Let’s accept it. Most of the educated lot has this popular perception that maximum accidents are caused by drivers who are illiterate or received very less education. We think that, in general, educated people...
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October 18, 2003
Using w.bloggar
Arjun had advised me about it. And based on this it seems lowem has taken a plunge too. But can w.bloggar help in posting the same post to two blogs simultaneously? That would be cool. Let me see if it works. As for w.bloggar, well the GUI is cool. Editing Blogger templates would be simpler […]
October 17, 2003
Javaranch Newsletter: October Issue
The October issue of Javaranch newsletter is out. It includes a primer on using the Netbeans IDE and a nice deliberation on the Rowset interface implementations of which would be joining the Tiger (JDK1.5) bandwagon. Being deliberating offlate on the code optimization and performance tuning issues myself I also found the pointer to this thread […]
October 16, 2003
Company name etymologies
Did you know that Cisco is not an acronym but a short name for San Francisco or that the name LG is in fact a combination of two popular Korean brands Lucky and Goldstar or that Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from The Lotus Position or Padmasana. You may find a list […]
October 15, 2003
Hindi for Blog
What is the most appropriate Hindi word for Blog? Alok calls it chittha. How about Roznamchaa or Vrittant? (I made this post in Hindi originally, using the Takhti editor and post was showing up well, however apparently my RSS Aggregator has some problem with that, infact with the three dots the aggreator itself put after […]
October 15, 2003
Please update my blog URL
Fellow bloggers! Those of you who link to me or wish to do so or would like to subscribe to RSS feed for this blog please note the following details. Please update the URL at your blog if you link to me. Blog URL: http://www.jroller.com/page/debashish/weblog RSS Feed URL:http://www.jroller.com/rss/debashish/weblog
October 14, 2003
I am in a movie?
The stardom has finally arrived. Yes I am in a movie! Don't take my word for it. Have a look here. Though I did not have a clue till now apparently the movie Mumbai Matinee has a 32 year old character called Debashish aka Debu played by Rahul Bose. If only other facts about this […]