tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4855667450199869105Fri, 01 Nov 2024 08:50:09 +0000newsfinanceHow tomoviesreviewtechnologyfunhardwareAbout meC#ChinaGoogle APIOpenOfficeOpenOffice Mathbooksconspiracylearningmarket watchwebsiteView of the world laid open! Or atleast my part of it!http://0mkumar.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (omkumar)Blogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4855667450199869105.post-7705408024142990663Wed, 05 May 2010 13:55:00 +00002010-05-05T09:55:16.851-04:00How totechnologyGenerally, I double-click on my .sln files from Windows explorer to open the correct version of Visual Studio (I have VS 2005 and 2008 running on Windows XP).One day one of my Visual Studio 2008 solution file’s icon changed to that of the new VS 2010 icon (with blue and purple rings). And ever since when I double click it did not open VS 2008 nor my solution file. However, I open VS 2008 http://0mkumar.blogspot.com/2010/05/why-is-my-visual-studio-solution-sln.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omkumar)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4855667450199869105.post-4090570890746469505Wed, 21 Apr 2010 03:51:00 +00002010-04-21T21:47:24.597-04:00C#Google APIHow totechnologyFor a while now, I use several websites in order to find auspicious days and times based on Tamil astrology. Daily sheet calendars in Tamil provide all the information about a day. However, finding those daily sheet calendars online is a pain. There is not one reliable source out there. Either you go to one of the Hindu temple’s websites or you find local Tamil newspaper online. Even then you http://0mkumar.blogspot.com/2010/04/google-tamil-calendar.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omkumar)8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4855667450199869105.post-9138969471378101267Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:55:00 +00002010-04-16T15:43:18.661-04:00technologyThe coding experience is getting better and better. I just happened to get Visual Studio 2010 Premium installed on my personal laptop. I also picked up the April edition of MSDN magazine. It focuses mainly on the new Visual Studio release. Couple of articles talk about some of the many new features that VS 2010 offers, including Vertical edits and IntelliTrace. I was reading about IntelliTrace http://0mkumar.blogspot.com/2010/04/visual-studio-2010.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omkumar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4855667450199869105.post-3103963271423388469Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:25:00 +00002010-03-24T16:58:05.072-04:00For a long time I was not blogging because at work (which is where my idea-horse is running in full speed) all social networking and blogging sites are blocked ( may be one of the reasons is to not get distracted, but come on! I should be able to express my views when and wherever I can ). Then recently one of my friends, Madhu, was telling me about Windows Live Writer (WLW). Its pretty cool. I http://0mkumar.blogspot.com/2010/03/trying-to-use-windows-live-writer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omkumar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4855667450199869105.post-7870257042159978010Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:31:00 +00002009-06-17T14:37:15.698-04:00How toOften times when you try to install a software on Windows computer, the software will complain that there is a "pending restart - please restart your computer and proceed with your setup". You will get this error message no matter how many times you try to restart.Solution for this problem:1. Open Registry Editor by going to Run...> regedit.2. Traverse to My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\http://0mkumar.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-to-get-rid-of-computer-restart.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omkumar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4855667450199869105.post-7198058321741607311Fri, 22 May 2009 14:46:00 +00002009-05-22T12:45:44.767-04:00ChinafinancenewsThis is a very interesting article on how China is becoming a rare-earth metal monopoly."Deng Xiaoping's comment in 1997, where he said that China would be forrare earth metals what the Middle East was to oil, has become a very starkreality."I have a strong belief that China will emerge as a super power in a decade or so. I will continue to follow news articles that talk about China - both sides http://0mkumar.blogspot.com/2009/05/china-builds-rare-earth-metal-monopoly.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omkumar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4855667450199869105.post-6378227566624781745Tue, 19 May 2009 14:57:00 +00002009-05-19T11:02:58.020-04:00newsThis snippet is from The Hindu - an interview with Prabhakaran in 1986 about his movement. This is very gruelling...…Could you give us an idea of your personal heroes in revolutionary struggles or liberation movements or in any sphere of life..... people and experiences that have inspired you? And perhaps thereby give us some insight into your own political evolution from the time you were a http://0mkumar.blogspot.com/2009/05/making-of-velupillai-prabhakaran-in-his.