AAA Logo has Trojan

July 14, 2008

[Update] SWG Soft has responded and said “AAA Logo doesn’t contain a virus. This a false possitive by AVG antivurus.” and also that “We have already contacted them [i.e. AVG], but they are very slow on responses” [/Update] The paid version of aaalogo seems to have a Trojan [trojan horse Generic10.ATSS] and the product company […]

1 comment Read the full article →

Of hyenas and seals

June 27, 2008

Astrology, in many places, assign animals to denote a group. ‘Grouping’ part is easy to understand – else, how will I predict? There are no newspapers or mags around with 6 billion columns available for astrology. But then, why animals? People don’t like being called a snake or a rat or a pig. And not […]

5 comments Read the full article →

Picasa Gallery/Album for Google Application Engine (GAE)

June 16, 2008

A simple Picasa album implementation for GAE. I’ll be expanding on this, but meanwhile here is a working piece of code that can be integrated into any GAE application. [sourcecode language=’python’] import cgi import StringIO import xml.dom.minidom import wsgiref.handlers from google.appengine.api import urlfetch from google.appengine.ext import webapp class GalleryPage(webapp.RequestHandler): def get(self): relpath = self.request.uri.replace(‘http://fozy.appspot.com/gallery/’,”) + […]

1 comment Read the full article →

Looters @ Tata-AIG – Worst Insurance Company in India

June 14, 2008

The Trap: 02 April. Agent comes to your door-step and offers swift renewal of your policy with free service coupons and telling you stories about various tie-ups. Makes a loose claim that their premium will be the lowest. People have the tendency to trust when someone tells you such things face to face. I did […]

7 comments Read the full article →

Your 10-minute guide to hosted Google Apps

June 2, 2008

Google’s hosted version of Apps is a very powerful collaboration tool for small organisations (and perhaps medium size ones too, with the premium edition). What am going to talk about here is the free standard edition, ideal for small business users. If you have a domain registered and can manage its DNS entries, skip first […]

Read the full article →

Multiple WordPress Blogs on Single Host/Installation

May 27, 2008

Moved to a new host, where am not having as much control partitioning the hosting space and assigning various domains to it. Further, it was becoming a pain maintaining multiple blogs. And unnecessarily so, as all of them are essentially of the same code/theme/plugin base. There were quite a few solutions online, from absurdly simple […]

Read the full article →

External Display to Remain on Closing Lid (Vista)

May 27, 2008

Was trying to figure this out for a while, to keep the external display alive when I close the laptop lid/screen. Found a way to do it in Vista finally. Go to Power Options (from the battery icon in Task Bar, or from Control Panel) Take System Settings (left pane option “Choose what closing the […]

2 comments Read the full article →

Rice – Condoleezza and Basmati

May 19, 2008

Am not really used to either of the varieties. Basmati is good, though. But then, it is to the former that am indebted for making a correlation I could never do myself. ‘Globalization’ of my tummy (and of fellow Indians) and the global food crisis – how could we miss this?! Going by the inches […]

5 comments Read the full article →

I am the milk

May 17, 2008

The queue is long at the security gate. After all it is just a few months after 911, and one can understand the anxiety and extensive checking. A long wait later am finally through the security gate, and the officer scribbles something across my pass. To the puzzled me switching looks between his face and […]

Read the full article →

Silence

May 6, 2008

There are gifted people like Ashleigh Brilliant who say smart and witty things. Things that make you go “a-ha”. There is a whole lot of it at the ::wikipedia(Ashleigh Brilliant):: wiki page. Then, there is this other set of words that gather meaning when you go through something only. Am reminded of one such these […]

Read the full article →