The Ripple Effect

May 18, 2009 – 1:38 am
With the United Progressive Alliance - UPA lead by Congress(I) winning the 2009 Indian parlimentary election with a surprise and its ripple effects has started showing up. Obviously the first place to feel the effect is the closest to the center that's Srilanka where BBC has reported that Velupillai Prabhakaran leader of LTTE has been killed. Although it could be rumor as usual but pretty much LTTE will be taken of the equation from now on in Srilanka. But good news LTTE regrets the loss of innocents life ,not able to protect them any more and willing to silence their guns (nice term indeed). There above statement is like the saying in tamil kann ketta pin sooriya namash kaaram which means Praying to the Sun god after losing the eye. All mayhem over the weekend.. Update - 05/24/2009: LTTE has finally accepted that Prabhakaran is dead. Hopefully with the end there will be a better solution in srilanka.

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India Election result maps(2009) using ESRI Arcgis Flex API

May 15, 2009 – 6:14 pm
As usual I was lookig for a site that would show the Indian goverment election 2009 and I found out that electio commision has a site set up with the maps and stats online. Here is the web site http://www.eciresults.nic.in/ The intersting part is they have a amazing interative map online using ESRI Arcgis Flex API and Arcgis server. BTW ESRI is a company that I work for and now I can tell my friends when my friends ask about the place I work.

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What next?

April 26, 2009 – 10:52 pm
I was totally shocked and surprised by this sudden move of the current CM of Tamil Nadu M Karunanidhi to go on an indefinite fast unto death today to bring a ceasefire between srilanka and ltte. That too after  J Jayalalithaa declared she would strive to form Eelam if she wins the 40 seats. Sooner or later some one is going to promise we will rename Tamil Nadu to Eelam if we form the government in central. We still got solid 17 days before D day so any thing can happen people be on the watch out... If I'm right these 2 parties AIDMK and DMK ruled Tamil Nadu for last 30 years ,were part of most governments in central and this war has been going for last 30 years. What are the odds of this scenario happening and a solution not being found for last 30 years? -Updated April 27,2009 1.00PM What a surprise the ...

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How to avoid shoe being thrown during a press conference?

April 8, 2009 – 11:42 pm
A question that pretty much every security agency protecting politicians all around world are worried about. But its pretty simple especially for Indian police just change the press conference to a near by Hindu temple where shoes/slippers are not allowed inside and you are safe. :) It would be better if they avoid the following temple mentioned here. Please send me the video link if you find one.

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2 down 3 more to go

March 31, 2009 – 11:33 pm
Yes people it doesn't happen all time to me but this year 2009 I'm walking the road that I decided to go through 4 months ago. Now I will be happy to strike off 2 items from the list. Lose that 10 pounds that I gained last year. I have already started working on it and lost 3 7 pounds in a month so I expect to lose that 10 by end of April 2009. Its slow but works for me. Get my parents to USA one that has been failing for the last 2 years. Jump into Adobe Flex. Talk/read less about the srilankan ethnic issue which I was doing a lot during 2008. Its just too dragging and I have strong appetite to read about it so I’m planning to reduce that appetite. Increase my blogs viewers base and posts more on tech rather than on politics. It would be hard since 2009 is ...

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How to identify and delete duplicate records from sql table

March 16, 2009 – 12:12 am
Well I'm sure any SQL developer out there would have encountered a problem where the duplicate records in a table have to eliminated for some reasons. I recently encountered a similar situation where I had to remove the duplicate user name from a table with just one simple query . Here is how I did it: Here is my tbl_username table having the following columns UID( auto increment primary key), uname (varchar(100)), fname (varchar(100)): UID Uname fname 1 xyz xyz 2 xyz xyz 3 abc abc 4 qwerty qwerty 5 qwerty qwerty We would have to remove the duplicate user names in order to do that we first build a sub query that picks up the uname and max id of the duplicate records. Select uname, max(UID) as latestUID from tbl_username group by uname having count(uname) > 1 Result: Uname latestUID xyz 2 qwerty 5 By using the max function we can pick the latest entry to be deleted if you like to pick the lowest use the min() function. Well if you have got this then its pretty much simple ...

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Never ending Surangani..

March 7, 2009 – 8:01 pm
Some songs just don't die just like the Batman,spider man or the Friday the 13th movies. Same like that the Surangani baila song from Srilanka was remixed in tamil in the past and now the Surangani remix by Dinesh Kanagaratnam yet again adapted in tamil movie called 'taxi TN O7 AL 4777' and its one of the best remixes I have listened in recent times. Surangani tamil remix called Aathichudi  from taxi TN O7 AL 4777. The original video track was removed from Youtube hence i'm including just the audio track from youtube. Surangani Remix  by Dinesh. I personally like this one.. Original Surangani sinhala track probably who ever listened to Ceylon radio would know this song. Original Surangani track adpated by an old tamil movie. Not so great though..

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Square root day – 03/03/2009

March 3, 2009 – 12:50 am
Well I was reading this CNET news which was about square root day falling tomorrow i.e. 03/03/09 which occurs only 9 times in a century. Tuesday is Square Root Day, a rare holiday that occurs when the day and the month are both the square root of the last two digits of the current year. Numerically, March 3, 2009, can be expressed as 3/3/09, or mathematically as √9 = 3, or 3² = 3 × 3 = 9. I know its absurd but I have my own reasons to post about it. The following are the square root days if you have failed in second grade 01/01/2001 02/02/2004 03/03/2009 04/04/2016 05/05/2025 06/06/2036 07/07/2049 08/08/2064 09/09/2081

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India Electoral Roll List search

February 27, 2009 – 12:44 am
Yet again I was immersed  reading Wikipedia articles and I found a site that basically provides search interface to search the electoral roll list of India. With elections on the way  this tool would avoid people from visiting the poll booth and return back with out voting since they aren't in the list. It can be accessed from the below link. http://search.eci.gov.in/ BTW I'm not sure if it really works because I kept encountering this login pop up which was annoying so I found the site for Tamil Nadu Election commison to check if I was there in the list. One more you need to download their own tamil fonts and install. I know.. Bummer TN election has a search interface with Under construction message.  They do have another form which gives out tamil pdf for district - Constituency ward list for each of them. Again bummer its in tamil so I can't search in ...

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Priceless in $2.16

February 26, 2009 – 12:28 am
I want to.. I would like to... Yes the Priceless the movie is $2.16 thanks to Redbox for bringing out the DVD. If you enjoy watching romantic comedies or a fan of Audrey Tautou like me you can watch it for everything else MasterCard is their.

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