| Pipes |

Just had a glimpse of Yahoo! pipes. As usual, did a bit of tik-tik on the thing.
Here's my set of pipes
http://pipes.yahoo.com/people/Uoncleo3oW10IWsBUZAtgyM-

Let's c how gud is the future for Pipes

eSagu bags CSI Nihilent Award

eSagu was declared the best e-governance project at the Computer Society of India (CSI) and Nihilent e-Governance Awards for 2005-06 at a function held during the 41st National Annual Convention of CSI at Science City , Kolkata 24th November. The CSI-Nihilent e-Governance Awards are an annual process of identifying and recognizing the best e-Governance initiatives in the country.

Chat Moods

I chat in light moods most of the times. But of late, I am confused about the mood of the person at the conversation POINT, rather confused if the person is serious/joking/mocking,etc/.. I use Y! and gtalk messengers. I think v don't have the option to convey my mood which I can change depending upon the topic v r talking about. It would be helpful if I can set a chat mood/theme for each person I am chatting with. Though skype provides the chat topic to be set, a more eXtra thing like the emoticons would be helpful.

Identifying browser type

var dom = (document.getElementById) ? true : false;
var ns5 = ((navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Gecko")>-1) && dom) ? true: false;
var ie5 = ((navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE")>-1) && dom) ? true : false;
var ns4 = (document.layers && !dom) ? true : false;
var ie4 = (document.all && !dom) ? true : false;
var nodyn = (!ns5 && !ns4 && !ie4 && !ie5) ? true : false;

Kabhi Alvidaa Naa Kehna

2 unhappy couples(SRK-Priety, Abhishek-Rani). 1 from each find solace in another's company. So u have 1 new bond. Here u don't find a strong reason(according to Indian perspective) for the new bond formation.

Here's the reason: Rani is confused about her love for Abhishek even before marriage and her impotency only adds fuel to the confusion. Also, she doesn't feel Abhishek to be mature enough for her. SRK feels low when his career ends abruptly and priety zooming past him in career.

And so, u have 1 new bond from the 2 unhappy couples. Having watched closer, some scenes(may be the entire plot) bring a sense of dejavu, especially the one in which Abhishhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376541/ek confronts Rani about her sex life. Nothing great about acting, music, direction, screenplay. Just ok. In fact, first half an hour is boring. I wasn't sure if I could complete the movie. From then, u have 2 good scenes comes and pat follows a mediocre scene till the end

U have big stars and comes the big moolah from crowds especially NRIs for it's close NRI sensibilities. Indian crowds are split in reaction. If the same plot/theme comes from 'vishesh films', it would have a better reach. Never in your wild dreams do u expect this from KJ-SRK combo who earlier gave us the 'happily ever after' endings/movies. If u want to enjoy the movie, don't be judgemental and for the movie long time, think/live [u r] in NewYork.

Juggling with Unicode

Got a few tools, apps. for unicode writing, keyboard switching, transliterating.

1) http://indicime.mozdev.org/ THis is indic language script writer for firefox
2) An inspirational offspring for the indicime is http://telugutoolbar.mozdev.org/ which uses RTS(Rice Transliteration Standard) convention for transliteration.
3) http://www.tavultesoft.com/keyman/ This makes u switch keyboards [and integrate into apps.: as given in it's page]. This also has some resources for developers like developing new keyboard layouts, etc.

Logging off.....

Long time, no see


Used to get this message from chinese chat friends when I used to meet them online after a period .. A first glance made me think that the phrase is not correct grammatically and even said so to them. One of the them even defended her stand but I wasn't sure if it was correct.

I was watching 'Spiderman' for 3 time and heard this phrase when mary meets Peter Parker after a couple of weeks and says this 'Hi peter, long time, no see'