Archive for the ‘A strong urge to blog…’ Category

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How do you make T61′s 14″ screen look miniscule?

Simple! Put it up against a 23″ LCD screen – ha ha ha I just bought a new 23″ Samsung LCD for my new desktop. The screen is so huge & so bright that the 14″ screen of my T61 actually looks timid when compared side-by-side!! Accompanying the awesome VDU, is an equally well built [...]

OMG! Chrome-4.0 is nearly 59% and 76% faster than Firefox-3.7a1pre on my T61 (Ubuntu Jaunty)

Okay, to start off – I really wanted Firefox to come on the top… I’ve been a dedicated firefox user ever since and simply love the product. The fact that it has addons for any conceivable functionality – makes it r0ck even more! However, to my surprise Google’s Chrome beats it hands down when it [...]

And Zoto is back online!

Everyone f*cks up once in a while – I’ve done it a gazillion times and so did Zoto! After they reported their servers crashing, their services were down for almost 4-5 weeks. Which was PRETTY bad! But its okay as I said… So would that mean I’d move away from Zoto? – No. Support from [...]

Super easy SUB-URI hosting with mod_rails

With an Amazon EC2 instance up, next very obvious task was to get the hosting up. Objective was to host static content along with multiple Rails apps on the same EC2 instance. Purists might not agree to this, but getting up and running was the first target. Apache is configured with DocumentRoot as /mnt/app/shared My [...]

Questions every budding entrepreneur should ask thyself…

So after much a long time, I am back to spending time reading, again. I’m not a voracious reader – but I do have a few select titles which I always wanted to read. And while watching David Heinemeier Hansson interviewing Timothy Ferris, I realized that I do need to push “The 4 hour work [...]

Dreams – and – Newton’s Laws of Motion

Dreams – and – Newton’s Laws of Motion Most of us have had dreams when we were still in college… with Microsoft, Google, Dotcoms, etc being our prime idols. Build something big, sell it off, make those quick millions – and – reiterate. However, when the actual time comes, the typical lifecycle an engineering graduate [...]

Happy Birthday ApnaBill.com

Exactly a year ago… Today – ApnaBill.com completes a year of existance. Wishing ApnaBill a very Happy Birthday. I hope it will see many more such prosperous years ahead. The celebrations start tonight But first… more zapping bugs…

Thank you Mom for everything…

There are a ton of things that I can thank Mom for – and i’ll still have another ton to go for… She’s one person who was, is and would always be my side come whatever. I still remember how we all three (sam, mom & me) used to tag along every morning starting @ [...]

Make your vote count!

To whomever you vote for, make sure that you do… and make it count! (Thats mine, Manish’s, Sandy’s & Sameer’s)