Venkatarangan's Blog [வெங்கடரங்கன் வலைப்பதிவு]

Books (33)

8/2/2008	The New Imperialists
7/30/2008	Cold Steel - Lakshmi Mittal
7/12/2008	In Spite of the Gods by Edward Luce
5/11/2008	Think Big and Kick Ass
4/26/2008	Indian Character "Raj" in Archie Comics
4/25/2008	ஓவியர் மதி அவர்களின் “அடடே” புத்தக வெளியிடு
4/25/2008	HP Way
3/29/2008	The Alchemist
1/30/2008	It happened in India - Kishore Biyani
1/25/2008	Men of Steel by Vir Sanghvi
1/17/2008	What the CEO wants you to know
1/13/2008	கி.மு. கி.பி. - மதன்
1/12/2008	Who says Elephants can't Dance? by Louis Gerstner
12/29/2007	Five Point Someone
10/21/2007	Carly Fiorina - Tough Choices
10/5/2007	Screw It, Let's Do It - Richard Branson
9/29/2007	Landmark super sale
9/28/2007	The Thunderbolt Kid
8/29/2007	The Long Tail
7/17/2007	Built to Last - Audio Book
6/17/2007	Sam Walton:Made in America - What a great Book!
5/29/2007	Impact of Change Happenings
5/7/2007	Vikram Sarabhai - What a life!
2/7/2007	Neither here Nor there
2/6/2007	one night @ the call center
12/17/2006	Everything and a Kite
12/2/2006	iWoz - Steve Wozniak
11/25/2006	Freakonomics
10/20/2006	My book reading and Blink
3/12/2006	Dream your way to success - RD
12/18/2005	Nicholas Negroponte - Being Digital & $100 Laptop
9/3/2005	"அக்னிச்சிறகுகள்" ஒலிப்புத்தகம்
6/20/2005	The Creation of Wealth - The Tatas ...

Chennai (30)

4/25/2008	ஓவியர் மதி அவர்களின் “அடடே” புத்தக வெளியிடு
4/24/2008	Chennai Super Kings beats Mumbai Indians
4/9/2008	Airport to Mambalam by Train
4/6/2008	Chennai Crocodile Park
3/21/2008	Beware of winning prizes
3/21/2008	இன்று மத ஒற்றுமை நாள்?
3/20/2008	Yahoo! Maps for India
2/24/2008	சுதேசி ஐயர் - Y.Gee.Mahendra's Drama
2/19/2008	Multiple FMs Radio stations in Chennai
1/30/2008	It happened in India - Kishore Biyani
1/26/2008	INFITT - Vice-Chairman
1/14/2008	சென்னை சங்கமம் (Chennai Sangamam)
11/25/2007	அய்யா... அம்மா... அம்மம்மா...
11/24/2007	Original Tamil Film DVDs at Rs.49/-
11/21/2007	One more Chennai Traffic Post
10/13/2007	I smashed my car in front
9/16/2007	2500 Vinayaka Idols
9/12/2007	Trees are gone!
8/22/2007	Chennai's 368th Birthday
8/2/2007	The Story of Landmark bookstores in India
7/15/2007	Haddows Road Park in Chennai
7/13/2007	Chennai Traffic a Nightmare
7/8/2007	Sexual harassment incident in a Chennai School
7/1/2007	Loud Music in Marriage Receptions
3/30/2007	Vaccinations
3/25/2007	Chennai Trade Fair 2007
3/13/2007	Two Wheeler Driving
3/4/2007	Chennai Retail - Heating Up!
10/28/2006	Chennai City gets better Post Deepavali
6/20/2006	Tuesdays and Chennai Traffic

dasBlog (2)

2/6/2008	This site sports a new look
7/20/2005	Congratulations, you've installed DasBlog!

