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2005-07-20T11:17:00.000-07:00

Google MoonGoogle has placed the images of some of the lunar surface in a Google Maps like interface - showing the Apollo moon landing sites.Don't forget to zoom in to the max! :)Technorati Tags: Blog, Google.

2005-07-08T08:43:00.000-07:00

Yahoo Mail - 1 GBI logged into my Yahoo mail account (after a long time) and noticed that they have silently increased my mailbox size to 1 GB! Competion is good ;-) Meanwhile my Gmail mailbox size is 2373 GB. My Hotmail account is still struck at 250 MB - and is very much neglected at the moment.Technorati Tags: Blog, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo.

2005-07-05T10:44:00.000-07:00

Java Name ChangeFuture versions of Java will bear a slightly different name.The "2" in the full name will be dropped. So, now they would be - JavaTM Platform, Standard Edition JavaTM Platform, Enterprise Edition JavaTM Platform, Micro Edition The short names will spell out Java - J2SETM is now JavaTM SE J2EETM is now JavaTM EE J2METM is now JavaTM ME The version numbers will be

2005-07-05T10:31:00.000-07:00

Maps APIsBoth Google and Yahoo have announced their Maps API."The Google Maps API lets web developers put Google Maps on their own sites."The Google Maps API lets developers embed Google Maps in their own web pages with JavaScript. You can add overlays to the map (including markers and polylines) and display shadowed "info windows" just like Google Maps. Google retains the right to put

2005-06-28T08:09:00.000-07:00

World Heritage SitesTalking of World Heritage sites, I was reading through the list to check how many of these I had covered. We love travelling and it would be cool to visit all of them! :)"788 properties are now inscribed on the World Heritage List with 611 cultural, 154 natural and 23 mixed properties in 134 States Parties.The list will be updated on July 2005, so lets wait and see if any more

2005-06-26T11:47:00.000-07:00

Google Maps - GlobalGoogle Maps Satellite Imagery has gone global - though they still don't have detailed images for all locations, and don't have the maps for locations other than US and UK.Today, probably a fortnight after I checked out China & India on Google maps, it was reported on Slashdot. People shared some intersting links -St. Peter in RomeBuckingham PalaceArc de TriompheWater

2005-06-18T11:41:00.000-07:00

Gmail InvitesIf you want a gmail email account - let me know. I'll send you an invite.Technorati Tags: Blog, Gmail, email, Invite, Gmail Invite, Gmail Invites.

2005-06-15T13:14:00.000-07:00

Who will Google buy next?Article with good information on the comapnies that Google has bought so far ... and speculation on what they could be buying next.Technorati Tags: Blog, Google.

2005-05-12T12:42:00.000-07:00

Web Path AnalysisI am performing some log analysis of my project web logs - to determine the path most users take through my web site. As part of that I am looking at the entities involved.The Web Log contains a log of the activity of the web server.The Web Log may be in one or more log files.-> The Web Log of a web server is typically backed up periodically (usually nightly). So the Web log

2005-05-11T10:28:00.000-07:00

Java XML BindingThe bindmark project has listed a comparison of various products for binding XML data to Java classes. Its compared many of them, both open source (Beck, Castor, Javolution, JAXB, JAXB 2.0, JBind, JiBX, JXM, Relaxer, Skaringa, XMLBeans, XStream and Zeus) and commercial (C24, Glue (formerly ElectricXML), LiquidXML).Also check XML Data binding Resources by Ron Bourret and Comparing

2005-05-03T14:45:00.000-07:00

Integer SequencesI was rummaging through the web log of the Kaprekar Series Generater project site to remove http log spam - while working on a Web Path software ... and noticed that KSG is linked to from the AT&T Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.Technorati Tags: Blog, Kaprekar.

