Author: Shankar Ananth Asokan
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Lost in the Clouds!
When I first heard about cloud computing I was wondering if it was really worth the fancy terminology. To me it was just a marketing term for hosted applications. My first experience started three years ago when I moved my Website’s email from my hosting provider to Google Apps. At that point of time I…
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Avatar Movie – A Common man’s review
I did not show much interest on this movie as I first saw the dubbed trailer on a Tamil channel expecting it to a be a below average movie promoted by the channel’s excellent marketing team. I really didn’t know till yesterday that it is a James Cameron movie. In fact I wanted to watch…
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Oh my GOD! Where is Arunachal Pradesh?
In China’s version of Google Maps Arunachal Pradesh has gone missing and is a part of China. Surprised? 查看大图 See it urself at http://ditu.google.com/
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Analysis Paralysis
I was wondering how helpful is ‘blinking’ (https://shankarananth.com/?p=208) a few weeks back. Now when I have take crucial decisions I really find value to blinking. Too many facts and figures are only confusing as much as not allowing to take a decision at all. I wonder about the equilibrium that exists in this universe that…
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Downloader.Rozena Trojan
No virus attack has even troubled me more than this one. Especially when your mind is occupied with too many things. It almost brought my laptop to a halt. Microsoft Security Essentials, McCafe, SuperAntiSpyware all failed to detect this trojan. It corrupted the file “C:\WINDOWS\system32\mswsock32.dll” and all applications that require network connection including browsers, email…
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Blink!
If you rewind life’s experiences you would note that most decisions are made at minimal time rather than planned and informed decision. While some attribute it to luck and some to experience Malcolm Gladwell attributes it to what he calls ‘Thin Slicing’: our ability to gauge what is really important from a very narrow period…