Developer (52)

7/3/2008	Silverlight - Search Engine Friendly by Design
7/1/2008	Basics that came up in a code review
6/20/2008	Demand for SharePoint developers
6/11/2008	TCP/IP fundamentals
5/23/2008	Web Browsing Testing Tool
1/21/2008	My MVP Award for 2008
12/25/2007	Hyper-V and VM Additions for Linux
12/6/2007	Lightweight Database Engines
11/30/2007	Dell Vostro 1400 with Vista x64
11/19/2007	Web Browser Standards
11/17/2007	Microsoft Sync Framework
9/14/2007	Firebug and YSlow!
8/30/2007	Font Embedding in Windows Forms
8/29/2007	Change IP Address from Command Line
6/21/2007	Access data using XML HTTP
6/16/2007	IIS vs Apache
6/11/2007	All new slim Windows Server 2008 Core
5/15/2007	Vista Gadgets from Vishwak
4/13/2007	Email Download is slow with Outlook 2007/Vista
1/18/2007	Interop VB 6.0 and VB.NET
1/1/2007	New Year Gift - MVP
12/16/2006	SQL Server 2005 Remote Connectivity
11/20/2006	Vista DualBoot woes
11/16/2006	Office 2007 Install Issues
11/16/2006	Access Services and Medium Trust - ASP.NET 2.0
10/20/2006	Vishwak - RSS Viewer Gadget
10/7/2006	DLL Hell Song
5/31/2006	Renaming a machine running SQL Server
3/7/2006	WinFX (Jan CTP) and Visual Studio 2005
1/15/2006	VS 2005 - Auto Save
11/26/2005	Indic Rendering problem of my blog with FireFox
11/22/2005	Clickonce doesn't work by default in Windows Server 2003
10/28/2005	Do you love or hate Visual Studio?
10/7/2005	Change the filename shown in IE for a dynamic content
7/31/2005	IE 7.0 and Standards, CSS & More
5/7/2005	How to debug ASP Pages with Windows 2003/XP?
4/6/2005	Perform caching in ASP
4/6/2005	Detect whether you have Internet Connection?
3/18/2005	Sharepoint and ASP.NET 2.0 Webparts
3/14/2005	Delete XP - Source Code
3/11/2005	.NET Framework Installations
2/5/2005	ASP.NET Must-have's
1/11/2005	Quick Fix for IE's Command Execution Vulnerability
11/29/2004	Useful links
9/19/2004	Migrating from ASP.NET 1.x to 2.0
9/7/2004	Dynamic Code-Behind file compilation in ASP.NET 1.x
8/26/2004	To move or not to move - C#
8/14/2004	How to execute a .NET 1.1 Application with .NET 1.0 framework?
8/1/2004	Find true character length of an Unicode String
5/9/2004	Indic Rendering problem of my blog with Mozilla and FireFox - Fixed
4/29/2004	Least Privilege and Longhorn Security
1/25/2004	MSN Messenger Protocol

Economy (48)

7/23/2008	Starbucks closing shops
7/2/2008	Doing business in Tamilnadu, India
6/24/2008	Software is a Service and a Product
6/4/2008	Fuel Price Hike
4/30/2008	FM Extends Tax break for SME IT Companies
4/4/2008	IT Job Market in India & Industry trends
3/27/2008	India to adopt IRFS Accounting System
3/1/2008	Indian Budget 2008 - What happened
2/28/2008	Indian Budget 2008 - my guess list
2/15/2008	Understanding the Indian Budget Process
1/11/2008	World's first USD 2500 Car
1/4/2008	Reliance Power IPO
11/21/2007	Reverse Brain drain (Brain gain)
10/11/2007	Sensex nearing 19,000 mark
9/17/2007	Megacities in the world
9/17/2007	Economic Growth - Computers and Internet behind them?
8/28/2007	India - a Nation of Mediocrity
8/2/2007	The Story of Landmark bookstores in India
7/12/2007	Rupee Strengthening
7/9/2007	India Offshoring story - are we in the best portion?
7/7/2007	Mobile Usage in India
7/2/2007	India: Airport to City Centre Rail Link
6/16/2007	Indian Railways
5/29/2007	Low Cost Airports
5/16/2007	Captive IT Units are struggling
4/26/2007	Government of India to offer Free Broad-band by 2009
4/21/2007	Indian IT ministry refuses to ban websites
4/10/2007	US Immigration
2/28/2007	Indian Budget 2007
12/17/2006	Consumer Protection for Credit Card Users
11/21/2006	Don't Call Registrations
11/4/2006	Technology can also help the poor
10/13/2006	Synergetics sells majority stake to Aptech
6/28/2006	Successful Companies
4/21/2006	Oprah's Debt Diet
1/14/2006	Mobile Subscribers in India is "76 Million"
1/12/2006	More on Indian Credit Card Regulations
11/23/2005	RBI guidelines on credit cards
10/8/2005	Moving Jobs from West to Asia
3/15/2005	Housing Loans – Asset or Liability?
3/13/2005	Indian born Lakshmi Mittal is world's 3rd Richest
3/6/2005	Indian Budget 2005
7/11/2004	India Budget 2004 - Pros & Cons
7/2/2004	Amul to expand its wings to Sri Lanka
5/22/2004	Dr.Manmohan Singh became India's 13th Prime Minister
5/18/2004	Indian Stock Market - Both Sides
4/8/2004	India's growing dominance in IT Outsourcing & its impact
3/12/2004	Outsourcing - the good spin