2005-04-27T10:33:00.000-07:00

Java PathfinderNASA has released Java Pathfinder at SourceForge. Looks like a cool software.It is an explicit state software model checker for Java bytecode.JPF is a Java virtual machine that executes your program not just once (like a normal VM), but theoretically in all possible ways, checking for property violations like deadlocks or unhandled exceptions along all potential execution paths. If

2005-04-05T12:36:00.000-07:00

Google MapsGoogle has added satellite imagery to its Google Maps. So now you can view the normal graphic map of your locality - zoom in, click and drag and find directions. Or you could switch to the satellite view (by clicking on the satellite link on the left hand side) and do the same!Here's the map for the lower central park. You can clearly see that the images were taken in two different

2005-04-02T15:06:00.000-08:00

Gmail - 2 GBGmail has increased the mailbox size to 2 GB.Unlike other online mailboxes, they have increased it across the board. Some of my older mailboxes from other site have yet to receive the promised boost in storage - but I'm pretty happy with the gmail service and have no plans to switch!Want Gmail? Lemme know.Technorati Tags: Blog, Gmail.

2005-03-26T12:32:00.000-08:00

Zip Code VisualizationBen Fry has created an Applet using which you can visually track down a zip code.Start typing the zip code and see the region narrowing down. For e.g., type 0 and watch the entire New England region lit up - i.e. all the zip codes that start wih a 1. Type further to zoom in on the region of the zip code. To type a second zip code, don't forget to use tge backspace!Technorati

2005-03-23T18:26:00.000-08:00

UML Reference CardLaurent Grégoire has a one page quick summary for UML - the UML Reference Card in pdf.Technorati Tags: Blog, UML.

2005-03-23T10:04:00.000-08:00

Low-Maintenance FundsMornigstar has an article on Best Low-Maintenance Funds.Technorati Tags: Blog, Investing

2005-03-22T14:12:00.000-08:00

Technorati Tags:Using Technorati Tags you can attach a category to your blog entry.The basic concept is to add a href with rel="tag" with the url ending in /tag/Category.Read an introductory article by Improbulus.Hopefully I'll start using it and add these tags too all my posts.Technorati Tags: Technorati Tag

2005-03-22T11:32:00.000-08:00

Semantic WebUMBC Sematic Web Reference Card is a handy cheat sheet for common RDF/RDFS/OWL classes and properties, popular namespaces and terms, XML datatypes, reserved terms, grammars and examples for encodings, etc.Swoogle is a search engine for semantic web documents (rdf & owl). And if you need a cheat sheet for it, there is one.And finally - an RDF Tutorial from Ivan Herman. Ivan has two

2005-03-22T11:19:00.000-08:00

Unicode ChartIan Albert has created a chart with all the unicode characters - as a 6 feet by 12 feet chart!He got the images from the unicode web site. The chart is available for download via bittorrent. Be forewarned - its 100 MB.Technorati Tags: Blog, Unicode.

2005-03-17T13:24:00.000-08:00

Google CodeGoogle has released a few tools to the public.The projects page lists the follwoing projects -perftoolsLibraries and tools that help you tune and debug your multi-threaded c++ programs.coredumperGives you the ability to dump cores from programs when it was previously not possible.sparsehashtableAn assortment of interesting new hash tables for C++ developers.goopy/functionalThis library

2005-03-12T19:55:00.000-08:00

Genealogy OntologyWhat are the main things that would be necessary to document genealogical information?1) Details about people2) Events in their life3) Their relationships4) And information about where one got that information from.1) Person DetailsThis is the most basic of all genealogical data. We need to identify the individual before we can document or do any research about them. The basic

2005-03-12T13:23:00.000-08:00

DOAPAfter reporting on DOAP (Description of a Project) a couple of months back, I've finally created DOAP file for my projects - Matra and Kaprekar.

2005-03-08T08:28:00.000-08:00

UnsupportedClassVersionErrorI downloaded a software sometime back and when I ran it I got the following error:Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: (Unsupported major.minor version 48.0) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass

2005-01-14T21:45:00.000-08:00

FOAFAdded my FOAF file at http://matra.sourceforge.net/foaf.rdfMore about it later

2004-12-29T13:54:00.000-08:00

Eclipse Bug - Encapsulate Field Found this bug in Eclipse today while using the Encapsulate field functionality. Eclipse Version: Version: 3.1.0 Build id: 200412162000 Create this simple class in eclipse - public class TestEncapsulate { String a, b; } 1) Select the Field a 2) Right-click and select Refactor -> Encapsulate Field. 3) Click Ok. 4) The following code is generated - public

2004-12-29T06:26:00.000-08:00

Blogger Stats I checked my profile [and the older one] today and was surprised to see that it shows that the last entry in my blog was posted on Oct 28th! On checking the known issues page, realized that stats collection was switched off. Reminds me of the time stats was switched off at Sourceforge - it took a long time for it to be switched on again ...

