My Thoughts !

Yesterday I was speaking with my friend whose is thinking of getting a new car. He asked me, if I were to buy a car, which car will I decide. Nice question. Me making a decision?

Well, when was the last time I made a decision by myself? I digged into my memories and finally found it out. It was a nice evening and I was in Chennai. I was sitting in the balcony and was thinking "Should I marry or not". I decided to get married. Thats it. After that I don't decide much. Initially it was something like this:

He : Wow, what a nice shirt? I'm going to buy that.
She: What? A black shirt. No that will not fit you da. Let us look for something else

Read the "Let us" as "I will". For the first few times it was little tough. After that I got used to that. Now its more or less like this:

(While driving)
He : Shall I take right and go thru Old Madras Road or turn left and go thru Airport Road
She: Thru Airport Road.

(Over a phone)
He : Hey She. What are you doing?
She: Cooking. Why?
He : illa, I've a small doubt. I need to name a variable. Which one sounds better? "isSynchronized" or "isInSync".
She: Try "isSynced"

See, making decisions is no more my job. Its been delegated to her. Now, my friends ask me about which Car will I decide. Poor bachelor. He doesn't have the comfort of having someone else do all the thinking and making decision. He has to do it by himself. I pity him.

PS:
In another two days, both chinna ammani and peria ammani are coming. Expect more He-She coming up ;-)

When I was wondering about this, I get to see this also. :-(

The Securities and Exchange Commission of US has done a brave move, which is to be welcomed by every e-mail user. Confused? Read this. It takes lot of guts to take this decision. These kind of decisions will definitely reduce spam mails. What next? Ban the sites that sell the software at "unimaginable cost"? Ban the pharmacies which sells the viagara and "increase my length"? Ban the banks which "approved loans"?

For me above all, I'm willing to donate my

• 3yr old PC loaded with Ubuntu


• my Adidas T Shirt that I bought with 50% flat discount


• my Project Manager

all to Google, if they can freeze the email ids of persons who forwarded me the great "Vijaya T. Rajender & Mumtaj in Veerasamy" photo.

Mayflowers trees (aka Fire of the Forest) are beautiful during the month of May. The tree will have very few leaves and will be full of those red flowers. Other months those are simply just an other tree.

February Flowers falls in the same category. There were lot of these trees in Bangalore and till Jan I didn't knew about them. In the past few weeks, they have become beautiful and got my attention. They are in different colors. Yellow, Blue, Pink, etc. Mayflowers at least have few leaves, but these trees are full of flowers. Raja has taken some snaps of these flowers.

Check this, this and this.

BTW, does anyone know the real name of these flowers? I didn't know the real name, so I call these February Flowers :-)

Related links:
May Flowers

Happened to see a nice video in youtube. Check it out:

Now that I own a Mac, I've to kick M$ and M$ products and praise Apple's product. At least thats I've seen with every switcher. On the contrary, I'm now praising a M$ product - Photosynth. Its really cool and nice one. It analyzes a set of photos and presents you a 3D view of it. Its really wonderful idea and an amazing implementation as well. More over its not a desktop product like Picasa, rather its on the net. Check this out for yourself: http://labs.live.com/photosynth

It could be addictive. Its interesting to see the pictures taken with effects applied. Here are some pics.

After a long thought, finally I've purchased a 2 GHz White MacBook. It did make a dent in my wallet, but I was sure that I won't face any problem. I unpacked it in my office and started working with this. Installed Yahoo Messenger; added my Google Account to iChat, downloaded Eclipse, configured the office printer & wifi at home without any trouble...

When I thought working with Mac didn't have much troubles as I initially thought. Until I tried to use Google's Page Creator. The error message said:

Oops!
Sorry, your web browser is not yet supported.

Our programming wizards tried their darndest to get Google Page Creator to work with as many browsers as possible. But alas, even the most expert practitioners of web sorcery must sleep now and again, lest their JavaScript magic run dry.

So, for now, you'll need either to download a new version of Firefox or download a new version of Internet Explorer (Windows only), and then come right back.

Hey, you guys at PageCreator team, if you didn't know it, there is a nice toolkit for Ajax called GWT which gives you compatibility with most of the browsers. How about trying it? Its nice and it comes from a company called hmmmmm Google.

I've whole lot of plugins (Mylar, WTP, Subclipse...) installed in my Eclipse. Sometimes, I will have OutOfMemory Error and the workbench will close after showing an "Internal Error" message box. Today the "Internal Error" message box had an interesting error message. Here is the screen shot:

 

Hugh Thompson has written an interesting entry about how he crashed an InFlight Entertainment System. Thankfully, it was not connected to the avionics and everyone survived.

Check this.