Events (90)

4/10/2008	Microsoft Keynote at JAX India 2008
3/21/2008	Watch Mix '08 Keynotes
3/7/2008	Mix 08 Day 3 - Take your content mobile with Expression & Zumobi
3/7/2008	Mix 08 Day 3 - Future of Advertising
3/6/2008	Mix 08 Day 2 - Internet Explorer 8.0 Layout
3/6/2008	Mix 08 Day 2 - Web 2.0 Sustainable?
3/6/2008	Mix 08 Day 2 - Media with Silverlight
3/6/2008	Mix 08 - Windows Live Platform
3/5/2008	Mix 08 - Internet Explorer 8.0
3/5/2008	Mix 08 - Day 1 Keynote
1/31/2008	Ray Ozzie will be at Mix '08
1/19/2008	TiECon 2008 - Pitch to VCs
1/19/2008	TiECon 2008
12/20/2007	BALANCED SCORECARD
11/3/2007	Our Pitch in Vator.TV
11/1/2007	Digital Hollywood - Day 3
10/31/2007	Digital Hollywood - Day 2
10/30/2007	Digital Hollywood - Day 1
10/30/2007	Digital Hollywood - Day Zero
10/18/2007	Sri Lanka DevDay 2007
10/14/2007	My interview in Makkal TV
10/9/2007	India is Innovation - Post 2
10/9/2007	India Is Innovation (i3network.in)
6/16/2007	Tech Mela 2007 - Day 3
6/15/2007	Tech Mela 2007 - Day 2
6/14/2007	Tech Mela 2007 Day Zero (CIO)
6/14/2007	Tech Mela 2007 - Day 1
6/14/2007	Tech Ed 2007 India is here
5/27/2007	K7 Computing's new OMR Office
5/11/2007	Vishwak's 10th Anniversary
5/2/2007	Day 3 - Mix '07
5/2/2007	Marketing in Connected Enterprises
5/1/2007	More on Day 2 in Mix '07
5/1/2007	Windows Live API to be opened
5/1/2007	Silverlight runs .NET Framework
4/30/2007	Microsoft Mix '07
3/9/2007	My experiences as being an Entrepreneur
1/12/2007	Mix '07
11/18/2006	My Vista, My Office Challenge
11/9/2006	Bridging the two Indias
10/9/2006	Innovations: Microsoft Office 2007 Showcase
10/7/2006	Intel Developer Forum - 2006
9/28/2006	My Keynote - Advanced Computer Conference
9/8/2006	Connect 2006
6/24/2006	Virtual Server 2005 R2 is faster than Virtual PC
5/12/2006	It is Tech Ed India Time
4/21/2006	Microsoft Executive Summit 2006
2/15/2006	Tamil computing projects competition & Workshop
2/5/2006	IT World – India’s Lead Sustainable
1/22/2006	Book Release of Mr.Anto Peter
1/21/2006	T-Mug Visual Studio Launch
12/16/2005	More on Music Season
12/13/2005	Chennai Music Season 2005
11/26/2005	Career Opportunities in Indian IT Industry
11/19/2005	Member, Board of Studies Computer Science
11/7/2005	Visual Studio 2005 & SQL Server 2005 Launched!
10/15/2005	Navarathri 2005
9/16/2005	PDC '05 - Web Content Management
9/16/2005	PDC '05 - Day 3
9/15/2005	PDC '05 - Windows Workflow
9/15/2005	PDC '05 - Day 2
9/14/2005	PDC '05 - Day 1
9/14/2005	PDC '05 - IIS 7.0
9/12/2005	Experienced LA's Power Outage
9/12/2005	Reporting from Los Angeles - Microsoft PDC '05
6/27/2005	Tech-Ed 2005, USA - Webcasts available online!!
6/24/2005	Tech Ed 2005 India: Avalon - The Future of UI
6/10/2005	Universal Studios - Tech Ed 2005
6/10/2005	Vishwak at Tech Ed 2005
6/10/2005	Tech Ed 2005, Orlando, FL
5/1/2005	My TV Interview was live today
4/26/2005	Vishwak's Bangalore Office
4/19/2005	Microsoft Office 2003 - Tamil LIP Launch on 15th April
3/16/2005	Roundtable with Somasegar
2/5/2005	Tips for doing effective Presentations
1/16/2005	My blog completes one year
12/12/2004	Counting Letters in an Unicode String
11/28/2004	Yoga Camp in Chennai
11/11/2004	Happy Diwali
10/6/2004	Connect 2004
8/26/2004	To move or not to move - C#
8/26/2004	Great things are coming up in Visual Studio 2005
8/26/2004	Regional Directors - Bangalore
8/14/2004	Tech Ed India - Looking Back
7/19/2004	More from Tamil Internet 2001
6/22/2004	Yesterday was special for me
6/6/2004	E-Commerce Myth and Reality
5/5/2004	Microsoft India Developer Days 2004
5/1/2004	Microsoft Worldwide ISV Strategy Day at Bangalore
3/26/2004	Kaniam 2004 - Tamil Software developers meet

