http://shiv.me ... aka Shivanand "Don't sweat the last name" Velmurugan Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:06:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Finally it's out in the open. The ultimate weapon in Google's powerchest to combat desktop applications, render the need for a specific platform meaningless - the browser. I guess this has been in the making for the last decade, and here it is. A browser by a company that downloads ... http://shiv.me/2008/09/02/in-the-browser-lies-the-power-wave-2-of-the-google-takeover/ Chicken Curry with Eggs served on Rice, originally uploaded by Shivanand Velmurugan. Thank you Mr. Raghavan Iyer. This is the man, that wrote the book 660 Curries, that has initiated me into making proper Indian food. In the last month or so, since my return from my vacation to India, I ... http://shiv.me/2008/08/04/chicken-curry-with-eggs-served-on-rice-2/ In a moment of mild insanity (actually more like boredom), I decided to watch the last show last night. I was plesantly surprised to find that the movie was playing in 2 theatres @ Silvercity, Coquitlam. With all the hype, and the huge revenue generation in the first week, the ... http://shiv.me/2008/07/21/movie-review-the-dark-knight-spoiler-alert/ Shooting Star, originally uploaded by shivanandv. As I was rummaging through my old pictures, I found this one and liked the pastel colours of the evening sky. This was shot a few months back, I have over 3 months backlog of images to be processed. Let me know what you think. http://shiv.me/2008/06/29/shooting-star/ Conversations on the web have evolved quite a bit, in the last 4/5 years. During the late 90s, conversations on the web, was pretty much non-existant, except for a few, who used their websites to engage in conversations. The advent of the blog, made available tools to start and continue ... http://shiv.me/2008/06/27/friendfeed-comments-for-wordpress/ The simple way to retreive the list of changed files would be to update the tree, which would then list the files updated. #cvs update . > filelist.dat The problem with this, is that if there have been changes to other files after your last update, you will have to manually glean ... http://shiv.me/2008/06/23/cvs-getting-list-of-files-changed-in-the-current-tree/ I am at the fag end of my trip to India, and I will miss this fella sorely! http://shiv.me/2008/06/10/whaddup-mister/ WriteToMyBlog.com, is a web-based editor (with a lot of formatting options), that allows you to write to your blog (from another website?!). First thoughts go like, "wtf?!", ... "hmmm.. interesting"... "I am a web 2.0 junkie?! The likes 1. Simplicity of the UI interface - neat, allows lots of space for text 2. Integration of ... http://shiv.me/2008/06/04/a-web-based-writer-for-writing-to-a-blog/ I have been away from the internet for most of the last week. There are only a few things that can keep me away from spending hours reading feeds or uploading pictures, and when those things do happen, it is not very pleasant. Last week I lost yet another wonderful person ... http://shiv.me/2008/05/25/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-good-times/ I hate having to upgrade software. I truly do. I release a version every 3 months, and it try to make the upgrade as painless as possible. For an application like wordpress, that has been around for such a long, I would expect that they would do something to make ... http://shiv.me/2008/05/06/hey-wordpress-guys-have-you-heard-of-diff/