Faith is like Alcohol

Faith is like alcohol.. Here is why I think so..

Alcohol 🥂	Faith 😈
Alcohol in small quantities relaxes our brain activities. it gives a us a feeling of relaxation, removes inhibitions and anxieties for a limited   period of time.. of course.	Faith also in small quantities, gives us the same relaxation and worry-free state of mind for a limited period of time.
As per Gov. UK guidelines drinking less than 14 unit spread across 3 separate days in a week is probably harmless. 14 units is 6 pints of average strength beer. So one or two beers a week is probably harmless. Ref:https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/alcohol-support/calculating-alcohol-units/	I think the same applies to Faith well. Going to church once or twice in a week or finding some time every day to pray to GOD is probably harmless. But there’s no reference I can provide you here.
If you exceed the normal limit, you will be called an alcoholic	If you exceed the normal limit.. you will be called.. what?? I don’t know.. a god fearing person?? A chosen man/woman
Alcoholics loses the sense of reality and enjoy the state they are in and in long term find it difficult to come out..	The chosen man/women also lose the sense of reality and enjoys the state they are in and in long term find it difficult to come out.
Alcoholics believes that its good to be alcoholic and its gives them immense pleasure. They advocate the same to others. They find people with similar interests. They create Facebook groups. They hang out in bars, public places and enjoys their state of being under the influence of alcohol	A chosen man/woman believes that its good to be a dedicated to god and that’s the purpose of their life and its gives them immense pleasure. They advocate the same to others. They find people with similar interests. They hang out in conventions. public places and enjoys their state of being dedicated to god.
They believe they are doing the right thing and others are all wasting their life by not enjoying it to the fullest	They believe they are doing the right thing and others are all wasting their life by not enjoying the so-called love of GOD to the fullest
They queue up in front of beverages outlets to get that one last pint to enter their state of godliness. In rain, in heat and any length of time no matter what. They always keep up a disciplined queue and very cooperative while doing that. The organization who controls the outlets amasses huge pile of money. They generate jobs.Gov. gets licencing fee and huge taxes. And the individual collapses when his limit is reached :D	They collect themselves in masses in convention centers, churches to get the same kind of induction to get to their state of godliness where they are relaxed and worry free.. But in contrast with the alcoholics, they shout, jump, clap their hands and show a disillusioned behavior. Some people get so excited that they faint and fall down.. Some get a false feeling that their diseases are cured. Their pain is gone. The conductor become famous and earn more money and more followers.
But in extreme cases alcoholics die due to liver sclerosis or deep depression or some other disease and the story ends there.	But the faith followers don’t die because it does not affect their body but only brain… They go to next extremes.
	They try to bring more people to join them and organise conversion activities. Approach the weak and poor and inject doses of faith which will be well received due to their vulnerability
	Faith leaders find it a good opportunity to get rich fast and expand their empires
	People go mad and so mad that they make worshiping their way to of life, their primary purpose of life. They find non-worshipers sons of Devil.
	They start to think of abolishing sons of Devils and instill Gods empire back of earth.
	They kill people in the name of God who criticizes or opposes their ideas
	Some kill themselves. Some kill thousands of people at one go.
	Gov. cannot do anything because unlike alcoholism, it does not issue licence to faith organizations. It does not control their operations.

So in a very broader sense I find faith is a bigger, deeper highly contagious plague affecting human beings than alcoholism which affect only a small percentage of individuals out of 6 billion+ population of the world.

When I say that I don’t mean that one should not have faith in GOD. Just like I mentioned above in small quantities both alcohol and faith following are harmless.

Should you buy an induction cooker to save LPG consumption due to daily water boiling - An analysis.

Let's see how much we can save in LPG bill

To know this we must know how much gas is saved by using induction cooker.

My gas lasts approx. 45 days with 15 minutes of water boiling every day.

My gas cylinder contains 14.5 kg gas

That means I spend 14.5×1000g/45 days = 332.2gm LPG per day.

Considering an average cooking time of 2.5 hours per day, for 15 minutes I use (332.2g/2.5×4)= 32.2gm LPG.