Gadgets (40)

7/31/2008	Dell Hybrid Desktops
7/15/2008	Microsoft Surface
6/10/2008	HP Printers - Love & Hate
4/29/2008	XBOX 360 AC Adapter
4/19/2008	I bought a Macbook Air
2/27/2008	Bad User Interface
2/23/2008	CDs & Electronics Packaging; Pins in Shirts & Courier
2/22/2008	Digital Media in your house - Part 2
2/7/2008	Windows Mobile Woes
1/29/2008	Batch convert Nokia Raw files to JPG
1/8/2008	Digital Media in your house
1/5/2008	Copy Text from Windows Smartphone
12/12/2007	Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Desktop 7000
12/10/2007	2007 Must have technology
12/5/2007	TV Tuner & Vista x64 OS
11/30/2007	Dell Vostro 1400 with Vista x64
11/18/2007	Digital Home - Squeeze Box
8/29/2007	My Fully Loaded PC
8/23/2007	Zune Speakers
8/23/2007	My new phone - HTC S710
7/22/2007	Birthday gift to my Wife - a Nokia N76
6/2/2007	Microsoft Surface computer
5/8/2007	New Skype Cordless from Philips
4/4/2007	My new Honda City ZX GXi
3/29/2007	Samsung Monitor - no Graphics Card
3/25/2007	Intel Motherboard Audio and Vista
3/18/2007	CANON IXUS 850 IS DIGITAL CAMERA
3/16/2007	Sony Mouse and Skype Phone
3/5/2007	My New Sony VAIO Laptop
2/6/2007	I love my Zune
12/17/2006	Zune Player in India
10/10/2006	Intel Classmate PC
3/12/2006	My new Mobile
3/4/2006	My Experiences with Benq P50
12/31/2005	My new mobile Phone - BenQ P50
12/18/2005	Nicholas Negroponte - Being Digital & $100 Laptop
11/20/2005	Bose Theatre experience and Bose Wave Player
10/1/2005	my new mac mini
12/19/2004	My new XPhone II
5/15/2004	Mobile phones and Environment

History (4)

5/27/2007	K7 Computing's new OMR Office
1/11/2007	India Pakistan - Ever become friendly?
10/3/2006	US School shooting at PA
9/4/2005	Down my memory lane – FoxPro and xBase

Indic (50)

