flickr is down: Thanks to yahoo

del.icio.us is actually delicious

From past couple of months I have been using del.icio.us and initially had trouble with its URL too, What a meaningless URL, though there service rocks.
Someone last evening was testing a external hard-disk over my laptop and he saw these icons on my firefox bookmarks toolbar

And says, delicious, I was shocked, DAM how on earth I couldn't think this from past so many weeks, where is my mind staying these days.

Fight with loneliness is getting harder

Last complete week was really heavy over since I moved to this town on feb1st of this year. Initially it was okay, and since I always lived with friends or some room mates in the past, So this time I really wanted to see how tough it can be living alone, Initially it was alrite, but slowly it was getting tougher and tougher, initially hooking over the net or playing ps2 late nights really was working, but since last one month I am feeling like I have lost the energy to fight loneliness, This has become a normal routine for me to come back at home not before 11pm on weekdays so that I don't need to spend anytime alone, and on weekends it is being real tough now, sometimes I come back home, park my car 3 levels up and than really think what I am going to do at home, and than without deciding any destination I go back, This is what happend yesterday night, I came back around at 8pm back, and than without going in my apartment, decided to go back, than reached a theatre, saw which all movies are playing, I had seen all the hollywood movies playing there, So decided to see a movie Initial D which in cantonese but with english sub-title, came back home around 1am and couldn't sleep till another 2 hours and now having a serious headache and thinking should go office or no, This insominia reminds me about a nasty comment I left a week or so back on a blogger from mumbai where I was making fun about her insomnia ... But somehow even after passing all this, I am still preferring to stay alone than moving with any of friend I know of, As I really want to test the limits, also I think living loneliness gives you lot of energy, you can really use this energy to drive yourself way way ahead, though it doesn't seems to be working for me.

suffering from conjunctivitis

Tuesday morning just after getting up it was very clear that it is no normal tuesday, and doubt was correct I got conjunctivitis, and now wednesday morning my another eye couldn't resist and she also got this disease,
so off from work from past 2 days and now wearing dark sun glasses even in dark places like parking lot, etc and facing the strange looks.
In answer to some of the questions and comments about from where I got this, I have no idea, only thing I remember about monday was I readed Martin Fowler blog and felt really sorry for him that he got his some bones broken.

welcome to a brand-new non-geek blogger

Okay, Here some1 really get impressed by couple of blogs I have sent him as link and he decide to join the blogging world too, This is one of my non-geek friend(only1?) and kinda my favorite these days as his job too sucks like mine :-)
Please welcome Manish Arora to blogosphere :-)

archive.org under attack: at last

It is being long time I am wondering how come no one is sue'g archive.org and here we go
I think it was very high probability of someone su'g them, as sometimes you really want to take this information offline, forever, but this guy really stick to it like gum and never leaving it off, indeed sounds like controversial concept, Though I would certainly agree that there are many advantages too it also at the same time...

PS: Photographs of amazon, yahoo, google I posted couple of days back was mined using archive.org (I forgot to specify in that post)
And yes, this news is courtesy slashdot

Trip to port dickson

pd_sunset
Originally uploaded by hemants22.

Last weekend we(myself, Rakesh and his wife Laxmi Raveendran) drove to Port Dickson which is around 150kms from Kuala Lumpur, It is one of the nearest beach to Kuala lumpur, experienced some great moments there, including one horrifying event when we came real close to a high speed accident, when Rakesh was driving near blue lagoon beach(hemant is sensible driver :-) )

JBI revisited: It works

Okay I eat my words that I posted last time about JBI. It do work this time when I tried on a system with SJSAS installed, and indeed this is pre-requistee for JBI which I missed. Though run sample example don't work all smoothly and you need to edit the example ant file, but honestly one shouldn't expect things to be more smoother than this for the product which is just in version 1.0(that too from sun :-) )
Sample application I tried uses SunFileBinding, SunSequenceEngine, SunSOAPBinding & SunTransformationEngine.

