Date: 12/21/04     Keywords: no keywords

Ellison Brookes developer in James Goslings thoughts agrees with James Gosling that Sun's strangle hold of the APIs leads to greater stablilty.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/AngsumansBlogOnJavaAndWebTechnologies?m=110

Date: 12/21/04     Keywords: spam

Excerpt from the best spam of 2004: In 1977, Kaplan Education LTD was sued by the Federal Trade Commission at Federal Trade Commission v. Kaplan Education, LTD, et al, 433 F. Supp. 989, *; 1977 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 15398, **; 1977-2 Trade Cas (CCH) P61, 541, for false, misleading, and deceptive representations. Thereafter, the company was [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/gem-of-a-spam/

Date: 12/20/04     Keywords: java

Typing a keyword like java in the location box does an automatic search and takes you to the first link it finds. It fails when the link contains a (dot). This is useful for "I'm lucky" kind of search.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/simple-quick-search-i-am-lucky-feature-in-firefox/

Date: 12/20/04     Keywords: html

http://www.gadflyonline.com/10-29-01/ftr-caryl-chessman.html Many years have passed since his death. Its time to look back again. He may have been a "smartass" as they say but did he deserve to die?

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/have-you-forgotten-carlyl-chessman/

Date: 12/20/04     Keywords: no keywords

Radio waves from mobile phones harm body cells and damage DNA in laboratory conditions, according to a new study majority-funded by the European Union, researchers said on Monday. After being exposed to electromagnetic fields that are typical for mobile phones, the cells showed a significant increase in single- and double-strand DNA breaks. The damage could not [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/mobile-phone-risk-found-in-reflex-study/

Date: 12/20/04     Keywords: apache

Ellison Brookes developer in James Goslings thoughts agrees with James Gosling that Sun's strangle hold of the APIs leads to greater stablilty. This is true. Too many cooks spoil the broth. The problems with multitude of open source projects in the bazaar model (thanks to Apache, SourceForge etc.) is that it is messy like a fish market. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/problem-with-bazaar-style-of-development/

Date: 12/19/04     Keywords: browser, web, microsoft

Here's some interesting observations from the article: FIREFOX is a classic overnight success, many years in the making. Firefox is a Web browser that is fast and filled with features that Microsoft's stodgy Internet Explorer lacks.

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Date: 12/19/04     Keywords: web

I went to a website in search of a blog and I got: Get Hosted! Account Cancelled!

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Date: 12/19/04     Keywords: java

I tried searching for "java", "hani", "fleury" and everything else between them and yet returned with no results from Hani's blog search! Can you conceive how different the blog might have been if the results were true :)

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Date: 12/19/04     Keywords: no keywords

The person behind Richard Saunders failed to make any JBoss hugging post or anything else for that matter after April, 2004. Anyone knows what happened to him? Is he really Mr Fleury? He is definitely not Hani S.. Hani S. is more immune to slanders unlike Richard "take-co-criticism" Saunders.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/AngsumansBlogOnJavaAndWebTechnologies?m=106

Date: 12/19/04     Keywords: browser, security, web, microsoft

Here's some interesting observations from the article: FIREFOX is a classic overnight success, many years in the making. Firefox is a Web browser that is fast and filled with features that Microsoft's stodgy Internet Explorer lacks. Today, it's the Internet Explorer code that is long overdue for a top-to-bottom redesign, one that would treat security as integral, [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/firefox-in-nyt-the-fox-is-in-microsofts-henhouse-and-salivating/

Date: 12/19/04     Keywords: no keywords

An excellent article against the proposed reservation policy in India by Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar - Affirmative action yes, reservations no His articles are generally very readable and informative.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/AngsumansBlogOnJavaAndWebTechnologies?m=105

Date: 12/19/04     Keywords: google

Keith posted an interesting article countering the hype generated by Google Suggest & GMail - Google Suggest and GMail are a step backwards I think there are two things which makes Google Suggest interesting.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/AngsumansBlogOnJavaAndWebTechnologies?m=104

Date: 12/19/04     Keywords: no keywords

Scientist at UCSC thinks that playing video games helps learning early that success is a game. As if we didn't have enough way to divide the world yet! Mr. Beck and Mr. Wade divide the world into two groups: those who grew up with video games (the gamers) and those who did not.

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Date: 12/19/04     Keywords: html, technology, spam

A wonderful christmas/hanukkah present I must say :) http://tech.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Spam-Lawsuit.html

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Date: 12/19/04     Keywords: browser, web, microsoft

Some interesting quotes from the article: FIREFOX is a classic overnight success, many years in the making. Firefox is a Web browser that is fast and filled with features that Microsoft's stodgy Internet Explorer lacks. For the first time, Internet Explorer has been losing market share.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/AngsumansBlogOnJavaAndWebTechnologies?m=101

Date: 12/19/04     Keywords: web, hosting

I went to a website in search of a blog and I got: Get Hosted! Account Cancelled! The previous webpage was shutdown due to hosting issues. If you need hosting also here is some info.A shared web hosting account is an account on a web server that hosts your website while sharing resources with other shared hosting [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/get-hosted-account-cancelled/

Date: 12/19/04     Keywords: java

I tried searching for "java", "hani", "fleury" and everything else between them and yet returned with no results from Hani's blog search! Can you conceive how different the blog might have been if the results were true :)

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/jroller-is-broken-hanis-blog-doesnt-have-anything-on-java-or-fleury-or-hani/

Date: 12/18/04     Keywords: no keywords

The person behind Richard Saunders failed to make any JBoss hugging post or anything else for that matter after April, 2004. Anyone knows what happened to him? Is he really Mr Fleury? He is definitely not Hani S.. Hani S. is more immune to slanders unlike Richard "take-co-criticism" Saunders. I was glancing through his old posts. Looks like [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/what-happened-to-richard-saunders/

Date: 12/18/04     Keywords: no keywords

An excellent article against the proposed reservation policy in India by Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar - Affirmative action yes, reservations no His articles are generally very readable and informative. Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar is Consulting Editor, Economic Times and writes regularly for the Economic Times and The Times of India.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/say-no-to-reservation/