My per day gas usage reduces to 322.2-32.2 = 290gm LPG.

So let's see how many more days my cylinder will last.

14.5×1000/290= 50 days...Just 5 days extra!

Now let's see what's the annual savings in gas.

Number of cylinders with one cylinder every 45 days = 365/45 = 8.11.

Annual cost 8.11×500 = 4055 Rs.

Number of cylinders with one cylinder every 50 days = 365/50 = 7.3

Annual cost 7.3×500 = 3650 Rs.

Total gas bill savings with induction cooker is 4055 - 3650 = 405 Rs.

Now let's see what is the additional electricity bill.

1800 watts induction cooker @ 15 minutes a day for 2 months = 1.8/4×60 = 27 units.

Additional electricity bill @ Rs 5.8 per unit = 27×5.8 = Rs. 156.6

Yearly additional electricity bill = 156.6 × 6 = 939.6

Cost of amazon's best seller induction cooker = 1250 Rs.

Total cost of using induction cooker = 936.6+1250= 2189.6 Rs.

Total loss by using induction cooker for boiling water is 405 - 2189.6 = -1784.6 Rs. 

So it's a clear loss of money buying an induction cooker for this purpose.

More over I don't have to tell your how important it is to save electricity considering global warming climate changes and changes in rain patterns.

This may come handy if your wife or mother pester you to buy induction cooker to save LPG gas.

How to dispose kitchen waste

Disposing kitchen waste always been a dilemma for people living in small spaces. I also faced this. I wanted a simple but clean solution so that can dispose my kitchen waste without disturbing nature or my neighborhood. I went on a search. You know where I went. Yes I went to the World Wide Web....searched for a viable waste disposal mechanism.

My searches pointed me mainly to two types of waste disposal mechanisms.

1. Aerobic Composting.

2. Anaerobic Composting.

Even though I found the methods, I realized that it’s not an easy thing that you put your waste in the compost bin and next day you have the compost. It’s much more complex in terms of chemistry and time consuming, something like 2-3 month or even up to a year to fully decompose your waste.

I remember, when I was a child my father doing similar thing. He dug a big trench in the soil and put green leaves and dry leaves. Mixed with cow dung and covered it. I was amused. I didn't know what he was doing until Jan 2016 when I went on searching for composting method. He was actually making compost.

Now I am more confident that this will definitely work, because, my father did it 30 years back when there were not internet or advanced technologies. So this must be something people know and practiced for several years. Something people learned from nature. Yes, this is happening every day in our gardens and forests. Leaves fall they decompose and become fertilizer for the plant.

You basically you need to simulate the process happening in the thick forests in your kitchen backyard. Don't be disappointed, it’s not so difficult.

After a lot of study, I found that method 2 is not the one I want. Anaerobic  composting. In this method, you put all you waste is an air tight container and give control to the microorganisms to take over. These microbes doesn’t require oxygen/air, hence the name. These micro-organisms multiply in this environment produces lot of stinking stuff, larva’s and sometimes harmful bacteria’s along with decomposition. This is definitely not what I want; I don't want my backyard to stink. I am sure nobody will like it.

But I am seeing that majority of people are doing this method. Why...?? In this method you can dispose 90% of your kitchen waste including cooked food, vegetable peels and fruit left overs. But no meat fish because they can produce even more smell and harmful microorganism. My brain tells me that this is not I want. So, I decided not to do this.

Next one is Aerobic composting. Here we feed a different kind of microbes. The oxygen loving ones. They decompose and produce, carbon dioxide, water during the process. This requires correct level of moisture, heat, air/oxygen, and your waste. No smell, no larvas, no harmful microbes. Do you think this is the right thing? I felt itis the right one for people like me.

But there is some downside to this. You cannot dispose all you kitchen waste to it. The list is something like, vegetable, fruit peels, egg shells, tea/coffee extracts and anything organic uncooked stuff. So choosing this method requires a strategy to zero your kitchen waste.

Here is the strategy I developed.

