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More related details on Dustin’s post - WCF scales up slowly with bursts of work .

There are times when you need to kill a number of processes in one-go like today when Chrome crashed a few times hanging all the running instances – next time Google says, one tab cannot bring down all of them – send them my way :). For such times, a PowerShell script is all you need. I wrote up a simple one which takes the process name as input and then kills all the processes which match that name. ...

My dear friend Mario has finally got around to blogging and one of his latest posts shows , it is possible to run Hadoop (which if you are not familiar with, can be thought of as an open source version of Google’s MapReduce ) in Azure. You need to setup a typical configuration of nodes (Name Nodes, Tracker and Slaves). ...

After moving to Bangalore, it turns out that I would need to get one or more UPS’s for the machines at home. The place we will be moving to in a few weeks does have power backup, but if/when there is a power cut it takes a few minutes for the generators to kick in and is not instantaneous as I was thinking. I have never bought a UPS until now and don’t have any experience with it - what are the things that I need to consider? I will have the following equipment running which will need to be powered up for about 15 minutes: ...

Read this story in the Guardian about a guy called Matt , who blogged about bringing up his daughter all alone, as his wife died soon after giving birth. This was such a heart stopping story, which is highly recommended. Interesting shift on the tone of the blog which first helped Matt with the bereavement and later gave him strength to cope with this to finally the blog providing support for others in a similar boat and looking for help. ...

In other news of the day … we are going to be moving in the next few weeks to Bangalore. Avanade , is sending me on a posting / secondment to Bangalore for 18 months to help out with a few things. Of course, the family will be moving as well. After my tenure, the plan is to come back to London. ...

Update 2: Car already sold - thanks for all the interest. Update: Dropping the price we we need to sell the car soon! I am wanting to sell my car and thought I would put it up on my blog first before trying other places. It is a Left Hand Drive BMW 330i Automatic (2001 model) with 89K miles in Excellent condition and has both the Sports and Premium packages factory installed. ...

New Parenting blog up and running (finally) – by popular demand. The intention is to keep that completely different from this one. I and the wife will be starting to post there so watch that space. Happy to get other new (geeky) parents (or soon to be parents) contributing if they want to.

Guardian story Social networking under fresh attack as tide of cyber-scepticism sweeps US where a number of academics have done studies which conclude that Twitter and Facebook don’t connect people, but on the contrary they isolate them from reality got me thinking about this and wonder if Technology is making us less human! MIT professor Sherry Turkle’s new book Alone Together (which seems interesting and is something I have not had the bandwidth to check out), is leading an attack on the information age. It does seem to agree with the recent articles like Is Google making us Stupid? I don’t quite understand Facebook (even though I have been more on it recently); my views on Facebook are quite well known, especially in the context of privacy and security . If I talk to a friend who could be in Delhi or San Francisco, I don’t feel as connected having a dialogue with him or her over Facebook as I do when talking on the phone, IM or even email. Often people thing just because they have posted something on Facebook, that is the end of it - it almost seems at times, I am too lazy and can’t be bothered, so will post a message and get it over with - or as they say in Punjabi - “syapa mukao”. :) ...

I was excited to find that Twitter had a JSON (Javascript Object Notation) endpoint for the current trending topics and decided to write a simple consumer which can read this and then spit it out in a simple console. And JSON being so simple and more or less “universal” meant that there are multiple implementations for .NET. Of course if you got lots of bandwidth you can roll out your own parser. ...

Upgrading through *all* versions of Windows from v1 thru to Win7.

Krodh k samay mukh se nikle ashleel shabd athwa shabdo ka samuh, jinke uchaaran k pashchaat vyakti k hriday ko shanti ka anubhav hota hai :) (Sorry too complicated to translate from Hindi to English)

So I am not the biggest fan of MS maps and prefer google maps. Any ideas if this is available instead of the default maps on Win 7 phone, and I don’t mean the web version :).

First post from my brand new Windows Mobile 7 - HTC 7 Pro. What free apps do you recommend? :)

I was wondering what new features of BizTalk 2010 do you like the most? Also are they any must have tools now? I am interested in the following: Automated deployment (of interfaces) Automated testing (regression and functional where possible) Automated configuration management (across various environments – development, various testing, pre-prod and of course prod). Coordination with AppFabric?

A family of tomatoes were walking down the street. The youngest tomato was being silly lagging behind and then unfortunately he was stepped on. The mother tomato turned around and said “ketch-up”

Yo mama is so stupid that when she locked her keys in the car, it took her all day to get Yo family out.

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I was planning on getting the Telegesis ETRX2USB and wanted to know if there are any open source (or shareware) open source ZigBee stacks that I can use with that? I also wanted to know if there is any opensource (or not too expensive), network management or network analyser for a ZigBee network? Essentially I want to be able to programatically view network and node information on the ZigBee network (e.g. S/N ratio, signal strength, etc.) - something similar to Ember's Insight Desktop which shows the details I am interested in. I could not find anything specific and would be interested in getting ideas.

Yo mama is so ugly that when she walks in the kitchen, the rats jump on the table and start screaming. Perhaps, I should revive my Yo Mama jokes, no? :)

Any suggestions for any a good iPhone App for tracking Baby feeds, sleeping, pumping, etc. that the wife can use? Below is a list of what I was able to find online; some of these on reading the reviews seem better than others but no one specifically stood out. Anyone with real world experience? Baby Brain Baby Tracker PeeDoodle BabyBix Baby Connect Total baby As of now, we are leaning towards Total Baby.

Those who don’t know, I and Meenakshi are the proud parents if our baby girl who we have named Maya Bahree. Maya means illusion (and not money as some have thought). She is a keen and eager little thing who despite being a few weeks early is doing extremely well and so is Mum. We had to stay back at the hospital until the doctors were satisfied that Maya was doing well. Git back home about 2 data ago. ...

After upgrading to the latest WordPress (v3.0.4), I also decided to have a look at the various plugins I am running. As part of that I stumbled across Ultimate Collection of WordPress plugins which are very interesting. If you run WordPress (and if you don’t, why not :)), I would highly recommend to check them out. I already was running some of these and not heard of others which are great. ...