Hummaa

I am not that person who download all the songs from net. I usually listen songs online and leave it. If its very nice, I try downloading. I had been using the raaga.com to hear online. The sound quality was very gud. In Ubuntu, I could not really sync real player with the raaga.com. Then I discovered the www.hummaa.com [Beta version]. This has nice GUI interface. Almost all the new tamil songs are available here for listening. I hope it has all latest hindi and Telgu songs too. Sound quality is also gud. The other gud thing is no advertisements while listening to songs.

Debugging Tip: Take a break

In a Programmers life, debugging is an indispensable part. Many of the debugging are interesting, and sometimes addictive. It becomes so addictive that u cant concentrate on other works, until that bug is fixed or that problem is solved. Sometimes the debugging can take u to one more level namely "frustration". This happens for the most complex problems, less reproducible issues. If u see that the issue takes u in a recursive ride, landing in the same problem again and again, and no window of resolution, u might get bogged up in the same "square 1" position.
One better way to handle this situation is to "take a break". Depending on the level of frustration, u got to take a break. If its minor issue, u can just step out from ur cubicle, have a chat with ur friends, Go out for a walk, Grab the newspapaer in the reception lobby and spend some time in TT room. If it is very complex issue, and u had spend many days fighting at the issue, take a long break, half a day or a day. Change ur mind, so that u forget the code that u are looking for days. When u comeback from such break, I bet u, u wud find a break through in ur debugging.
Happy Debugging !

Konqueror

I was using the Mozilla browser that comes with Ubuntu. It is quite good, and very useful compared to Windows IE. Its useful features such as multiple tabs, search sub window, highlight feature, are very handy. But I had a problem, while reading Tamil web sites and blogs. Those web sites were displayed, but not so friendly readable format. All the "ooharams" in Tamil were misspelled. Then I came to know about the Konqueror. It is the browser that comes along with KDE. It has rich fonts support for displaying unicodes in native format. Nowadays, reading Tamil blogs became easy. Thanx Konqueror!