Blogging

As the Blogging is out there for few years now, More people are becoming habitual to blog these days, I see many people are becoming a regular blogger and more people are creating new blogs daily. Time for the google, wordpress, and other blog sites to scale their clouds. I think, already they are doing it well :)
They are also enhancing the features. I recently changed my layout which stretches automatically based on my screen width. They are also commercializing well to monetize the blog to make win win situations for the blogger and the blog company. Amazon recently integrated with blogger to advertise the contents based on the blog context.

Kinds of blogging that I observe through my network:
1) Few people blog related to their profession. One of my friend write about his management experiences at  http://managewell.net These kind of blog really helps him to share the experiences from his vast experience and enables him get feedback from specific people who are interested in the particular topic. Also, if you are really, really good in your profession, it will take you to the right place that you deserve if you are not already there. For the readers, the blog posts are too valuable information and thoughts.

2) Few people write about their hobbies such as Travel, Fitness, etc. Even I have few separate blogs dedicated for travel, fitness, where I post related blog entries from by experiences.

3) Few people write about their daily activities or kind of web diary. If you are writing these kind of blog, you need to be really careful before publishing the post. Once you post, it is visible over the net. You just think whether you really want to share the post to whole public and will it have any consequences any time later in your life. On the other end, you can create blogs wherein you can set the security so that only the approved contacts can read all the posts in your blog site. You can form a closed circle of friends or family, so that you can share the blog entries only within them. In google blogger, go to settings -> Permissions, you can see the options for the same.

So, You think about the purpose of your blog, the intended audience of your blog, which will help you and the blog readers.

Firefox - Event handling issue

In the recent firefox releases 3.0 and 3.5, I see an issue in the event firing. In the ajax exvironment, it sometimes misfires.
In my scenario, for an anchor element, I kept the href attribute as "#" and added an onclick event for a clean solution.

aElem.href = "#";
aElem.onclick = function() {
//do the action
};

It is working fine in IE browser, but this event is not fired correctly in firefox browser.
When I click on the anchor element, firefox fires that action, but immediately after that it fires an event equivalent to refresh frame on which the anchor element was present.
To overcome this, I called the javascript function through the href attribute itself.

aElem.href="javascript:doMyAction();";

function doMyAction() {
// do the action
}

This is not a clean solution. But, this works both in firefox and IE.

Reduce CO2 emissions

Google exposes some of the indicators nicely in charts based on the data exposed by worldbank

I have checked few indicators across few countries. Here are the links of couple of charts.

CO2 emissions - USA, India, and China

Electric Power Consumption - USA, India, and China

Seeing all, Actually USA and the developed nations has to contribute a lot to save the environment.

Check out the other indicators either through the worldbank datafinder or Google Publicdata charts or develope your own way of rendering the data using the worldbank API

Bangalore Traffic and Circles

Bangalore traffic is going bad day by day. But, I don't see much improvement on the infrastructures. All the government is trying to do is widen the roads and build circles without signals. I hate the circles concept. You expect the bangalore traffic to flow automatically without any signals from any direction to any direction. In bangalore, only the Hebbal flyover is up to the mark in the standards to have a free flow. Recently, they opened the circle near freedom park. Automobiles coming from any direction can circle around and take any direction out. Someone comes from the right end and wants to take the left road, and Someone else comes from the left and wants to take the right road. Both crosses each other and the traffic piles up. At least they would have made some layers of road which exits to different roads. Each and every civil engineer studies about the bridges and fly overs that aids the free flow of traffic. But, In reality they don't implement it quite often as they have constraints on the space, time, budget, and politics.

Sea Biscuit(2003)

Sea Biscuit(2003) is an amazing movie.
Have seen it few times and won't be bored to see many more times.
Well written by Laura Hillenbrand and nicely screen played by Gary Ross.
I liked the four main characters, Tom smith (played by Chris Cooper),
Red (played by Michael Angarano),
sea Biscuit and Charles Howard (played by Jeff Bridges)
Loved their expressions, especially Tom Smith's facial expressions at times for the dialogs of Charles Howard.

The story line was awesome, it clearly shows the mix of right people with greate attitude put together can achieve anything even if they lack in some way. Small Horse, Tall Jockey, Old Trainer and the Owner. Small Horse had the spirit to win the well built horses. Tall jockey had the attitude to understand and mingle with it and beat all the right sized(short) jockeys. Old Trainer could clearly judge the horses, train them, and correct the jockeys mistakes. The Owner had picked the right trainer and he was there whenever they need or any one of them fail.

Few of best dialogs that i liked from this movie are

"You know,you don't throw a whole life away...
just 'cause he's banged up a little."

"Brick by brick my citizens, brick by brick." - by The Roman Emperor, Hadrian

It ain'tjust the speed. It's the heart.