Sunil Jayaprakash sends me this very handy plug-in he wrote for Firefox.

He writes, (and I quote):

You might be knowing that there is a sudha weekly (www.sudhaezine.com) that gets published. Infact, I personally enjoy reading Sudha at home. She has been my companion for many years now. I could hardly wait to get a copy on every Thursdays.

Now, I have written a small firefox plugin that lets you read Sudha at your ease.

Few advantages of this plugin are

1. Ease of use - All the technical details are abstracted. Just click the page you want to read and voila! you have it on your desktop.
2. It provides off-line capabilities. - You can read Sudha even without using internet.
3. Saves your internet bill (useful for dial ups and traffic based billing) - Once you read a page using this plugin, it archives in your system, so next time when you would want to read the article, the saved copy is served from your own desktop. No internet is required for subsequent visits.

Infact we could implement many more social ideas around this.

You can download it from here.

Installation: Download the xpi file to a local folder, drag and drop it to Firefox (or open it with Firefox) to install.

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When in school, college, the lengthy hours of (load shedding) power cuts in the evenings stealthily served a purpose - dragging us to the rooftop to gaze at the stars.

In Bangalore though, gazing at the stars is not quite the same because of the all the glow from the city side, even during a power cut. But here's a software that lets you browse through the spectacular objects in the space serving just like a planetarium but on your desktop!

What more, the software is as free as it gets (free as in freedom).

On Debian or Debian like GNU/Linux, all you have to do is this:
$apt-get install stellarium

to get it installed and running!

Note: The software is available for Windows and Mac users too.

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Until a journalist friend of mine asked me about my old posts on this website (specifically Kannada ones) and until I went digging for those, I had not realized that this website has been on the Internet for more than four years now.

It was first a little page on geocities (maybe in 2003? I don't remember now!). It became a blog later on weblogs.us, initially running on Movable Type. Later it was hpnadig.com and with help from an old friend - Carthik, was hosted running with the code I wrote on my own for that ambitious website I had planned.

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