1. Cook just as much you eat.

2. Eat all of what you cook.

I hope this covers the biggest concern of cooked food. It takes care of meat, fish etc. Then what is left as waste is vegetable peels, fruit peels, egg shells etc. which you can happily add to your aerobic compost bin.

To make aerobic compost you need a perforated bin. I purchased a plastic bucket and drilled holes all over around it. This is for air/oxygen to get in and feed the air loving microbes. Kept the bin on a raised platform using bricks where it can get sunlight during the day; a shade to protect from rain. You need to add equal portion or waste + dry leaves/paper/cardboard. This is to make the right environment to the microbes. They need nitrogen and carbon in 1:30 ratio to live happily. Nitrogen comes from you waste and carbon from dry leaves, newspaper etc. Adding a little cow dung slurry can speed up the process. The final product that you get after two or three months is called compost or black gold. It will smell like earth black is color. You can use it as fertilizer for your kitchen garden. Interesting isn’t it?

1 weeks waste

Now you need to take care of a few things for the well-being of your pet microbes. You need to maintain right level of moisture (moist but not wet) and not dry, sunlight and air. You need to shuffle the bin every other day to aerate the container. If not, the anaerobic microbes will take over and it will stink.  Finally DON’T put cooked food, fish, meat and citrus fruits like lemons and oranges in to the compost bin.

You can see snaps of my compost bin. Hope you liked it!

Making of my kitchen vegetable garden - Day 1

Inspired by various sources, I am also making an attempt to grow my own pesticide free organically fertilized vegetables at home. Inspiration came from close friends, news paper articles, and definitely my office where they develop tomatoes, and cabbages along with software programs.

There is one more reason why I want to do this. I want to go back and live closer to the nature, I am looking to bring back my childhood days, I want to show my child how our parents use to grow vegetables at home without using pesticides or chemical fertilizers.

For a techie like me who have never produced any living thing other than my own child,  this is going to be a challenge. Not knowing where to start and what do to.. there are too many things I need to learn. But I am confident, as I have no problem in learning and practicing new things. In fact, I love to do new things.

Recently, I watched an English movie 'The Martian' where the hero is stranded in the Mars and with limited life support systems. At the end of the movie he gives a lecture in the college where he explains that life is all about solving problems. You begin the math. you solve a problem, then you find another you solve that you find another and finally when you solve enough problems you find success. In his case he solved enough to reach home.

Coming back to my kitchen garden,  problems are many... lack of space, unavailability of good soil, cow dung, cow urine, earth worm, seedlings and other accessories like bamboo sticks to give support to growing plants.

So its not easy to farm as our parents did in old golden days. They had plenty of land, good soil, cows, goats and chickens. They never had to buy earth worm 50 paise per piece. Never had to buy cow-dung and urine from shop...Oh god...where are we now.

The problems we have to solve is different from what our parents had to solve.
Luckily smart people have solved these problems well before hand. And we have solutions availabel for sale. The only thing left for me is to find what is the right solution and use it. Solutions are available in shop for anything under sun. Which is a plus of this generation.

Even though many solutions are available in shop, my idea is to make my own solution wherever possible. This will not only help minimize costs of farming but also give me a pleasure of doing it myself. The moto is "Re-use as many things as possible that is found around my house".

Yesterday, I think I made a good progress. Bought couple of  tomato, venda, payar and cheera seedlings from VFPCK kakkanad. I got 3-4 bags of good quality soil from my wife's parental house.

I planted them all. It took around 3-4 hours to do all this. One day passed, they all look healthy as of now. Anyways, I have a feeling that I had a good start.

Now I am thinking about bio-fertilizers and bio-pesticides. I thinking how to get cow-dung couple of sticks to give support to plants. Hope I will solve this soon.

Couple of snaps:

Making of my Home Network

Finally, I got a broadband connection from Asianet Data Line. Fortunately, they had an optical fiber network around my house. As I wished, I got a high speed connection. I think this is needed to use all the future technologies.

My next task was to setup a home network so that I can share internet among my devices and connect my devices together.

I had the following networking gears with me which was used in my previous home network with BSNL connection.An ADSL modem+ wifi router from DLINK, a wifi repeater from Netgear, 1 TB seagate USB disk, A wireless printer,2 laptops, 2 smartphones.  Now I have an internet TV and plan to add IP cameras and a DVR.

