Orchestration of thoughts

Orchestration of thoughts

Maheshwaran Subramaniya  //  A computer science engineer and mac geek, who pour thoughts on technology, computer science, mathematics and other thoughtful stuffs.

I'm blogging at My Mind Leaks ( http://mymindleaks.com )

Mar 2 / 9:07pm

Sherlock Holmes - Too 'Anti'que Technical

Watched Sherlock Holmes last week. It was quite good to watch, you wont understand if you watch it once. The story is good enough, but they could have took a different detective story to deal with the movie. Trying to demystify a bogus black magic guy and the threat he declares on England, doesn't seems to fit the Sherlock Holmes and his detective brain. All the black magic stuffs would be, if it is a Sci-Fi, but not a detective type of story.

I would rate a 6/10.

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Feb 28 / 10:15pm

Oops - my blog posts titles aren't displayed in the browser title bar

I didn't notice all these days that the browser didn't display the blog title or the post title in the title bar.

This single piece of code corrected it. 
This is very quick and dirty fix. 
Took about 1 min to do it.

<title> <?php if (is_single() ): ?> <?php wp_title(); ?> | <?php endif; ?> <?php bloginfo('name'); ?> - <?php bloginfo('description'); ?> </title>

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Feb 28 / 5:31pm

From Paris, With Love - A must watch action & thriller pack

Just finished watching "From Paris With Love". Yet another fast pace action sequence from Morel. Like his first movie "Taken", the first 10-15 mins of the movie moves as if it quite normal and smooth. The movie takes a high gear when Travolta pitched in and even more to higher level when the climax nears. The legendary acting & comedy of Travolta is again shown in this movie. It's quite a action packed thriller. You can watch this movie and you never regret for watching it.

I would rate it 8 /10.
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Jan 14 / 8:13am

Programmer's Personality - What are you?

Alistair's blog posted a intuitive test on programmers. I've seen tests to determine are you fit to get a girl friend, you fit for job? ,  Are you a great leader? Now it's time to see are you a good programmer. It was quite interesting to see how Alistair have categorized the personalities.

This reminds me of Vadivel's comedy, Girls are of 3 type "Jil", "Jung", "Jak."

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Jan 9 / 4:16am

Surprise - Google's realtime search engine

Good to see this. Google real time search results.

   
Click here to download:
Surprise_-_Googles_realtime_se.zip (294 KB)

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Jan 8 / 10:32am

Restructured my blog URL patterns

Today I've restructured my blog's URL pattern to give a better idea of what the content is about and make it sensible that it's a HTML content.

Previously

http://www.mymindleaks.com/<category>/some-good-post/

now changed to

http://www.mymindleaks.com/blog/archives/some-good-post.html

So, what is the big deal in this?
  1. ".html" gives a feel that it's a HTML file content and not a folder, unlike the previous link
  2. /blog/ gives a feel that it's a blog
  3. /archives/ gives a feel that the post is a archive of the blog and it's not sticky. I mean sticky is, none of the post is going to stay on the front page of the blog, like the option of "archive" in your mail software. Non-archived mail stays in your inbox ( front-page ).
Since, I'm using wordpress, I'm forced to spend some time to find some plug-ins to achieve my target and make my life comfortable and also doesn't make my readers annoying by throwing 404 pages on their face. I found a plug-in by googling to change to new pretty-urls or permalinks ( this is what wordpress calls them ). Thanks to Dean Lee for this plugin. It's quite helpful and saved my time in rewriting .htaccess files and other hiccups.
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Filed under  //  mymindleaks   permalinks   pretty urls   search engine   url   wordpress  

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Jan 7 / 7:46am

Major update to the posterous blog

Today I did a major update to my posterous account. Changed the blog title as "Orchestration of thoughts" and updated my posterous blog id from maheshsubramaniya.posterous.com to smw.posterous.com. Thanks for the feature which decouples the account name  of posterous with the blog name. Now, my friends feel that smw is much better to type than maheshsubramaniya. Also, I've created a sub-domain ms.mymindleaks.com, to access the posterous blog.
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Jan 4 / 6:54pm

My Mind Leaks will be hibernated - Moving to a new hosting

This is just a quick update that My Mind Leaks will be in the process of shifting to a new hosting provider. So, it will be hibernated and there wont be any post updates or users might not be able to access the blog sometimes. Sorry for the inconvenience. If you have any good tips or take-of-things during a host move please let me know. I would be glad to receive them.

 

Update [ Jan-7-2010 20:30 ] : Everything is up and running.

Update [ Jan-6-2010 21:28 ] : I messed up something with the DNS settings. It's again still pointing to the old hosting provider. Trying to resolve it.

Update [ Jan-5-2010 21:05 ] : My Mind Leaks is up and running with all the appropriate settings. The transition is smooth and breeze. Just had few hiccups, but could be able to solve it in minutes.

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Jul 1 / 10:04pm

Imagining the ten dimensions

You can see how you 3D enables you to travel quickly travel from one point to another without literally traveling on the plane.

Remember the deja vu movie ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0453467/ ) ?

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Jul 1 / 9:20pm

Gmail labels, how useful is that?

Gmail has revolutionise the concepts of labelling in mailings. The concept of folders are now at the stage of obsolete. A conversation can be have more than one label. The labeling has become a kind of tagging. More than one label has been labelled on a conversation. But, did labels improvised the concepts of folder? Yes, you do label it and archive it, it acts as a folder. Whoa! what a brilliant concept. Now the mail conversation exists in more than one folder. Kind of Quantum mechanics, the object exists in more than one location.

And Today Gmail had a new featured showed on to the face. The drag and drop feature for the mails into labels. Gmail is constantly improving with the User Interface. But sometime, such user improvements doesn't give much improvement to the user experience. Similarly, this drag and drop doesn't make me feel that it's actually improved my working style.

I'll tell you why. When I drag one ore more conversations(s) into a label, all the conversation are first labeled and then archived. But why is the conversations archived by default when I drop the conversations, I didn't expect them to be archived.
 
Lets say, I've a label called "Followup", and I move the items to Followup. What I expect is,

  1. Either the items count is shown in the Followup label area like "Followup ( 12 )", unless there are any unread mails in it.
  2. The conversations should be visible to my eyes. So that I don't forget that there are some mails for follow up. 

Because, Gmail doesn't have an option to setup follow-up remainder for conversations, which will pop-up according to the remainder.So, I would like all those conversation to be in front of my eyes, even though I move them to a folder / label them or just show up counts near the labels. I'm testing other gmail features too and will post soon on how I felt about them. And if Gmail team feels that my suggestions are quite useful, I would be glad!

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