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Reading the Arthashastra: War by diplomacy : Nitin Here’s an interesting paper by Roger Boesche on the Kautilyan doctrine of war and diplomacy: Whereas Carl von Clausewitz said that war is just an extension of domestic politics, Kautilya argued that diplomacy is really a subtle act of war, a series of actions taken to weaken an enemy and gain ... Label : Foreign Affairs SAROJA ROCKS!!! : Mahesh Today I went to the most expected film from the Chennai 28 team, SAROJA. The film was having so much expectation to meet with and I will first itself say that it has met all the expectations that it has created among the public. I missed the first few minutes of the film but I should mention that fr... Label : Venkat prabhu How to fix Windows Explorer crash when viewing folder with .avi / movie files? : JASON S My new machine suddenly got a strange problem. I had recently upgraded my Windows XP Professional to Service Pack 3(SP3), but I donno how this strange problem started all of a sudden.Problem : Windows Explorer hangs/crashes when opening folders that have movie files(.avi files). I searched the inte... Label : technology Easy Fix for : Windows Picture and Fax Viewer doesnot open / Thumbnails for images don't showup : JASON S Seems like my weekend was marred with multiple computer issues. While I fied the issue with "How to fix Windows Explorer crash when viewing folder with .avi / movie files?" - I had a second issue that came up. Which I suppose was caused with my several trial and error of many solutions to fix my or... Label : technology Pudhchyavarshi lavkar ya : Blogeswari Pillayar Chaturthi is one festival I really look forward to, more than Deepavali or Pongal. Back home in Madras, we used to buy our cute Mann pillayar + kudai + red and black beads at Triplicane the evening before Chaturti. Songs like 'Vinayagane vinay teerpavane' , ' Kaakkum kadavul Ganesanai...' '... Label : ganapathi On rails... : Sriram ... Label : Cityscape & Urban Photos Links for 2008-09-06 [del.icio.us] : Nimbupani Designs blogs Enjoy Indian Food: Mango Modak ... Heights of Nationalism : Bala A... Label : India Malaysian spends 11 months at depot for illegals : Ghost Particle The Star: Malaysian spends 11 months at depot for illegalsSEREMBAN: Young mother M. Rajeshvari spent 11 agonising months at the Lenggeng Immigration depot for illegals – all because she could not recall her identity card number and was not fluent in Bahasa Malaysia.The 22-year-old, who was six mon... Label : Malaysian Indians Ludes of Illayaraja : Yours Musically A quiz on Ludes of Illayaraja. Guess the songs. To make it easier or rather tougher (based on how seriously one follows Illayaraja’s music), all the songs are from movies released on or after year 2001.1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - Answers will be posted on 13-09-2008Also Visit http://... Label : Quiz [no title] : The Doodler I've never had much luck taking pictures in aquariums. My previous 4-year-old Kodak camera had very primitive settings that did not work out for an amateur photographer like me.Recently, we bought a Canon SureShot 1100 and I've loved it so far. It has very sophisticated image stabilization and diffe... Label : Happy Times On the run .. : Cuckoo Normally we see eunuchs coming our way and bullying us to part with some booty. But this time, for a change, poor fellow was caught unawares & started running for his life. since he was a little far and i didn’t want to miss this one last hope i was taking bigger steps now. to my amazement, th... Label : Humour Corridors, Again : Ghost Particle The tired days eventually melts away into the deep night. And a new world of dreams emerge like before, ever so often. Sometimes I loose track of time, waking up days before or days in the future. Not knowing the present, all the markers, papers, broadcasts in my travels never echo time or the date.... Label : Strange Days Notes from the RNC, Post 7: The early bird gets the war criminal, Dhillon speaks, and final thoughts : Mallika This will be my last RNC post. Friday started out with the news that I might interview Henry Kissinger, a man whose deeds and intellect I’m mightily afraid of. I was given the task because I’m always the earliest low-level employee to show up. Kissinger is considered old