Asianet gave me a Fiber modem which has only a single ethernet port. So now the first task is to share internet among devices.

Initially, I thought, the ISP will assign different IP's to all my devices. So I just hooked up the single ethernet port to my ADSL+router and disabled the DHCP on the router. So the ADSL+router just acts as a bridge switching the data. It worked but with one problem. I can access only one device at a time. If I connect laptop, the internet connection on smartphone is lost.

Now, I have a problem to solve. And I like to solve problems. I realized, I need to connect only one device to internet and share that. The method is to use NAT ( Network address translation). The router will act as a ethernet WAN gateway. But the problem is what I have is an ADSL+router. It is meant to be used with a DSL connection( the telephone jack). And this particular DLINK 2750u doesn't have a designated WAN port where I can connect the ethernet cable from the fiber modem. Initially I was disappointed. This router is going to be an electronic waste in my tool room. I need to purchase another which will support ethernet WAN routing.

As usual, searched in google and to my surprise, I found that the router I have is actually capable of ethernet WAN routing in hardware. But they have this feature disabled in the Indian version their firmware. The other version that support this is the middle east firmware and Russian one.

Since I knew that Russians always reads and writes in their language and I don't know how to interpret, I turned to middle east firmware.I downloaded the firmware from middle east dlink site and flashed it ignoring all warnings that it could brick my router. For me its same since I can not use it unless I get ethernet WAN enabled on this. Its already a brick to me.

Flashing the firmware went well. I have the ethernet WAN option enabled in the web configuration interface. As per the instructions, I connected the WAN side ethernet cable to port 4 and configured the router.

I configured all my devices to access this wifi access point and now I have a shared internet connection. All the devices will have local IP addresses like 192.168.x.x and the router will translate all the internet traffic for me. And all my devices are interconnected in the local home network.

My router supports usb storage and it is shared using samba protocol. So now, all my devices can read/write files to the 1 TB networks share. ( speed is an issue since its USB, i should have an ethernet disk, but it expensive in current market to my use cases).

My wireless printers is on network. So I can print from laptops and phones. Printer is connected to internet so I can even print from anywhere in the world.

I wanted a way for my TV to access the network storage. Another problem to solve.  An here's how I solved it. Mapped the network storage on personal laptop as a drive. Configured DLNA media server on my personal laptop and pointed the library to the network drive. Now TV can read all the media in my network storage with one condition that PC should be up. But that's not a big deal for me.

As expected, another problem pitches in. The printer and the office laptop is at the first floor and wifi range is poor there. So, I hooked my wifi repeated midway somewhere midway between two locations. I used an app which will tell you the % of signal at a location. My wife was cluelessly watching me roaming around the rooms in the house. Now I have wifi range everywhere in my house. And my devices are configured to automatically to connect to the best access point available. So that creates an auto roaming facility. Interesting... isn't it.

Here's snap of my mini home data center.

From left side:
Optical terminal box, 1TB disk, ethernet WAN wifi router, OFC modem.

.....Now BSNL driving away customers from their DOOR STEP

Recently I moved to my new house. One of my tasks was to setup my home network.
The first thing I wanted was an internet connection. I approached the nearest BSNL office for a connection.
I was already using an expensive so called rural broadband.

The response funny, it was in fact like this. We have lot of pending faults to attend. I asked.. Is it feasible there? Line man...yes it is.
I asked, can you give in two weeks at least. Technician looks at line man... line man thinking.. too much.. smoke out of his ears.
He say's.... hmm.. we can give...but don't be in a hurry.. we have to dig up to find a line for you...there is no cable here.. you have to purchase it from outside..
Anyways... you call me later...he left. F**K.

I turned to the technician.. what he said ? I asked... He said.. I will give his mobile number...its unofficial.. you call him later and ask.
We need your support. He will try to come when he is free.. not week days... may be Sunday.. What???

