if yahoo mail is blocked then use the WAP interface for accessing mail ;)
http://wap.oa.yahoo.com

.NET CLR
Good article on CLR and memory management under .NET

SOAP
SOAP 1.2 becomes a standard read more here

Nanotechnology
Spending on research and development in nanotechnology is expected to surpass $3 billion in 2003, as nations and
companies compete for leadership in the growing field, according to report.

.NET Application Blocks
The application blocks for .net are on the increase ... just 3 weeks back there were olnly 2 and now there are 8 !!
Personal note - keep an eye on this space

Avanade
MS + Accenture = Avanade

Microsoft Lands Large Army Software Contract
MS clinched the largest single-deal contract ever for the world's No. 1 software maker, a $471 million pact to provide software for 494,000 personal computers to the U.S. Army.

Just an indication of the security freatures and measures MS is putting into its s/w

Tough times for Microsoft’s competitors
Now instead going after MS they turn on each other: Sun vs. IBM, SCO Group (unix) vs. IBM (linux), Oracle vs. PeopleSoft
Sun tries to contact IBM customers and convince them to use Sun products ... business and friendship never works out ;)

"Call me opportunistic, but this is a huge opening for Sun, so we are moving quickly and aggressively to capitalize on it," Scott McNealy

Microsoft plans Palladium release
This October, at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft plans to release a preliminary software development kit for its NGSCB (Next-Generation Secure Computing Base) security technology, also known as Palladium

Man on the moon
Looks like India and China are entering the race to put man on the moon.
India says its gonna be around 2015

Belated Happy Birthday, Dear DNS
20 years ago on Jun 21 DNS was created by Jon Postel and Paul Mockapetris at University of Southern California
The DNS we use today is more or less the same implementation as 20 years back !!

Apples to apples ??!!
Apples claims that the Power Mac G5 can outperform a P4 or even a Xeon
But to compare the tests they have used benchmarks that target the Macs specifically
and disable all the hyperthreading in the PCs ... going to an extent of using an
unreleased version of OS X in the test .. comeon guys ??!!

Dear blog
Been really busy with all kinds of stuff ... it was like being caught in a warp zone !!
Guess im back to blogging now :)

Microsoft Falls to Third Place in Market Value
Microsoft is no longer the second-largest company on earth; the
company fell to third place this week, thanks to strong gains by drug
maker Pfizer. Microsoft didn't actually lose any value--the company is
still valued at $279 billion--but Pfizer has seen its stock soar
recently because the company has been buying rivals and releasing
popular new products. Pfizer is now worth about $285 billion. Both
companies, however, trail General Electric (GE), which is valued at
$307 billion.

OLAP
Found a good tutorial on MS OLAP
Site has some great info on other database realated stuff on MS Sql server
And so far http://search.internet.com has been my best friend for OLAP results

Whitepapers
Some great whitepapers on OLAP

Business Intellegence
A useful review of BI platforms/products
Another article that says "Business intelligence tops 2003 tech ROI potential" ..boy am i lucky

Design patterns.....
The true test of a successful design is when the only contest between "is a" and "has a" is whether the architecture "is a-trocious" or is actually "has-a-rdous" to an outsider.

Parsing Work-Speak
Had a good laugh after reading this . After reading it im sure ud become a lot smarter
Found another hilarious one here

"Don't belong. Never join. Think for yourself. Peace." ... best advice ive heard all day !!!

XMLHTTP
Something I will always need to refer

.NET
Boosting the Performance of the Microsoft .NET Framework

Most expensive cities
Glad to know that im not living in one of these cities

AI
Heres an interesting project trying to teach computers common sence(which is actually uncommon)
Found some time to contribute to the cause

Winamp
Justin Frankel the guy who created the famous WinAmp is quitting NullSoft says he cant stand AOL poking into all activities after NullSoft became a part of AOL. Particularly after Waste was totally wasted (no pun intended) by AOL.

Good Links
Found another site .. The Premier Publication for Business Intelligence and Analytics
If BI was so hot .... what was i doing all this time

Microsoft vs Apple
To add to Apples woes MS is going to pull the plug on IE development for Macs.
Considering that Apple has developed Safari browser guess the mac guys wont be hit badly but then again with more and more sites developed with IE in mind web pages will begin to look like a jungle safari to 3% of computer users in the world ... hmmm...

SCO vs IBM
Its getting hot in this space ... its looking +ve in the SCO camp !
If SCO has its way all AIX customers will have to stop using AIX immediately !! .... Linux could be next
..talking about Linux makes you wonder how Linux grew so quickly out of voluntary development by guys working their a$$ of in their companies and coming home tired just to contribute to the community..am i missing the point here !!??

Companies to Watch 2003
Annual list of 60 strategic IT solution providers leading the transformation of business organizations into intelligent enterprises

Google+Microsoft
Search Microsoft-related sites using Google

Microsoft Solutions
Guys out there must be thinking ive got no other business but blogging out here ...but my search for "Business Intelligence" gets me to all kinds of sites ;)
Came across another page that offered great information on Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing
Came across some great presentations that are a *Must See*
Even if you are from a non MS technology background just substitute the technologies with your prefered technologies
See presentations on
* microsoft solutions for internet business
* Microsoft solutions for Business Intelligence

MS SQL server gets loads of accolades

QNX
Found a nice article on the current status of QNX and its founders here

Best of E3 Awards Go To Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2 was the big winner in 2003's Best of E3 Awards, given by an independent panel of game critics from around the industry. Valve's upcoming FPS sequel walked away with four awards, the most of any title, including the Best of Show accolade
and Halo 2 winning the best console game ... xbox anyone ...

View the Source in IE
Havent found a real application for this but if you want to see the source code of a page type the following in the address bar
view-source:http://

eg
view-source:http://melvinl.blogspot.com

C# Chronicles
A good article on C#

MS applications and blogging
MS doent want to miss this bandwagon. They are putting blogging capability in all their apps starting from Media player to Front page 2003
Find out more here

Sun and Java in movie business
Sun signs a deal with HBO read more here

Vanity and Microsoft files
Ever wondered what the MZ ment in the DOS/Windows files (every binary file in the had MZ as the first 2 characters)
MZ=Mark Zbikowski a distinguished engineer at MS who wrote a lot of code for DOS executable formats
now that we have moved on to .NET vanity problems still exists ;)
all .NET assemblies have the 4 characters BSJB
BSJB=Bryan harry, Susan radke-sproull,Jason Zander, Bill Evans

Fact on .NET
.NET was called various names in its history.
Oginally called project 42 then called COR (COM object runtime) and then
COM+ 2.0 then NGWS(Next Generation Windows Services) and just before PDC july 2000 it was Named .NET

Microsoft and the alphabet soup
You head of C#, J#, X# and now comes the all new F# :)

Found an interesting site for techie stuff

Google that !!
Ive been wondering who founded Google
My search finally here

Cooool icons
Some great XP stype icons you can use in your sites/apps

Nice blogs for guys wanting to to MBA
http://mbawire.blogspot.com/

O/S Chronicles
Questions Arise About SCO's Possible GPL Violations
Novell out of the fight on Unix rights .. IBM in deep blue s&*t ...even Apple computers get caught in the Unix avalanche
If your powered by windows..no sweat..continue fragging !!!

Hi tech nanotechnology clothing
Wear cloths that stronger than steel and having electronic properties

Wondering whats happening to all those "missing" icons on your desktop
Check it out