Google is moving towards single sign-on. I had written about it sometime back, and its slowly becoming a reality now. Recently, when I logged onto to Orkut, I was prompted to link my Orkut account to my Google Account. So, from now now, I just need to log-on to my Google Account. No more remembering multiple passwords.
List of google services currently under single sign-on:
Waiting for AdSense to get linked too!
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September 15th, 2005 at 12:26pm
Cant stop laughing at this image!.
“BUSH: One of the worst disasters to hit the U.S”
Finally Sky news gets it right!!!
[Via KKJ]
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September 13th, 2005 at 09:10pm
Yesterday was the big day for Mangalore Infosys. We had our 10th anniversary celebrations. The venue : Dr. TMA Pai International Convention center.
The program started at around 4 - 4.30 PM. Lot of dignitaries had come down for this special occasion. We had S. Gopalakrishnan (Kris) - Director, K. Dinesh - Director, N S Raghavan (ex-infoscion, emp# 1 of Infosys), R G Bhandi (ex-infoscion, the first DC head of Mangalore), M M Mohan (ex-infoscion), Binod H R, Bikramjit Maitra, V P Kochikar, Shivshankar, Capt. Sinha and couple of other folks.
The entrance was strictly for Infoscions and their family members.
Banner at the Entrance (Click to Zoom)
Entrance of the Convention Centre (Click to Zoom)
Here is the stage setup :
Stage Setup (Click to Zoom)
The cake was damn beautiful. It was a replica of our Infosys Mangala office. Check out the pictures.
The mInfy 10 Cake - Front View (Click to Zoom)
The mInfy 10 Cake - Front View (Click to Zoom)
The mInfy 10 Cake - Back View (Click to Zoom)
The mInfy 10 Cake - Side View (Click to Zoom)
The function started with a snapshot of the past 10 years. “Story So far” kind of thing. Was very nostalgic indeed. This was followed by a short movie on Mangalore Infosys.
After that the formal function began.
Sudhir, Bhandi, Kris, NSR, Dinesh, M M Mohan (Click to Zoom)
Then then there was cake cutting. Two young mInfoscions who share their birthday with mInfosys got to cut the cake along with other dignitaries!. But, it was kind of sad to cut such a beautiful cake!!
Cake Cutting (Click to Zoom)
Cake Cutting - Kris(Click to Zoom)
This is how the auditorium looks like… it can house around 1800 people.
Inside the Auditorium (Click to Zoom)
The cake cutting was followed by speeches by dignitaries.
Kris sharing his thoughts (Click to Zoom)
N S Raghavan - The first employee of Infosys!(Click to Zoom)
K Dinesh addressing the gathering (Click to Zoom)
Bhandi - The first DC head of Mangalore (Click to Zoom)
Bhandi and the second batch folks sang the Song “Zindagi Milke Bitayege” from Satte Pe Satta, bringing back some old memories!
Batch 2 folks (Click to Zoom)
M M Mohan sharing his thoughts (Click to Zoom)
After the stage event, we had a Inter-DC short film competition. It was a competition among various Development Centers of Infosys to come up with a short film on the topic “Social Consciousness and Community Empathy”. This program went on for about an hour. 12 films were played. In the mean time, cake was served. Mysore DC won the competition.
Next up was the Rock Show from a group called Aquaflow from Mumbai. They did a pretty neat job. One good thing that they did was, they did manage to sing some non-rock stuff too, although it disappointed some small set of rock fans. So, it was not a pure rock show as such! After a couple of numbers, mInfoscions were all set to rock and roll and didn’t want to stop! (as usual!)
Rock Show by AquaFlow (Click to Zoom)(Click to Zoom)
Rock Show by AquaFlow (Click to Zoom)(Click to Zoom)
Rock Show by AquaFlow (Click to Zoom)(Click to Zoom)
mInfoscions on the stage (Click to Zoom)
Rock and Roll (Click to Zoom)
Ooops!.. (Click to Zoom)
The last part for the day was.. the dinner :). Taj Manjarun were the caterers for the day, and the food was good, specially the non-veg part!
Dinner (Click to Zoom)
Dinner (Click to Zoom)
All in all, a day to remember for all mInfoscions.
Related Post : Narayana Murthy in Mangalore - Inauguration Program
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September 10th, 2005 at 08:40pm
The best tips and tricks that i have read about .htaccess.
Its in plain simple english, and very much understandable. Spcially the mod-rewrite concepts!
Do give it a shot if you are intrested in mod-rewrite.
read more | digg story
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September 6th, 2005 at 03:27pm
This one is related to Hosur Road Traffic Problems. Got these cartoons in my inbox today. Thought will share these. Shows how bad things are at bangalore. The infrastructure is almost dead.
Meetings on Hosur Road :
Meetings on Hosur Road(Click to Zoom)
Are we on time ? Not exactly….
We are on time !!! (Click to Zoom)
Hi-Fi idea !!
Wow! What an idea!! (Click to Zoom)
Horoscope wont work.
Horoscope wont work(Click to Zoom)
The best one in the series ;)
Two to Three (Click to Zoom)
The war begins…
The war begins (Click to Zoom)
Full credits to the original author(s). Seems like this is a output of some kind of cartoon contest. Not very sure though.
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September 5th, 2005 at 06:00pm
Somehow the weekends seem to be too short!. Again a relaxed weekend. Got up extra late on Saturday. Everything was delayed ;) ..from breakfast to lunch. i.e., breakfast was at 12 noon and lunch at 4 pm :)
Evening, we had invited my colleagues from my old department home. Was a small get-together at our house. We went out for dinner to ‘The Village’. Had a nice time in general.
Sunday again turned out to be a lazy day. Read lots of pending posts and could clear almost all important unread posts on bloglines.
Hectic week ahead. Good thing is, there is a holiday midway for Ganesha Chaturthi on Wednesday.
Back to work now!
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September 5th, 2005 at 12:19pm
Came across this useful tip for firefox while browsing today.
You can assign some keyword shortcut to your bookmarks, and you can use these keywords in the address bar to load the site that is bookmarked!
For E.g :
Say you use a bookmark to reach bloglines.com. Right-click the bookmark, then click on properties. You would have a empty field called “Keyword”. Type in “bl” for Bloglines. After you have done that, click OK.
Now, in the address bar of your browser, just type bl, and you will be directly taken to the bookmarked site!
[link]
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September 2nd, 2005 at 05:47pm
