eapen’s world

On the day Google App Engine was released, I downloaded the application to give it a whirl and despite following the video, my application didn’t work the way it did in the demo video. Well, today I gave it another whirl and not being as tired as I was the other day, I actually decided [...]

Welcome Diggers!
Many Digg users have posted Flickr’s of Google beta interface with links on the left side. If you want to view this interface and are a Firefox (the extensible browser) user, here’s how to do it thanks to Salvatore Aranzulla in Italian.
Ingredients: Firefox Add ‘N Edit Cookies
Now either [...]

… well almost.
My prediction this morning was that google’s stock would hit an all-time high of $400 with the working public release of google base. Sadly, i was wrong - it only reached its all-time high of $398.85 . But in the after-hours trading, the stock has reached $399.99 . So hopefully sometime [...]

I finally added the much needed 301 redirect to the old UofM website. So now the search engines (google, google and google) should start showing the correct URL for the search results.

If you didnt already know how to do that, here is a HOWTO for servers that run on Apache and use the .htaccess [...]

The death toll of the tsunami attack is approaching 80′000 and could easily reach 100′000 at the rate at which is going. Lets just hope and pray that there are no deaths from the epidemics caused by it.
This has to be the most tragic and unfortunate incident EVER. This is like 0.00167% (1/60,000 = 100,000/6,000,000,000) [...]

I am bored, so I am gonna bore you by telling you something that you can find out for yourself.
These are the messages shown when you click the different empty folders in gmail:
Inbox: No new mail! There’s always Google News if you’re looking for something to read.
Starred: No starred messages. Stars let you give messages [...]

well, i have been seeing some traffic to my old geocities webpage recently and i hardly remember that it still existed. so i ended up checking the admin features in geocities and it still looks pretty much like it used to 4 years back! i edited the main pages to redirect users here so that [...]

having read my friend Nidhruv’s blog, i have always been inspired to update my blog. in fact, i am adding another 5 gmail accounts since there has been so much demand for it.
thats right, 0 people have snagged the 1 gmail account invite that i put out two months back.
so here you go..
gmail 1
gmail 2
gmail [...]