stuff by the establis... Love Always Shines : *~*{Sameera}*~* From your first kiss that made me stretch To those osculations after fervent prayer I treasure each thoughtful & loving gesture Any day wiser than the wisest soothsayer When we were deemed to be by ourselves You filled in best you could as a confidant The meals might have lacked that smack But love... Label : Dedication Sunflowers : Chetan Photo by Sneha. Both our children planted a Sunflower plant each in our backyard. Aaryana’s plant was the first to flower—lifting its face-up to the Sun the morning, and going into a sulk at dusk. And just when we were wondering whatever happened to Saanvi’s plant, it flowered no... Label : Kiddy stuff Cocka-doodle-do.... Chicken Parade;) : Illatharasi I was thinking what to post today..... {main thing I was feeling lazy to type ;) }Then saw Srilekha's Chicken Event..... so reposting my Chicken dishes......1) Chicken Gravy - Gravy2) Chettinad Chicken Curry - Curry3) Chicken Kurma - Curry4) Chettinadu Kozhi(Chicken) Rasam - Soup5) Pepper Chicken (K... Label : Non Veg dishes Aarthy and Navpreet-01 [Flickr] : Ravages Ravages posted a photo: ... Label : friends Golden Temple, Amritsar. [Flickr] : Ravages Ravages posted a photo: At night. I attempted an HDR of the place. This is one of the 10 frams I shot.... Label : old Golden Temple, Amritsar. [Flickr] : Ravages Ravages posted a photo: ... Label : old Golden Temple, Amritsar. [Flickr] : Ravages Ravages posted a photo: Bright, sunny, humid day.... Label : old 134 [Flickr] : Ravages Ravages posted a photo: ... Label : old General Electric : Nitin After the “clean waiver” in Vienna According the the Nuclear Suppliers Group, its guidelines “are implemented by each NSG participant in accordance with its national laws and practices. Decisions on export applications are taken at the national level in accordance with national exp... Label : Economy 113 [Flickr] : Ravages Ravages posted a photo: ... Label : old I will be at Nokia Open Labs workshop - Helsinki : Thejesh GN Now that I have got the official name of the workshop let me write about it in detail. I will be attending the inaugural “Open Labs” Workshop at Helsinki. Thanks to Nokia and WomWorld for the invitation and sponsorship. There will be 35 people from all around the world with different bac... Label : Technology 110 [Flickr] : Ravages Ravages posted a photo: ... Label : old 103 [Flickr] : Ravages Ravages posted a photo: ... Label : old Khalsa College-02 [Flickr] : Ravages Ravages posted a photo: Famous in Amritsar. And Punjab.... Label : old Khalsa College-01 [Flickr] : Ravages Ravages posted a photo: World famous in Punjab and Canada.... Label : old Landmark Forum - Part III : Jayakumar Balasubramanian Please read my previous posts about Landmark Forum (Part I and Part II) before reading this one.In the past few weeks, I have been getting multiple comments for my posts about Landmark forum. Here is the summary of those comments:The landmark forum provides spiritual dimension to an individual. It h... Label : Landmark Forum BCCI's rotten ways percolate to IPL franchisees : Ottayan Deccan Chargers to probe Laxman-Afridi spatThe Deccan Chargers are to probe the genesis of the media war between two of their contracted players, Laxman and Afridi.Actually, it is foolish of the administrators to react to such petty inconsequential issues. The whole world knows that an insecure Afri... Label : BCCI Get A Temporary Email Address With One Click Of A Button! : Sharepoint the Great Are you worried about giving away your email address on the internet?Example : wva2qfmnnf@notmymailbox.comHere is the solution! You can now get a free anonymous temporary address with the click of a button.Simply click the Create Email button there, copy your new email address and use it as you plea... Label : News Office Ganesha : sugan Poor guy! My friend was a readymade ganesha for vinayagha chaturthi celebrations in our cubicle!cha..missed the live action!... Label : Fun Naaku Muuku : sugan If you have not heard THE song - Adra da Naaku Muuku, you don't belong to Tamilnadu. This kuthu song from the movie Kaadhalil Vizhundhen (this movie is eternally under production..waiting for its release)..is a 10000 waala dhamaka. Vijay Antony (music director) must be a pleased man. TimesofIndia ha... Label : Songs XML into CSV using SQL Server 2005 backend : Sharepoint the Great Input string is in XML format Like<Values>Karaikudi</Values> <Values>Pallathur</Values><Values>Manachai</Values>My output string should be Comma Separated Value like Karaikudi,Pallathur,ManachaiHere is the code to do this operation.1) Read the XML column from a Ta... Label : Coding DBNULL.Value Checking against each Column of a Result set : Sharepoint the Great Here is the sample coding to do this.Here, dr means a DataRow of a DataTable.