Friday, February 24, 2006

Raftaar - Hindi search engine

Hi there,
Came across a site http://www.raftaar.com , which happens to be a hindi search site. It provides a onscreen keyboard for query typing. The interface is good, but it lacks in search speed. But overall a nice experience to see some thing of this sort on the net. Great work.
Just check the site to know your proficiency in hindi and specially see the about link (Badhti raftar). Just one thing some words are still in english like internet, do you have any idea how 'internet' is spelled in hindi ;)

Have a great day

The first step

Hi there,
i just happened to read one of the blog of my friend and it just clicked to me why not i too have a blog. so here i am.
First a bit of explanation of my blog id 'themidgard' , its not a fancy name that i have choosen to reflect how cool i am. It just that when the software industry was at its rise, there was suddenly a shortage of email ids on the yahoo mail server, at that time the most preferable free mail server.
It just become a style or a sign of your computer litercy to have a email id associated with your name. From a chaiwala to CEO of a company all have there net presence. So i thought being a MCA student even i need to have a @ identity. I tried almost all the possible combination of my name but failed to create a email id, it seems that the software industry was indeed expanding. I even tried the name printed on keyboard, monitor but it all failed. At that time i was doing training in a company so i thought of trying the name of machine name as my email id, it started with skywalker and soon i realised that even this wont result in a solution, just then the machine name 'themidgard' landed me with a successfull email id finally configured ;) and with that the name themidgard became my net identity.
So i just thought why not have the same for my blog. It seems that bit of explanation turns out to be a byte so ending the blog right here.

Have a great day