Unable to use flickr upload tool v2.3 on my XP Home

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yahoo being overlooked, advantage or disadvantage for them ?

Just now I finished reading this wharton article Why is Microsoft afraid of Google and surprisingly I don't think wharton guys even considered looking at yahoo too for same thing, while yahoo has recently shown real good products and unveiling(via M&A though) real great thing, honestly I strongly think people just got use to off overlooking yahoo, reason can be yahoo is pretty old and consistent and we got use to ignoring things like these in our daily lifes, while yahoo is the one who is big corporate from long time and still kept innovation there alive while google only couple of years back turned from startup to corporate and they still need to show that they can do same magic things even with there big size, I don't know this timely feeling or what, but I think google is just too overhyped in baloon of web2.0 and other things.

Tags: Yahoo wharton google web2.0

yahoo! don't fail to surprise me

In past couple of years I have literally felt that yahoo is not only sustaining well, but emerging really well and doing hell lot of creative work, which according to my experience is really not easy until and unless a great culture, environment and great desire to be creative is pushed from top down, there is really no reverse theory here, it never ever happens that top people will learn from people at bottom and can change things, it is always motivations and desires from top to bottom which drives the companies and yahoo is really doing good at this, now in acquisitions they are no ebay, they really know what exactly they want and choosing them silently but carefully, flickr being the biggest and best deal I would say they got, and just now they have acquired upcoming.org which is also not so old(2 years) and managed by only 3 people.
Hats off to yahoo team at top!

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any hack to send ipod mini to deep sleep directly ?

Lately I have started using my ipod only once in 3-4 days, and the day I use it, I make sure I give him complete charge, but nxt time w/e I pick up, it starts immediately which means it was not in deep sleep, despite of the fact that I havn't touched it more than 36hrs, which is official time by Apple when untouched ipod goes in deep sleep, also after a song or two and sometimes maximum of 20 minutes this dude is again on power low and starts blinking about it, Really strange behavious, I am surely going to try few things over it, like instead of stopping between the song, make sure I stop it and things like that, But I am still surprised by the fact that there is no way to put pod directly in deep sleep, I did found a linux stuff ... But really don't wanna try those things for now, anyone with any magical hack ?

Tags: ipod ipodmini

Friend's visit, Hectic day, rainy evening, and least expected gift

It was almost over 4.30am on Friday morning when I went to bed as I came back around 2am from a friends place after a small party and than really wanted to work on something which I have been working on from long time now, than 7.30am comes the call of my friend who was taking a connecting flight via here, as we had already planned about it, he took the train from airport till the town and I picked him up from the station, was really good to see him after many months as he is the one I remain in touch a lot by emails and phone, now he wanted a good coffee, it was little over 8.30am and I didn’t expect any shopping mall to fully open so decided to hang around somewhere near my place so we drove to a small shopping mall near my place, but yeah neither star bucks nor coffee bean was open by that time, so we ended up in mcdy’s and for the change I really liked the breakfast and it was the first time I could actually finish the coffee from mcdy’s, though he was as usual complaining that they have put creamer, I wanted black coffee!
Rest of the day passed by neatly as we took the walk near down town, did some shoppings, goofing , his flight was 5.30pm back, so I dropped him around 3.45pm to same station and since he already had a boarding pass so no check In was required, all what he needed was to just reach airport, while I really was not aware of this, and was pushing him to rush, while I was driving back there was heavy rainfall and for a moment it felt like someone is actually doing this intentionally to break the glasses of all the cars, and when I was home there was this beautiful gift waiting for me in postal box, it was a nice black colored ipod armor, but holly !$@, I am hardly going to use this thing, there are other ipod accessory and other stuffs which I desparately want to have, mainly a nice docking station which can utter descent quality of sound, but most on my mind are at moment are these German speakers which I would really like to own, very soon.

Joke of the day: No women at night in Haryana BPOs

I was about to go to bed jst now, and caught this news on times of India, I find it really funny, I think they will take this decision back in a week or two...

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No women at night in Haryana BPOs

Issue with delicious popular list ?

I can see few items repeatedly, are they expected and I am wrong?


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Petronas twin tower seen via google earth

IE7 can show two drop down components together

Okay above issue is happening really frequently and Im bit distracted, This seems to be somehow related with issue my friend Ravneet have posted sometimes back.
I really wonder, when rule says there can't be any two drop down s like menu's or combo all together even across applications than how come IE7 is able to show these type of dropdown all together in same window. Moreover, neither of them will go and you can't do anything else than move focus out and bring it back and problem solved, Okay yeah I have seen this issue in many others apps too ...

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Best bit torrent client I have ever used

all time delicious

Whenever you wanna check for the most delicious site, you go to del.icio.us/popular, issue with it is that it shows the most popular links for that time, and never of last 24,48 hour, or say for all time popular, so here we go, so this dude xabi has created this populicio.us and there you can see all time popular on delicious, and there all time high is /. well honestly I didn't expect slashdot to be alltime high, as I never thought even its user need to add it to favorites, so surely delicious is not place for just favorites, but it is essentially becoming a platform which can be linked to dozens of different places.
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Loomia , place to get/play good podcast

I am one of those who like to restict use of iTunes for pod synchronization only, and hate to make it platform and this is the reason I never till now downloaded any podcasts from iTunes(Even free ones) and rather was depending on odeo to download for me, and even I do download manually my favorite ones like venture voice sometimes, But recently I am getting addicted to finding real good podcasts using loomia, they give far better search results than old odeo and moreover they bridge one interesting limitations, some people really wanna hear them while they are behing proxy/firewalls which don't allow music file download, so these guys even allow you to play online those shows.

Moving to blogspot from my own domain

Immediately from now I am moving contents from my hosted domain sp2p.net to my own own @ blogspot URI, I have modified sp2p.net registry to redirect to long-wind.blogspot.com hopefully in couple of hours it should take effect.
Special thanks to Andy Quayle for providing me hosting for past 1 year.

Weired taste : green iguana as pet ?

Just now I was going downstairs to buy hotdog for dinner and a couple was already in lift, and on the arms of the man was the pet which I never understand how and why people keep, it was green iguana and his wife was serving him(pet) the small green leave and he was happily resting there and munching it, but it was kinda weired site for me, I was like moving in lift and sticking to life wall to make sure that no way I touch this guys arm and in-turn his pet.

3 days, 1100kms in Rajasthan and output is...

I am on vacation in my hometown(Jaipur) these days and ended up driving 1100kms in starting 3 days, now resting from past 2 days and going to Agra for seeing Taj on coming sunday, yes again driving :-)

broken car
Originally uploaded by hemants.