// DBNULL.Value checking against each column value of a result set..string strName = (dr["Name"] != DBNull.Value) ? dr["Name"].ToString() : "";string strAge = (dr["Age"] != DBNull.Val... Label : C# QA XML to CSV using C# : Sharepoint the Great Here I am going to convert an XML content into Comma Separated Values.// strSubCategoriesXML contains<Values>Karaikudi</Values> <Values>Pallathur</Values><Values>Manachai</Values>StringReader sReader = new StringReader(strSubCategoriesXML);XmlReader textReader = X... Label : C# QA SQLXML sample Codings : Sharepoint the Great How to get all subelements of an XML Node in Sql Server 2005?SELECT Sub.query('Cat/Sub/Values')FROM sampleTable where ConditionResult ..<Values>Karaikudi</Values><Values>Pallathur</Values><Values>Manachai</Values>MainHow to extract particular ElementString... Label : Coding Tender Heart - A Classic Short Film : Sharepoint the Great ... Label : Video Mayawati and Obama : kuffir Nita and Harini have been paying some serious attention to Mayawati and Obama- Harini says caste and gender might not be really major constraints for Mayawati just as race doesn’t seem to be a hurdle for Obama: For me, caste and gender are not the only defining factor here. You possibly also n... Label : Caste Action By Vijay Balaji : Sharepoint the Great http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2184376588064522161&hl=en... Label : Video The Five Hundred Swamis of a Thousand Directions : Nitin The Indian East Company Rajendra Chola’s eleventh century naval expedition across the Bay of Bengal and the conquest of Southeast Asian kingdoms was, according to John Keay, one of “those rare examples of Indian aggression beyond the frontiers of the subcontinent”. The question tha... Label : Economy Brand Update : TVS Scooty : Harish B Scooty never ceases to innovate. That is one quality that makes this brand my favorite. Being the market leader has never made this brand laid back. When customers began to look at electric scooters, TVS responded by launching an electric variant of Scooty- Scooty Teenz Electric.The latest innovatio... Label : automobile brands Rajorshi Chakraborti's Derangements : Jabberwock As a book reviewer, one of my favourite chance discoveries was Rajorshi Chakraborti’s debut novel Or the Day Seizes You (review here, author interview here). Its urgent, dreamlike narrative was among the most distinct by a new Indian author in a while and it was a book very few people seemed to ha... Are we expecting too much from our cricketers? : Ottayan Vintcent van der Bijl, the newly appointed ICC official in charge of umpires, defends the standard of cricketers' behaviour. He says we are disappointed with their behaviour because we expect too much from them. 'There is huge pressure on them to be role models. I do believe that the general public ... Label : International Cricket Council Lord Kannan's Photos 4 U : Sharepoint the Great ... Label : Photos Conversation with daughter-25 : Raj Me: An old lady, I have never met in my life, came up to me today at the airport, and asked me if we could check in our luggage together. Daughter: Why did she want that? Me: Because she had three heavy suitcases and wanted to combine hers with mine to avoid the charges for excess baggage, the c... Label : dad-daughter dialogue VeohTV - Experience Internet Television : Sharepoint the Great VeohTV BETA is free software that lets you watch and record Internet video from thousands of video sources.Watch full-length episodes from CBS, NBC, YouTube, MySpace, Google, Yahoo, and thousands of others.Finding something to watch is easy. Simply use the TV-style guide, or search via keywords. You... Label : DownLoad Nature Scenes : Sharepoint the Great ... Label : Photos At the streets and in search of something... : Sriram ... 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