Good bye 2004, welcome 2005
Oh, what a year this has been. Smooth elections for two world’s biggest democracies (India & USA), Peace between India & Pakistan; Worsening of Iraq Situation, Rise of Oil Prices;…
Windows DLL Files – Meaning & Missing
Many times I was left scrambling to figure out, on what a particular DLL file does, its purpose or for god’s sake why does it even exist?. It will be…
My new XPhone II
My years of waiting for a good Smartphone running Microsoft Windows OS is finally over. Till now MS Smartphones were lacking behind Nokia Phones in terms of ease of handling…
Counting Letters in an Unicode String
Today I presented at the Tamil Internet 2004 conference held in Singapore, on counting the number of letters/alphabets in a Unicode String. The problem is that if we use the…
Kanchi Kailasanathar Temple
காஞ்சி கைலாசநாதர் திருக்கோயில் இந்த வாரம் புதன் கிழமை நானும் நண்பன் இ.ரவியும், காரில் காஞ்சிபுரம் சென்றோம். சென்னையில் இருந்து காஞ்சி, சுமார் 75கி.மி., ஒன்றரை/இரண்டு மணி நேரமாகும். நாங்கள் காலை 9:30 மணிக்கு வீட்டைவிட்டு கிளம்பி, மதியம் 3:00 மணிக்கு…
Web Archaeology – Origin of a Browser
Internet Search can be Interesting and result in Unexpected findings. AOL has announced beta of a new Netscape Browser version for beta testers. I actually tried to find news/download of…
MSN Spaces
After the beta search, MSN has introduced beta MSN Spaces. Spaces are blogs on steroids. It supports Music List, Photo List, Customizable Themes, movable Modules and more. I am yet…
Useful links
Though not related, these are some useful URLs I came across recently 1. Information on when to “Using CLR Integration in SQL Server 2005” by SQL Server team in Microsoft…