Bheema Online

Bheema – The Trisha – Vikram starrer is set to hit the screens for Diwali .

I was reading some news online at ibnlive.com and saw a flashy promo banner for the film.

Clicking on it took me to Buzz18.com the latest site under the Network 18 banner.

You can listen to the Audio tracks of the film on the same site.

Can we call this Desi Online Marketing ? This is the first time I am seeing a Tamil movie being marketed online.

check out this page on buzz18

Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client

Got this irritating message when I was working with a simple PHP /MySQL app I was trying out

Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client

I just changed the database username for the  application and the error went missing

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/old-client.html has some thoughts on the same

Suhasi Garodia

I hardly find time to watch tv these days. I was watching Aek Chaabi Hai Pados Mein on Star which is a nice family entertainer. She plays the Female lead in the serial. I have seen her on so many other ads these days. But didn’t know her name. There’s not much I could find about this future Bollywood heroine

Facts

  • Professional Bharatanatyam dancer
  • Daughter of Gujarati stage actor Lata Garodia
  • Starred in a DD show Shakti
  • Claim to fame is the Mango Slice Ad
  • Done lots of commercials including Airtel, Surf Excel and Vicks.
  • Spotted in the latest Univercell Ad with Madhavan
  • Flooded with Movie offers from Bollywood and Kollywood.

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I’ll try to post some more pictures of her soon.

McLaren gets screwed by FIA for spying on Ferrari

McLaren have been excluded from the 2007 constructors’ championship and fined US$100 million following Thursday’s FIA World Motor Sport Council (WMSC) hearing in Paris. Drivers Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton have not been penalized and are free to continue their fight for the drivers’ title.

More on this news here 

This  means Ferrari are going to win this years Constructor’s title.

I almost forgot about F1 about Schumi retired.

This one is super

No McLaren representative will be allowed on the podium should a McLaren driver win any of the remaining races of the 2007 season.

AJAX.Asp.Net Update Panel does not reduce bandwidth usage

One of the main reasons for using Ajax in any web application is

1.Rich User Experience

2.Reduce bandwidth

But a MSDN article I came across tells us that Update panel control does not reduce bandwidth usage in any manner (contradicting the general opinion about AJAXified web apps)

rendering shockingly easy and “for worse” because its simplicity and ease-of-use come at the cost of efficiency and, ironically, bandwidth.

While UpdatePanel brings AJAX magic to ordinary Web pages, it doesn’t bring the efficiency we normally associate with AJAX. Did you know, for example, that when an UpdatePanel control performs an asynchronous AJAX callback to the server to update its content, the request contains everything a conventional ASP.NET postback contains, including view state? Most developers assume that AJAX eliminates view state. That’s not the case, though, with UpdatePanel’s brand of AJAX.

Feedburner Email Subscriptions Gone since Sunday

Hey Folks,

I have lost all Email subscribers for my mobile blog
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Damn it was showing 153 till yesterday.

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Can you see the sudden dip in the graph.

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The Feedburner Email Subscription Service is missing from this section today.

It was present yesterday as you can see below

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Don’t know wtf is wrong.

No info on the Feedburner blog