Hackorama Micro Weblog

07/23/2008 : ABC123, a simple application of letters and numbers for curious toddlers
09/30/2007 : New pictures of Eva from the summer, for friends and family.
12/22/2006 : Added Hello Mobile : writing and installing a simple J2ME application on your mobile phone
09/20/2006 : Updated the C++ option parsing code Anyoption with big fixes sent by a user
08/25/2006 : New python code snippet for special case secure file upload via web proxy
04/26/2006 : Added Pixmap, a C++ Class for Image Processing with ImageMagick API
10/02/2005 : Added AJAX Hello World, simple easy to understand sample code
09/02/2005 : New image fader added (see on the right) after a rather long summer hiatus,
05/21/2005 : Star Wars final installment, Revenge of the Sith is out and breaking records
05/10/2005 : Mallu movie for hollywood remake, with DiCaprio replacing Prithviraj
05/09/2005 : The redesigned 2006 Eclipse GT looks sweet
05/03/2005 : New beautifully sad album WITH_TEETH from NIN
03/04/2005 : More new code, Glass 3D psuedo transparent window effect hack for Java 3D views.
02/01/2005 : Posted new code, MessageQ - a message queue in java
12/20/2004 : Unlock, recover, update your mobile phone firmware at Mobile Kangaroo
12/05/2004 : House of Flying Daggers, from the director of Hero
11/29/2004 : Craigslist goes Bangalore !
10/17/2004 : Few new pictures from the Napa , the wine country
10/04/2004 : What the bubble got right, by Paul Graham author of Hackers & Painters
10/02/2004 : Posted un updated version of AnyOption, with fixes send in by a user
08/27/2004 : HP releases the HP branded Apple iPod
08/24/2004 : Mobile Photo Log , a new addition to the site
07/11/2004 : sfbacell.com - comprehensive analysis of cell phone carriers/coverage/technology
06/19/2004 : Pavitr Prabhakar, the indian spiderman in streets of mumbai !
05/14/2004 : Details of the electronic voting system used in the recent Indian elections
04/03/2004 : Carmack talks game development at GDC 2004
03/26/2004 : If in San Diego, CA do checkout The Coconut Grove for Kerala Cuisine
03/21/2004 : Just finished Ender's Game, superb novel by Orson Scott Card
03/12/2004 : Great introduction to samurai films explains ronin, bushido, chanbara etc.
03/04/2004 : Read a literary composition in malayalam by my dear dad 02/29/2004 : LOTR has swept the Oscars with 11 wins
02/28/2004 : RSJ Online covers the indian rock scene
01/30/2004 : Lajjavathiye, first malayalam hip-hop hit ?
01/25/2004 : Posted a cleaned up revised version of XEngine xml parser
01/19/2004 : DJ Spooky has remixed asian sounds in The Satyagraha Mix
01/03/2004 : Upgraded the webhosting to a bigger and better server at he.net
12/23/2003 : Added new pictures from the snow peaked Sierra Mountains near Lake Tahoe
11/25/2003 : Chakrasonic is a tamil hip-hop outfit from Malasia
11/24/2003 : Sherly's Tours - great site for travel to Kerala , God's own country !
11/22/2003 : Listen to british urban asian beats from Bobby Friction & Nihal
11/13/2003 : The all new redesigned mozilla website
11/07/2003 : Playing with iTunes , now for windows also
11/02/2003 : Added some notes on DVD Burning
10/27/2003 : Midival Punditz are going places !
09/18/2003 : Boom - hinglish flick features music by Talvin
09/14/2003 : Tarantino is ready to kill bill !
09/13/2003 : Added new photos to the gallery, see them here and here
08/09/2003 : The new nikon has 802.11b wireless and an FTP server built in !
08/08/2003 : Posted Akshara and PIXO++ , two old abandonware projects from backup CD's
07/19/2003 : Representing the Indians in Hip Hop
07/06/2003 : all about duuuuuude .. sweeeeeet !
