Things that are making me insane

--> Highest priority is that I need to stop/reduce driving, I am driving like 4000kms in a month
--> I need better connectivity, My apartment wifi is not enough for me now, I need my own personal pipe and I am surely going to get once back from vacation
--> Enough for early morning iron'g, I am almost at edge of getting mad bcz of this problem, I need a maid to do this.
--> I need a maid to do house cleaning as well, enough of weekend cleaninig, I am giving up.
--> And right now I need a vacation badly and good thing is that I am going this weekend on one.

Google talk looks neat

Blogosphere is hot about google talk and just now I get this msg on exodus


That means google talk is released finally, and yeah as expected, it looks neater,



So next time if you don't see me on msn, try on google talk, my Id is Hemant.Singh@Gmail.com
I am sure in a month or so you can expect a upgrade which will do alot of new things too.

Tags: gaim exodus googletalk

Vacation time again

This coming saturday I will be starting my 2 weeks long waited(7 months) vacation, and yeah I am really looking forward for it, I am going my home town Jaipur and do plan to spend most of the time there only though at the same time plans I have to drive around country side too, I usually work-out more busy during my vacations than normal routine, indeed sometimes on my visit to home I cut my sleep time too to take those few extra hours to use, nahh I am not the one who think vacation is for sit around and sip martini, but rather go terrains and do that extra which usually one is not able to do during his routine.
So yeah, lemme know who all will be present in Jaipur/Delhi between 27Aug to 11Sep, and maybe we can arrange a nice meeting and sip martini :-)

To IE7 Dev team, Why will you not maintain even M$ GUI standards

Slashdot sometimes back reported that some chief guru of windows called IE7 as cancer, well the reason was because IE7 don't follow standards and even failing the basic test www body for browser compatibility, I was waiting from long time to rub my hand over it, Yesterday nite I atlast I got that anyhow, thanks to Ravneet. And it really surprised me to see that now Microsoft will not even follow there own standards, from years it is being practise that to close a document in MDI we need to use hotkey ctrl+4 to close the window, but IE7 will get close by ctrl+W, and not by standard key, yes technically IE7 is not MDI but to naive user it is MDI application and will remain so, and every1 on this planet is going to waste few seconds in learning this hot key, and not only this, now Alt+F --> C will not close browser too but Alt+F --> X, so lot of current automated web tests will also fail and organization will put lot of efforts solving this issues, Sometimes I feel this all might be intentional by company, reasons can be a dozen which really might make sense though only to them.

My desktop in free time

toblog
Originally uploaded by hemants.

Any buyers ?

Earth4Sale
Originally uploaded by hemants.

delicious finally reaches my blog

It is being real long time that I am try'g to crack something to bring my delicious favorites automatically in my blogroll, Indeed I tried writing some php script too, and was parsing the RSS feed given by delicious to keep it sync'd with my blog, okay yes it did worked, But somehow I didn't liked it, as no one else was able to use that php, as it was residing on my server, and just now delcious has launched this beautiful thing Now have a look at my blogs right side links, they all come LIVE from delicios
I am loving it :)

All silent sorround

I live in a big condominium and it have around 1000 apartments, I am sitting near pool since 10pm and havn't seen even one human being, in a while I jst hear some foot step sounds and most of the times it is just no one or sometimes maybe a cat around, it surprises me sometimes that what the heck all the people do, okay yeah most of them do the day job, but so do I am...

nice music album by tryad

I am listening to song our lives changes from tryad. You can download complete album
Here.
Yeah, Not all songs you will like :-)

externalization headache

It seems that lately I am suffering because of a top secret between me and god, 6 months back I architected the project in which I suggested lot of externalization, well yeah I was not wrong externalization if possible is always good for big monsters, but this one seems to be asking for more of maintenance effort than I can see its advantages, now even a small change require me to make sure that corresponding exernalization module is also sync'd, and this externalization is used till now ONLY once, and trust me those configuration files are getting really a issue by development team(not me :-) ) and it really worries me sometimes that whole thing might come down one day, I wish meta data feature of tiger was released in mantis than I would have been really able to keep this effort real less, And this time I would have surely tried my dream feature, meta tag with XPath, let me describe it little bit here, as most of the file size of configuration goes in describing mapping location, how about keeping a unique id with meta-tag and specify its corresponding xpath location with it ... sounds like a dream to me, I would really love to see if anyone has done anything like that yet, I can think of doing this by putting a preprocessor before compile, but I believe than there is no way we can avoid recompilation, than is it worth even doing the externalization :-) ?

New photo's uploaded on flickr

PB060056
Originally uploaded by hemants22.