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Wordpress.app on the iphone

 Just got Wordpress.app for the iphone. Think it would inspire me to write more?
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Attending Proto.in - Jan 18 & 19, 2008 in Chennai, India

 I'll be in Chennai on Jan 18 & 19, 2008 attending Proto.in - will be scouting for companies to partner with my employer for the enterprise market. You can get more info on Proto here. Vijay Anand and team at The Knowledge Foundation have been working real hard on making Proto a success - I look forward to seeing this latest version play out this week. Here are Vijay's posts on the subject on the Proto.in blog: The Business Track The Technology Track The Proto Jingle The Speakers - including my friend Gokul Gopalakrishnan!
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Great quote by Dr. Suess that was in October Special's header

 There was this great quote from Dr. Suess in the October Special theme's header... “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” - Dr. Suess
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Changes

 Lots of change going on lately, in personal life and on this blog... After over a year using the October Special theme for Wordpress (Great theme by Derek Punsalan), I've started changing things around on this blog. The new theme is called Garden 3.0. The nav menu is sitting over the search form, so guess there's some debugging to be done. Also, rather than use the standard photo/image that came with this theme, I decided to use a panoramic shot of New York City at night, taken and stitched together by Ryan McGinnis. You can see his photostream here.
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Gokul's question on the legality of 3pcc VoIP calls in India

 I missed this earlier, Gokul had a question up on his blog asking:

Question on legality of 3pcc VoIP call in India « Gokul Blog — A conversation on VoIP, IMS, Cisco and Just about Anything

Basically, let’s say that I have a Soft PBX making calls to two mobile endpoints and then connecting them ( A typical 3pcc call). Is this legal in India? The reasoning behind banning the VoIP termination on TDM was that the existing licensed vendors were loosing out which would make sense in this case as well. So is there a legal section that bans this as well?
I think the legality of the calls depend on where and how the Soft PBX hooks into the PSTN/GSM/CDMA world. If the Soft PBX has one gateway each in two different cities/zones (or circle in Indian telecom parlance) and establishes a call connecting the two mobile endpoints across these gateways then it would definitely be illegal. If its in the same circle and the connections are being made through a sufficiently legitimate method like an E1 from a particular operator instead of using a GSM VoIP Gateway with slots for SIMs, then there would probably be enough of a gray area for it to be argued as legal.

Either way, the service isn't gonna be free - the thing about voice is someone has to pay for the call. In this case its the guys providing this Soft PBX service who would have to establish two outgoing calls to connect the two endpoints - that alone might make such a service unviable in India unless they negotiate heavily for minutes.


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More than four years with iTunes

 I was reading this post written by a friend of mine regarding his decision to take the plunge and switch to iTunes and realized that its been such a while since I started using iTunes (over four years) but I still hadn't completely given it full reign over the music library folder. So, after seeing Ashwin's attempt work, I have also let iTunes consolidate the library - lets hope nothing breaks! Now's my chance to get rid of duplicates and see how much space that saves... Technorati tags: iTunes, mac, apple
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This blog has just gone thru major surgery!

 As the title indicates, this blog has just gone through major surgery - upgrading from Wordpress 2.0.6 to 2.1 (Ella). This has been quite an effort, partly my fault as I did not use Dreamhost's great One-Click-Install when I first got wordpress working. I should thank the wordpress community, in particular the great upgrade guide, list of plugins known/not-known to work and of course the code-edits to get Ultimate Tag Warrior to work @ this site. Following all the instructions actually worked without a hitch! Its only been 20 minutes since I upgraded though. Technorati Tags: wordpress, wordpress 2.1
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Technorati Tag Cloud - Wordpress plugin / widget

 I just added a Technorati Tag Cloud to the sidebar on the right. The widget is from here: Random Thoughts » Plugin Update However, I ran into a problem with multiple PHP warnings: "Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated - argument passed by value" for passing arguments by reference. Made the appropriate changes in the code and it works fine. Technorati Tags: , , , ,

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Snap Preview Anywhere enabled on this blog

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Last week they launched Snap Preview Anywhere, a free service that lets any site owner add previewing technology to their sites. When installed, every link on the site (internal links are optional) will show a preview of the linked site when a viewer hovers over the link. To see how it works, hover over the “Try Snap Preview Anywhere here” link near the top of this page. Snap Product Evangelist Jason Fields and Business Development executive Joseph Sarmiento gave me a demo of Snap Preview Anywhere at the Web 2.0 Summit last week.
After reading this Techcrunch article recently, I've enabled Snap Preview Anywhere on this blog. There's a wordpress plugin available to enable this functionality. Technorati Tags: ,

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Moving into Wordpress on my own domain

 I'm in the process of moving my blog over from Typepad to a Wordpress installation on my own domain. A Lively Mind - hosted by Dreamhost, I highly recommend them! While I'm setting things up, please bear with me if you see templates changing, various items appearing and disappearing from the view and default information from the templates not being updated with accurate info on this site. Also, you might notice references to Typepad from earlier posts. I shall at some point add updates to reflect the fact that the blog is no longer hosted at Typepad.
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How real is the need for speed?

How real is the need for speed? Om Malik asked the question earlier this week and has some fascinating facts which show that beyond a certain connection speed, there is no perceptible difference in the experience. Of course, with applications like streaming video - IPTV or Video-on-demand - this would change, especially if these are adopted more as packetized realtime streaming formats, not the "file-download" or "partial-file-download" and playback methods adopted by most vendors today.

Here's a link to Om's article: Need For Speed... How Real?

As usual, Robert Scoble has his opinion on this as well and he points to TV over IP as the typical need: Om asks whether we really need the speed of broadband?

On a side-note, I'm publishing this via Performancing for Firefox. Its a great start, has a long way to go however on features.

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