Category Archives: Personal

Stop Rocking when I’m asleep..

Just woke up to the news on radio that there was a 4.4 earthquake near Los angles and I didn’t even feel a bit  although I see a few entries from Redlands in the did you feel site.
Well gotta move the bed away from the windows, lets hope I do it by next year. May [...]

Amazon S3 isn’t for everyone

Its always been a pain to maintain a  backup of all photos and personal documents.When I heard about Amazon S3 cloud storage with its cheap pricing structure, I was in heaven finally a place I can store my data for eternity for cheap.
But when I started to move my data to Amazon S3 , the [...]

Windows 7 Vs Kubuntu 9.10 the fight continues..

I recently got a new laptop Lenovo ideapad Y550 which was supposed to come with Windows 7 but came with Vista instead but I already decided that I would use Ubuntu 9.10 to avoid all windows nightmare and started using Kubuntu 9.10 (KDE graphic environment of Ubuntu). I can do a whole podcast on the [...]

Bitten by the ATT data bug

I was caught unaware, unprepared and without guard when it bit me.
Yes, today I was bitten by a huge bill of 120$ of data charge for 12,000KB of data for my ATT wireless phone service.  So thats roughly a penny per kilobyte which is one of the costliest KB that I have ever paid for in my [...]

Change of theme

Its been quite a while since I switched my wordpress theme to a different one. I changed some time in march and there were some issues with IE browser so reverted.
This time I have decided not to change the theme for IE issues alone. I’m done playing games for IE.
As far as the new theme [...]

try{use xp;}catch(n crashes;slow;){use Ubuntu;}

Well the title explains it all. After using my IBM Thinkpad R50e for almost 3.7 years after

10 – 20 times of complete crash downs.
Backing up and recovering every time.
Slow system which wouldn’t allow me to use Eclipse   or Dreamweaver or run my fav coldfusion server CF8/Railo 3.
Upgrading my Ram to max 2 gb.

I [...]

2 down 3 more to go

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 [...]

How to identify and delete duplicate records from sql table

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 [...]

Square root day – 03/03/2009

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, [...]

India Electoral Roll List search

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 [...]