Then that F**K'er gave me a lecture about how rural people use broadband..It seems locals don't know anything about bandwidth.. they simply start movie downloads and
goes out...waste of bandwidth.. they don't know anything about routers.. they don't switch of routers.. router gets heated up and when connection is lost we suffer.

Another employee enters the room fully drunk. He started discussing some personal matters with the technician. Its Monday morning 10AM. I am waiting..
I am already late for office. And these F**Ks are discussing petty personal matters.. ignoring a potential customer who is ready to pay 1000+ per month for broadband.

Dear BSNL.. why do you have employees like this? You are surviving such because of the infrastructure build with public money. Shame on you.

Review: Upgrading Android 4.3 on Google Nexus 4

Today when I got up in the morning, incidentally I checked the "Settings >About" page of my Nexus 4 phone as if I got a message from God(Google) last night via dreams. 

Do you usually check your phone settings as a first thing in the morning? This is the first time I am doing it in the morning.

Surprise…. I see that the new Android 4.3 update is available and it started downloading the update… Hurray!!

I was excited to see what’s new it? The update was 167.7 MiB to be precise. My mode is changed to “Curiosity” as always. The only next focus is to get this update downloaded and feel the difference.

With the 512 kbps unreliable BSNL broadband I managed to download and install the latest android 4.3 update by Midday.

After the upgrade I went through the release notes to see actually what’s inside.

I found, restricted profiles, multiple users, Low energy Bluetooth, and location detection without keeping wifi always on, virtual surround sound. Auto complete on dial pad, new algorithm for android key board etc.

But it is written there that some of these featured will work only on Android tablet.

especially the restricted profiles and multiple users etc.

I felt this release is mainly targeted at the Tablet users. There isn't any fancy new stuff for the smartphone users like me. Disappointed!

Apart from this Google claims perceived speed and usability. I didn't find any noticeable difference in speed. My Nexus is as fast as when bought. Not more not less.

After upgrading the OS. I immediately got an update notification for Google maps. I accepted it and when checked, I found the Google Navigation app is removed completely from my phone. Probably Maps and navigation is combined together in one app. Nice!

The biggest disappointment was that after upgrade my video players VLC player and MX player stopped working. Probably they are not written forward compatible. This was not expected from these people. I right away I filed bugs.

The default android video player does not play my torrent downloaded movies properly it’s like watching a stop motion or time-lapse recording… the moment I felt I should not have upgraded now.

Then I explored other apps to see if others are also broken. Fortunately other app were working fine. I have 65 apps. I went and checked each of them. So no major damage there.

My next attempt was to check the bug fixes. It looks like some bugs are fixed. I had a bug that switching profiles from mute to normal does not restore volume. This appears to be fixed in this release. There’s a notification bar freezing bug and a camera app bug I am yet to test and confirm. They were not reproducible always.

I checked the default camera…Ooohaa!.. The settings interface is totally revamped. I think Google realized that the earlier onscreen interface was really hard to use and error prone. They completely changed it. Now almost all camera features can be changed onscreen. The position of some buttons is also adjusted to be easily accessible close to the shutter button. And I found nothing new in the camera except camera settings interface.

New features on Android 4.3

-          Restricted profiles ( Tablet only )

-          Multiple users (Tablet only)

-          Support for low energy Bluetooth devices

-          No need to keep Wifi on for location detection using Wifi.

-          Virtual surround sound (Tablet only )

-          TV Wireless Sharing ( Tablet only )

-          Dial pad with auto complete

-          New improved (?) interface onscreen camera settings.

-          Open GL 3.0 for better graphics & gaming

-          Additional language support. Android is now translated in Hindi also.

-          Disabled apps tab in settings ( Tablet only )

-          Bug fixes.

What you will loose if you update now:

-          VLC player wont work

-          MX player won’t work

-          And any other app which depends on OS version won’t work.

Summary:

There’s nothing great in this update for phone users other than minor bug fixes and incompatible play store apps. Compared to 4.2 this update is very very minor.

My suggestion is to wait one more month before you try an upgrade to Android 4.3 Jelly bean. By that time you will have your play store apps upgraded to support the new OS version.

Tablet users can try the restricted profiles, multiple users, TV sharing and virtual surround.