06/19/2003 : Boban and Moly , malayalam comics scan site
06/07/2003 : /usr/bin/god by Cory Doctorow of boinbboing
05/17/2003 : Reloaded the matrix , cant wait for the revolutions
05/14/2003 : Kerala SSLC results are now online ( Enter a reg # between 100001 and 683444 )
04/08/2003 : Yahoo has a new search , and check out google labs
04/02/2003 : New photos from the Monterey trip last month
03/24/2003 : Iraqi people want this war, reported by human shield Daniel Pepper
03/23/2003 : The Revolution Will Not Be Televised but the war sure is televised
03/22/2003 : Shock and Awe at the new Get Your War On
03/21/2003 : Bombs over Baghdad in a World Gone Mad
03/18/2003 : War, Listen to Bush's speech and to Robin Cook's speech
03/11/2003 : Gaming the only tech sector that is still booming
03/11/2003 : After the matrix phone , now checkout the Nokia 7250
03/08/2003 : Story on the state of silicon valley. Also discussed at slashdot
03/08/2003 : To google or not to google
03/08/2003 : News from the 2003 Game Developers' Conference in San Jose
03/07/2003 : Students at MIT are creating a virtual aquarium
03/03/2003 : Its sachin, sachin, sachin, sachin , sachin tendulkar !
03/02/2003 : New pictures added at my brother's page
03/02/2003 : Created a new hackorama logo replacing the old one.
02/28/2003 : This is the new matrix phone
02/26/2003 : Filter out slashdot noise at alterslash
02/24/2003 : What is the matrix phone ?
02/20/2003 : INS destroys the passport of a Indian born Canadian and sends her back !
02/16/2003 : Happy Birthday dear Deepa !
02/12/2003 : Asian Dub Foundation has a new album out, checkout the video of the new single
02/12/2003 : Dont miss this hilarious german car ad set in India
02/04/2003 : ethnotechno has a neat page defining the sub-genres of techno music
02/01/2003 : A moment of silence for the victims of the shuttle tragedy
01/31/2003 : Cool SPOT technology from Microsoft coming soon to a Fossil watch
01/30/2003 : Carmack has updated his .plan with NV30 GeForce FX comments
01/30/2003 : Kasparov is fighting the machine again, watch it online
01/27/2003 : Glad to see a very well designed Kerala government website
01/25/2003 : UNIXICA A Tribute to Unix People and Culture
01/22/2003 : Here's my location using geoURL.
01/21/2003 : Wishing myself a Happy Birthday !
01/04/2003 : Happily Married to Deepa at Aluva, India
12/25/2002 : Christmas Party at office.
12/12/2002 : froogle another great service from google
12/11/2002 : Added a home theater hookup diagram
11/27/2002 : Coming soon to Las Vegas, the Moon, more 'lost wages' trips :)
11/19/2002 : Soundgarden's Chriscornell + R.A.T.M = AUDIOSLAVE , new CD out today !
11/15/2002 : Enfield bikes of Britain/India is now available in U.S for around 4000 US$
11/13/2002 : Missed out on all the fun of the doom3 alpha leak last week.
11/09/2002 : Got engaged to Deepa at Aluva, India
11/01/2002 : Dan Gilmour's superb Insider's View of Silicon Valley on /.
10/30/2002 : Santana does another Supernatural with Shaman, "yo carlos... make the guitar proud"
10/21/2002 : Mitch Kapor's Chandler, will it be the 'Outlook on steroids' ?
10/21/2002 : The switch ads from apple features an indian dude too, and of course the stoned college girl.
10/21/2002 : FSF India announces Free GPL'd Indian Language Fonts by Akruti developers. ( local copy )
10/17/2002 : SkillMarket is a daily look at in-demand tech skills.
10/16/2002 : My friend Meeraj is getting a new book published on JBoss.
10/10/2002 : The movie Fast and the Furious features this cool green Mitsubishi Eclipse
10/09/2002 : Indian government going open source, discussed on slashdot
10/06/2002 : Few new pictures and a video of my mountain biking.
10/03/2002 : Kevin Mitinick's infamous laptops signed by him and Steve Wozniack are on ebay
10/02/2002 : Check out the new webpage of MC Vikram of Welcometoindia.mp3 fame.
09/27/2002 : DJ Sasha is creeping through my headphones with his airdrawndagger
09/25/2002 : vsbabu.org is a cool site by a fellow keralite, who likes open technologies.
