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Microsoft / MSDN Team has come up with this great initiative. Even though there are lot of tools and training materials available, this look different, as it shows what to learn first, how to start. Yes, Sharepoint is also...available.....

Also there is something new for the beginners.... Microsoft Startup Zone... 

Thanks to Mr Soma and team.

Obama ki Jai

Barak Obama wins the US Presidential election 2008. As promised, hope he wont spend much on Nuclear / Arms!!

Update : Obama collection.

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 :-(