January 2008
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resisting the urge to sign-up on Pownce
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Installed the Second Life client; was very slow - looks like my hardware is antique on the graphics side (Intel 82852 Graphics driver)
Checked out www.controlc.com - a web clipboard for text & URLs. Its similar to other bookmarking sites but has a nice fancy name
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Cheap, Fast, Reliable
One can only choose 2 from the above 3 adjectives. We were discussing a solution when a senior colleague told me this. Try it out and see for yourself. You cannot execute a project that will give a solution with all the three attributes.
Interesting slides on blogging styles: http://tinyurl.com/3c3s7s
Jhok Ranjhan from Mekaal Hassan Band is amazing. http://tinyurl.com/2dckfl
A film-filled weekend: Bhagat Singh (brilliant stuff - watched for the 6th time), Munna Bhai 2 and Jab We Met (both surprisingly were good)
People in the corporate world need to realize that if they are not upto the job i.e incompetent, they should at least try to be friendly
Two good online photo editing sites - http://www.flauntr.com/ and http://www.phixr.com/
Sometimes the only replies that you get from people are the “Out of Office” auto-replies….
“Bowled him!” - a bowler rattling the batsman’s furniture, that’s what pumps up my adrenaline while watching Cricket - live or otherwise
Back to basics: reading Google’s guidelines on what a friendly site is
A long, tiring day today - will need additional rest to face tomorrow
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ibibo - Review
Having seen the ad for ibibo.com on TV a few times, I decided to check the site out. The site loaded fast but the interface looked pretty bland. A Flash interface is not required but brighter colors could have been used as a white background looks like a corporate site. I took a brief tour of the site and then went to register, the process was straight forward with the customary mail confirmation...
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www.DaneshZaki.com
Finally, I’ve got a domain of my own and have setup a Lifestream through Tumblr that aggregates content from this blog, my Twitter feed and my Flickr account. Please stop by.
Dealing with Darwin: Ideas in Action →
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Lifestream
After a lot of deliberation I have finally setup this site as a Lifestream.
What does it do?
It gathers my posts from my blog, my micro-blog and photos from my Flickr account. I am planning to add Google bookmarks also to the feed list shortly.
So?
So, when compared to a normal web site, the chances of this getting updated is higher, as updates from multiple sources get captured here. And it...
Finally, a domain of my own - www.daneshzaki.com
The Aussies bite the dust, finally! And deservedly so, after winning the last match with 13 men, they had to!
The exhibits at the Peace conf were amazing; got to know a lot about true Islam. Excellent opportunity: last 2 days http://snurl.com/1xqho
IndiaTimes domain service sucks big time - tech support doesn’t know how to update a CNAME rec & won’t tell you until you ask them.
In need of a long vacation, a couple of months… Totally exhausted working late nights…
Changed my username to my real name as part of my effort to consolidate my online presence under one brand er name
The “karambu” (sugar cane) seems to have come a bit late to the streets this year - usually it is at least a week before Pongal
Happily customized GreatNews - the RSS reader using stylesheets - so dumb of me not to know how to do this for so long…
Customizing Thunderbird - still a few quirks while handling multiple accounts
20% of employees contribute to 80% of the revenues
Looking forward to attending the Peace convention - http://snurl.com/1x6su
Tumblr with all its lifestream aggregation features seems very interesting - signed up yesterday
Working like a dog these days… no time for lunch today, the day closed to midnight yesterday, not share what will tomorrow be…
We all know that the Aussies are the best cricket side in the world, why do they need the umpires to play alongside them to win a match?
Chittr - First Impressions →
I have been using Chittr - a Twitter like Indian site for micro-blogging, sporadically. It seems to be a good start and has the first-mover advantage in India (I don’t think there is any other Indian site that plays in the micro-blogging space). Chittr has done a few things right by providing multiple options for updating posts - through SMS, IM and E-mail. The ability to send SMS to an...
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Chittr - First Impressions
I have been using Chittr - a Twitter like Indian site for micro-blogging, sporadically. It seems to be a good start and has the first-mover advantage in India (I don’t think there is any other Indian site that plays in the micro-blogging space). Chittr has done a few things right by providing multiple options for updating posts - through SMS, IM and E-mail. The ability to send SMS to an...