2004-12-28T11:26:00.000-08:00

Java 5.0 Crash I was using the Eclipse Profiler Plugin to launch my application when the 5.0 JVM crashed. Here's the information - java version "1.5.0_01" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_01-b08) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_01-b08, mixed mode, sharing) Eclipse Version: 3.1.0 Build id: 200412162000 Plugin: Eclipse Profiler http://

2004-12-14T13:41:00.000-08:00

Eclipse QuickFix problemEncountered a strange problem while working on Eclipse [In the latest integration build - Version: 3.1.0 Build id: 200412081200]I wrote a small snippet of code - if(getContentSpec().equals("Test")) return true;The method getContentSpec was not implemented in the class; so it gave a compilation error. I took the QuickFix route and asked Eclipse to generate the stub

2004-12-12T13:32:00.000-08:00

Metrics Scoreboard I put in a request in the Metrics project forum to create a Scoreboard, for interested projects, of Metrics data. Can we have a site similar to the Scoreboard [1] maintained by the PMD site? We could have the various metrics information, for the submitted projects, listed there. It would be fun to add a few additional metrics - 1) Longest & shortest variable names

2004-12-03T11:00:00.000-08:00

Languages based on the Java VM I read the article "GJ: Extending the JavaTM programming language with type parameters" [by Gilad Bracha, Martin Odersky, David Stoutamire, Philip Wadler, March 1998; revised August 1998]. It introduces the GJ compiler that is an extension of Java (during the time of JDK 1.2) which provided generics support. The current generics support in Java 5 is based on GJ.

2004-12-01T13:36:00.000-08:00

JSR 260: Javadoc Tag Technology Update JSR260 is tasked with upgrating the javadoc tag technology ... it will be available for public review in march end ... time to wait ...

2004-11-18T10:28:00.000-08:00

Google ScholarGoogle has release a new service called Google Scholar. As the name suggests, it will search scholarly literature.I searched for Kaprekar and found 11 hits.

2004-11-05T10:10:00.000-08:00

Static Analysis Version 0.7 of Lint4J has been released. Lint4j ("Lint for Java") is a static Java source code analyzer that detects locking and threading issues, performance and scalability problems, and checks complex contracts such as Java serialization by performing type, data flow, and lock graph analysis. IBM's alphaWorks has a few other tools for static analysis - Structural Analysis

2004-11-05T09:58:00.000-08:00

Comparing Web Frameworks Matt Raible has done a comparison of Web Frameworks. He has compared Struts, Spring MVC, WebWork, Tapestry & JSF. He hasn't compared Barracuda and Wicket.

2004-10-28T10:04:00.000-07:00

Kaprekar 2.2b Released version 2.2b of Kaprekar Series Generator yesterday night. This is more of a code refactoring release. The code was changed to be more modular. The serialization, SVG generation and statistics code had crept into the Kaprekar Engine. I extracted those into separate classes - this also fixed some cut-and-paste code. The only bug-fix in this code is for the progress bar in

2004-10-27T09:39:00.000-07:00

Google search from Firefox Cafe au Lait reports that we can do a google search directly from FireFox's location bar. I tried it: 1. type "uml svg" (without the quotes) on the FireFox location bar. 2. hit enter. 3. voila! You get the page Kaprekar UML Model in SVG on the browser. Yep, it goes to the first link found in the search (I'm feeling lucky). You can also do this by typing in keyword:

2004-10-24T18:51:00.000-07:00

No more Zip files on Gmail? This is absolutely crazy! Gmail no longer allows you to attach zip files to your own mails! You get an alert box stating - "Sorry, for security reasons, Gmail does not allow you to send this type of attachment." Well, I created the zip file that I was attaching and I know that it doesn't contain any viruses and that it doesn't pose any security threat! Why is the

2004-10-21T13:08:00.000-07:00

Java Code: Boolean Fun Over time I've encountered Java code that I feel could have been written better. I'll list out a few example that I encountered recently. If you do code review you'll want to check PMD, JLint, FindBugs and some such tools [I've mentioned these before while talking of Eclipse Plugins.] Boolean Fun Cosider this code if(str.length() > len) { return true; } else {

2004-10-15T06:09:00.000-07:00

PMD: False +ve: UnusedModifierThe PMD bug I reported on tuesday is fixed! As usual the PMD team fixed it pretty fast.

