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.

Are you in Bangalore? Have you violated traffic rules? You can check it out at the Bangalore One website.

http://www.bangaloreone.gov.in/public/BPSFineDetails.aspx

For your information, domains with .gov TLDs belong to the government.

" If I could collect all the two cents in the mailing list I would be a millionaire today. "

--Sudheer

IBM takes new desktop Linux initiative. IBM discontinued the development of its OS/2 and AIX operating systems few years back. It also sold its loss making PC business to Lenovo. Now IBM wants to push its products and perhaps services in the enterprise desktop market.

I was once a voracious reader. I used to read an entire Sideny Sheldon's novel in a day. I remember my dad telling me, "if you read the text books like you read novels you will definitely top the academic charts". Well, I didn't read most of the text books with the excitement I experienced when I read novels in my school days. Let's debate the consequences.

After a few days, no months, wait, years, I motivated myself to read a book. I didn't even remember the last book I had read. Is this even possible?

We discussed about using feed readers to keep ourselves updated. I am eager to know what type of feeds do you subscribe to. I am also interested in knowing what feed reader you use.

In this post, let us discuss how to make use of blog feeds to learn new stuff.

Internet has always been a great resource for all the topics on earth! Yes, you know it. To check the meaning of new words, you use online dictionaries. To quickly find out information about a particular topic you use Wikipedia. To find information about any topic in depth you use articles and eBooks probably. Have you used blog feeds to learn new stuff? If not, you should, now.

Have you always been thinking about learning a specific technology or art? I'm sure most of you do. Many of you have secretly fantasized having more than 24 hours in day, haven't you? Off late, I have been gleaning one heck of information by subscribing to blog feeds. You name a topic and you will find a blog with quality content. If you are a marketing professional you may want to learn tips and tricks that can boost your career. If you are a software engineer, you may want to learn a new programming language. If you are a homemaker you may want to try your hands on new recipes. If you are a manager you may want to learn about a latest trend in your industry. The list goes on and on and on. In summary there's a topic out there for everybody. Even if you don't have the desire to learn new stuff, you should keep yourself updated and be smart in your industry.

Blogs invariably offer RSS feeds to their readers. Some blogs even offer e-mail alerts when new entries are posted. Take advantage of them and immerse yourself in your favorite topic for the next few days. Blogs cover hot industry news and reviews on them. It is convenient to learn a new technology or art in your free time. You can read the feeds when you want them. Everyday, before I start the work, I go through the feeds I have subscribed to. I also read them in my breaks and before I leave for the day.