Bought an ipod shuffle yesterday.. a 512MB one...
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Barca, the winners. ( Champions League Update )
Barcelona fought back from a goal down to beat 10-man Arsenal 2-1 and win their second European Cup in the 50th anniversary final at the Stade de France on Wednesday.Late strikes from striker Samuel Eto'o and substitute defender Juliano Belletti cancelled out a first-half header from Arsenal defender Sol Campbell.
Full story here
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Flickr Goes Gamma
Ya, Flickr have added some new features and changed its look to name itself as Flickr Gamma. The features that has been added are minimal but the layout change which has been made will take some time for a flickr user to be accustomed with. The menu have been relocated and the photo set have been shifted from left to right side of the page. Flickr blog says :
New Navigation, New Search, New and Improved Organizr, and the Person Menu. All of these improvements have been designed to help you navigate the site with less effort and organize your photos more efficiently.
Sunday, May 14, 2006
Friday, May 12, 2006
Google Launches "Google Trends"
Google Trends have been launched. It’s a analysis tool, that allows you to see how often specific search terms are being entered into the Google search engine. Google Trends analyzes a portion of Google web searches to compute how many searches have been done for the terms you enter relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time.
43thing i wanna do
I am hooked up with this site : 43things.com
More About 43 Things
Write down your goals
People have known for years that making a list of goals is the best way to achieve them. Why is that? First, getting your goals in writing can help you clarify what you really want to do. You might find you have some important and some frivolous goals. That is OK. You’ve got space for 43 Things on your list. Not every one of them has to change the world (but save room for the ones that might).
Get Inspired
What do you want to do with your life? It is not an easy question to answer – and you shouldn’t have to answer alone. Browse 43 Things to find out what others want to do. You might find some goals you share. Click the “I want to do this” button to add a goal to your list. Got an idea for a new goal? Just type it in the text box on the homepage or at the bottom of any page on the site. Bam. Now, it’s your thing.
Share your progress
We all have stories about what we care about. Writing down your progress on a goal can help someone else learn about something you both want to do. When you see a goal you’ve achieved, click on the “I’ve done this” button and share a story about how you did it.
I am doing 18 things
1. keep smiling 10 people
2. Start my own business 2499 people
3. Create a successful Startup 29 people
4. write a successful social web application 18 people
5. Buy a Sony CyberShot DSC-H1 1 person
6. Get a laptop 517 people
7. own an iPod 72 people
8. learn PHP 815 people
9. master CSS 588 people
10. learn ruby on rails 783 people
11. stay a non-smoker 13 people
12. give back to my parents 23 people
13. spend more time with my mother 14 people
14. Fly a plane 265 people
15. write a book 6761 people
16. Read more books 3905 people
17. Make my parents proud 454 people
18. be more social 1198 people
More About 43 Things
Write down your goals
People have known for years that making a list of goals is the best way to achieve them. Why is that? First, getting your goals in writing can help you clarify what you really want to do. You might find you have some important and some frivolous goals. That is OK. You’ve got space for 43 Things on your list. Not every one of them has to change the world (but save room for the ones that might).
Get Inspired
What do you want to do with your life? It is not an easy question to answer – and you shouldn’t have to answer alone. Browse 43 Things to find out what others want to do. You might find some goals you share. Click the “I want to do this” button to add a goal to your list. Got an idea for a new goal? Just type it in the text box on the homepage or at the bottom of any page on the site. Bam. Now, it’s your thing.
Share your progress
We all have stories about what we care about. Writing down your progress on a goal can help someone else learn about something you both want to do. When you see a goal you’ve achieved, click on the “I’ve done this” button and share a story about how you did it.
I am doing 18 things
1. keep smiling 10 people
2. Start my own business 2499 people
3. Create a successful Startup 29 people
4. write a successful social web application 18 people
5. Buy a Sony CyberShot DSC-H1 1 person
6. Get a laptop 517 people
7. own an iPod 72 people
8. learn PHP 815 people
9. master CSS 588 people
10. learn ruby on rails 783 people
11. stay a non-smoker 13 people
12. give back to my parents 23 people
13. spend more time with my mother 14 people
14. Fly a plane 265 people
15. write a book 6761 people
16. Read more books 3905 people
17. Make my parents proud 454 people
18. be more social 1198 people
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Bangalore Travel Series
Alexander Muse of Texas Venture Capital have written a nice series of article on Bangalore Travel. He had collected lots of details from his last visit to Bangalore for attending BarCampBangalore and made a series of travel tips. It Will be really a nice for those who are planning to come to Bangalore, The silicon Valley of India.
