I am back…

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.

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.

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 10th, 2005 It slowed my Firefox considerably. Whenever I opened a new tab, closed one there would be a delay of 10-12 seconds! It is that bad.

July 29th, 2008 I am on to create a cool (really really cool) application with Java back-end, distributed processing and all. Expect to see lots of Java tech tips and articles in the coming days.

March 30th, 2007 I am minimally back online. The office renovation is in full progress.

April 14th, 2008 For the last hour or so Google.com is down. Update: Everything is back to normal.

March 18th, 2005 LOS ANGELES -- Researchers might be getting closer to finding a cure for diabetes. Researchers announced a new treatment and medicine, and the discovery of a gene that might play a role.

November 8th, 2006 Internet search engine leader, Google has warned Australia (why does Google start sounding like Microsoft with each passing day?) of going back to "pre-internet era" if the proposed changes to Australia's copyright laws are legislated. "Given the vast size of the Internet, it is impossible for a search engine to contact personally each owner of a web page to determine whether the owner desires its web page to be searched, indexed or cached," Google said Tuesday.

July 11th, 2007 MySpace has submitted another list of sex offenders to authorities. In response to a subpoena by New Jersey Attorney General, MySpace handed over information on sex offenders that joined since May 21st.

June 28th, 2006 Sometime back Sony BMG released DRM rootkit software. At that time Sony insisted that no one should care about the Sony BMG rootkits because most people had no clue what rootkits were.

September 3rd, 2007 Social Bookmarking is back on Simple Thoughts blog. I have added Alex King's Share This plugin along with a modified version of Digg It plugin.

August 9th, 2006 The AdWords API Sandbox is an environment that replicates the API of the live site, for developing, testing and debugging applications that use the AdWords API. When a developer logs in, AdWords accounts are automatically created in the Sandbox, then the developer can create and run campaigns, adgroups, creatives, and other operations on those accounts without incurring any quota.