2004-10-14T13:46:00.000-07:00

Google Desktop Yes, its out! There had been talks about it, but I didn't realize that it will be out so soon. You can read this article before downloading Google Desktop.

2004-10-14T10:13:00.000-07:00

SQL queries using sign() Mike Chirico writes an interesting way in which we can compare two numbers using the abs and sign functions. At first you would think that he's just playing with them for fun ... at the end of the blog entry he uses it in a SQL query - that was neat! check it out! To spoil the fun a bit, the SQL looks like this - select name,

2004-10-12T10:05:00.000-07:00

PMD Bug: False positive for modifier Found a bug in PMD and submitted it - False +: UnusedModifier The following Code gives a false positive: public interface Test { int size(); Test DFLT_IMPL = new Test() { public int size() { return 0; } }; } PMD complains on the line "public int size() {" stating "Avoid modifiers that are implied by context.

2004-10-11T13:56:00.000-07:00

Prospector: Java Code search Engine Prospector is a search engine for java code. You can find code snippets by specifying two classes - the object that you have and the object that you want to convert it to. An example they quote is - you have a url (have = "java.net.URL") of an image and want to load that image (want = "java.awt.Image"). So you search for it and find four snippets of code -

2004-10-10T20:18:00.000-07:00

Murphy's Law hmm. they've tried to put a formula for Murphy's law ... an outcome of a commission set by British Gas composed of a psychologist, a mathematician and an economist. ((U+C+I) x (10-S))/20 x A x 1/(1-sin(F/10)) Where U is urgency, C is complexity, I is importance, S is skill and F is frequency. To quote them "So, if you haven't got the skill to do something important, leave it

2004-10-06T13:33:00.000-07:00

Gmail Bug: More Actions menu Stumbled across a new bug in Gmail. The drop-down menu for "More Actions ..." sometimes does not work - all the options in it vanish! Here are the steps to recreate the problem. 1. Go to inbox. 2. Select the drop down "More actions ..." 3. Instead of selecting one of the options, click on a mail instead. (i.e., outside of the drop-down menu) 4. The mail does not

2004-10-04T09:54:00.000-07:00

X-Prize It's official! The Ansari X-Prize is won by Scaled Composites! I've mentioned their flights before.

2004-09-24T14:12:00.000-07:00

Programming Language PopularityDavid Welton has compared a few programming languages to gauge their popularity. He has used various parameters to do the comparisons - Google search hits, Google ad prices, Freshmeat projects, Job lists. Check out the language popularity article.

2004-09-23T13:46:00.000-07:00

MAX with NULLs in SQL I was looking for the behavior of MAX in SQL when NULL data is present and found this interesting article on the behavior of NULL's in SQL.

2004-09-18T14:42:00.000-07:00

Fall Colors - Connecticut. The foliage report shows the current colors to be patchy. Check here for places to view fall color in connecticut. visitconnecticut has listed some scenic drives and so has about.com.

2004-09-18T14:23:00.000-07:00

Fall Colors - New Hampshire. The visitnh site has the weekly foliage report. The fall color are beginning on the western part of the state, the eastern part is still green. The White Mountains region will peak in october first week. newhampshire.com has some fall foliage drives. The peak seems to be mid-october.

2004-09-18T14:19:00.000-07:00

Fall Colors - Vermont Its the time of the year to go foliage hunting. :) The colors in my neighbourhood is changing a bit. Here are some sites that will help to plan the trips. Vermont The foliage vermont site has a map, in flash, of Vermont's foliage progression. If you don't have flash, you may want to check the static version. Per the maps, the last week of septempber/first week of october

2004-09-17T13:07:00.000-07:00

The Inverse Law of Bug Complexity James Tauber has stated a law that we've all encountered :) "The harder a bug is to track down, the simpler the fix tends to be."

