They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

My Blog state now !! :-)

2015 Post

Posting it from my new mobile...!!! :-)

From mobile app

Just want to check how the blogger app works in my mobile..

World Cup South Africa 2010

1 year < 45 seconds !!!

"Days are running away so fast" - you may heard this dialog many times...but check out this cool video....

welcoming 2010 !!!

Updating this blog after a year. Busy with lot of other stuff. Hereafter I will try to update my blog post regularly .

HAPPY NEW YEAR WISHES TO ALL !!!

Happy New Year

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Zoozimps - cool gmail theme

2 weeks before I saw the "new theme" feature at gmail and didn't like anything from that list. Because i am happy with the classic layout what gmail has by default(light blue color)..

Today again i have checked that page and found this theme called "Zoozimps" ..

This is really cool theme..especially I liked the image above the gchat window(inside gmail)..



And when playing in the gmail settings page, I found one more interesting area where you can add your igoogle widgets..

I have added daily toon widget in the gmail !!!!! ..if you want to add, please try the below procedure..

1. gmail -> click on "settings" link in the top -> press "labs" tab-> go to "Add any gadget by URL" area - > enable the check box - > save the changes.
   
2. This will add "Gadgets" tab in the settings.
   
3. Again go to "settings" link in the top -> click "gadgets" tab->
   paste the below URL and click "add" button..that's it.
   http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/102996670912639543582/DailyToon.xml

:-)

Congrats, Mr.Change !!!!

checkout more pics here ...

and read this cool blog post about this topic,
I DIDN'T VOTE FOR OBAMA

Celebration Time

Design Coding

Wow!! Superb Video....



lyrics:Your site design is the first thing people see
it should be reflective of you and the industry
easy to look at with a nice navigation
when you can't find what you want it causes frustration
a clear Call to action to increase the temptation
use appealing graphics they create motivation
if you have animation
use with moderation
cause search engines can't index the information
display the logos of all your associations
highlight your contact info that's an obligation
create a clean design you can use some decoration
but to try to prevent any client hesitation
...
...
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Weekend special

I have spent last weekend by surfing the below posts & enjoyed reading each and every comment in these post..This is what called really really crowd pulling writeups.....techcrunch used that in a perfect way!!!!!

Its all long posts..please read all the post & its really worth to waste your time in these kind of posts..

main post->
http://www.calacanis.com/2008/03/07/how-to-save-money-running-a-startup-17-really-good-tips/
http://www.calacanis.com/2008/03/07/can-you-have-a-life-and-work-at-a-startup-company/

techcrunch ->
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/08/startups-must-hire-the-right-people-and-watch-every-penny/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/07/calacanis-fires-people-who-have-a-life/

37-signals - > http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/902-fire-the-workaholics

Zoho - >http://blogs.zoho.com/general/toondoo-office-unproducitivty-suite/

Zoli Blog -> http://www.zoliblog.com/2008/03/08/oops-they-fired-all-their-workaholics/

Scobleizer ->http://scobleizer.com/2008/03/08/calacanis-is-right-startups-cant-afford-slackers/

I am not a bigshot to write my comment about this debate !!!!..if you have anything to say, please write it here as a comment..

btw, i watched couple of DVDs too,
a) Mr.Brooks -
b) Run Fat Boy Run

both are wonderful moives..I have decided to go to gym(regularly!!! :-)) after watching the second movie..!!!! overall, it was a nice weekend!!!!

Happy Valentines Day

GYM(google-yahoo-ms) will become GM

There is a Flickr group against the recent hot deal in the web(Microsoft bid for Yahoo).
I love their creativity..checkout more pictures here.

my favorite picture from that list,


original picture,
http://flickr.com/photos/gnal/2234037367/in/pool-microsoft-keep-your-evil-grubby-hands-off-our-flickr

Best Free Presentation tool in the WEB

Web will become a platform soon(or is it already arrived that stage???!!!). So at that time, everything will be a WEB application only.

My friend used to say
" web1.0 era - If we stuck at anywhere in the application, we used to do the restart the system & everything will work fine afterwards.
web2.0 era - If we stuck at anywhere in the application, we used to do the restart the browser & everything will work fine afterwards "

So that's how our web life has changed now.

For a long time, I have been thinking to explore zohoshow tool.Finally I did it now....its really cool & easy..checkout my presentation using that tool ( last year mobile shots with this year calendar details)

Pongal Wishes to All

If you don't know any thing about this festival, checkout this blog post..

Happy Pongal.

Hello World -2008

I have created one simple page where you can write your 'New Year Resolution' plan for the year 2008..

Checkout that page,
http://writer.zoho.com/public/duraionly/Write-It-Down

Happy New Year Wishes to All.

Happy Christmas!!!!

Goolge - Tamil

I have updated my Tamil blog after a long time... This time i used "google transliterate" page..Its so simple.

especially, word suggestion..wow..really cool. Just imagine, how far google has reached in the other language side!!!

When I was viewing that page, I just thought of one more option like this..:-) :-)

iPhone Vs iRobot(Android)

Android SDK for developers released recently. checkout google blog post to know more.

It got a mixed review in the blogosphere. But in my opinion, google did a great job. And currently released SDK is java based. checkout my first program in that kit.(i used plain editor..not eclipse)


yea...this is the first question everyone asks after reading those links..how it differs from j2me???? this blog has a wonderful answer for that question..

"Kind of like telling someone they have to stay in their hotel room on vacation (J2ME) and giving them free reign of an entire resort (Android)."

that's true..checkout this simple API, you will come to know how deep you can work on this.. http://code.google.com/android/reference/android/telephony/gsm/SmsMessage.html

detailed system-architecture diagram here ....

very soon, someone will write a hack to support an existing j2me MIDP apps to run in this environment!!! (this is also my guess :-))

Join this group, if you are a mobile(java!!!) developer & want to explore more in this area. http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en

really interesting times ahead...

Interview: James Gosling

Question : What is your impression of Google?
Gosling : Part of me feels really deeply disturbed that the killer app for the Internet is turning out to be advertising.

More...

Knowledge Worker 2.0

One more nice presentation from slideshare.net.

In the web2.0 era,a lot of things have changed.. this slide has a wonderful info. about how the transformation happening in the the knowledge worker side...




After reading these slides, I just thought of new roles in the web2.0 period ..its completely different from the old skill set like java programmer / dotnet programmer..etc..

Here is the list :
a) Mashup Developer
b) API designer(REST / XML RPC)
c) Ajax programmer(expert in in one javascript library, json, xmlhttp..etc)
d) Web2.0 UI designer
e) Facebook developer (customize your app to run in facebook platform)
f) Blogger & expert in RSS or ATOM
g) Plugin/widget developer
h) Web2.0 Market Researcher
...
...
..
etc.

my favorite picture from the above slide..:-)
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Java

Question : Is it possible to write a "robotic" program using Java?
Answer : Yes, you can.....

:-)



source : http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070907.html

Presentation in a pleasant way !!!!

I saw this nice presentation in slideshare.net site. really cool . Especially I liked the 56^th slide which says "No audience? Present to the furniture. But ALOUD. Try it" ..wow..

Somewhere in the net I read like "more than 10 slides will kill yr presentation"..that's what lacking in the below presentation..that's ok if it has nice background images !!!!



Hope you enjoy this presentation..please follow this too..:-)