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omkumar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4855667450199869105.post-9047030465614472834Mon, 18 May 2009 18:56:00 +00002009-05-18T15:27:03.802-04:00reviewwebsiteAre you serious?I came across this website Wolfram Alpha which was lauched officially today. It is a computational knowledge engine, claims the website. True. It can compute:math (any equation worded in anyway easily interpretable - do you remember your algebra involving imaginary numbers?)comparisons (between gdps of different countries, temperatures of different cities, usage of two words......http://0mkumar.blogspot.com/2009/05/wolfram-alpha.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omkumar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4855667450199869105.post-1599715529942059651Mon, 18 May 2009 14:33:00 +00002009-05-18T10:52:40.369-04:00moviesAfter watching Dan Brown's novel Angels & Demons on theater, me and my friend got off on a movie spree. We heard many talk about this movie, Taken. Earlier, we tried twice at a nearest Red box machine and couldn't get the DVD. Finally on Saturday night, we went to try again and much to our luck a guy was standing in front of us on a line (Can you believe? Yes there is a line now to get Red http://0mkumar.blogspot.com/2009/05/taken.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omkumar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4855667450199869105.post-2647194103016632184Mon, 18 May 2009 14:07:00 +00002009-05-18T10:33:42.909-04:00moviesI had a chance to go the theater on Saturday while my daughter was taking a nap and my wife taking some quiet time. My friend came over from Marlborough, MA and we planned to go for Saturday matinee show. Since this was the opening weekend, I was under the hype that the theater would be crowded and we wouldn't be able to get tickets. So I booked the tickets online and went off for a 3pm http://0mkumar.blogspot.com/2009/05/angels-and-demons.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omkumar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4855667450199869105.post-2460691489361488498Mon, 18 May 2009 13:37:00 +00002009-05-18T10:05:56.665-04:00conspiracyLast Friday I came across this article. Will Bilderberg Group sink the global economy? That was the first time I ever came to know about this group. I was gasped by the level of conspiracy involved in this matter. Can such a group exist at all? If they had done all that happened in history, then do they have the power to "sink our global economy"? It is alarming to know that key figures like the http://0mkumar.blogspot.com/2009/05/bilderberg-group.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omkumar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4855667450199869105.post-7200774999973313523Wed, 13 May 2009 20:12:00 +00002009-05-13T16:31:26.909-04:00funnewsThis Intel Ad was forwarded to me by one of my colleagues. Very funny and thoughtful. The "Ajay Bhatt" that they show is not the real inventor. See Intel's real Ajay Bhatt who was the co-inventor of USB here. According to NYTimes, Intel decided to pose actors vs. real inventors in their commercial so that there won't be any argument among employees as to who should be featured.The NYTimes articlehttp://0mkumar.blogspot.com/2009/05/very-funny-intel-ad.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omkumar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4855667450199869105.post-4469144130689105530Tue, 12 May 2009 19:12:00 +00002009-05-12T16:04:05.961-04:00financeGiven the global economic downturn made me think that I should diversify my piggy bank. So I decided to move some of my savings back to India in case there was a run on the bank in the US. After much research two banks stood out State Bank Of India (SBI) and ICICI Bank. SBI, a public sector bank, being the largest bank in India by deposits and the bank in the world to operate the most branches (http://0mkumar.blogspot.com/2009/05/rbis-alarming-deposit-insurance.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omkumar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4855667450199869105.post-4226713487221515459Fri, 08 May 2009 16:05:00 +00002009-05-22T12:46:19.223-04:00financenewsBlackRock becomes the go-to firm for Divining Wall Street's AssetsFirst of all, as a risk analyst isn't this too risky to put all eggs in one basket? The reasoning Geithner gave when asked why should we trust BlackRock, is simply, "They come with world class reputation". Well so be it. I guess, and I share Janet's (read the article) comment, that the government should come out with all the http://0mkumar.blogspot.com/2009/05/who-does-dauting-task-of-valuing-all.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omkumar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4855667450199869105.post-6849749465722947063Thu, 07 May 2009 17:47:00 +00002009-05-13T16:20:40.662-04:00funnewsVery Interesting read...The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used?Because that's the way they built them in England , and English expatriates built the US railroads. Why did the English build them like that?Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad http://0mkumar.blogspot.com/2009/05/us-railroad-guage.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omkumar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4855667450199869105.post-4246918087318567787Wed, 06 May 2009 18:20:00 +00002009-05-22T12:43:41.189-04:00hardwarereviewAn innovation to embrace or just Wrong timing?Amazon introduces its new Kindle DX - $489, 9.7" screen - easy to read newspapers, magazines and loads of features. If you compare Kindle DX with its currently available Kindle version, Kindle 2, the main differences are screen size and rotating display (just like IPhone or Blackberry Storm). Plus Amazon says it has native PDF support in DX as opposedhttp://0mkumar.blogspot.com/2009/05/amazon-kindle-dx.