2004-08-30T13:59:00.000-07:00

The economics of SoftwareFound this blog entry on the Economics of Software.Technorati Tags: Conrad Roche, Blog, Economics, Software.

2004-08-30T13:55:00.000-07:00

Deferred loading in tabs in Firefox Submitted this request for Deferred Tab loading to the FireFox bugzilla. The problem essentially is that when you do "Open in Tabs" from a bookmark folder or have multiple pages ('|' delimited) in your home page; the urls are loaded simultaneously. Woudn't it be better if the first site loaded and then after some time (say a second) the second site loads in

2004-08-12T11:48:00.000-07:00

Effective JavaAn excelled book by Joshua Bloch. I found it very informative ... if you've worked with C++ - its like the Annotated C++ Reference (which is the best C++ book I've read) - jam packed with information.Some of the chapters of Effective Java are online - and are a must read:1. Chapter 5, "Substitutes for Missing C Constructs" which talks about typesafe enums. [pdf version]2. Chapter 3,

2004-08-02T13:58:00.000-07:00

DOAP: Description of a Project. First we had the FOAF (Friend of a Friend) and now we have DOAP! Edd Dumbill has written a series of articles (part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4) at developerWorks in which we develops an RDF vocabulary for describing open source software projects. Here's how the DOAP project is described in DOAP -

2004-07-30T12:47:00.000-07:00

Improving the performance of XML applications. There is an article on Improve performance in your XML applications on developerWorks. Though I don't agree with all that the article states, its a good read.

2004-07-30T12:30:00.000-07:00

Google Search Error! On monday while searching on google I get a server error. I was surprised, this was the first time this happened on google search (though I've faced it in other google sites). Initially I thought our proxy server was acting up but soon realized that the problem was elsewhere. Slasdot covered this story and I read it again on cnn.

2004-07-30T12:29:00.000-07:00

Hobbes' Internet Timeline. The Hobbes' Internet Timeline gives the timeline for the birth and evolution of the internet.

2004-07-30T09:55:00.001-07:00

JSR-000201 JSR-000201 (Extending the JavaTM Programming Language with Enumerations, Autoboxing, Enhanced for loops and Static Import) is now available for public review.

2004-07-23T08:34:00.000-07:00

MathML on IE I finally found a plugin for MathML - for IE. The only way for displaying MathML page on a browser that I knew of before this was using a MAthML build og Mozilla. This is great!

2004-07-22T12:48:00.000-07:00

Functional programming in the Java language There is an article on this topic at IBM DeveloperWorks - Functional programming in the Java language. A good read ... now need to explore about the Apache Commons Functor.

2004-07-22T12:05:00.000-07:00

Java Web Services Developer Pack 1.4 The Java Web Services Developer Pack 1.4 (Java WSDP 1.4) is out. Gotta check it out!

2004-07-22T11:28:00.000-07:00

Elephant Polo. This is fun - never knew that something like Elephant Polo existed!

2004-07-12T19:15:00.000-07:00

The Patent scorecard. The 2003 Patent Scorecard is online.

2004-07-12T18:51:00.000-07:00

Google Web API. I had fiddled around with the Google Web APIs sometime in 2002, it was in beta then. I looked up the Google Web APIs Reference today and it still seems to be in beta. Goota check if anything's changed. While at it you may also want to chek the Web Services Primer at xml.com.

2004-07-12T18:48:00.000-07:00

XSL Transformations. Elliotte Rusty Harold had kept Chapter 17 of his XML Bible online for a number of years now. Its a definite read if you're starting on XSL Transformations.

2004-07-12T18:43:00.000-07:00

Modeling XML Vocabularies with UML. There has been a lot of talk of modeling xml dtds/schemas etc in uml - making it independent of the schema language. I wonder if people so model it using uml. I haven't encountered this in my workplace ... xml.com had a couple of articles titled "Modeling XML Vocabularies with UML" Part I, Part II, and Part III a couple of years back. And I recall reading a

2004-07-12T18:40:00.000-07:00

Rules and Patterns for Session Facades Gotta read this article - Rules and Patterns for Session Facades

2004-07-08T18:32:00.000-07:00

Modelling Web Application with UML. For years I've used Jim Conallen's webextension for Rational Rose for modelling the JSP part of J2EE applications. He had also written an article - Modeling Web Applications with UML - on that topic. With Rational XDE, I could not find a similar extension, wonder if thats changed ...

