Earlier this year, I visited CeBIT - my second time - and was once again awed by it. The scale, the planning, the integration, the execution. There are lessons to be learned here. It’s easy to see why CeBIT is described as the world’s largest technology fair.

So, what’s new in the world of technology?
Hmm… in […]

Yesterday, on a lazy Sunday afternoon, I happened to watch Maid in Manhattan on television. Jennifer Lopez was walking her young son to school, when he asked her: “Mom, why did Simon and Garfunkel split?” With a puzzled look, she shrugged: “You got me…”, followed by: “You can google it in school.”
Wow… I wonder who […]

Somtime ago, I upgraded WordPress from version 1.5 to 2.x. The official instructions are simple and clear. Basically the steps include backing up your databases and files, downloading and extracting the new Wordpress package and running the Wordpress upgrade program via your browser.
However, it didn’t work for me.
Running upgrade.php seemed to work and even gave […]

While glancing through the local newspaper, as I flipped past the movies page, one advert with it’s single word title, grabbed my attention. FIREWALL. The ad pictures an intense and grim looking Harrison Ford, with a by line: “To save his family he has to hack into the very bank that he protects.”
I am very […]

I’ve been planning to do this for a while now, and its finally happened. SharadWare is now powered by WordPress. For a little over two years, I’d been using Movable Type. I’ve got nothing against MT - it’s a great product and my heartfelt thanks to it’s creators.
So why did I shift? Well, multiple reasons…
MT […]

Early this morning I received an email from Peter Theobald of IT Secure, a client of ours. Here is a part of what he wrote:
Your service works… flawlessly! Please accept my compliments for making your service like a “dial-tone” on the phone - when you pick up the phone, you expect a dial tone - […]

A while ago, I was out for lunch with a few colleagues, when one of them received a call on his mobile. It was a tele-marketing call, promoting a rival mobile services brand. It seemed obvious that the marketing agency was calling a sequence of phone numbers selected randomly.
Irritating, disturbing and intrusive. I’m sure you […]

Ever since “google for it” became a phrase in day to day net lingo, the business of searching has taken on a different tone. Besides Google, which for obvious reasons comes to mind first, Yahoo seems to have worked on its searching act and Microsoft, the latest kid on the “search the web” block offers […]

I’ve just been informed that Rediff has done a story on me titled: “PostMaster of the Internet“.
Well what can I say?
The story is passable. It could certainly do with a few corrections. Having said that, I’m delighted with the title! :) And extremely flattered. This is the point where it would be appropriate to acknowledge […]

The first public beta of Netscape Navigator was released on this day ten years ago. Netscape has been one of the most significant products in the history of the web and in fact, has created significant web history.
MozillaZine contains some interesting links and CNet News.com covers the decade in interesting stories, from one of which […]