Shankara Narayanan - Life goes on

Firefox

noreply@blogger.com (Shankar) — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:35:00 +0000

I have also downloaded Firefox as part global download option. Yet to see how much downloads has been made.

Sunfeast 10K Marathon

noreply@blogger.com (Shankar) — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:26:00 +0000

I have been not there around for some time & have been working on some new things in Silverlight quite some time. I will be posting my findings soon.

In the meanwhile I ran for the Sunfeast World Marathon. It was called as 'Majja Run' and the distance was 5.7 KM. I did complete the run in about 50 minutes.

Lots of people and lots of companies attended the run and it was really interesting to see so many people run.

Flickr images

noreply@blogger.com (Shankar) — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 04:12:00 +0000

Now the site also has my flickr images posted directly through flash player. That's very cool. 'Silverlight' should probably come up with a widget of same type and I would also like to put the silverlight icon on my blogspot site.

Silverlight scroll followup

noreply@blogger.com (Shankar) — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:31:00 +0000

I did some more reading on the silverlight scroll and found this article in msdn blogs and it seems that we need to program.
More on the mouse wheel

Silverlight scroll

noreply@blogger.com (Shankar) — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:03:00 +0000

There was a good post regarding skins from ScottGu, but I am not able to do a scroll using my mouse. Would this be a limitation of Silverlight.

Great new silverlight skins
http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2008/03/12/great-new-silverlight-control-skins.aspx

Wikipedia plugin

noreply@blogger.com (Shankar) — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:38:00 +0000

After a long time I found the wikipedia plugin as well. So here is the wikipedia link for bangalore in a click.

Google feedback

noreply@blogger.com (Shankar) — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:31:00 +0000

I wanted to give feedback to google reader but somehow this option was not available anywhere. However here is the suggestion. I would like my subscribed items to be temporarily disable for a while. This is because I would be traveling for two days and not accessing my reader. Hence I don't want all the items to be coming to the reader. Is there a way to do this?

Using windows live writer

noreply@blogger.com (Shankar) — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:18:00 +0000

I am trying to use offline editors and currently using windows live editor. This seems to be pretty good & from today my google adsense also started showing up. I guess I will write more whenever I try and connect to the Internet.

Technorati Tags: windows,live,editor

Silverlight 2.0

noreply@blogger.com (Shankar) — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:36:00 +0000

Scott Guthrie has first look at Silverlight 2.0
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/02/22/first-look-at-silverlight-2.aspx

Indian Railways

noreply@blogger.com (Shankar) — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:42:00 +0000

Indian railways one of the most profitable (surplus money of Rs.200 billion) is run by Lalu Prasad and one of his famous quote

“If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick," he said about running the Railways profitably.

Thiruvannamalai Trip

noreply@blogger.com (Shankar) — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:34:00 +0000

We had been to Thiruvannamlai and turned out to be a good trip. We started at 6.30 AM in the morning from Bangalore. We reached Krishnagiri in 1 hour. The road from Krishnagiri to Chengam had been very bad. From Chengam to Thiruvannamalai was good. The total was around 240 KM and took us around 5 hours to drive. We stayed in the Ramanashramam. It was a very peaceful trip. We visited Yogi Ramsurat kumar Ashram as well. In the evening we had been to the Arunachaleshwarar temple. I did not take any pictures though.

MSDN Code Gallery

noreply@blogger.com (Shankar) — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:35:00 +0000

MSDN Code gallery

http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/01/28/msdn-code-gallery-snippets-samples-and-resources.aspx

Office 2007 Shortcuts

noreply@blogger.com (Shankar) — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:33:00 +0000

A good way of learning office 2007 shortcuts from lifehacker.

http://lifehacker.com/software/microsoft-office/screenshot-tour-the-keyboard-shortcut-goodness-of-microsoft-office-2007-229556.php

Facebook

noreply@blogger.com (Shankar) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:13:00 +0000

Finally I am also on facebook now. Seems to be a very good social network. But most of my friends are with yahoo groups. So I will try and use and see how things work out.

Indian market

noreply@blogger.com (Shankar) — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:25:00 +0000

Today the Indian markets also plunged to a great extent. All my profits are now not there.The finance minister says to stay calm and watch and of course am going to sit and watch or buy more.

Article on how to debug .NET Framework

noreply@blogger.com (Shankar) — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:45:00 +0000

Configuring Visual Studio to Debug .NET Framework Source Code http://blogs.msdn.com/sburke/archive/2008/01/16/configuring-visual-studio-to-debug-net-framework-source-code.aspx#faq

Happy Pongal

noreply@blogger.com (Shankar) — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:03:00 +0000

MOTOROLA ROKR E6

noreply@blogger.com (Shankar) — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:11:00 +0000

This New Year's Eve I bought the new Motorola ROKR E6.

It seems to be good and I was able to sync with my outlook as well with the latest update. I am still evaluating but seem to be a good buy for the money. They had also given me a Bluetooth headset free with the version and it was around Rs.700/- less than the market price.

BlogThis Client - Newzcrawler

noreply@blogger.com (Shankar) — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:14:00 +0000

I had purchased Newzcrawler long back and now since I thought I will blog regularly I have now configured the client to blog the same. At home I will be using the Newzcrawler client and if necessary in office I can use the email as my publising tool. I am excited !!!

Started Playing Command and Conquers

noreply@blogger.com (Shankar) — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:04:00 +0000

Started Playing Command and Conquers

I started playing command and conquers Zero hour. Seems interesting than the other strategy games. This is a little bit different than the Age of Empire series but concept is the same. Good time pass.

AdSense created

noreply@blogger.com (Shankar) — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:27:00 +0000

I finally have enabled my site for the AdSense. I think should be able to see it quite soon.

noreply@blogger.com (Shankar) — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:53:00 +0000

Today I did some more research to enable reading list of my google reader in blogspot. Here is the link for my reading list.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/shankarsdream/inkblots

Happy reading.

Download DivX for free

noreply@blogger.com (Shankar) — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:58:00 +0000

Video lovers can download DivX Pro, which includes the drag-and-drop DivX Converter and the high quality DivX Pro codec, free for a limited time

Bologna, Italy

noreply@blogger.com (Shankar) — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 14:29:00 +0000

I went to Bologna, Italy for a study and the photos can be found at

http://www.flickr.com/photos/92952410@N00

Blogging from home

noreply@blogger.com (Shankar) — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:33:00 +0000

I have now started to blog from word. I read about zenhabits today which was very good.

http://zenhabits.net/2007/11/10-simple-sure-fire-ways-to-make-today-your-best-day-ever/

I think I will follow at-least 4 of those:

Get one important thing done, Focus on 3 projects, listen to good music & choose an amazing day. I was also reading 2000 Powerful ideas by Robin Sharma (Author of The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari) & got one more idea; Spend atleast one hour in the morning for yourself. I did an extension of it as to one hour either in the morning or evening to myself where I can either read book or write this blog etc. I have shifted my working hours from 9.30 AM in the morning to 8.15 AM in the morning and this works out best for me. I don't have to anymore worry about the worst traffic jam in Bangalore (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore) as not many people are there on the roads. Also I get time in the evening to spend for myself and family.