Krishnan's weblog – an assortment of things. A scribble pad. A hybrid microblog. Mostly bread crumbs of an internet journey.
1. I took an internet addiction test here. I am not an addict after all.
2. The most brilliant Tech Blog I’ve come across ever. Its on my blogroll now.
3. A genuine Bengali way of cooking Rohu Roe. But we didn’t try this one out today.
4. A cook book for seafoods is here.
4. Yet another interesting blog on cooking. Dont forget to check out the blogs of the visitors, some of them run mighty neat cooking blogs themselves.
5. Present state of the Indian blogosphere is here.
I entered home Friday night and will be stepping out of the door Monday morning, hopefully.
I was glued to my PC all week end.
No chore got done. I tried different blog clients, created a new blog, read through gazillion blog entries, spent 6 hours on Youtube, watched Pirates of the Caribbean, ate Pizzas, updated my blog roll, downloaded a numerous megabytes and in general, got wasted.
I read this great this article on “Finding the right truth to tell” and it did help clear my perspective on what I should be writing. I shall reflect reality, but with discretion. Without discretion people are going to continue to clutter up the internet.
I think the internet is already a crappy place to be. Internet today is an overload of information, most of which is irrelevant to the common man’s life. We dont need all the million websites out there, do we? Internet is cluttered up with too many things that is of no consequence to the knowledge seekers, nerds and geeks.
Most of what floats in cyber space is crap. I guess thats where Google gets its business from. The good stuff is as usual hard to find and finding it is considered sometimes illegal.
I think the internet needs to be structured out – A place for everything and everything in its place. Of course, there can be no single government that can bring about such a structure unless, it needs to be built into the way it works.
Unless everybody realizes this need to be in control of the changes that happen to the internet which is so closely a part of many lives now, the landscape of cyberville will continue to change dramatically. Though this time I didnt go all places I would have wanted to go, a trip to cyberville was long over due.
I can now catch those 4 hours of sleep before I get to office.
www.30gigs.com is giving away free email accounts with 30 GB space.
A Blog Client is a program running on your computer that lets you post to your blog. In some cases, it help manage your blog too. Sometimes, it allows you to write a blog entry even if you are off-line so that it can be posted next time when you connect to the internet.
The other advantages could include:
1. The ability to save drafts
3. A nicer interface
4. Fancy formatting features
5. Features like cross-posting to multiple blogs
6. Faster uploading and addition of photos
Here is a list of Blog Clients compiled by Wordpress.
Windows:
* BlogDesk
http://www.blogdesk.org
* BlogJet
http://www.blogjet.com
* Blog Writer
http://www.zoundry.com
* Ecto
http://ecto.kung-foo.tv
* Elici
http://www.bingobangosoftware.com
* Flock
http://www.flock.com
* JBlogEditor
http://www.jblogeditor.com
* Performancing
http://performancing.com/firefox
* Post2Blog
http://bytescout.com/post2blog.html
* Post2Blog Express
http://bytescout.com/post2blog_express.html
* Qumana
http://www.qumana.com
* Semagic
http://semagic.sourceforge.net/
* w.bloggar
http://www.wbloggar.com/
* WB Editor
http://www.wbeditor.com/
Mac (OS X):
* Ecto
http://ecto.kung-foo.tv/
* Flock
http://www.flock.com/
* JBlogEditor
http://www.jblogeditor.com
* MarsEdit
http://ranchero.com/marsedit/
* Performancing
http://performancing.com/firefox
* Qumana
http://lycos.qumana.com/download.htm
Mac OS X Dashboard Widgets
* DashBlog
http://dashblog.theonelab.com/
* RapidMetaBlog http://staff.cofa.unsw.edu.au/blojsom/blog/nigelkersten/scripts/2005/05/01/RapidMetaBlog_Dashboard_Widget.html)
* WordPressDash
http://www.paniris.com/wordpressdash/
Linux:
* BloGTK
http://blogtk.sourceforge.net/
* Drivel
http://www.dropline.net/drivel/
* Flock
http://www.flock.com/
* Gnome Blog
http://www.gnome.org/~seth/gnome-blog/
* JBlogEditor
http://www.jblogeditor.com
* Performancing
http://performancing.com/firefox
PalmOS:
* Plogit
http://plogit.sourceforge.net
* Mo:blog
http://www.tektonica.com/moblog/
* Vagablog
http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/?page_id=7
Siemens Phones:
* blog2gohttp://www.benqmobile.com/cds/frontdoor/0,2241,hq_en_0_116696_rArNrNrNrN,00.html
This entry was written with BlogDesk.