6/3/2008	Dr.Kalyanasundaram awarded Sura Award in Toronto
4/23/2008	எனது நண்பர் திரு. சிவாபிள்ளைக்கு பாராட்டு விழா
3/21/2008	இன்று மத ஒற்றுமை நாள்?
2/8/2008	Tamil Keyboard Software
1/28/2008	பில்லா
1/26/2008	INFITT - Vice-Chairman
10/14/2007	My interview in Makkal TV
10/7/2007	My friend winning an European Award for Languages
8/30/2007	Enabling Tamil Input and Fonts
8/7/2007	Read Tamil Pages easily
7/20/2007	Indic Languages in Microsoft Software
7/18/2007	Tamil Translation - Please do it better!
3/31/2007	Tamil search engine
2/4/2007	LIFCO Books' - How to Cook?
2/3/2007	Indian Language Open Type Fonts - Free!
12/31/2006	சில்லுனு ஒரு காதல்
11/11/2006	Chennai Cinema Tickets
10/21/2006	Happy Diwali 2006
10/15/2006	"Cash" came from Tamil "Kaasu"
10/15/2006	Birthday Wishes to Hon'ble President
10/13/2006	Tamilnadu Localbody elections
10/2/2006	A Gateway to Government of India websites
9/13/2006	The President of India website
9/2/2006	I was mentioned by Hon'ble Minister - TUNE Conference
8/26/2006	ஒரே நாளில் 7 லட்சம் மரக்கன்றுகள்
7/2/2006	Video Essay on Tamil
5/12/2006	தமிழில் MSN இந்தியா (Beta)
5/8/2006	I Voted Proudly - Tamilnadu Elections
5/7/2006	Tamilnadu State Elections tomorrow
3/10/2006	Tamilnadu Electoral Rolls
2/15/2006	Tamil computing projects competition & Workshop
1/24/2006	Govt. of India to develop Indian Language browser
1/14/2006	பொங்கல் வாழ்த்துக்கள், வலைப்பூவின் இரண்டாம் ஆண்டு நிறைவு
9/3/2005	"அக்னிச்சிறகுகள்" ஒலிப்புத்தகம்
8/26/2005	Why I believe adopting TUNE will isolate Tamilnadu?
5/1/2005	My TV Interview was live today
4/26/2005	Office 2003 Tamil Language Interface Pack
4/19/2005	Microsoft Office 2003 - Tamil LIP Launch on 15th April
2/2/2005	மேலும் பல தமிழ் வலைப்பதிவுகள்
1/16/2005	திருமுருக கிருபானந்த வாரியார்
12/12/2004	Counting Letters in an Unicode String
12/4/2004	காஞ்சி கைலாசநாதர் திருக்கோயில்
11/26/2004	கடந்த இரு வாரங்களில் நான் ரசித்த இரு தமிழ் வாசகங்கள்.
8/1/2004	Find true character length of an Unicode String
7/31/2004	இன்று நான் ரசித்த வாசகம்
5/9/2004	Indic Rendering problem of my blog with Mozilla and FireFox - Fixed
4/3/2004	Google Image Search
3/26/2004	Kaniam 2004 - Tamil Software developers meet
2/20/2004	Convert Tamil from different encodings to Unicode
1/16/2004	Welcome

Kid-Stuff (9)

5/25/2008	Ghatothkach
4/26/2008	Indian Character "Raj" in Archie Comics
4/6/2008	Chennai Crocodile Park
3/30/2008	Making my son take medicines
11/18/2007	Jungle book and Gold Spot
9/15/2007	Kids DVD - Why commercials?
6/4/2007	Kids, Mother & Father
3/19/2007	Let's go shopping
11/14/2006	Vegetables CD & Puzzles

Management (7)

2/22/2008	Entrepreneurship for Engineers
5/12/2007	My Interview in DataQuest
4/6/2007	Hard Decisions & Indian CEOs?
3/19/2007	Attitude in Job - How Important?
3/9/2007	My experiences as being an Entrepreneur
9/14/2006	What I look for in Freshers?
5/1/2004	Arabian Nights - Camel into the tent

Miscellanous (86)

