http://www.dhirajgupta.com To boldly go where no personal website has gone before! Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:38:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en InContext Editing: A whole new editable web. All over again. Adobe has just announced the preview of their upcoming technology, InContext Editing which purportedly allows Dreamweaver designers / developers to create static web pages and let their customers edit just parts of the web pages themselves. The technology seems to be based ... http://www.dhirajgupta.com/adobe-incontext-editing-a-whole-new-editable-web/ Batman: The Dark Knight is the best darn movie I've seen in a long, long time. Top notch acting, direction, action, gadgetry, effects, storyline, everything just works! And as expected, in Batman movies that have The Joker in them, the overshadowing of Batman's character is almost inevitable. Christian Bale does manage ... http://www.dhirajgupta.com/the-dark-knight/ After the recent move to Ubuntu ...for my primary computer's operating system, I've mostly been happy, but as always there are a few gripes. I finally managed to eliminate yet another one: RSS reading. I've always been an avid RSS consumer, and while I retain GreatNews as my RSS reader on my ... http://www.dhirajgupta.com/howto-rss-owl-20-rendering-problem/ All this has happened before, and will happen again. - Various Cylons, Battlestar Galactica. Ah well, another engine move, dhirajgupta.com is now on Wordpress. Seeing how cyn.in v2 is doing great as an Intranet collaboration and knowledge management software, (as opposed to being re-purposed for my personal blog) I thought I'd take ... http://www.dhirajgupta.com/a-new-beginning/ Watching Battlestar Galactica in DVD quality video has been a cinematic trip by itself, for me. To imagine the kind of triumph in visual effects, story telling and sheer drama on TV is insufficient, one must watch to know what it feels like - the budgets of the Battlestar Galactica ... http://www.dhirajgupta.com/all-along-the-watchtower/ Had to include this youtube video on my site when I found the live/unplugged version. This is a song by K's Choice, a Belgium brother-sister band that features eclectic vocals backed by a mild rock sound. You might also be interested in watching the original "plugged-in" version. It's not a habit, ... http://www.dhirajgupta.com/not-an-addict/ Jpsykes has a nice piece running on their blog about QR Codes. This looks to be much better than standard bar codes, and I'm sure I've seen these sort of codes on the back and insides of a lot of hardware (GSM phones and batteries especially). Stumbling across an explanative tech ... http://www.dhirajgupta.com/qr-codes/ DJ Munks is in da' House! Or so it seems, at any rate. :) Munks has just released 3 new remixes of an old Bollywood classic, do check it out! He's looking for feedback, be sure to listen and fill out his survey, as well. Here's to challenging your dreams, and having the conviction ... http://www.dhirajgupta.com/presenting-dj-munks/ This guy is so tricked out, seeing is believing. I've seen the video around 5 times, and I still can't believe some of the stunts this guy does with his yoyo are real. Tell me what you think. http://www.dhirajgupta.com/unbelievable-yoyo-tricks/ When I found the music video to one of my favorite songs on Youtube, I couldn't resist posting the vid, here. The song is Nothing to fear by the inimitable Chris Rea, and the video looks to be about a bedouin tribe and also an arab village-town and is a ... http://www.dhirajgupta.com/nothing-to-fear/ Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,Enwrought with golden and silver light,The blue and the dim and the dark clothsOf night and light and the half light,I would spread the cloths under your feet:But I, being poor, have only my dreams;I have spread my dreams under your feet;Tread softly because you ... http://www.dhirajgupta.com/tread-softly/ Alive"I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry... just make me feel alive."- Joey Lauren AdamsChasing Amy http://www.dhirajgupta.com/alive/ Logged into my google analytics account after quite a bit of time, and I checked out the new Google Analytics release. The width, depth and length that they've gone to is quite impressive!Of particular interest was the compare to past feature - you see dual graphs of comparative date ranges ... http://www.dhirajgupta.com/google-analytics-gets-an-update/ Should Spider-man 3 have been called Mary Jane Watson 1, instead? I think so. It quickly became the epitome of everything that should not be done in a super hero movie. And it's a long, long movie that spreads out the (few) action scenes in between long, drawn out emotional sequences ... http://www.dhirajgupta.com/spiderman-and-mary-jane-watson/ Sometimes, the good old riddles are amazing tests of logic.A girl is stuck in a labyrinth, and after many hours of wandering through it, comes upon two majestic doors, with large, round  iron door-knockers with ancient symbols on them. A