I’m making this post through Deepest Sender.
I was unable to login using Deepest Sender because the login options were not correctly configured. I had trouble configuring Deepest Sender earlier, but to put it simple I had to RTFM which said :
“For WordPress accounts, you will have to alter the address to point to the URL of your blog, followed by the XML-RPC interface. Usually this is just the normal address of the homepage of your blog, followed by /xmlrpc.php. You should be able to confirm the XML-RPC address by loading up the source of your blog, and searching for a link tag labelled “pingback”.
I simply had to make the field “URL to post to” as http://pkrishnan.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php.
Now it works like magic 
I’m still reading the manual.
A web based operating system.
Ha!
It sure is a great idea – soundsmindblowing.
Check this out here.
It makes me wonder what kind of browser would be required to access a web based operating system. I guess atleast a skinny an OS native to a computer would still be required. Let me watch where this goes.
I have a scanner now. In the last five years I have accumulated bits of papers, letters, bills, photographs and statements which I neither require nor can throw away. Getting everything scanned and orgainsed on a PC seemed to be most logical way out so that the house can be free of paper and still the content is not lost.
So I picked up a second hand Acer ScanPrisa 640P from ebay which costed me 40% the cost of a new entry level flatbed scanner.
The seller on ebay happened to be just 10 minutes drive away from my home. I dropped by his house and asked to test the scanner before I paid for it, but he refused saying that his laptop didnt have a parallel port. Though I was a bit amused to hear an excuse like this, I didn’t know that this guy already had a USB to parallel port adopter which he was using for his printer. The guy proceeded to de-dust the scanner, pull out the cables, look up the driver CD and he even gave me a serial number written on a piece of paper. I payed him, picked up the scanner, and came home.
The fun began when the installation started.
The driver CD had a driver which wasn’t compatible with XP. I called the seller again and he very plainly told me that this was an outdated model that wouldn’t work with XP and I had to get back to lower versions if I wanted to get it working. He seemed to be quite glad to have made money by selling an obsolete piece of equipment.
I was a bit pissed off because it would take me atleast a day to get Win 98 installed on my PC, which already dual boots on XP and SUSE 10.1. Wihout accepting defeat I googled and googled and googled and learnt that Acer’s scanner division had been sold off to BenQ in 2004. Since then the driver updates are from BenQ. I could download the required drivers here. I called the seller and informed him that the scanner was working perfectly under XP and he didnt seem to like the sound of it.
I got working on the scanner for 7 straight hours. I’m already rid of a kilo of old paper. I’ll be needing more disc space now. But that is a different story.
I located a tutorial on Wordpress here. It came as a complete surprise that sites as good as ZDnet’s blog are powered by Wordpress.
Checked out Google spreadsheets. It is a brilliant concept but the macros aren’t working as they are supposed to.
Then a woman said, “Speak to us of Joy and Sorrow.”And he answered: Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.
And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.
And how else can it be?
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Is not the cup that hold your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?
And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”
But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy.
Only when you are empty are you at standstill and balanced.
When the treasure-keeper lifts you to weigh his gold and his silver, needs must your joy or your sorrow rise or fall.
I visited Nehru Place today.
Picked up a copy of ‘Linux for you’ with which comes free a DVD of Debian 3.1. Picked up a few more games, a 16 MB Casio Pocket Viewer. Girish gave me a CD on Friday which I haven’t checked out still. In short, there is enough to keep me awake all saturday night.
Visited some show rooms to check out prices of new laptops.
HP DV5200TX priced at Rs.65000 was impressive. (Duo Core 1.75 GHz/1 GB RAM/100 GB HDD/ DVDRW/ 15.4″ TFT /256 MB Graphics Card/XP Home / Lan / Wifi / Modem / Bluetooth/ Card reader)
Lenovo 0768-4KA was a close second at Rs. 61400 (Duo Core 1.66 GHz/512 MB RAM/80 GB/DVDRW/Integrated Webcam/Finger Print/Lan/Modem/Wifi/15.4″ TFT)
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My present interests lie in sustainability, peak oil, debian, Web after 2.0, creativity and epistemology. I learn daily. I learn about everything under the sun and even those beyond it. I am a perpetual student whose believes that wisdom is the real reward for learning.