6/1/2008	A different Gate Latch
5/21/2008	GUI with Visual Basic to track the IP?
4/18/2008	Waste in USA & Reuse in USA
4/3/2008	Yahoo! shine
3/20/2008	Yahoo! Maps for India
2/24/2008	Bajaj Scooter
1/31/2008	Own a land in Moon!
1/20/2008	Venkatarangan.com - Fifth Year Anniversary
1/11/2008	World's first USD 2500 Car
1/9/2008	Microsoft Auto
1/7/2008	Bill Gates last day video shown at CES 2008
1/5/2008	Coffee with Venkat
11/29/2007	Cockroach in the Oil Bowl
11/15/2007	World's Longest Road
10/30/2007	What a place to put a Piano?
10/13/2007	Navarathri Golu 2007
9/30/2007	Indian Sport - Double Lucky this month
8/9/2007	Opposing Finger
7/26/2007	Dentist Appointments
7/8/2007	Sexual harassment incident in a Chennai School
7/1/2007	Loud Music in Marriage Receptions
6/28/2007	Govt. Infra work in India can also be fast
6/17/2007	Fathers Day
6/16/2007	Honda India and Service?
6/15/2007	A proactive Indian Local Body
6/15/2007	Sivaji and Jhoom Bharabar Jhoom
5/29/2007	Impact of Change Happenings
5/10/2007	Protecting Yoga from Patents
5/9/2007	Toddlers - 10 Rules of Sharing
3/24/2007	Let us dream about Cricket WC 2011
3/18/2007	India losing to Bangladesh
3/13/2007	Cricket World Cup 2007
2/6/2007	How to loose weight?
1/30/2007	Venkatarangan.com - Fourth Year Anniversary
1/13/2007	Wasteful Indian Dignitaries' Protocol
12/29/2006	Digital Amnesia
12/11/2006	S.Santhi makes India proud in Doha
11/18/2006	Kidnap and Release of Anant Gupta
11/11/2006	BlogStar Winners
11/4/2006	Best Diwali 2006 Gift I got
10/21/2006	Video Sites
9/30/2006	Uncle Sam
9/26/2006	How to stop exam cheating?
9/12/2006	New! MSN India Homepage
9/11/2006	Ranganathan Street, T.Nagar
9/9/2006	TV Antenna
9/6/2006	Need for Exercise - My New Treadmill
8/1/2006	Risky rides with Two Wheeler in Chennai
6/16/2006	Bills Gates to transition out of Microsoft
6/15/2006	Listen to Mona Lisa
3/17/2006	Humour: $1000 a minute call to GOD
3/7/2006	Virtual Earth for India
2/11/2006	MSN - NDTV Party
1/27/2006	Kumaresh Prasanna passes away
1/24/2006	Two sides of an Interview
1/11/2006	Happy New Year
11/26/2005	Flood washes away 2 buses in Tamilnadu
11/20/2005	Bose Theatre experience and Bose Wave Player
10/28/2005	Rains Stopped in Chennai
10/27/2005	Rains in Chennai
6/20/2005	அந்நியன் திரைப்படம் - என் கருத்து
5/7/2005	05/05/05 - Day, Month and Year are same!
4/15/2005	சென்னை சாலையில், நேற்று ஒரு அனுபவம்
4/11/2005	World Fact Book
1/31/2005	My Tsunami Contribution
1/31/2005	Continue to blog
1/13/2005	My Mini shopping experience today
1/12/2005	A Chennai Native heads MS Research India
1/3/2005	World is becoming a family
12/31/2004	Good bye 2004, welcome 2005
10/30/2004	National Internet Exchange & .IN Domain names
10/15/2004	Navarathri festival
9/5/2004	Suits & Ties are making a comeback
8/29/2004	Need help in Elections? Come to India
8/18/2004	India out of Olympics jinx
8/6/2004	MSN Messenger on the web
7/28/2004	Inventor of the World Wide Web, Knighted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
7/25/2004	Colour of a car matters
7/13/2004	Guillain-Barrè Syndrome
7/5/2004	V.V.Mama
6/8/2004	Blessed by Danvantri (God of Medicine)
6/8/2004	Interesting fact - White Gold
6/8/2004	Ronald Reagan - A man with a sharp wit
3/18/2004	Ads that Soft Sell
2/22/2004	A brief history of America
2/20/2004	Help through a Click

Movies-TV-Videos (41)

7/20/2008	The Bank Job
7/18/2008	Great way mall & "Hellboy II"
7/18/2008	San Jose Tech Museum and "The Alps"
7/15/2008	Casino Royale (1967 film)
7/7/2008	Bheemaa
7/7/2008	10,000 BC
6/15/2008	An Inconvenient Truth
6/14/2008	Dasavathaaram (தசாவதாரம்)
5/25/2008	Ghatothkach
5/21/2008	GUI with Visual Basic to track the IP?
4/27/2008