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December Rain - 2

I don't think many Decembers (exclude the last December!) had as much rain as this December is having in Chennai. Do you love watching the rain? Do you enjoy swimming in the well when it rains heavily? I do. It thrills! But... I have no time for these now. I spend few hours with my friends on every Sunday evening, playing cricket - I hate if it rains! I enjoy local bus travel - the wet umbrellas and raincoats with co-passengers, I hate if it rains. I love walking from Velachery railway station to the company - the potholes and the vehicles, I hate if it rains! If you have the habit of going for a short walk in the evening along the Taramani road, you might have seen few families live on the road side. In fact, you might have seen them preparing and having food at that time, perhaps the Sun sets after seeing this. I went for a shopping in that way yesterday night. It was raining. I wanted few shops to be open so that I can buy those things I had planned to buy. Not everybody thi...

Top 20 Programming Lessons I've Learned

==== Jonathan Danylko: is a freelance web architect and avid programmer who has been programming for over 20 years. He has developed various systems in numerous industries including e-commerce, biotechnology, real estate, health, insurance, and utility companies. When asked what he likes doing in his spare time, he answers..."programming." ==== I've been programming since I was 11 and I've loved technology and programming every since. There are some hard and easy lessons I've learned over time. As a fellow programmer, you may not have experienced these, but I'm offering them to individuals who are interested in learning more from my experiences. I'll be updating this as time goes on. I may have more, but in my 20 year period, I don't think there are any additional rules that this list doesn't include. :-) Here are my most memorable lessons so far. Set a duration of how long you think it should take to solve a problem - C'mon, admit it! I'm...

Gail

Instead of http://www.gmail.com, I typed http://www.gail.com/ And the page is interesting... A birthday gift! Kovil Pillai P.

Safari & HTTPS issue

Perhaps, this is one and only issue (related to windows software) that I am not able to resolve for a long in time. I mean, I couldn't say it won't work. Safari accessing secured pages through proxy. Oh, yes, Safari is not my browser. I use Firefox. I need Safari for only testing. http://superuser.com/questions/176072/safari-cant-open-a-secure-connection-to-server http://macosx.com/tech-support/mac/safari-unable-to-access-https/6899.html http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=755597&tstart=105 http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=705462 http://discussions.info.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11640883 http://www.mackb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/mac-network/1155/Safari-can-t-handle-https Kovil Pillai P.

Hard disk Crashed!

My hard disk crashed today. Apart from losing the stuff related to my work, I have lost lots of photos and videos. I know I need to take backup regularly. I know I can store data online. Yet I lost it. There is one simple answer "I had no time to do". Well, what are the best ways to be discipline enough to avoid this stupid answer? Kovil Pillai P.

Random Reminders

90, 89, 88 ... that was traffic signal countdown and I had to wait, I was waiting. Suddenly a thought, a backward walk in the memory lane, occurred. I had no plan to look back upon those old days yet it came. It came when I was standing in the midst of moving vehicles and people, a stop to the present and the vivid picture of the same road ten years back. We used to play all sorts of games in the same road, just like a playground. We used to see only one bus in every 45 minutes and a random lorry or a car. We never needed to bother about those. But today? Orange, Red and Green signal for us to go. Such is the strength of your brain, such is the beauty of life - you never know what it would bring the next. You may be playing and laughing with your friends and it could be just a single word someone utter that would take you many years back. You don't have to plan for this going back, you don't have to be predefined to have that thought at that moment, in fact, you never can - it ...