Reference:

1. http://www.android.com/about/jelly-bean/

2. My Nexus 4 phone

Update:

VLC player update android 4.3 is available now.
MX player update for android 4.3 is available now.

Why Indians are not part of worlds greatest inventions?

Everybody in India knows that we do not innovate, we just follow the west.
But have you ever thought why?

Just think about a couple of inventions that changed the world.
Telescope, gravity, clock, telephone,electric power, bulb, rail, bus, train, bicycle, camera, computers, mobile phones, internet, Unix, windows, Facebook.if we go on listing...there are too many..

The question is why none of these come from India. Why not? Don't have have 5000 years of history, brilliant people, and the greatest education system in the world.

If your answer is excuses like,  British colonization or poor country, bad politicians etc in the past. I am sorry...We have everything now.We are well connected with the rest of the world. We have educated people,money, power everything. Still we do not innovate..

Even now, world is seeing a lot of innovations every now and then, whether we realize it of not.

During a coffee break, I discussed this with my friends and a our initial guess was that western countries are developed, rich. So they can afford to fund these inventions.Then we thought about Thomas Alva Edison. Who funded him? There was no money or govt. support for him.Then we thought their brain is genetically more creative than ours. But there was no basis to believe that because we are not that far behind.

Then we looked at it from a different angle. What is different between the west and India? Cultural difference!! But how cultural difference can be come the seed for innovations  We digged further... Innovations required a lot of focused and persistent effort. And the less limiting factors that you have, the more focused you become and that leads to innovations. When I talk about "focused", it doesn't mean focusing on one thing for 40 hours a weeks for 1 or 2 years. I am talking about focusing 24x7 for several years, may be 10 or more years.

Indians simply can't do that because of the close kit family structure we have. We have to support our wife, children, father, mother, sometime even grand parents. If I go on inventing something..90% chance that I loose family...which I can't afford to loose. I may have to struggle with limited resources with several years. I may not earn during there 10 years.

Indians care a lot about family life. Our system of single marriage, supporting children up to adult age supporting parent at old age. These limit freedom of thought and act. So our brains are tuned to live a balanced life. The society expects that their children will keep this balance. We rarely take risks.
We always try to play safe. We never walk the way untraveled.

Disclaimer: This is just my personal view and should not be treated otherwise.

My World tour

I recently visited Antarctica, the earth's south pole, Hawaii islands, Amazon forests, Niagara water fall's, U.S, Jerusalem, and Italy.

My trip started from Antarctica..I directly landed in The south pole first, I could see national flags of many countries placed all over there. U.S , UK, Japan..all have their national flags there...the place is a frozen desert...Exactly at the center of south pole they have placed a pole, they call it the ceremonial south pole..I visited a few huts built by early explorers from England in 1904, Visited Ross island, penguins...etc...Due to time constraints I left Antarctica with in few minutes...

The next Trip was to Hawaii Islands in the US. Such a beautiful place. If there's heavens anywhere, it is one of them. I felt like sleeping on the seashores of Hawaii...so scenic...so scenic...watched the smoking volcano's of Hawaii and left to Amazon forests..

I landed in the dense rain forests of Amazon. It reminded me of rain forests of Kerala. Actually Kerala is equally dense everywhere. I traveled through the rivers of Amazons. After visiting the Tumbira Community of Amazons I left for Niagara water falls.

I reached Niagara within seconds, as my flight was traveling at the speed of light. The waterfall is so wide and so beautiful..it is indeed a wonderful sight. From there I went to the great USA.

I landed at the Space needle in the Seattle. Visited Golden gate bridge, Times Square, South Las Vegas Boulevard and atlast The Washington mall. From there I took flight to Jerusalem, Israel.

I landed at the mount of Olives. I saw a magnificent view of the old Jerusalem from there. Headed to Gathsamen, the place where Jesus Christ's disciples are said to have prayed before crucifixion. Visited the site where Jesus was crucified. From there I went to Tel Aviv and took next flight to Italy.

