Got new Digital Camera

Purchased new Digital Camera yesterday. The model is Kodal Easyshare LS743. Though it is quite old model but this is what fit for my budget and my requirements. I was doing survey for last 1 week. During this week I learnt lots of Digital Camera stuff.

long break

I am writing after a long break. I was very busy with my family and then my work.

feeling sad

we have lost the title. I am really sorry for the entire team. We were so close. :(

Age of Empires III

The Age of Empires III is available now.
http://www.ageofempires3.com/
I can hardly wait to get my hands on this.

Age of Empires III will offer gamers the next level of realism, with advanced battle physics and unparalleled visual detail. The new game picks up where Age of Empires II: Age of Kings left off, placing gamers in the position of a European power determined to explore, colonize and conquer the New World. This time period features stunning scenes, from towering European cathedrals to courageous tribes of Native Americans, and spectacular combat with Industrial Age units like rifled infantry, cavalry and tall ships bristling with cannons. Age of Empires III will once again demonstrate Ensemble Studios’ reputation for excellence and innovation in the real-time strategy (RTS) genre. The game will set a new standard for visual quality and amaze players with detail never before seen in an RTS. Age of Empires III will also excite strategy gamers with new game-play elements, including the concept of a “Home City,“ new civilizations, units, technologies and an immersive new single-player campaign that will span three generations.

Microsoft @ 30

Congratulations to Microsoft for completing 30 years.

Happy Dasera

Happy Dasera to Everyone

What a race

After watching Sunday's Japanese GP I had mixed emotions. I am really happy for Kimi. He is doing great job. On the other hand JP had an accident and we lost the lead in the Constructor's championship to Renaults.

Both the drivers started from the back of the grid because both were hit by the rains in the qualifying the earlier day. But one thing is sure that, on the grid wherever kimi is he can still win the race. Beware renaults!

I enjoyed the race from start to finish. At one point I had lost all my hopes of winning this race. But Kimi proved me wrong and overtook the leader on tha last lap of the race.

For the first time I saw Ron Dennis so much happy. I think he jumped on the podium for the first time also (not sure).

In the end the entire race was full of hardcore motor racing. We had many daring overtaking manuvers. Lets see what happen in the last race of the season...

Ajax the future of web technology

With the invention of Ajax, now we have a complete different system model.
AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML)

Since the start of Web programming, numerous tradeoffs have existed between Web applications and desktop applications. For example, it has been generally accepted that Web applications don't provide the same type of rich user interface as desktop applications. On the flip side, Web applications are platform independent and provide an easier development mechanism. One area that's been a continuous battleground for Web developers has been the seemingly simple task of providing more responsive applications.
Traditionally, a response to a user's input could only be retrieved by submitting a new request to the Web server. In some cases, developers could load all responses on the client (using JavaScript) and provide a better user experience. A common example of this technique is to dynamically load a list of states or provinces, based on a selected country. Unfortunately, in many cases, neither posting back nor loading everything into JavaScript felt correct. Either posting back created too much of a UI disconnect, or an unmanageable amount of data was required on the client (which often resulted in less-than-readable JavaScript). AJAX provides a new in-between alternative, capable of leveraging the server-based application while maintaining a responsive and slick feel.

Some Great Facts ... Part II

11. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
12. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
13. Those stars and colors you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.
14. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
15. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.
16. Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted.
17. At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.
18. There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.
19. Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk right foot, right foot , left foot, left foot, rather than right foot, left foot
20. Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal.

Some Great Facts

Here are some facts I read on one site.


1. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from stop producing tears. Try it next time you chop onions!!!!!!!!!!
2. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time. Indeed convenient!
3. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.
4. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.
5. The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.
6. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.
7. Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each stamp.
8. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
9. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.
10. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water.

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Migrating from ASP.NET 1.x to 2.0

Migrating from ASP.NET 1.x

If you have ASP.NET 1.x applications in production, you will be relieved to know that ASP.NET 2.0 is fully backwards compatible. That is, your ASP.NET 1.x applications will run as normal on ASP.NET 2.0 without any changes. However, you will notice many changes when you upgrade to Visual Studio 2005. In particular, the default development model for ASP.NET pages has changed. In addition, with ASP.NET 2.0, you will have a variety of new compilation and deployment options. All of these changes will be discussed in detail in the following sections.

Changes in Architecture
The fundamental architecture of ASP.NET has always been designed for flexibility and extensibility. ASP.NET 2.0 continues this tradition by incorporating a new provider model to support many of the new features. New utilities and API's have been added to improve site maintenance and improve configuration. All of these changes are designed to make developing ASP.NET 2.0 applications a faster and more streamlined process, while still providing the flexibility and extensibility that developers were used to with ASP.NET 1.x.

The Provider Model
Many of the new features in ASP.NET 2.0 depend on communication between the Web application and a data store. In order to provide this access in a consistent fashion, ASP.NET 2.0 uses a set of providers. A provider is both a pattern and a point where developers can extend the ASP.NET 2.0 framework to meet specific data-store needs. For example, a developer can create a new provider to support the user identification system, or to store personalization data in an alternate data store.

Most custom providers will interact with database backend systems. However, the programmer is free to implement the required provider methods and classes using any medium or algorithm, so long as it meets the model's required interface specification.

ASP.NET 2.0 Providers
The provider model defines a set of interfaces and hooks into the data persistence layer that provides storage and retrieval for specified requests. In this way the provider model acts as a programming specification that allows ASP.NET 2.0 to service unique client concerns.

ASP.NET 2.0 uses a wide variety of providers, including:

Membership. The membership provider supports user authentication and user management.
Profile. The profile provider supports storage and retrieval of user-specific data linked to a profile.
Personalization. The personalization provider supports persistence of Web Part configurations and layouts for each user.
Site Navigation. The site navigation provider maps the physical storage locations of ASP.NET pages with a logical model that can be used for in-site navigation and linked to the various new navigation controls.
Data providers. ADO.NET has always used a provider model to facilitate the connection between a database and the ADO.NET API. ASP.NET 2.0 builds upon the data provider by encapsulating many of the ADO.NET data calls in a new object called a data source.
Each type of provider acts independently of the other providers. You can therefore replace the profile provider without causing problems with the membership provider.

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Can we do it?

Team McLaren Mercedes arrives at the Suzuka circuit this week for the penultimate race of the 2005 season, the Japanese Grand Prix, heading the Constructors' Championship by two points from Renault.

The team took the lead for the first time this season at the Brazilian Grand Prix, where Juan Pablo Montoya and Kimi Raikkonen secured the 14th one-two finish for the Team McLaren Mercedes partnership and the 40th in McLaren's Formula One history.

So can we take the constructor's title this season?