J2ME device listing

Complete listing of the available J2ME devices

http://developers.sun.com/techtopics/mobility/device/device

Hosteller vs dayski .. excerpt from Abhinav's blog

Found this really cool post at my friend's blog...for all those who have stayed in the hostel, this really means a lot

-----In the words of Dr. Reddy

A Hosteller:

• Is supposed to stay in hostel for atleast for 6 days a week, even if it is a 5 day working week.
  Should never get up before the Lunch is about to be served. (Make it around 12 at noon)
  Shouldn't leave any opportunity to hunt down the lunch-boxes of any of the dayschi's.
  Should be able to be awake all thru the night, even if there's no need to do so.
  Ought to have a Nickname
  Should be amongst the last ones to enter the classroom
  Has to develop a capability of sitting in the canteen day-in and day-out, without bothering over the petty issues over who'll pay, at the end of the day
  Would have attended more marriages in the hostel, than the number even attended altogether in whole life
  Wouldn't be the one to let go of any dayschi's, as and when the opportunity comes
  The notes are never meant to be in order for a hosteller
  Would be running around the house of the prof, the night before the exam, to get any clue of what's going to be the pattern of the exam
  Will surely not have all the course with him the day before the exam, and would be seeking help either from a dayschi, or a girl hosteller (Ahem! Ahem!) [from a boy in case of a girl hosteller]
  Should be accustomed to play all sorts of games & sports, even if he knows nothing about it
  Should have a heavily inclined bias towards fellow group-members, as compared to other hostellers, and especially dayschi's
  Ought to have a clear, but deniable bias towards the other sex
  Must have atleast one case of kaatofying of his/her fellow mates
  Should be able to prove his innocence as and when caught into the acts of unfairness
  Has to have such a rapport that all the dayschi's should cater to his/her proposal, whenever there's a decision to be taken for the whole class
  Should identify a room, strictly other than his own, to consider his own for all the acts of life
  Should be able to tell the stories of his hostel life long after he's out of it
  Dare not regret that he was a hosteller some time
  Shouldn't care that its already 22nd law, and its still going on
  Would consider his hostel time as the best time of his life
  Wouldn't fail to give a comment on this post/blog
  Would be eagerly waiting now what a dayschi's laws would include.

Now that its enough for the hostellers, and its clear that the laws for hostellers are never gonna end, we should get over to the traits of a dayschi. It is a well-known fact that for hostellers consider 1+1=11, when it comes to standing up against the dayschi's. I'll take the liberty of calling 1+1=11 here as well, and so, the immutable laws for dayschi's would be-

• A dayscholar:
  1. Loves to attend classes, and moreso, loves to go back home
  11. Would fear going in for a marriage party, and wouldn't bother for anything happening after 8 in the evening.
  11+1. Doesn't care for the college after passing out of it
  11+11. Would hate anyone calling him a "dayschi"

Hello Google!

Well the first instance I saw that google acquired a company picassa, myself and varun tried to get a hang of what the hell google would do with this! Guess I found my anser today when I tried to copy a image to my blog, it directed me to BloggerBot...

" Just use Hello to send your pictures to BloggerBot. BloggerBot will automatically resize your JPG pictures, add your captions, and publish your pictures to the Web. "

You don't have to resize pictures by hand, transfer files, format HTML posts, or even find a place to host your images - Hello does all the work for you. And, it's totally free.

Blogging making waves in the US

A recent report by Pew Internet and American Life Project talks about Blogging in US:
http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_blogging_data.pdf

Few key points from the report are:

- Blog readership shoots up 58% in 2004
- 6 million Americans get news and information fed to them through RSS aggregators. But 62% of online Americans do not know what a blog is !
- 7% of the 120 million U.S. adults who use the internet say they have created a blog or web-based diary. That represents more than 8 million people. - 27% of internet users say they read blogs, a 58% jump from the 17% who told us they were blog readers in February. This means that by the end of 2004 32 million Americans were blog readers. Much of the attention to blogs focused on those that covered the recent political campaign and the media. And at least some of the overall growth in blog readership is attributable to political blogs. Some 9% of internet users said they read political blogs "frequently" or "sometimes" during the campaign.
- 5% of internet users say they use RSS aggregators or XML readers to get the news and other information delivered from blogs and content-rich Web sites as it is posted online. This is a first-time measurement from our surveys and is an indicator that this application is gaining an impressive foothold.
- The interactive features of many blogs are also catching on: 12% of internet users have posted comments or other material on blogs.
- At the same time, for all the excitement about blogs and the media coverage of them, blogs have not yet become recognized by a majority of internet users. Only 38% of all internet users know what a blog is. The rest are not sure what the term "blog" means.


I also found blogger demographics interesting...

Blog creators are more likely to be:
• Men: 57% are male
• Young: 48% are under age 30
• Broadband users: 70% have broadband at home
• Internet veterans: 82% have been online for six years or more
• Relatively well off financially: 42% live in households earning over $50,000
• Well educated: 39% have college or graduate degrees


Blog posters

More than one-in-ten internet users (12%) say they have posted material or comments on others’ blogs. That represents more than 14 million people and is a threefold increase from April 2003 when we first asked a question about those who contribute to others’ blogs. Many of those posters themselves have blogs and a quarter of young adult internet users (those 18-29) have posted to other blogs.

Readership of political blogs
Just under one-in-ten internet users (9%) said they regularly or sometimes read political blogs during the campaign such as the Daily Kos or TalkingPoints Memo or Instapundit: 4% said they did so regularly and 5% said they did so sometimes.

Why weren't we warned, aggrieved India asks ??

"My dear, it was a Sunday. Time was taken by the officer to get ready and get into the car -- but there was no delay.". Oh Boy !!! what's going on here.

Yes I am talking about the recent Tsunami that has claimed over 140,000 lifes at present with around 5 million more homeless. The above statement is from our honorable Home Ministry's secretary in charge of disaster management, AK Rastogi as told to Reuters. Can somebody tell me what's going on here ? How could some f***** OFFICER knowing the potential possible impact of this catastrophe on the lives of people take time to GET READY.. or was he dumb enough that he took his time searching for a lexicon just to be able to roughly interpret the warning message with terms like earthquake, tsunami ..clearly out of his/her vocabulary.


Here's the excerpt from the news article on Times of India
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/977779.cms
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The waves struck Indonesia, Thailand and then submerged an air force base at Car Nicobar, 1,200 km from the mainland. Finally, minutes before the deadly waters struck, the sea began to rapidly recede from India's eastern shore. In some places, children scurried onto the beach to pick up shells.

Faxes were sent between government departments, but still no warning was given to the public. Finally the tsunami struck, with devastating effect. "At every stage, there was a shrinking window of opportunity to warn people. But nothing happened," said Barun Mitra of Liberty Institute, a New Delhi-based think-tank.

"A country that hopes to run the call centres of the world could not call its own people." India's grief over Sunday's tsunami has not yet given way to anger, with most people too stunned by the awesome power of nature to blame their government. But the media are beginning to ask the question -- was the bureaucracy fatally complacent?

Reports say the top brass of the Indian Air Force knew their Nicobar air base had been submerged atleast an hour before the waves struck the mainland coast.

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