2004-07-08T13:20:00.000-07:00

Genealogy DTDTrees. Added the dtdtrees for GEDCOM and GedML to the Matra project site.

2004-07-08T10:36:00.000-07:00

Advogato is back! Today, went to advogato and found that it was back up! Its up since Jul 3rd.

2004-07-07T14:45:00.000-07:00

The Small-World Phenomenon. I picked an old printout at home and realized I had never gotten down to reading it. I took to reading it just now. The paper is on The Small-World Phenomenon: An Algorithmic Perspective by Jon Kleinberg. It deals with the "six degrees of separation" concept of social networks. "A social network exhibits the small-world phenomenon if, roughly speaking, any two

2004-07-06T15:22:00.000-07:00

Space Elevator. The Space Elevator 3rd Annual International Conference took place in DC June end. This sounds pretty ambitious (like landing on the moon would be considered in the 60s). The SE is described as "a ribbon with one end attached to Earth on a floating platform located in the equatorial Pacific Ocean and the other end in space beyond geosynchronous orbit." The ribbon's material wold

2004-07-05T16:03:00.000-07:00

Want Gmail? The want Gmail section in my blogger dashboard hasn't vanished yet - even though I've taken up that offer long time ago! It doesn't allow me to sign up again though :)

2004-07-02T22:20:00.000-07:00

GoogleBrowser TouchGraph has a GoogleBrowser applet on its site. You can plot all the sites related to a specific site plotted in a nice graphical way. (Yes, it uses Google's "related:").

2004-07-02T12:07:00.000-07:00

Google Zeitgeist. Was just checking the Zeitgeist for June 2004. Its strange to note that 20% of the queries came from machines with Win 1998 OS... Nothing's changed with the browser market. IE 6.0 is still the leader -

2004-07-01T13:39:00.000-07:00

21 Rules of Thumb – How Microsoft develops its Software. David Gristwood has posted an article on his weblog titled 21 Rules of Thumb – How Microsoft develops its Software. An insightful read.

2004-07-01T09:52:00.000-07:00

Mono 1.0 released. Novell Inc. announced Wednesday the availability of Mono 1.0, an open-source development platform based on Microsoft Corp.'s .Net framework. Mono includes a C# compiler, a .NET-compatible runtime and two stacks of application programming interfaces (API) a Mono stack that takes utmost advantage of Linux servers and desktops, and a set of APIs compatible with the Microsoft .

2004-07-01T09:47:00.000-07:00

Cassini-Huygens mission. The Cassini spacecraft successfully entered orbit around Saturn for its four year mission. The Saturn Orbit Insertion (SOI) burn to place the spacecraft into orbit was successful.

2004-06-30T12:08:00.000-07:00

Gmail: Server Error Got a Server error on Gmail right now and this is the error message :) "Gmail is temporarily unavailable. Cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes. We're sorry for the inconvenience."

2004-06-27T16:47:00.000-07:00

In the Spirit of C.Just read an Artima article titled In the Spirit of C. Its been a while since I programmed in C/C++ - it was fun to do that, both in College and Work. After I started with java at work, I have lost touch with C/C++. This is an interesting article by Greg Colvin about the evolution of BCPL, B, C, C++ and java. It bases its analysis on the facets on the spirit of C as documented

2004-06-26T14:54:00.000-07:00

Hotmail boosts storage capacity. I love competition!!! :) Hotmail is increasing the storage capacity from a measly 2 MB to 250 MB! This will start from July onwards. Meanwhile Rediff has boosted its mailbox from 5 MB to 1 GB.

