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Driving in Texas

Vinay — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 04:31:27 +0000

If you are ever driving in the country of Texas (yes, for the uninitiated, Texas is a country by itself ), drive in the left most lane if you don’t want to get off the highway and drive in the rightmost lane if you want to get off the highway. Even the folks that only drive at 55 and are always in the right lane need to heed this advice..

Or you will be getting off and on the never ending “frontage” roads

I shared by two cents!!

DID YOU KNOW : Windows mobile and wildcard certs don’t work together

Vinay — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 04:32:33 +0000

Wildcard SSL certificates allow you to use one certificate for all sub domains (up to one level) of a host. Say I got a wildcard SSL certificate for *.kudithipudi.org, I would be able to use it to provide SSL on blah.kudithipudi.org, ssltest.kudithipudi.org, youcannotbeserious.kudithipudi.org and the clients won’t complaint about it.

For some reason though, Windows Mobile phones don’t like wildcard certs. So if you are ever scratching your head, why every other client works, but windows mobile devices don’t..stop scratching and get a regular SSL certificate for your website/application.

Apparently, this is the case with

Windows CE
Windows Mobile 5.0
Windows Mobile 6.0
Windows Mobile 7.0

Don’t you get the feeling that someone keeps using the same library and never bothered to check/fix it? And searching on MSDN or any other Microsoft resource won’t provide you this information. This is my own deduction after beating my head against the wall for more than 3 days .

DID YOU KNOW : How often the letter “e” is used?

Vinay — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:08:28 +0000

“e” is the most used letter in the english language. It appears ~12.7% of the time in the language.

The next popular letter is “t“, which appears ~ 9.1% of the time.

And “a” takes the third spot at 8.1%..

How did I find this out? From the free Crypto class being provided by Dan Boneh from the Stanford University.

Things to experience..

Vinay — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:04:00 +0000

Pictures of sunrise over I-90 (highway) in Chicago. I challenged myself to take pictures of a sunrise in the middle of the road.. while I didn’t technically take these pictures from the middle of the road .. I did take them from the roadside.

Complete collection at http://www.flickr.com/photos/kudithipudi/sets/72157629225713384/with/6984620639/

Innovative Wedding Invitation

Vinay — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 05:58:25 +0000

One of my friends, Karthick, is getting married and he put this innovative wedding invitation together.. And yes, pls do crash his wedding, I am sure he won’t mind .

Overheard : Comment on Work

Vinay — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:16:15 +0000

I was standing in line to get into a plane yesterday and heard this comment made by a gentleman to his friend

You know.. funny thing about work, it has to get done!!

The guys were discussing about how their wives don’t understand the pressures of work .

Introducing the Indian Samurai

Vinay — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 05:58:18 +0000

Have you ever seen an Indian Samurai? No, I don’t think so . I have been fascinated by Samurai ever since I was a kid. So I asked my friend, Buffy (awesome artist) to create a personal profile of me in Samurai attire . And what do you get? An Indian Samurai . Moving forward, this is going to become my profile on all online services (other than LinkedIn, because I like my job ). Everyone can put up a picture, but very few can put up their own personalized icon .

Want to get your own personalized profile icon? Send a note to Buffy at http://www.handmadebybuffy.com/. You won’t regret it.

Happy 11/11/11

Vinay — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:35:20 +0000

Other than a bunch of movies being released on this date.. everything seems to be normal . Stock market is volatie, Europe seems confused, Revolutions going on in middle east.. I keep gaining weight .. yep.. things are normal..

Overheard : Comment about my weight

Vinay — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 00:46:57 +0000

We were getting a free t-shirt at work and I requested a medium.. response from the person giving the t-shirt

You used to be a medium, when you started working here!!

And I was given a large..

Ouch ..

Visit the Indian Railway’s official site for dating advice

Vinay — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 03:44:13 +0000

I was reading this post (http://mindprince.blogspot.com/2011/10/state-of-railway-e-ticketing-in-india.html) by Rohit Agarwal and happened to check out the official site for the Indian Railway (which is a public enterprise).

And what do I see there? Ads for dating services and Penny Auctions!! Last I checked, the Indian Railways was one of the most profitable ventures in the pubic enterprises in India. What gives? Here’s a screenshot for proof