Market is always much bigger than we think

Last nite I was hearing the interview from venture voice where Greg was interviewing Philip Kaplan of adbrite, Philip made a interesting point around the end of the podcast, he said google is getting like billions from his adword/adsense program but still it is not even 1% of total advertising money spent alone in US, So there is always a space for people.
To me make lot of sense, As I tend to sometimes go in numbers and calculate in terms of economics which mayn't be really correct always.

Some comparision with past

Amazon in 1995 and Amazon in 2005








Google in 1998 and Google in 2005






Yahoo in 1996 and Yahoo in 2005

Tried JBI(Java Business Integration): Failed

It is being long I was keeping an eye on Java Business Integration of which recently 1.0 version is being released, And I must admit this is excellent idea, this thing can really fly as co-operates are spending hefty amount of $ in SAO technologies products(to name few TIBCO, Webmethods)
recently decided to try the latest 1.0 version, But couldn't try, anyone can see the following screen and easily guess why I couldn't



Yes, I simply don't have Sun app server on my system, But this time Sun's installer will not guess even this small thing, To be honest I really fail to understand why they can't learn from there earlier product installations and why everything should be started again & again from ground
I feel like asking them following questions
a) For windows why can't you use MSI when Java standard edition SDK is already using it, But rather you create a complex java GUI which takes years to mature ?
b) Why there is no manual installation steps or even readme or help file in installation zip? Yes I have seen installation link on web
c) Why can't I use the other app server? And why shouldn't you see which application server have highest market share and first make auto installation for them and rest can have manual installation.

Overall I am really disappointed bcz not able to try few demo's under it.
Anyone any lucks?

Google embed'g informat'n from other sources under there domain

Just notice this stuff.

Open google and type MSFT (or any stock ticker)




Now click on chart thumnail

finally google toolbar is for firefox too

After more than a year though, But I get google toolbar for my browser

Highest played count on my ipod

ALANIS MORISSETTE "Sorry To Myself"

For hearing all my doubts so selectively and
For continuing my numbing love endlessly.
For helping you and myself: not even considering
For beating myself up and over functioning.

To whom do I owe the biggest apology?
No one's been crueller than I've been to me.

For letting you decide if I indeed was desirable
For myself love being so embarrassingly conditional.
And for denying myself to somehow make us compatible
And for trying to fit a rectangle into a ball.

And
To whom do I owe the biggest apology?
No one's been crueller than I've been to me.

I'm sorry to myself.
My apologies begin here before everybody else.
I'm sorry to myself.
For treating me worse than I would anybody else.

For blaming myself for your unhappiness
And for my impatience when I was perfect where I was.
Ignoring all the signs that I was not ready,
And expecting myself to be where you wanted me to be.

To whom do I owe the first apology?
No one's been crueller than I've been to me.

And
I'm sorry to myself.
My apologies begin here before everybody else.
I'm sorry to myself.
For treating me worse than I would anybody else.

Well, I wonder which crime is the biggest ?
Forgetting you or forgetting myself...
Had I heeded the wisdom of the latter,
I would've naturally loved the former.

For ignoring you: my highest voices.
For smiling when my strife was all too obvious.
For being so disassociated from my body,
And for not letting go when it would've been the kindest thing.

To whom do I owe the biggest apology?
No one's been crueler than I've been to me.

And
I'm sorry to myself.
My apologies begin here before everybody else
I'm sorry to myself.
For treating me worse than I would anybody else.
I'm sorry to myself.
My apologies begin here before everybody else
I'm sorry to myself.
For treating me worse than I would anybody else

Book review: Struts survival guide

From past couple of days I was looking for some book for struts(free pdf) which is good fun to read and refreshen up the whole concept and at the same time have good setup for examples which can be tried without much efforts.
I tried many which includes Struts live but was really disappointed by the quality of book, till I got this book,struts survival guide from Shrikant Shinoy. He has made it really interesting read and told quite practical problems which people in day to day face, and comes up with good setup of examples too :)