The house sparrow

Pictures of the house sparrow, brings me sweet and warm memories of my childhood days. Days when there were no rules and no goals. Small birds making, chirp chirp sound, sun in the background. A calm feeling . It was music to my ears . Silence broken by their sounds. Quick movements. Innocent looks. Time was moving in slow motion. It was a beauty to watch the birds go in and out of the house , sitting on the windows, on the floor. They build nest on the roof top, constant chattering. They know our mood, when we are sad, they come down and sit near us, and do something.

Non Stop music in your Car

Tired of burning CD's for listening in your car, then here is the solution to your problem.

Things to buy.
Sony Explod cdx-gt250s - http://sonyindia.co.in/sonyindia/static/Caraudio/cd_tuner/cdx-gt250s.html







Creative Zen Player / Apple Ipod -
http://www.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=213&subcategory=214&product=12720









Stereo Extension Cable -
http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?TabID=1&criteria=usb&ModuleNo=11425&doy=search&C=SEO&U=Strat15


The Sony explod cdx-gt250s comes with front panel AUX input. So you can connect your Ipod/Creative Zen player to the player using the Stereo extension cable.

That's it now you can listen to all the music you want

XSS - Cross Site Scripting

To learn about XSS I had googled and found lot of informative sites. Thought of sharing them here, below are the links,

http://ha.ckers.org/xss.html

http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2005/09/20/handling-web-app-input.html

http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/lang/api-release/index.html

http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Main_Page

http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t63294.html


http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gmurray71/archive/2006/09/preventing_cros.html#comments

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/tivoli/library/s-csscript/index.html

http://www.secologic.org/attacks

http://josephoconnell.com/java/xss-html-filter/source/

http://blog.phpdoc.info/archives/13-guid.html

http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/crosssite.html

http://www.linux.com/howtos/Secure-Programs-HOWTO/cross-site-malicious-content.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_site_scripting

http://www.technicalinfo.net/papers/CSS.html

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp


http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.HowToPreventCrossSiteScripting

http://java.sys-con.com/read/192434.htm

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/12/11/jakartastruts.html

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-hibval.html

http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/29392/0/page/2

http://joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

http://shiflett.org/archive/178

http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/03/15/do-you-know-your-character-encodings/

http://www.developer.com/tech/article.php/1140731

http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/user/view/cs_msg/32734

BSNL Dataone Broadband

In the BSNL Dataone Broadband bill if you see details like GU, FU, NU don't scatch your head.
What they mean is
GU - Gross Usage
The total megabytes you have used for the month
FU - Free Usage
The total amount of megabytes for which you will not be charged according to your plan. For example for 250 Plan you can use 400MB for free
NU - Net Usage
This is Gross Usage - Free Usage

If you have any doubts regarding this billed usage, you can use the online usage check site provided by dataone here http://www.sancharnet.in/dataoneredirect.htm(Note, this site works only from Internet Explorer)

Test Post

Climate Change

For the part 2,3 weeks the weather in chennai is really hot. Its something which is new in chennai. I will attribute it to the issue of enviormental pollution. Chennai city traffic is day by day increasing. Trees are getting cut down and lot of buildings are coming up. These things are slowly and steadily changing the climate. Please people of chennai try to grow one tree per house. If there is already a tree in your house, do not cut it to get additional space.

Beat the Great Indian Summer - the Natural way

With the start of summer in India, people will be planning to install airconditioners if they have not already done so. People have so little time to spend that they rarely do reasearch and spend time to find out if they can avoid using airconditioners. So I am writting this article with details I collected from various sites related to natural way's of keeping your home cool.

Bringing to your view disadvantages of airconditioners
1) Initial investment high.
2) Consumes lots of electricity.
3) Possible cause of release of gases which is depleting our ozone layer.
4) Creates noise pollution for neighbours.
5) Restricts our precious view to outside world, since we have to close all doors and windows.
6) Once we get accoustomed to the conditioned air our body will not be able to tolerated out of the room environment. Reduced immunity.


Natural cooling methods
1) Checkout your house exterior paint color. Dull / dark paints absorb more heat. If so repaint your home with bright, reflective colors.
2) Another main culprit for heating of the house is roof. You can paint your roof with bright reflective paints (white latex) . Also you can put up thached roof from coconut leaves (what they call as pandal in tamil) over your roof.
3) Landscape your house
4) Use sun control films for your windows

Alternate to airconditioner
Airconditioner has two jobs, one is to remove stale air from your room and populate your room with cool clean air. We can accomplish removing of stale air from your room through a exhaust fan. And instead of cooling the whole room, you can go for a table fan which blows air in particular direction, which when directed over your body will cool you. So instead of going for costly and not so eco friendly airconditioner why don't you try out this cheap alternative.