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  <updated>2008-10-05T11:30:59.4663945-07:00</updated>
  <author>
    <name>Kiruthik Nandha Kumar</name>
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  <subtitle>eCCentric Vagabond </subtitle>
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    <title>Solar Power on steel is ELECTRICITY</title>
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        <h2>Solar Power on steel is ELECTRICITY
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        <p>
      Solar Paint on Steel Could Generate Renewable Energy Soon. Looks like UK researchers
      are working on some kind of paint which can generate power... 
   </p>
        <p>
      Necessity is the mother of invention
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        <p>
      [ <a target="_blank" href="http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story?id=53714">Source</a> ]
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    <title>Ant</title>
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    <published>2008-09-23T07:19:00.0000000-07:00</published>
    <updated>2008-09-23T13:15:56.6114630-07:00</updated>
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        <h2 align="center">Ant
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        <p>
          <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/kiruthik/867525420/" target="_blank">
            <img style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px" height="238" alt="ant-close" src="http://www.kiruthik.com/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/Ant_1298/ant-close_thumb.jpg" width="241" align="left" border="0" />
          </a>Awesome
      social insect which is busy and active always. I have spent lot of times in watching
      those, when I go to our farm in <a href="http://www.kollihills.com" target="_blank">Kollihills.com</a> or
      somewhere when I get time and ants!!
   </p>
        <p>
      I took this close up shot a year back in Kollihills. Can be found in <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/kiruthik/867525420/" target="_blank">my
      Flicker</a>.
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        <p>
      Just to avoid mosquitoes and other insects, I have stapled a plastic cover(kind of
      mosquito cover/net) in all the windows. Couple of weeks back, I saw a small hole in
      one of them, which was near the edge wood of the window, so I didn't mind.
   </p>
        <p>
      Today I saw ants taking few small pieces of Noodles from my kitchen and tried to take
      it into that hole passing the hall and another room. I spent nearly an hour, and saw
      them doing their work. That room is not having enough lighting, so the photos are
      bad :-( 
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  <entry>
    <title>Microsoft &amp; Open Source</title>
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    <published>2008-07-29T12:03:39.3130000-07:00</published>
    <updated>2008-07-29T12:24:02.2968442-07:00</updated>
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        <h2>Microsoft &amp; Open Source
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        <p>
      Microsoft's stance towards Open Source is really going good. 
   </p>
        <ul>
          <li>
         Framework Code release 
      </li>
          <li>
         Codeplex 
      </li>
          <li>
         IIS 7 - Fast CGI for PHP 
      </li>
          <li>
         and now joining the <a href="http://visualstudiomagazine.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=10082">Apache
         Software Foundation</a> for PHP etc are great timelines for M$ and the community. 
      </li>
        </ul>
        <p>
      I didnt find any comment from the other end GNU/GPL leads...
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    <title>Gmail s’ Last Account activity</title>
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    <published>2008-07-19T23:21:17.9080000-07:00</published>
    <updated>2008-07-19T23:43:45.3677146-07:00</updated>
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        <h4>Gmail s’ Last Account activity
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        <p>
      Saw a link called "Details” in the bottom of the Gmail Page. - <a href="http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ctx=%67mail&amp;answer=45938" target="_blank">Last
      account activity</a>     As usual Google into their Ad business in a different
      way.......
   </p>
        <p>
          <em>Clicking the <strong>Details </strong>link next to the <strong>Last account activity </strong>line
      at the bottom of any Gmail page shows information about recent activity in your mail.</em>
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          <em>Recent activity includes any times that your mail was accessed, using a regular
      web browser, through a POP client, from a mobile device, etc. We'll list the IP address
      from which the access was made, as well as the time and date.</em>
        </p>
        <p>
      Its shows the last 5 sessions
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          <img style="WIDTH: 579px; HEIGHT: 589px" alt="Gmail s’ Last Account activity - Session details" hspace="0" src="http://www.kiruthik.com/content/binary/Gmail_Activity_Session.jpg" border="0" />
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          <strong>
            <u>Google into their Ad business</u>
          </strong>
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        <p>
      How this is linked to their buisness? 
   </p>
   Lets see that in the next post!!!<img width="0" height="0" src="http://www.kiruthik.com/aggbug.ashx?id=9a00f4ff-8318-45f0-b53a-9bcc2ae71435" /></div>
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    <title>Windows Live Writer Supports Sharepoint Blog</title>
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    <published>2008-07-13T20:29:50.4429047-07:00</published>
    <updated>2008-07-13T20:29:50.4429047-07:00</updated>
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    <category term="Sharepoint - MOSS 2007" label="Sharepoint - MOSS 2007" scheme="dasBlog" />
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        <h3>Windows Live Writer Supports Sharepoint Blog
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        <p>
      Its great to see, Live writer supports posting to Sharepoint Blog.
   </p>
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          <img alt="Windows Live Writer Supports Sharepoint" src="http://www.kiruthik.com/content/binary/Windows-Live_Writer.jpg" border="0" />
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        <p>
      Long since I used Live writer and even blogging... 
      <br /></p>
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  <entry>
    <title>Reducing the size of Virtual Hard Disk (VHD)</title>
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    <published>2008-07-13T12:01:58.5110000-07:00</published>
    <updated>2008-07-13T12:02:38.4638888-07:00</updated>
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        <h2>Reducing the size of Virtual Hard Disk (VHD)
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        <p>
      Most of us are working in the vhd, and quite often the size increases like a hell.
      Reducing the vhd size was a big problem for me. 4.5GB (.vhd) file grew to 8GB in a
      month or so..<br />
      Not comfortable with DiskFragmenter and suddenly today I found another from an article <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/guowu/archive/2005/05/17/418457.aspx">CLEAN
      MEAN the VHD</a>, which was not bad. It helped to reduce my vhd size my almost 30% 
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          <em>1) Inside the VM, run disk defragmenter</em>
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          <em>2) Inside the VM, run Virtual Disk Precompactor or other disk
      utility program to "zero out" deleted data</em>
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          <em>3) Shutdown the VM, run "Virtual Disk Wizard" from VPC console
      to compact the VHD.</em>
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          <em>
          </em> 
   </div>
        <div align="left">I was told that <a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/server_virtualization.html">VMWare
      full version</a> is having the option of reducing/fine tuning the vhd. Though I have
      never tried..
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