Today Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav presented the interim Railway Budget for 2009-10 in Parliament, fares will be reduced,new trains are launched and everything but what i seriously complain about railway is not fares but Side Middle berth.
I know that number of people travelling by trains in india is far greater than the resources railway ministry has,and they are doing something about it.But Side Middle brith is not a good option,i get it.. its way to increase the capacity of a carriage but not a good option,certainly not for passenger travelling on these berths.
But whats …

Amazon has launched new Amazon kindle 2,the next generation wireless reading device. With a sleek and thin design that makes Kindle 2 as thin as a typical magazine and lighter than a paperpack, the new Kindle has seven times more storage and now holds over 1,500 books. It has a longer battery life and faster page turns. An advanced display provides even crisper images and clearer text for an improved book-like reading experience. And Kindle 2 even reads to you, with “Read to Me”, amazon’s new Text to Speech feature.
New Features …

On Jan 20 2009, Barack Hussein Obama officially became 44th president of USA with a beautiffuly written inaugural speech. But whats interesting is how the twitter was buzzing with related news tweets worldwide.Guys at flowingdata.com have visualized how excited was twittersphere starting from early Moring morning, with huge activity on tuesday. You can check out the visualization of Twitter here.
Another interesting point to note about Obama’s speech is that “Hope” is the most used word after “Change”. Words like “common”,”generation”, “prosperity” and “world” featured prominently but no use of words like “Policy” and “recession”.
Here is the visual …

John Resig and his team had rolled out new version of jQuery, on birthday of jQuery.Today jQuery becomes 3 year old and got a new present .. new selector engine named Sizzle.
Along with sizzle, jQuery v1.3 includes many new features :

Live Events: Event delegation with a jQuery twist
jQuery Event Overhaul: Completely rewired to simplify event handling.
HTML Injection Rewrite: Lightning-fast HTML appending.
Offset Rewrite: Super-quick position calculation.

More details can be found on release notes.
This is great news for jQuery developers like me, Happy Birthday jQuery

Google Chrome users, open a new tab and type about:internets and hit enter.And you will see windows screensaver Pipes inside chrome.BTW this doesn’t works in Vista, here is the reason why ??
This is not a canvas element or flash, its actually the windows screensaver.Don’t believe me ? look at the code :

PathService::Get(base::DIR_SYSTEM, &path);
file_util::AppendToPath(&path, L"sspipes.scr");

So, now if you can build your own chrome, you know where to make changes so that it displays Matrix screensaver.
Here are some more about pages that you may like to have a look through and can …

It’s been a long long time i haven’t posted anything ..almost a year,first my blog was down for around 3-4 months due to hosting issues, then didn’t had time to revamp the blog ..in the meantime i lost some data :( .Anyways,.. whats gone is gone .. plan for the future ..right ? So here i am .. with a new blog design which is much cleaner that previous design and better too. 
and Happy new year to all of you.BTW i am taking new year resolution to write more frequently …

This plugin was created for YUI 2.5.0, but with the release of YUI 2.6.0 there is no need for this (you have upgraded to 2.6, right ?? )
please visit http://www.aptana.com/node/513 for the new plugin.

Orkut had added the support for adding your picasa album feeds to orkut profile page,..but lets admit, its very minimal.You go to a friends page and then click on picasa feed link which displays picasa albums inside orkut and if you still want to browse you have to click on album link which takes you to the picasa page,..can these steps be minimized ?? how can i have a quick look on my friends picasa photos just by going on his/her profile page ?? Can something be done ??
Oh ya …