Solar Power on steel is ELECTRICITY

Solar Paint on Steel Could Generate Renewable Energy Soon. Looks like UK researchers are working on some kind of paint which can generate power...

Necessity is the mother of invention

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Ant

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 Kollihills.com or somewhere when I get time and ants!!

I took this close up shot a year back in Kollihills. Can be found in my Flicker.

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.

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 :-(

Microsoft & Open Source

Microsoft's stance towards Open Source is really going good.

• Framework Code release
• Codeplex
• IIS 7 - Fast CGI for PHP
• and now joining the Apache Software Foundation for PHP etc are great timelines for M$ and the community.

I didnt find any comment from the other end GNU/GPL leads...

Gmail s’ Last Account activity

Saw a link called "Details” in the bottom of the Gmail Page. - Last account activity     As usual Google into their Ad business in a different way.......

Clicking the Details link next to the Last account activity line at the bottom of any Gmail page shows information about recent activity in your mail.

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.

Its shows the last 5 sessions

Google into their Ad business

How this is linked to their buisness?

Windows Live Writer Supports Sharepoint Blog

Its great to see, Live writer supports posting to Sharepoint Blog.

Long since I used Live writer and even blogging...

Reducing the size of Virtual Hard Disk (VHD)

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..
Not comfortable with DiskFragmenter and suddenly today I found another from an article CLEAN MEAN the VHD, which was not bad. It helped to reduce my vhd size my almost 30%