For some "avoidable" reasons ;-), I did not blog for quite some months. Today I felt like writing. Today was a different sunday, after long time. Sunday with nothing doing. After watching two movies on saturday night, "One flew over cockoo's next" & "Home of the brave", I went to bed at 3AM. Today, Sunday, woke up at 11AM. After quick snax at bakery, again browsed and slept. Evening woke up and had a stroll. Stroll made me to notice the trees that were blooming with beautiful flowers. I realised the spring times in Bangalore. I hardly notice them while driving in bike. All the trees surrounding the B.T.M layout ground were flowering, and it was a great view.
Came back home after a dandy hair cut and "cool" oil massage. After a warm shower, felt completely relaxed. And these made me to blog today. Today was a futile sunday but a relaxing one.I wish I would continue writing on the blog in future.

Wish u great leap in this Leap Yr 2008

My sincere wishes for all, to have a huge leap in all ur endeavours , in this leap Year.

Many of us will be fixing some new year resolutions. I believe we did this last year also, and few of them could not be followed after a month. I got a technique, to adhere to some of the resolutions. I call this as "open resolutions". Those Resolutions that are not so secretive can be revealed to people u move with often. Thus u will be concious abt ur resolutions, as u see them regularly , and automatically implement the resolutions.
Happy New Year 2008 !

External mouse for laptop

In my cyberayya(laptop's pet name), I generally use the touchpad for mouse operations. I got acquainted with it after 3 yeas of using my laptop. For long hours of usage, I thought it is not ergonomic to use just two fingers for mouse operations. It is true. I bought an external USB mouse yesterday. The mouse operations looks easy now with the external mouse connected. I am able to navigate and click faster. Things seems simple, and I like it.

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!

Young Guns of India took a sure shot

I happened to watch a full cricket match, after long time. Thanks to the concept of Twenty 20 matches. They are very interesting, since it is short duration and very aggressive. The young team of India well fit in the 20-20 concept to blast the rest of the world and clinched the trophy. The secret of India's winning are "no-fear cricket" and "keep cool head, whatever happens" attitude. This is something anyone should take from the Indian cricket team that player 20-20.
One more nice outcome from the recent matches is that, all the Indians had hope again on the team. This united everyone, irrespective of ideologies, religion, etc.,and wish for a single goal, ie Indian team to win. In some time, the 1dayers shall also vanish like the test cricket, and 20-20 will stabilize with something "25-25".