wooden sign placed in the middle of both of them, ... http://www.dhirajgupta.com/a-puzzle-of-logic/ Fight Club, one of my favorite movies is always a good watch, even after all these times of watching it over and over again. There's always a dialog or a particular scene that you just can't remember seeing.When IMDB put Fight Club in one of it's top 10 quotes from ... http://www.dhirajgupta.com/fight-club-quotes/ For those of you who just can't resist the big bright white light, now's your chance for online glory!cyn.in is running a spotlight campaign for the best looking blogs, websites and usage of cyn.in. All you have to do is register your free site, customize how it looks and put ... http://www.dhirajgupta.com/thats-you-in-the-spot-light/ Was reading through my RSS feeds this morning when this gem from the Dilbert blog came to my attention.To be happy, truly skipping-along-all-day happy, you need to be successful in the following 3 areas (and I quote):"RelationshipsHealthIncome Realistically, you will only have time to accomplish any two of those goals while bitching ... http://www.dhirajgupta.com/happiness-has-a-formula/ Could you do without?That's the question that NBC's Today show special posed to Dennis Kneale from Forbes. He let them take away his cellphone, blackberry and email for a whole week. He lasted 3 days before giving up, teary-eyed. Watch the video to see Dennis' plight.In these days of cellphone ... http://www.dhirajgupta.com/no-cellphone-no-email-even/ A new beginning to editioning of Software releases? I don't know. I don't think every customer is gonna require a geek to tell them which Vista to choose. Good for the geeks, either way. http://www.dhirajgupta.com/software-editioning-a-new-beginning/ Streamburst is a company that offers a purchased video download service, that seems to be headed in a more correct way IMHO to solve the video playback rights problem. Coming to the online purchased video market with unique piracy deterrent methods, the service would be quite effective if it could ... http://www.dhirajgupta.com/streamburst-no-drm/ Time and again we've seen it happen. A site / online system gets popular. Really, really popular. Then the spammers move in and abuse the system to it's utmost. Recently, I've been getting all sorts of spam messages originating from within the orkut social networking system.I've gotten friend requests from ... http://www.dhirajgupta.com/orkut-spammers/ All around me are familiar faces, Worn out places, Worn out faces, Bright and early for the daily races, Going nowhere, Going nowhere, Their tears are filling up their glasses, No expression, No expression, Hide my head I wanna drown my sorrow, No tomorrow, No tomorrow, And I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad, The dreams in which I'm ... http://www.dhirajgupta.com/all-around-me-are-familiar-faces/ JP, over at Confused of Calcutta puts down a few thoughts about blogging, teaching and learning that are well worth the read, as is usual with him. Most of the times that I do blog (although I admit that it's become quite a rare occasion these days), I do it pretty ... http://www.dhirajgupta.com/why-do-we-blog/ TechCrunch's new contributing author after Marshall Kirkpatrick's exit, Natali Del Conte says: "When customers buy “Superman Returns” at Wal-Mart, they can choose to pay $1.97 more to play it on portable devices, $2.97 more to play it on PCs or laptops, or $3.97 more to play it on either ... http://www.dhirajgupta.com/digital-media-and-online-shopping/ I don't know about trespassers but I bet this sign definitely causes a measurable amount of stress in people who are passing by it! :D http://www.dhirajgupta.com/signs-signs-everywhere-the-signs/ I recently announced to commenters that they would be getting invites to my new cyn.in based blog. Since then I've been busy readying our partner program, the cyn.in professional edition (Gratis up to 2 users!) and other assorted related activities. I finally took the time over the weekend to check ... http://www.dhirajgupta.com/dhirajguptacom-now-runs-on-cynin/ Click on the image on the right to watch one of the most amazing videos you've ever seen. This one seems to be from Harvard and is titled "Life of a Cell.". It looks like a sci-fi attempt at explaining the inner working of a cell. Really, really cool. http://www.dhirajgupta.com/bio-life/ From a little light of love I was born and in my cry, my cry Was a little light of love For the honouring of life And the Pharos of my soul Is this light of love Precious little light of love As a candle burning on In the breezy shades of night I keep up my faith ... http://www.dhirajgupta.com/little-light-of-love/ I've just put up an article on Podcasting on the official cyn.in blog. Podcast are an easy way to get your recorded interviews, spoken thoughts, musings, etc. to your entire listening audience. Until now, podcasting audio files has always been problematic, requiring you to learn a whole lot of jargon, ... http://www.dhirajgupta.com/podcasts-are-belong-to-us/