I landed at the center of Colosseum, Rome, Italy. The famous stadium was built in 80 CE. Gladiatorial combats used to happen here centuries back. It reminded me of the famous dialogue from the gladiator movie....

"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, a loyal servant to the true Emperor Marcus Aurelius, father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife and I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next".


With this I ended the small but beautiful trip..and returned.

You might me thinking...what the hell....yes I visited all these places on a single day....
It was my long cherished wish to go on a world tour. I did it yesterday.....with-the-help-of Google Street View...  :)

You can also do it... here's the link :)

 http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/gallery.html

World's first self chilling beer can's to hit markets.

"A self-chilling beer can could make fridges obsolete by turning lukewarm beer or fizzy drinks into ice cold versions in two minutes. They will hit the UK markets this year.

All you need to do is to hit a button at the can's base, which releases pressurized carbon dioxide from a capsule, chilling the can by 15 degrees Celsius within two minutes.

The can, its supporters claim, is far less wasteful than chilling cans in shops before they are served, the Daily Mail reported."

I read this news first in a local daily news paper.  I was surprised..amazed..and excited...Ask me why..
I was also thinking about this technology..how to make it possible.. for several years since I shifted to my family house.

My mother will not allow to store beer can's in our kitchen refrigerator...Kerala police will catch, fine and jail if you drink in  a party or bar and drive home. So having beer was a distant reality...or nearly impossible.
I tried several tricks...even tried smuggling can's to my bed room from boot of car in my porch..


But you know...if you drink in your bed room in the fear that you can be caught red handed....you know..that's not so relaxing...you will need several cans to relax effectively...

As you all know "necessity is the mother of all invention". I think CEO Mr. Joseph of Joseph Company International might have faced similar problems in life which lead him to this greatest inventions of the century...If not he..I would have done this...thanks for Mr. Joseph..


Yes I consider this as a great invention..not because it allows me to drink chilled beer but..its environment friendly also.


For more details on how self chilled beer can works, visit: http://chillcan.com/how-it-works/

My Review of Just Spring

Originally submitted at O'Reilly

This example-driven introduction to the popular Spring Framework helps Java developers delve into its basic features, as well as advanced concepts such as containers. You’ll learn how Spring makes Java Messaging Service easier to work with, and how its support for Hibernate helps you work ...

Just Spring

Good book to kickstart Spring Framework

By Aneesh Joy from Cochin, India on 9/26/2011

 

4out of 5

Pros: Easy to understand, Well-written, Concise

Best Uses: Intermediate, Novice, Student

Describe Yourself: Developer

This is a good buy if you know core Java and want to jump in to Spring Framework. This is a small book and you can get the fundamentals right within no time.

It is very true that project deadlines don't allow developers to read fat books cover to cover. This one will definitely get you started and you will get the confidence to sail through a significantly huge spring framework.

Although the book gives a simple introduction, author also tried to provide common use cases like using Java collections, JMS, and JDBC with Spring.

(legalese)

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Google launched GMail Motion....today!!

Try this new feature from Google.
Its really cool !!!

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html

Mobile Credit Card Transation using OTP

Today I made my first Mobile transaction using OTP. OTP stands for One Time Password.

From 2011 Feb onwards I was  not able to do Credit card transations using mobile due to a new rule from Reserve Bank of India. The rule says you can not do online credit card transactions without 3D secure passwords.

Its a good move from RBI. Even if you loose your Credit Card, nobody use it for online transactions without your secret password.

That's about online web transactions..what about mobile transactions...?? Mobile world  does not yet support alpha numeric 3D Secure password.. only numeric passwords....

For mobile world the corresponding technology is OTP. To do any CC transaction from mobile your need to first generate a One Time Password ( OTP ). Its numeric..can be used only once...even if the transaction is failed.

To generate OTP you need to send an SMS to a designated number. Number and message format varies from bank to bank.

You will get a message with your OTP. OTP should be used with in 2 hours after generating it. After 2 hours its invalid.

Ok. Good... If your Credit Card is stolen nobody can misuse it for doing mobile transactions.Great!!

Question to RBI: What  if Credit Card and Mobile is stolen...??? Isn't that possible ???