Everyone likes quotes. Everyone likes Wikipedia. Wikipedia has a sister project called Wikiquotes.

Everyone likes RSS feeds. Using a feed reader you can enjoy updated content from websites. You don't have to frequently visit a blog or a news website to see updated content. If the website provides a feed, you simply subscribe to it.

Every Google user knows about the Google Books application. If you happen to read a lot of books, you will find spending a lot of time on the Google Books website once you discover its features.

Here's a brief summary of its features:

Recently, I received a funny unsolicited marketing message on my mobile.

The message read:

"Now State Bank has opened a branch on your mobile. Please contact your nearest SBI branch. Enjoy State Bank Freedom".

It was a glad to know State Bank opened a branch right on my mobile. Then the message asked me to contact the nearest branch, ie, my mobile.

Does it mean should I call myself? And for what?

I really have no idea what State Bank Freedom means. Can anyone tell me what it means?

I sure had a good laugh.

The movie 3 Idiots has been quite successful so far. No doubt there's hype surrounding it. Our friend Sandeep has his opinions on the movie. This blog post is largely a reaction to Sandeep's post.

I liked the movie. It is quite funny. I would recommend you to watch it if you haven't already.

You can now follow me on Identia - http://identi.ca/bngsudheer/all

Are you in Bangalore? Do you love MySQL?

If yes, there's a MySQL Meetup at Sun tomorrow, Saturday, 21 March 2009. Today is the last day to confirm attendance. There are three vacant seats at the time of writing. Hurry up and check out http://mysql.meetup.com/297/calendar/9704095/.

I have joined Twitter recently. All you Twitter users, check out http://twitter.com/bngsudheer. For those of us who are unable to post blogs on a regular basis, micro blogging seems to be a good opportunity to stay connected with the social network.

Which micro blogging service do you use? Which desktop micro blogging client do you use?

Soon after the Mangalore Pub Incident, Sri Ram Sene chief Pramod Muthalik had threatened people wanting to celebrate Valentine's Day in Bangalore. The gang has warned that they would take couples to temple and force them to marry. If the couple denied marriage they would be forced to tie Rakhi which is a symbol of brother-sister relationship.

A gang of 40 gundas barge into a pub in Mangalore and attacks women. They beat women, insult them and molest them. The extremist gang calls itself Sri Ram Sene. Sri Ram Sene's chief Pramod Muthalik has said the issue is minor. He calls for discussion about the actual issue - women going to pubs.

We have all heard of Web 2.0, the year of Linux desktop, open social, open mobile, social networking, social bookmarking, blogging and so on. Every IT company's eyes are on these trends. Dot com 2.0 isn't making so much noise yet. Looking at some of new portals, I predict there is going to be an exponential increase in new portals this year. Here and there we come across websites that offer something unique. Many of these web portals are driven by techies who are capable of building websites and market it on their own.