What Tarot Card are You?

You are The Emperor

Stability, power, protection, realization; a great person.

The Emperor is the great authority figure of the Tarot, so it represents
fathers, father-figures and employers. There is a lot of aggression and violence
too.

The Emperor naturally follows the Empress. Like an infant, he is filled with enthuiasm, energy, aggression. He is direct, guileless and all too often irresistible. Unfortunately, like a baby he can also be a tyrant. Impatient, demanding, controlling. In the best of circumstances, he signifies the leader that everyone wants to follow, sitting on a throne that indicates the solid foundation of an Empire he created, loves and rules with intelligence and enthusiasm. But that throne can also be a trap, a responsibility that has the Emperor feeling restless, bored and discontent.

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Picasa vs Flickr

I know couple of portals where you can upload pics but then each one of them have their own pros and cons. Flickr is good, but it has limitation on number of albums you can create. Then I found Picasa. Here are my observations:

Things I like about Picasa:
No limitation on number of sets/albums you create.
Really coooool desktop image manager.
Single sign-on (just use your Google password, I am already using gtalk, gmail, blogger.com, orkut etc).
If I am not wrong, Picasa provides 1 gig of storage which is far more as compared to Flickr.

Things i dislike about Picasa:
You can not create tags
Unlike Flickr, Picasa doesn't expose any APIs. (Checkout second screenshot of Ruby on Rails website:http://www.rubyonrails.org/screencasts)
****Updated--Picasa now exposes APIs. I'll have a look at it and blog about it later.******

Interesting observation:
I don't know if this is really Seregy and Larry:D http://picasaweb.google.com/sergey.brin http://picasaweb.google.com/larry.page
I am still to have a closer look at Picasa and flickr. I'll update this blog if I find anything new. Checkout my first album of 17 Miles drive :D
http://picasaweb.google.com/Navneet.BITS

buh byes !

Different types of people...

When I created this blog, I promised myself that I will blog daily, no matter what happens..I will blog daily..well, as you can see now, how good I am at keeping promises..I haven't blogged for last one week!
This reminds me of a hindi lesson which we learnt in school. There are three type of people in this world..(in sharp contrast to 'two types' as said in movie-Bunti and Bubli :)) ...1. Those who do not take any initiative in life and live it as it comes..2. Those who take initiatives and put in everything to make it a success..3. Those who take initiatives, work hard in the beginning and later pull out.. Looks like I belong to the third category!

Microsoft Virtual Server 2005

I love VMs(virtual machines). The best thing about VMs is, you need not worry about your operating system crashes. Just take a backup of your VM-Image and you are done. Screw your OS they way you want and when you are done, just restore it from the backup! Whenever your machine crashes, copy the image from backup and start working again!

My test domain has two exchange servers, domain controller and test / development machines. Exchange servers and DC run on VM and development/test machines are physical machines. On my laptop I run exchange and DC as a VM and use laptop itself as a dev machine. This has a great advantage. I dont have any dependency on office for development(except to get the source code from CVS :)). All I need to do is to start my VMs and start working from wherever I want :)

Till date I have use 2 vmwares. On my PUNE setup I use GSX and in SC I use Microsoft Virtual Sever(VS) 2005. Both of them are pretty good, though I find VS 2005 more user friendly.

The only problem with VM is that they eat up lot of resources. You really need a high-end machine to run a VM. Luckily, all the mahchines which I have are of very good configuration. My laptop is a Dell machine with dual core processor and 2 GB RAM.

That was all about VMs. I found another exciting thing- Amazon Elastic Compute cloud (Amazon EC2). If leveraged properly, companies can save a lot on machine costs. You can have 100s of machines up and running within minutes and you get all these at a very nominal price! Add Amazon S3 to EC2 and you never need to worry about your data. There are few challenges though. I will write a detailed blog on EC2 sometime soon.

Till then ....

Google dynamic spell checker

Although I am not much into fiction, but today I started off with 'GONE' from Jonathan kellerman. I was looking for 'The Fountain' initially, but since I was not able to find it, I bought this one.

For those of you who use gmail/orkut/blogsopt, did you notice a new thing in all the above mentioned google apps? Just like Microsoft Office, there is a dynamic spell checker in textbox where you write blog or write scrap or compose email. If you do a spelling mistake, the word will automatically get underlined(dotted red line) the very moment you type it! you can correct the spelling by doing right click on the word and select the correct word. This is really cool!

Apart from all these today was not a good day. Net outcome was far far less than expectation. But hey, I am trying hard to improve !

Till then ...

Stay Hungry and Stay Foolish ...

Today was a sad day for me...infact the entire weekend turned out to be a big disappointment..I had many plans for this weekend and none of them materialized and guess what .. I was sleeping most of the time..
I feel bit worried about my efficiency and productivity...as the results are not matching the expectations...I want to do more in less time...I guess things will take time to speed up..I did tried to learn some new words...searched for quality litrature over the internet...read old emails..watched inspirational videos on youtube..and read some blogs..
Time management is something which I need the most.. I have 2 more days to deliver the first phase of Lamp project and I there is still lot many things to do..

Shit happens...and its fact of life ..

I don't know if you have already seen this video. This is Apples CEO Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech given in year 2005