Monthly Archives: February 2009

India Electoral Roll List search

Posted by toalakan-web on February 27, 2009 None comments

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 firefox or inside pdf which is a pain. So I had to literally read through all names in my ward and to every ones surprise I’m not listed :cry:

Waste of time. One good thing now I know my neighbours name and avoided a trip for my dad to check out the list.

Yamm Petra Inbam intha Vaiyakamum peratum..

Priceless in $2.16

Posted by toalakan-web on February 26, 2009 2 comments

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.

Palm Springs 2009 trip

Posted by toalakan-web on February 23, 2009 None comments

I just visited palm springs today and the weather was good.  As per the tram that’s marvel of engineering going from 2500 ft to 8500ft in 10 minutes you can’t beat that.

Well if you are near by its good to visit now since there is lot of snow out there and probably melt away in a a fortnight. So get moving..

Print Preview button missing in Chrome

Posted by toalakan-web on February 19, 2009 None comments

As I was testing one of my print style sheet in all browsers I found out that Google Chrome (1.0.154.48) doesn’t have a print preview button which is pretty much available in most of the browsers.sad

Did they miss it in the requirement or decided to leave it out like that to stand out of the herd ;)

Ee  adi chan copy nu solla mudiyathula ippa :D

How to get Current DB name and user in MS SQL server?

Posted by toalakan-web on February 17, 2009 1 comments

Most of the time I forget the command to get the DB name and current user when working. So decided to make post about it no better way to find the info fast.

Here are the 2 commands that basically gets the info.

  • Select DB_name() ;
  • Select Current_user;

Here is a post that my friend wrote on How to Insert Values into an Identity Column which I didn’t know to do before.

BTW he is Microsoft guy not CF :(

End of Tax Season 2008…

Posted by toalakan-web on February 12, 2009 None comments

Generally I procrastinate filing the tax every year but this year I filed it too early considering my standard.

Although I’m not getting much in federal and paying some to CA :( tax its the free e-file feature, sudden interest to file my tax and get the return before federal govt goes bankrupt  ;)   that motivated me to file early.

Thanks to FreeTaxUSA.Com for providing free federal tax return using the coupon code ‘FEDFREE‘.

People say California is on the verge of going bankrupt but still they made to provide this free e-file tool called CalFile which is pretty good. Instead of free e-file California can just remove the state tax itself :twisted: , I wish……..

Both the free e-file option are basic  and it should be good for most of my single friends in H1b or in F1 OPT.

Free aaah Kudutha ……. :lol:

Slumdog Millionaire is Slum

Posted by toalakan-web on February 2, 2009 2 comments

Yes the title says it. Its a really good desi masala movie packed in a nice little tamper proof plastic cup so that it can be cooked instantly in your DVD player.

As I was watching it I was wondering why it got nominated for Grammy and Oscars come on people haven’t you watched a better movie in your language.

I’m still wondering when was the last time Indians talked in Millions we follow the Indian Number system which is lakhs and crores.  The kids playing cricket reminds of  Chennai 28 which was a good movie.

Hell yeah this movie wasn’t  made for Indians it was made for the International community who are curious to know/learn about Mumbai after the November 26,2008 Mumbai attack.

Well there is one thing this movie has is A.R. Rahman but the Jai ho sounds similar to a track from Om Shanti Om and I’m not sure which song it is.

Its good marketing guys but don’t expect this to run this movie in India you know the result.

If only Kamal Hasan learns to market like these guys his Virumandi one of the best movies I have ever seen would have won a national award at least.

If you liked this movie then try watching yet another master piece called Pesum Padam/Pushpak from Kamal.

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