09/21/2002 : Drove up to Santa Cruz for the Asian Massive tour featuring Karsh + Cheb + Punditz + Zakhm
09/15/2002 : Watching Lance Armstrong, at the S.F Grand Prix bicycle race. ( checkout my video )
09/14/2002 : UT2003 demo out on windows and linux, game on !
09/12/2002 : Najeeb and Rupa's wonderfull journal of their recent Africa trip.
09/10/2002 : Included realtime stock and weather snarfing from yahoo and weather.com.
09/09/2002 : New page added for few of my graphical designs.
09/07/2002 : 0wnz0red is a cool sc-fi hax0r d00dz story set in silicon valley by Cory Doctorow of boingboing.net
08/28/2002 : The Dr.Dre produced Truth Hurts has controversially sampled an old Hindi song
08/25/2002 : Updated gallery with scans of some old photographs
08/21/2002 : HAPPY ONAM, the harvest festival of the beautifull land of Kerala
08/07/2002 : Famous Computer Scientist Dijkstra died on Tuesday ( 1930-2002 )
08/07/2002 : Despite what the critics say, I liked Oakenfold's Bunkka, he even got Qurbani mixed !
08/03/2002 : Went to the Shoreline Amphitheatre for a taste of southern rock from Lynyrd Skynyrd
07/23/2002 : Got myself a 2003 HardRock ATB from Specialized with an all Shimano drive train.
07/21/2002 : Schumacher's record breaking win at French Grand Prix !
07/14/2002 : Sensational win by India in Cricket !
07/08/2002 : Welcometoindia.mp3 by MC Ludakrishna and MC Vikram is funny as hell :)
06/30/2002 : Brazil did it again, their 5th world cup win !
06/25/2002 : SFO based dj Cheb-i-Sabbah's new disc Krishna-Lila, organic grooves !
06/21/2002 : Attended an engaging talk by Alex Stepanov, author of STL at HP.
06/12/2002 : Argentina is out of soccer world cup, rooting for Brazil now !
06/10/2002 : Redesigned the image gallery, with new photos. Added checkx.c.
06/05/2002 : Los Lobos is still rocking hard and poignant with "Good Morning Aztlan".
06/04/2002 : Checkout the new coolpix from Nikon, sweeet !
06/02/2002 : Go Lakers, what a series !
05/24/2002 : NullSoft has SuperPiMPing software.
05/22/2002 : DOOM III first look from E3, scary as hell, all praise Carmack.
05/20/2002 : Lakers lost to Kings even after Shaq scoring 35 :(
05/17/2002 : Moby's 18 - getting heavy spin in my car stereo.
05/16/2002 : Watched Starwars Epi. 2 "much entertaining this attack of the clones is !"
05/14/2002 : Felt the tremor of the 5.2 earth-quake that hit SF bayarea around 10 in the night !
05/14/2002 : Got Jedi Kight II demo, light-saber is amazing, gotta get the full game.
05/12/2002 : It's been a while with any tech info, so here's something about USB on linux.
05/11/2002 : Watched Spider-Man liked it, but felt like it was more drama than action to my taste.
02/07/2002 : New section for PC gaming, with linux focus.
01/17/2002 : Added notes on port forwarding and PGP
01/12/2002 : Updated Hellocube with the latest OpenGL Performer 2.5
01/06/2002 : Got a webcam for Christmas, so hooked it up to do live image
12/22/2001 : My home network setup and some network util scripts
12/12/2001 : Cleaned up cgi-bin, added new image gallery and xutil.h.
12/04/2001 : Removed frames, complete cleanup with SSI templates and CSS.
10/04/2001 : New screenshot parade and the blue theme.
09/11/2001 : A moment of silence for the victims of the terrorist attack.
05/30/2001 : Added new projects |P|I|X|O| - image cataloguing and Kompare - source diff navigation.
02/12/2001 : Development version of Paper Palne is available online.
12/04/2000 : Hackorama is now voice enabled usig VoiceXML. Please call (408) 907 4655
11/01/2000 : Hackorama for WAP enabled wireless devices at http://www.hackorama.com/wap.wml .
10/26/2000 : After almost an year I have redesigned hackorama using a minimal design.