Subprime Mortgage Crisis

Reason for the current financial crunch

As many of us know the reason, still lot more people didn't understand why exactly this financial crunch the so called "Subprime Mortgage Crisis" happened. Also, we can take it like, every decade something will come to affect the market.

Found a good article and something more in the Wikipedia.

Also I got a forwarded mail from my friend Gunasekaran who runs a website called Thamizh Studio. Forward is a PDF document in Tamil which explains the financial crunch in a funny colloquial language. But its too hard in supporting communism and offending the current Indian governments' financial policies which I don't support.

Microsoft names its Cloud OS : Windows Azure

Microsoft announced Windows Azure (Cloud OS) in the PDC 2008.

The Azure™ Services Platform (Azure) is an internet-scale cloud services platform hosted in Microsoft data centers, which provides an operating system and a set of developer services that can be used individually or together. Azure’s flexible and interoperable platform can be used to build new applications to run from the cloud or enhance existing applications with cloud-based capabilities. Its open architecture gives developers the choice to build web applications, applications running on connected devices, PCs, servers, or hybrid solutions offering the best of online and on-premises.

Check the DEV.LIVE team s' blog.

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?