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omkumar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4855667450199869105.post-4683710914698756521Wed, 06 May 2009 15:18:00 +00002009-05-06T11:34:22.666-04:00newsWow! This is about my city. Following are some of the facts that I didn't know about Stamford.Stamford is also referred as "Wall Street North"UBS built its largest trading floor in North America (I knew this but just adding for pride).RBS did the same starting in 2006 and moved to its headquarters (as far as I can tell, RBS had not occupied this new fancy building yet).General Re (GenRe) corp, http://0mkumar.blogspot.com/2009/05/stamford-ct-wall-street-north.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omkumar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4855667450199869105.post-6455359619943642998Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:02:00 +00002009-04-30T17:10:30.766-04:00market watchnewsThis could be received positively in the market. Apple's ability to come up with a major breakthrough in all their products have proven well in the past. Nothing to be blamed that they want to design their own chips that goes into their products. Apple is making use of the time properly. It is easier to negotiate with high quality chip-designers and other candidates in the chip market as we all http://0mkumar.blogspot.com/2009/04/apples-new-chip-business.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omkumar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4855667450199869105.post-8702705701390848129Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:31:00 +00002009-05-22T12:44:01.406-04:00hardwarereviewHere comes Dell's answer to Apple's MacBook Air - Dell Adamo (Latin for "To Fall in love with").- Sleek look and sturdy design.- Edge-to-Edge glass monitor -very cool. They claim the lcd has an inbuilt 1.3 MP web cam. Wonder where that is installed as it looks completely glass.- Keyboard with Backlit keys - for a long time i was wondering when they would come up with backlit keys. Often times youhttp://0mkumar.blogspot.com/2009/04/dells-new-adamo-laptop.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omkumar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4855667450199869105.post-3663151514713171588Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:03:00 +00002009-04-29T14:07:08.019-04:00financelearningThis is cool. The PRM case studies have become shorter to be more relevant and not exhaustive for students. This is much easier for my preparation.Here is the letter I got from the exam manager...--------------------------------------------------------------------------------From: PRMIA Member Services [mailto:support@prmia.org] Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 12:21 PMTo: Enkannathan, http://0mkumar.blogspot.com/2009/04/shorter-prm-case-studies.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omkumar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4855667450199869105.post-7000651611688830913Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:57:00 +00002009-04-29T11:11:09.897-04:00How toOpenOfficeOpenOffice MathUse "%".For example,http://0mkumar.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-to-add-percent-symbol-in-openoffice.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omkumar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4855667450199869105.post-2695399297086680354Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:24:00 +00002009-04-29T09:49:20.603-04:00financenewsTo those who follow stock markets and trying to stay optimistic:* Consumer confidence slightly stronger than expected -This doesn't matter at all. Home purchases are only *slightly* increasing. Cyclical is catching up. Retail the same. In a broad perspective, this doesn't help revive the big economic slump we are already in.* "Bear Market Still far from bottom" -David Tice, chief Portfolio http://0mkumar.blogspot.com/2009/04/more-bad-news-yet-to-come.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omkumar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4855667450199869105.post-6488280887495462492Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:39:00 +00002009-04-27T21:42:41.367-04:00booksThis is an interesting Book Library website to share your thoughts on books that you read.Check out my book shelfhttp://0mkumar.blogspot.com/2009/04/shelfari.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omkumar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4855667450199869105.post-500770230833546406Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:25:00 +00002009-04-27T20:39:43.479-04:00moviesYet another sci-fi but this time the aliens try to save our planet.My rating: *** (3 stars)http://0mkumar.blogspot.com/2009/04/day-earth-stood-still.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omkumar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4855667450199869105.post-4030879308890617040Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:24:00 +00002009-04-27T20:40:57.193-04:00financenewsBut why? Isn't this too much intervention of government on private sector? Clearly there is a cover-up. Can't we learn already from the Japanese in the early 90s.Some interesting quotes from the article...[BofA Chairman] Mr. Lewis has told investigators for New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo that in December Mr. Paulson threatened him not to cancel a deal to buy Merrill Lynch. BofA had http://0mkumar.blogspot.com/2009/04/busting-bank-of-america.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omkumar)0