Personal Weblog of Deepak Vasudevan

Quick Whois on Various TLDs Gone are the days when you use the old slow whois servers searching for availability of domains in each TLD separately. Just wanted to share a couple of nice WHOIS URLs which would enable us to know about the domain name we want and we can book it quickly. Check out the following websites: http://www.whoisfinder.com/ Free Windows Application (whois.exe) from http://www.resource-a-day.net/resources/whois/whois.exe . The homepage of this tool is anyway here: http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/whois.htm All country TLDs: http://www.uwhois.com/

A Global Goal Tracker -- In a Lighter Vien Check out this website called http://www.43things.com/ When you login, you can create your goals and tracks it through completion. You need to take it in the more lighter vien. I don't think it is anything like your MSN Calendar or like that and remains open for any visitor to see the stuff. Check it out at http://www.43things.com/person/deepaknet/

Nava Rasas in Bharatanatyam Bharatanatyam owns a unique place of pride in the world. Our motherland, India, can be proud of this wonderful and life-science rather. There are a lot of things that Bharatanatyam -- the art of Dance teaches us and emotions are quite elegantly described as Abhinayas . A brief description about the NavaRasas are given below: Sringara Rasa Raudra Rasa Veera Rasa Hasya Rasa Karuna Rasa Vibhatsa Rasa Adbhuta Rasa Bhayanaka Shanta Rasa Information Source Courtesy: http://lavanya-sing.netfirms.com/ . Perhaps this website also explains in detail about all Rasa's here. Check these out: http://lavanya-sing.netfirms.com/rasa.htm

Streaming Harivarasanam from LavanyaDeepak Homepage Now you can listen to Harivarasanam being streamed directly from my personal website http://www.lavanyadeepak.tk/ , hosting courtesy http://www.myfilehut.com/ . Since it is a free plan, there are bandwidth restrictions, although the webserver provides superior file streaming to provide rich audio experience. Harivarasanam Lyrics and Audio, automatically switches on when you visit my webpage between 2300 hours and 2310 hours. Posted at 03:56 pm by Deepak Kumar Vasudevan Original BlogDrive Post on Saturday, October 29, 2005

Quite busy with MBA these days... I am quite busy and hence my blogging has come down a bit. I have some examinations for the MBA first semester to give in December.  More soon...

Good News to Bloggers There is some good news out to bloggers. There is no need to worry about pinging each PingServer after publishing the content. I just came across a nice website called http://www.pingmyblog.com/ which automatically pings to about eight major ping servers. Perhaps, I think this is a new site and as time progresses, these would slowly move and they would enable more blogging services too.

I was just finding out a nice innovation in Gmail. When you click discard/cancel in the Compose window, normally you get a JavaScript confirmation in all Webmails.   In Gmail, the Discard was done immediately but then I found a message like   'Your message has been discarded. Undo Discard', which takes back to the compose screen again.    

Today I was relatively free and hence I was trying to learn something new with the most cute creature of Microsoft Office -- Office Assistant. And I think, this is no more Microsoft Office alone. Starting with Windows XP, it has also become Search Assistant. A few cool tools that would help the reader get started with developing their own Microsoft Office Assistant characters are below: http://www.microsoft.com/msagent/downloads/developer.asp

Sometime about 2 to 3 days to go for the Vijayadasami to come. Tamil Nadu has a unique fame to celebrate Vijayadasami as a day for Aksharabhyasam -- meaning start of education for tiny tots. More on Vijayadasami and this festival season on either my blog or website shortly. Posted at 06:04 pm by Deepak Kumar Vasudevan Original BlogDrive Post on Monday, October 10, 2005

Onset of Monsoons Chennai and South Asia has started to shed its hot weather and is starting to drove away the stupid hot sultry Sun. Starting yesterday, there is a pleasant showers all over the city also marking the start of festival seasons lined up like Ayudha Pooja, Deepavali etc. Today's weather is mimicing Bangalore, with pleasant showers all around and a cool climate. Posted at 12:29 pm by Deepak Kumar Vasudevan Original BlogDrive Post on Monday, October 10, 2005

Tremors again in the Himalayan region -- the place which has assumed Holy significance among all people. Just wanted to share some comments. Of late, there has been a steady increase in the number of environmental hazards happening -- TSunami Tidal Tragedy in December 2004, Katherina/Rita Hurricanes in the state of Texas and now acute tremors in the PoK region of Kashmir. Too much of interference from mankind to the natural ecosystem leading to Global Warming and similar issues seems to the root cause of all these problems. A simple example could be when somebody tries to intrudes into a seat reserved by you in a local townbus we get so much intimidated. But we are fiddling with the nature resources too much. It is the enormous magnanimity and kindness of Mother Nature, her gentle affection that keeps tolerating this. But when her patience runs out and when she is intimidated, the force with which she retalitates, the earthlings suffer for months together. Let us take this instance to ...

Murugan Idli Shop @TNagar My team has currently moved to a newer facility in T.Nagar since last week. I was quite busy adapting to the new environment, setting up and restoring the backs from the fileserver etc. Some of the advantages we observed were: Being a business hub of Chennai (or Asia for that matter), it commends a unique place of travel comfort and availability through late nights, which help us greatly. Proximity to a nice good ambient restaurant called Murugan Idli Shop , which serves nice food in traditional plantain leaves. Today being the second week in MBA Classes, I also attended the same and while coming back, really witnessed two of the shops that were implementing ICloneable interface and mimicing Murugan Idli Shop , respectively at MMDA Colony, Arumbakkam and Vadapalani by names, Madurai Idli Shop and Salem Idli Shop. This I think would really bring out the power and fame of Murugan Idli Shop to all.

Busy Weekend This weekend, I was quite busy. I had some deliverables and reviews to make and send from the work perspective. Sunday, my MBA Personal Contact Programme was starting. I had to revise the MBA books for that too. Myself and my friend ( Redhy Issac ) were also planning to purchase a CD writer for his homesystem. We are hunting down the entire RitchieStreet for the same. After long bargains, we homed in on a Samsung made Combo drive and the time was then half past two. I was planning to start off to temple and my friend told that he was willing too. What a coincidence! Whatever new things I normally buy, use to visit the temple first. Now, this CD writer also got the automatic chance of visiting my famous weekly shrine (Tiruvallikeni Sri Parthasarathy Swami Temple). We had in fact more comfortable workship and that too in the crowded Purattasi month, thanks to the mercy and showers of blessings of the Lord. The next day, I had my MBA contact programme on Management Concepts...