Year 2007 is coming to an end. Yet another new year celebration is on the corner. This reminds me to write that special note to wrap up the year. 2007 was full of travel tales and masti for me.

There were hundreds of special moments this year.Here are some of them Read the rest of this entry »

Click on the image for bigger view. Beautiful isn’t it? Taken at Nandhi Betta (hills) 50km from Bangalore. To all readers of this blog Happy Holidays.

Peoples President ( Yes he is still ) Abdul Kalam will start blogging very soon. From long time I had this wish of Dr APJ Kalam blogging. A week back I wrote him an email

On 12/14/07, Thejesh GN wrote:
Dear Kalam ji,
I am so glad that you are spreading the good news using your website and Billion Beats. But Billion Beats looks very formal and it is difficult for the readers to reply to the article and as well meeting somebody else with the same passion.

It would be great if you start blogging. It will be simple blog where you just have to put your ideas. This will help us to reply to the post in the form of comment and also debate with like minded people by commenting.You could blog once a week if time is a big constraint.
Wishing you all the best and expecting your blog post.
Jai Hind,
Thejesh GN

After a week I got reply this from Ponraj webmaster of Abdul Kalam’s official site.
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Simple shutdown hooks can often be written as anonymous inner classes, as in this example:

Runtime.getRuntime().addShutdownHook(new Thread() {
public void run() { call_ur_method(); }
});

This idiom is fine as long as you’ll never need to cancel the hook, in which case you’d need to save a reference to the hook when you create it.

More about Java Application shutdown hook design

Just read on Yahoo search blog about the Yahoo-IBM solution for enterprise search. And it is called IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition.Anybody can install the IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition for free.Its going to be boon for small business ( may be medium sized ones too). And it seems to be in direct competition with Google Enterprise Search - Goole Mini which costs around $1995 for small business version. The google version includes the hardware too. Read the rest of this entry »