2004-06-24T21:16:00.000-07:00

Gmail: Hot! I can't believe having an email account could be so hot! Its fun to watch the kind of things people are willing to swap for a gmail account - from books to recipes. Not just that - the frequency at which such requests are posted. By the time you reach the end of the first page, just refresh - and you see a couple of new messages. Or just refresh after less than a minute and watch

2004-06-24T15:01:00.000-07:00

Glossary: Definition Lists. I was wondering what was the appropriate tag for the glossary. Most people seem to use tables for their glossary - but thats not the most appropriate tag. I feel that the Definition List tags should be used for presenting the glossary. So the html will look something like this -

Glossary of Terms

Kaprekar Constant: A number that

2004-06-24T10:20:00.000-07:00

Google Labs News: Site-Flavored Google Search. This allows you to do personalized search. You can specify the categories that the topic you are searching is in. This is a feature I was waiting for a long time. Whenever I search for "Roche" in google (or any other search engine) I used to get more sites on the company Roche, or news articles on it - but what I need was genealogical information

2004-06-24T10:17:00.000-07:00

Google Labs News: Google Groups. Looks like a direct competion for yahoogroups. I like competion! ;-) I created a group for the ROCHE/RO(A)CH(E) family genealogy at Google Groups. Unfortunately it did not allow me to keep the group name as Roche, so I kept it as RocheFamily. Roche Family Genealogy Browse Archives at groups-beta.google.com

2004-06-24T09:56:00.000-07:00

Google Labs News: Web Alerts. Went to the Google Labs after a long time. Found a few new intersting things out there. Web Alerts "Google Web Alerts are sent by email when there is new information on the web matching the search you specify." You just enter a search term, your email address and the frequency at which you want to be notified. A nice way to keep track of new web pages on a

2004-06-24T08:24:00.000-07:00

Glossary. I feel its time to add a Glossary to my project pages.

2004-06-24T08:20:00.000-07:00

Gmail Feedback - Filter Comments. Today seems to be a day for Gmail feedback. ;) Here's another comment I submitted. Its to do with the filters/rules that I can create for incoming mails. Currently the filters do not have a name or comment fields. -------------------------------------->8-------------------------------------- Browser: Firefox 0.8 Is it possible to have a comment field for the

2004-06-24T08:12:00.000-07:00

Gmail Feedback - Label Hierarchy. Sent another feedback to Gmail today. Gmail allows you to apply "Labels" to messages. You can create as many labels as you want - these are identified by a name. Here's the feedback I submitted - -------------------------------------->8-------------------------------------- Browser: Firefox 0.8 Is it possible to provide for a hierarchy of labels? I tend to

2004-06-22T11:08:00.000-07:00

Search Engine Keyword and Back Link Tracker. I've been using the Search Engine Keyword and Back Link Tracker site for a while now. Its neat. A very convenient way for me to track the ranking of my sites (on Google Search) - with just a click of a link. It allows me to track the ranking of my site for a set of keywords (specified by me).

2004-06-22T10:57:00.000-07:00

Advogato ... Ok. Advogato is still down ... its been toooo long. Guess I'll forget about it for now. :(

2004-06-22T08:08:00.000-07:00

Space Ship One. Here's the Press Release from Scaled Composites and some Photographs from the launch of the first private manned vehicle beyond the Earth’s atmosphere.

2004-06-21T11:44:00.000-07:00

Google to the rescue! Google has become a kind of online encyclopaedia! Whenever we need to find something or check on a new topic we tend to go to google. Though there are some good search engines around (say, teoma, vivisimo), I still tend to go to google more often. Altavista used to be my default search engine before google came along. But I used to find it good only for technical queries.

2004-06-21T08:18:00.000-07:00

SpaceShipOne Successful! Just saw it on tv - SpaceShipOne's flight was successful!

2004-06-20T17:12:00.000-07:00

Coloring the ends. Been trying to color the ends of a line (in SVG) with the minimal amount of code. I asked in the svg-developers group and the w3c svg group, but didn't have much luck in either of the places. I cracked the problem today. All I needed to do is to use markers!!! So back to KaprekarCircle now!

2004-06-20T17:01:00.000-07:00

SpaceShipOne Space Ship One is sheduled for its first public flight this monday - June 21st 2004. They will go for the ten Million Dollar X-Prize after a successful launch tomorrow. It will launch from Mojave, California - go to a height of 100 km (thats where "space" officially begins) and then land back where it started from. Wishing them all the luck!