Bangalore Travel Series: No. 1 - How to get there
Bangalore Travel Series: No. 2 - Where to stay
Bangalore Travel Series: No. 3 - Where to eat
Bangalore Travel Series: No. 4 - What to do
Bangalore Travel Series: No. 5 - Where to shop
Bangalore Travel Series: No. 6 - Warnings and Tips
Thursday, May 04, 2006
Spirit of BarCampBangalore
Yes, it was not a conference, but a get together (or unconference by definition). More then that it was a platform for communication, idea exchange, a platform for knowing each other. I was really excited and motivated after attending the Bangalore BarCamp. Bangalore BarCamp unconference included lot of interactive sessions. Ya nearly 25 sessions. As expected when i reached yahoo office at 9.00am there where quite a large people who have showed up for the event. All where excited about being a part of this movement. There where some people who have come down to Bangalore just to organize or attend the camp. Some had even attended the recently concluded BarCamp at Delhi/Hyderabad/Chennai. But most of us where new and first timers. One interesting thing about the unconference anyone who attended would have noticed was the names of the unconference rooms : narangi, Toddy, Arrack, Fenni, Santra (upholding the BarCamp spirit). I wanted to mention some of the interesting sessions at BarCamp Bangalore which i could attend.
- Pete from yahoo on agile development model SCRUM
- Tara Hunt from Riya.com on Pinko Marketing
- Arun and Arjun on their new startup TAAZZA.com
- Jai Fichialos on junk prototyping for UI design
- Chris Messina ( barcamp starter) on Microformats
- Prashant on web 2.0 development modeling
- Shreyes on independent music in india
also other sessions i attended where on podshala, Amazon web API's and one on Adobe flex programming.
The best presentation was of pete on SCRUM and most crowd pulling was of Taazza (http://www.taazza.com) and the session which shreyas gave on spot about independent music ( http://infinityradio.info).
Remains of BarcampBangalore are here :
Photos :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/barcampBangalore
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/bcbattendee/
Reviews :
Anita bora's blog
Alex muse's blog
Tara Hunt's review
Amit Ranjan's blog
Rajan's rambling
Clicks :
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
History of Bangalore
It all began with a handful of boiled beans!
The story how Bangalore came to be called by its present name has an interesting history. Once on a hunting expedition King Ballala of the Hoysala dynasty lost his way in the jungle. Deep inside the jungle, lived an old woman who took pity on the hungry and tired hunter. The old woman was poor and had nothing else to offer but boiled beans. But the king was so pleased with her hospitality that he named the entire city as bele-benda-kalu-ooru, which in the local language Kannada means, the place of boiled beans. The historical evidence of the name “Bengalooru” can be found in a 9th century inscription found in a temple in the village of Begur. Today the name has been shortened and anglicised after the British influence and has come to be called Bangalore.
Kempe Gowda marks the four corners of the city
Another historical figure instrumental in shaping the city of Bangalore is a feudal lord who called himself Kempe Gowda, and who served under the Vijayanagara Kings. Hunting seemed to be a favourite past time in those days. During one of his hunting bouts, Kempe Gowda was surprised to see a hare chase his dog. Either his dog was chicken hearted or the hare was lion hearted one does not know, but the episode surely made an impression on the feudal lord. He told himself this is a place surely for heroes and heroics, and he referred to Bangalore from then onwards as “gandu bhoomi” (heroic place). Kempe Gowda I, who was in charge of Yelahanka, built a mud fort in 1537. With the help of King Achutaraya, built the little towns of Balepet, Cottonpet, and Chickpet, all inside the fort. Today, these little areas serve as the major wholesale and commercial market places in the city. Kempegowda, the II built four watch towers to mark the boundary of Bangalore. A hundred years later, Vijaynagar empire fell, and in 1638, it was conquered by Mohammed Adil Shah, the Sultan of Bijapur.
Power shifts from Sultans to Marathas to British:
Pleased with the services of his trusted lieutenent Shahaji Bhonsale, (father of the great Maratha king Shivaji), Adil Shah gifted Bangaloreto him. After 49 years of Maratha rule, the moghuls captured and passed it to the Wodeyars of Mysore for 3 lakh pagodas. In 1759, Bangalore came into the possession of Hyder Ali, father of Tippu Sultan. It was during these two heroes, Bangalore flourished with parks, gardens and palaces. When Tippu died, British restored Bangalore back to the Mysore rulers, the Wodeyars, but were not too sure of their entrpreuner abilities. So they ruled Bangalore directly. Under the British influence, Bangalore bloomed with modern facilities like the railways, telegraphs, postal and police departments. In 1881, the British returned the city to the Wodeyars. Diwans like Mirza Ismail, and sir Vishweshwarayya were the pioneers to help Bangalore attain its modern outlook.
Important Historical Dates
BC(-) Stone Age implements, Roman coins & burial grounds unearthed.
