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Back again…

Posted by: anand on: October 27, 2006

Hitting the blogosphere again.
Should be interesting to see how it goes this time around with WordPress instead of Blogger (http://the-enginerd.blogspot.com).
And yes, I am contemplating to host it on my own domain. I know many of you’ve already been bugged on this before, but still Any suggestions for a domain?
Cheers

And, this is it.

Posted by: anand on: April 18, 2006

These past few days, I have given it quite a thought on how do I continue this blog, and be more regular. I’ve been wanting to blog more often- blogging stuff that is interesting, and blog-worthy. But the fact is that Blogging doesn’t appear as exciting to me as it used to, and it could [...]

The tragic mistake

Posted by: anand on: March 29, 2006

From Adam Green’s The second coming of the Web:
“When Tim Berners-Lee first gave mankind the Web, he made a tragic mistake. He granted us free will to use less than perfect HTML. His tools, and the tools of those to follow him, allowed users to develop sinful habits based on ignorance and sloth. The result [...]

The Joy of Tech – Windows XP on Mac

Posted by: anand on: March 27, 2006

Without doubt, The Joy of Tech is the best techie cartoon site out there. Just browsing through their archives for the past week, I stumbled upon this awesome strip:

Source: The Joy of Tech Comic

Vox Populi: “I couldn’t give a boot load about this, gimme OS X on a non-Apple PC, … it’s what’s inside that [...]

Windows Live Developer Central

Posted by: anand on: March 26, 2006

At last week’s Mix 06, Microsoft announced the launch of their Windows Live Developer Central. There’s lots of cool stuff available there if you’re interested in developing apps using Windows Live Services.
From Windows Live Developer Central website:
The Windows Live Platform puts a deeper level of control into developers’ hands by offering access to the core [...]

Sun Grid – The Network is the Computer

Posted by: anand on: March 24, 2006

Whoever said that the world would need only five computers was probably correct. Sun has now released its on demand Grid computing for $1/cpu-hour. As Jonathan Schwartz writes about Sun Grid, “…experience for yourself what it’s like to use one of the world’s largest supercomputers. Without having to house it, manage it, power it, administer [...]

ShameIt – Shame ‘em into behaving better?

Posted by: anand on: March 21, 2006

Alright. This is a wicked idea.
An exasperated father has discovered to his cost that cyberspace is not the ideal arena for family feuds. Two weeks ago Steve Williams became so fed up with his daughter’s messy bedroom that he built a website featuring pictures of his slothful offspring’s lair in an attempt to shame her [...]

MyToday – Online News Aggregator

Posted by: anand on: March 19, 2006

I just cant help but think that the success of Digg and Newsvine has inspired a whole bunch of news tracking sites and mixups like diggdot.us and SlashDigg.
Another one to have sprung up recently is MyToday. MyToday is your another “public RSS aggregator providing the latest news, views and content on a topic-based collection of [...]

The Web 2.0 Quiz

Posted by: anand on: March 17, 2006

Ever got confused between a Web 2.0 Company and a Star Wars character?
How silly is the Web 2.0 hype getting? You tell us! Here’s a quick quiz…we looked in 30Boxes and analyzed 37Signals that led us to come up with the 43Things below. So without further ado, can you decide…Web 2.0 or Star Wars Character?
I [...]

Gmail Chat Disabled

Posted by: anand on: March 16, 2006

The fact that it happened does not surprise me but that it took so long for our network administrators to figure it out does.
And if you are wondering how do you disable Gmail’s chat features on your network, you only need locking DNS lookups to chatenabled.mail.google.com, by returning 127.0.0.1.


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