Google wave

Google did it again with the new innovation named Google wave. I came to know about this today from Toolz tweet. Watch this short youtube video to get more idea on what is wave. Currently only limited preview is available. So don't wait go ahead and register. I'm eagerly waiting to see how it works. Clearly this is going to be the next generation collaboration tool.

Back after vacation

Back to Bangalore after a week and a half long vacation. This time also I felt not to come back to this techie world. Don't know what is forcing me to think like that. This vacation is a tight schedule with my friends marriages - Jith, Shylesh, Soman's Drive a lot this time. Went for a long trip to Ernakulam from Kollam in my WagonR to attend Shylesh's marriage and a few trips to Adoor for Jith's marriage, in that aspect I enjoyed my trip this time. Unni is also getting married next month so an other trip, I hate this journey but no other go :( This time I travel back to Bangalore in KPN travels multi axled volvo. I think this lengthy bus has got 50-60 seats i think and in that journey there were only 6 peoples inside the bus due to off season or off day (Wednesday) as per the driver. I came to know a surprising fact from the driver in that journey that this bus mileage is only 2k.m per litre of Diesel. I was shocked after hearing that. What worries me is about the fuel usage in future, how will the next gen survive? Its time to change and think of alternative and preserve these fuels for more efficient purposes. Why can't we generate more energy from these fuels? In that night sleep, I dreamt of running a bus with 100K.m/litre. My office welcomed me with surprises (as usual), this time the change in ways to cafeteria as the fourth floor of my company is getting sold or rented to a different company (after effect of the financial turmoil) Projects got screwed up a bit, I got the taunting job of brining back a project back to track from worse. I don't have a plan till now, one thing I know is of the sleepless nights ahead. I hate this :( When will I be free? When will all the liabilities leave me? Another night about to call me (that remember me of a famous liquor caption 'Life is calling WHERE ARE U)

My enlightenment desktop

A blog post after a long period. But this time I have some nice thing to share about my Linux desktop. This is about new window manager Enlightenment another astonishing window manager. My hats off to the opensource development community behind this. After some sought of initial hickups in getting this wm working, i had some glassy cool wm working right. I used pbone yum repository to get it installed. My attempt of compiling the package failed due to various dependencies. Very graphical classy desktop with with less memory consumption, that impressed me a lot. A top show this wm is using only 3% of my system memory and a watch on cpu cycles also reveals the fact that this wm is awesome. Good collections of themes, animated desktop wallpapers, easy interaction with online updation. Out of the themes i like a theme named as Grunge Good collection of desktop gadgets, including cpumeter, clock, temprature, weather forecast etc. Here are 2 screenshots i would like to share across. The 'e' in the middle is animated which is a rotating one.

Haridwaril manikal muzhangumbol - A malayalam story

Just completed reading one of the good story i ever read. Somehow the story touched me a lot. Story is all about the feelings and nature of one person named Rameshan. Somehow i was seeing a pinch of me in this character, lot of similarities. Story has a very tragic ending. Worth reading this novel, I recommend.

Good article

Just read one of very good interview with Java champion Heinz Kabutz. One of the interesting thing in noted is the usage of StringBuffer and Java 6 optimization. Interview link

_user_password_dynamic_validation() while installing Drupal

I faced a problem while installing Drupal in my Fedora 9 box with apache 2.2. I see the following error in my apache error logs [Sun Mar 29 20:04:32 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function _user_password_dynamic_validation() in /usr/share/drupal/install.php on line 710, referer: http://localhost/drupal/install.php? profile=default&localize=true Fix for this issue is, manually update the table values If you are using mysql mysql -u USER -p Enter your password mysql> use Issue the sql statement UPDATE system SET status = 1 WHERE name = 'block' OR name = 'user' OR name = 'node' OR name = 'filter'; Hit Drupal again. Voila the error gone and the page displays.

Post about old malayalam Songs

Today is my last sunday in Boston, a trip which was fully packed with work. Did not get any time to enjoy. Most of the time i was doing either work or spend my time in apartment itself. Though its the last sunday i thought of staying back and watch TV. Last fews weeks i started reading malayalamanorama online and today i came across a very beautiful article written in malayalam by one Rekha K, I dont know about this lady - But this article i'm sure i'll remeber. Its an article about old malayalam songs, some of the phrases really touched me and its packaged in a very beautiful way. The topic name is 'Oduvil Nee ethumbol'