Using scribefire to publish Blogs !

I came across this cool FireFox plugin called ScribeFire for editing and publishing blogs. You dont have to log into your blogs anymore to pubish blogs. Once installed, you can activate this by just clicking the small notepad icon at the right bottom of the browser.

You can download the plugin at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1730.

Also attached is a screenshot as i was editing this post ..

A cool music site !

I came across this cool music site http://songza.com and was simply awestruck by it. Its a cool music search and play website.

Believe it or not, but i was able to search for English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu songs in it. Its got a rocking UI and sound quality is good :).

I am not really sure how they do it but i am still digging around trying to find out. Will post my findings.

Maybe the dhingana folks have some competition now :).

Google releases Android and a $10M bounty

Google has released its android developer kit for mobiles and also offered a $10M bounty for developers who develop cool apps for the same. Google is all set to rock the mobile space soon !.

For those of you who are not familiar with Android, its a SDK to access core mobile functionality using standard API calls. That means that you can now develop code that will work across mobiles.

Check out everything about Android at
http://code.google.com/android/

Also check this release video by Sergey Brin

Slogans for computer networking design...

The following are a few good slogans that i picked up from my instructors (William Cheng) lecture notes for Computer Communications Course at USC.

1. Perfection is achieved not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
2. The simplest explanation is the best - Occam’s razor
3. Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send - Jon Postel
4. In allocating resources, strive to avoid a disaster rather than to achieve an optimum - Butler Lampson

Southern California Fires : The Aftermath...

The Southern California fires that started on Oct 21 2007 in Southern California affected the 7 counties of LA, Orange, San Diego, San Bernardino, Riverside, Ventura and Santa Barbara. San Diego was probably the worst affected, with reports suggesting a lot of damage to property.

I had first hand experience of the aftermath in Orange County. Smoke and ash filled the air and the whole county was smelling of smoke. So much was the air polluted that my car was covered with ash within minutes of leaving it out in an open parking lot. The smoke smell made it very uncomfortable to breathe even inside the car. Just to give an idea of how bad the air was, i took some photographs of Orange County area while driving from LA. The pics give an idea of the amount of pollution that was in the air.

One can see rising smoke from a nearby hill that was on fire.




The black sky is not due to rain bearing clouds but instead due to carbon, ash, smoke in the atmosphere.



The sun peeks bleakly from within the smoke (@ 5:00PM)