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Firefox & pkill - Inseparable Friends?

August 26th, 2008

Every one in my company knows about pkill, an obscure Linux command because we use Firefox (we are 100% Linux based) as the default browser. What is the relation, you ask? The answer is simple.

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Google Provides Wife Sharing Guide for iPhone 3G Customers!

August 20th, 2008

Bravo Google AdSense! Every day I am losing my faith in Google technologies. How could any context sensitive technology in the whole wide world think wife sharing guide is relevant to people interested in iPhone 3G? I would rather have no ads than ads for wife sharing on my blog.

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Amazing AdSense Relevance With Context Sensitive Ads

July 21st, 2008

I am continually amazed at how relevant ads (context sensitive advertisement) AdSense serves on certain articles. Here is a recent example on my post about future WordPress plugins.

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Do I Look Like VSNL / Tata Indicom?

June 13th, 2008

Tell me do I look like Tata Indicom?

VSNL / Tata Indicom Angsuman Chakraborty
Tata Indicom Angsuman

Does this blog look like Tata Indicom?

Then why do I keep receiving such complaints (see below)?
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Microsoft Teaching Java Using Eclipse at JavaOne 2008

May 8th, 2008

Microsoft teaches JavaI was amazed to find Microsoft design engineer Mugunthan Mugundan teaching Java (how to create REST output using Java) using Eclipse IDE. I found it rich in irony at many levels. What do you think?

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Sun’s CEO Jonathan Scwartz Caught in Drooling April Fool Prank

April 29th, 2008

Watch Sun Microsystem's CEO, Jonathan Scwartz caught flat-footed in a drooling prank conducted in connivance with a Venture Capitalist (Ted Schlein on Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers?).

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Heard on Twitter…

April 27th, 2008

"Are you doing SEO for lonely middle age men looking for their next young bride?"

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Java is Omnipresent!

March 12th, 2008

A nice video on Java showing the ubiquitousness of Java. Now read on to deflate your ego before it bursts.

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Top 10 Credos of Klingon Programmer

February 7th, 2008

Top 10 credos of a Klingon programmer covering (Klingon) Software Development Life Cycle:
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Interview of a B.Tech. Computer Science Graduate

February 3rd, 2008

I just finished interviewing a candidate with B.Tech. in Computer Science from W.B.U.T. University. He claimed that he knows C, Core Java & Software Engineering in his resume. After some time of interviewing, I hit on an inspiration. I asked him to write Hello World!, the simplest Java program you can think of.

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