850 AD ‘Bengalooru’ appears on Mauryan empire milestone
1015 Chola Empire takes over City
c.1120 Veera Ballala II calls it ‘Benda Kalooru’ or ‘Town of Boiled Beans’
(after a poor woman feeds him beans in the forest)
1537 Kempe Gowda I designs City as it exists today. (KG II builds the 4 towers)
1638 Shahaji Bhonsle (Shivaji’s father) captures City for Adil Shah who gifts it to him
1640 Shivaji marries Bangalore girl
1687 Aurangzeb’s army captures City
1690 Sells it to the Wodeyars for 3 lakhs!
1759 Wodeyar gifts it to Hyder Ali who builds Lal Bagh
1791 Cornwallis defeats Tipu but returns City to him
1799 Tipu dies. City returned to Wodeyar
1800 Bangalore GPO opened
1809 Cantonment established
1812 St. Mark’s Cathedral built
1831 British take-over administration
1853 Sunday declared weekly holiday
1859 1st train steams out of City
1864 Sankey builds Cubbon Park
1867 Attara Kacheri built
1887 Bangalore Palace built
1898 The great plague. (Another plague-the 1st telephone rings)
1903 1st motor car pollutes city
1905 India’s 1st electric bulb lit in Bangalore City Market
1909 Indian Institute of Science built
1940 1st flight Bangalore/Bombay
1948 Deccan Herald launched
1954 Vidhana Soudha built
2005 I came to Bangalore
courtesy : startupbangalore
The story how Bangalore came to be called by its present name has an interesting history. Once on a hunting expedition King Ballala of the Hoysala dynasty lost his way in the jungle. Deep inside the jungle, lived an old woman who took pity on the hungry and tired hunter. The old woman was poor and had nothing else to offer but boiled beans. But the king was so pleased with her hospitality that he named the entire city as bele-benda-kalu-ooru, which in the local language Kannada means, the place of boiled beans. The historical evidence of the name “Bengalooru” can be found in a 9th century inscription found in a temple in the village of Begur. Today the name has been shortened and anglicised after the British influence and has come to be called Bangalore.
Kempe Gowda marks the four corners of the city
Another historical figure instrumental in shaping the city of Bangalore is a feudal lord who called himself Kempe Gowda, and who served under the Vijayanagara Kings. Hunting seemed to be a favourite past time in those days. During one of his hunting bouts, Kempe Gowda was surprised to see a hare chase his dog. Either his dog was chicken hearted or the hare was lion hearted one does not know, but the episode surely made an impression on the feudal lord. He told himself this is a place surely for heroes and heroics, and he referred to Bangalore from then onwards as “gandu bhoomi” (heroic place). Kempe Gowda I, who was in charge of Yelahanka, built a mud fort in 1537. With the help of King Achutaraya, built the little towns of Balepet, Cottonpet, and Chickpet, all inside the fort. Today, these little areas serve as the major wholesale and commercial market places in the city. Kempegowda, the II built four watch towers to mark the boundary of Bangalore. A hundred years later, Vijaynagar empire fell, and in 1638, it was conquered by Mohammed Adil Shah, the Sultan of Bijapur.
Power shifts from Sultans to Marathas to British:
Pleased with the services of his trusted lieutenent Shahaji Bhonsale, (father of the great Maratha king Shivaji), Adil Shah gifted Bangaloreto him. After 49 years of Maratha rule, the moghuls captured and passed it to the Wodeyars of Mysore for 3 lakh pagodas. In 1759, Bangalore came into the possession of Hyder Ali, father of Tippu Sultan. It was during these two heroes, Bangalore flourished with parks, gardens and palaces. When Tippu died, British restored Bangalore back to the Mysore rulers, the Wodeyars, but were not too sure of their entrpreuner abilities. So they ruled Bangalore directly. Under the British influence, Bangalore bloomed with modern facilities like the railways, telegraphs, postal and police departments. In 1881, the British returned the city to the Wodeyars. Diwans like Mirza Ismail, and sir Vishweshwarayya were the pioneers to help Bangalore attain its modern outlook.
Important Historical Dates
BC(-) Stone Age implements, Roman coins & burial grounds unearthed.
850 AD ‘Bengalooru’ appears on Mauryan empire milestone
1015 Chola Empire takes over City
c.1120 Veera Ballala II calls it ‘Benda Kalooru’ or ‘Town of Boiled Beans’
(after a poor woman feeds him beans in the forest)
1537 Kempe Gowda I designs City as it exists today. (KG II builds the 4 towers)
1638 Shahaji Bhonsle (Shivaji’s father) captures City for Adil Shah who gifts it to him
1640 Shivaji marries Bangalore girl
1687 Aurangzeb’s army captures City
1690 Sells it to the Wodeyars for 3 lakhs!
1759 Wodeyar gifts it to Hyder Ali who builds Lal Bagh
1791 Cornwallis defeats Tipu but returns City to him
1799 Tipu dies. City returned to Wodeyar
1800 Bangalore GPO opened
1809 Cantonment established
1812 St. Mark’s Cathedral built
1831 British take-over administration
1853 Sunday declared weekly holiday
1859 1st train steams out of City
1864 Sankey builds Cubbon Park
1867 Attara Kacheri built
1887 Bangalore Palace built
1898 The great plague. (Another plague-the 1st telephone rings)
1903 1st motor car pollutes city
1905 India’s 1st electric bulb lit in Bangalore City Market
1909 Indian Institute of Science built
1940 1st flight Bangalore/Bombay
1948 Deccan Herald launched
1954 Vidhana Soudha built
2005 I came to Bangalore
courtesy : startupbangalore
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