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Jad and Jar files: Christmas.jad, Christmas.jar Source: Christmas.zip Here is a little gift from a geek to fellow geeks. This fractal Christmas tree can be run on your mobile phone. It is written using Java ME, utilizing the amazing LWUIT toolkit from Sun. You can configure various parameters and change the look of the tree.
It’s an incredibly proud day for an Indian! We have successfully impacted a probe on the surface of the moon, and also gave a sound thrashing to England with a 158 run victory! Yuvraj must have thought he could land one on the moon before the MIP does its job!! There are a few skeptics…
As I was channel flipping today morning, I caught this nut crack guy on GOD TV – he wears a toupee’ and thinks that God reveals everything in a special way for him. You know whom I’m talking about right? Now he was on a fund raiser, where he was talking about wealth transfers and…
US elections are less than a day away… Let’s have some fun with the presidential candidates! Anagrams for Barack Hussein Obama: Bush Karma Abase Icon Osama Backs Urban Hie China Bus Break Osama Anagrams for John Sidney McCain: Nice Dynamics John Had Cynics Men Join These anagrams were generated using the Internet Anagram Server
Recently, I wrote a Java Servlet for sending SMS messages. It had a method that communicated with a GSM modem connected to my PC. It was working fine – well, most of the time! Whenever you interact with a piece of hardware, or for that matter any external system, things can go wrong. A good…
Ever had this problem? – you have checked in your Eclipse project Java code in Subversion (SVN) and all of a sudden the bin/ directory is peppered with .svn/ directories, and to make matters worse, TortoiseSVN picks this up and indicates as if the bin/ directory has been checked in. I’ll tell you how to…
Congrats Abhinav Bindra, you rock!
The wannabe Google killer Cuil (pronounced cool) failed to impress. Like many others on the net who did the same thing, I tried out ego-searching. What I found was that, it didn’t even return 20% of the result what Google gives. Among the ones it returned, interestingly, it somehow associated one of my conference papers…
Kevin was playing with these which my sister had bought yesterday night. Those tiny dull beads had turned into colorful globules after a few hours in water!
A Game machine in the Mayajaal Gaming Arcade showing BSOD!
When I was studying in 9th/10th standard, ZX Spectrum was my object of desire. I used to buy whatever books on ZX Spectrum I could get hold of. Finally Dad bought me a similar Z-80 based home computer called Color Genie. The above is a spectacular interview with Sir Clive Sinclair, the man behind ZX…
Can you expect a mature language that has been around for 13 years, and powering many web sites to do basic string comparison properly? No, not really!! Run the above code and see for yourself! It will match $toFind with $x[1]!! I got hit with this nasty surprise when calling the array_search() function for a…
Played around with POV-Ray, GIMP and the photo I took, over the weekend. Oh the joys of ray tracing! Credits to Ian Shumsky for the mug object! P.S: If you like any of your photos to be on the virtual mug, send it to me and I’ll generate a scene similar to this and send…
We, the motley crew from Impiger (Ashok, Abi, Ram, Priya, Umaima and myself) just returned from AWS Chennai meetup. It was a great evening and we were able to hear what’s new in AWS from Jinesh Varia, the evangelist from Amazon. One of the highlights of the event was the demos. The coolest, imho was…
Seen on the tagline of Slashdot user eldavojohn Can god code something so unusable even he can’t use it? No, but I can and so can you: http://www.microsoft.com/careers *lol*
I have written about this earlier. Now here we go again. It’s about Twitter having problems scaling.
I usually take a nap Sunday afternoons, and I like to hear some streaming radio during that time. I wanted something that would fade the volume down to 0 after a certain period of time (say half hour). I decided to give it a shot myself. It’s Tcl and Snack to the rescue! After twiddling…
The presentation I gave at SKP Engineering College on 04/18/2008 Disruptive Technologies | View | Upload your own SlideShare Link
Today I got my first speeding ticket, after 10+ years of driving. I clocked a paltry 68kmph, when according to the traffic police, the limit is 50kmph. This was on the Rajiv Gandhi Salai (near Tidel Park), one of the best roads in Chennai, during a lazy mid-holiday-morning, when there was no other vehicle on…
I was checking out the news article about American canceling 850 flights, when this paragraph struck me: “Bishop Bernard Jordan, a Harlem minister, was in a first-class line trying to catch a flight to Atlanta, where he was scheduled to preach Wednesday night”. Contrast this to what Jesus said to his disciples in Luke 9:3…
I have blogged about YSlow, a very nice tool from Yahoo, that gives performance indicators of your web page. Guess what? I ran it on their own page (http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/) and found that they got 3 F’s, 1 C and 1 B. Overall score was a D (62/100). A case of not practising what you preach?…
First google maps (earth) – http://maps.google.com, released February 8 2005, Then google moon – http://www.google.com/moon/, released July 2005, Then google mars – http://www.google.com/mars/, released March 12, 2006, Now google sky! http://www.google.com/sky/, released Today Check it out!
Ever since I started dabbling with Ext a few months back, I’m addicted to it. Ext 2.0 has wonderful API documentation, but there are many hidden treasures that are not apparent. I will start capturing some of these starting from this post. Toolbar Tips To create a separator between items, use ‘-‘ between the items.…
I have started learning keyboard! Last weekend, we had Kevin start his keyboard lessons, and I also succumbed to my long time craving for learning music. And, 2-3 hrs/wk was all I had to spend on it. Sounds too good isn’t it! Today was the first class. I used to play by hearing, but always…
that I came across recently: “Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won’t taste good.” – Joe Paterno “Don’t make someone a priority in your life, if you are just an option in their life” – Heard on talk radio. “Being bitter is drinking poison and hoping someone…
Diwali ’07 Originally uploaded by rmadhuram This is one of the pictures I liked the most, from the set I took during Diwali of 2007.
Will someone please? If you are interested in a rescue mission, this deeply distressed water can be found in the Spencers Plaza food court :)
Kevin: Daddy, do you want 25 or rhino?Me: I want rhino.Kevin: No no I want rhino. You pick something else! Oh, and by the way, for those interested in numismatics, I found this excellent site when searching for the 25 paise image shown above.
