days have been very hectic and I couldn't properly respond to many emails nor could I address some of them, despite my best efforts.

July 31st, 2006 View first two movies of Back To The Future series side-by-side in overlapping segments. I enjoyed it and I think so will you, if you have seen the movies before.

April 7th, 2009 One of the most popular backup systems, Carbonite online back up, has come up with a subscription plan that gives you 20% discount on purchasing 1 year's subscription from them. Carbonite offer that used to come for $ 54.95 is now only $ 43.99.

November 14th, 2005 Google Web Accelerator is back with a vengeance. If your web site bandwidth consumption has spiked in the last couple of days, look to blame it on Google Web Accelerator.

June 30th, 2009 A recent study from Google exposes that 8% of computer hard drives are most likely to fail within two years of operation. Well, that implies every twelve computer hard drive would crash within first 24 months of operation.

August 13th, 2006 Update: LinkieWinkie merely leveraged the links to create yet another blog site. Nice bait and switch, but I expected better.

July 2nd, 2007 Twitter is down again. Initially I was getting down for maintenance messages.

May 16th, 2006 Ten commandments for computer security: Thy shall create strong passwords Thy shall use good antivirus software Windows users shall regularly update critical updates Thy shall download online forms after verifying URL https:// or forms with lock icons Thy shall use secure shell (ssh or sftp) for file transfers Thy shall not open unnecessary emails Thy shall regularly back up important files Thy shall set a password protected screen saver to activate after 10-15 minutes Thy shall shutdown thine computer at night Thy shall schedule monthly scanning of hard disk Heavily modified from BSNL list (by email).

April 16th, 2009 Talk about putting it mildly but effectively, here is an advertisement that can really make you feel for it. meebo, the popular online instant messaging service that has GTalk, AIM, Yahoo etc featured in them, is reminding inactive people by this beautiful ad below.

February 6th, 2004 After some deliberation, and seeing others, I decided to leave the commenting section on my blog un-moderated. Today I was mildly surprised to find almost all my posts had a comment to it.

September 3rd, 2006 Now you can talk to me, if I am online*, directly from my blog. On the first sidebar you should see a small chat window which allows you to communicate with me in private.

April 4th, 2008 The "do no evil" mantra of Google is slowly fading into oblivion as Google, like any other large corporation, plans to axe 300 jobs from newly acquired DoubleClick Inc. This is the first time that Google has made significant job cuts.

March 8th, 2008 I am looking for a decent online project management software with Gantt charts. I tried several online project management software, some free, some partially free with paid upgrades like BaseCamp, Zoho etc.