Travelogue

Well yea I have rejoined yahoo in sunnyvale. Its a long story and I am not going to go into the details of why/when/how. Been here almost a month now, I am sorry if I was not able to meet up with people but if I did miss you its mostly because last 2-3 months have been crazy with all the work for the visa/relocation etc etc.

As of today we will be moving into our apartment here in Sunnyvale. If any of you do visit sunnyvale give me a buzz:). My IM/mail etc all remain the same. Lots of stuff to update and lots of photos to upload but no time. Hopefully we can get around to uploading snaps etc once we get settled into our new apartment.

More detailed updates later:)

After one long year of trying to convince my wife to blog she is finally here!!.. She has a lot of little stories and experiences to share and in all probability most of you will find her blog more interesting than mine!! She is bubbly, fun to be around, loves to read book and cook for me:) As I blog this she is making me some nice yummy rava upma!... She makes friends pretty fast loves dogs ( as you can see from every trip album of ours there is inevitably a snap of hers and some dog she saw! ) and is a foodie like me.

Masala Dosas and my wife are inseparable and if you guys ever want anything done all you need to do is say the two magic words 'SARAVANA BHAVAN'. Now I better stop before I lose my rava upma eating privileges.

Her blog this way---->echoofthoughts

After reading up so much on the facebook hype I had to give it a shot. So last week I finally created an account on facebook just to see what the whole facebook platform is about and why is it getting so much press.

My First impressions of facebook
- its clean
- UI is snappy and responsive
- I can trust it enough to let it browse my mailbox to pull up contacts
- Less of spam compared to orkut ( till now )
- Lots of applications

Now the about the whole platform. I was surprised to see that the number of applications available for facebook has already crossed 1000 and there are applications of all kinds from videos/book lists/music/graffiti/notes etc etc. Its surprising that how by providing a simple API they are able to harness the creativity of so many people to come up with some really interesting applications.

This piqued my curiosity to see what the platform was all about. I ended up reading it and it seems very similar to stuff we had been trying to achieve in our last project.

- a SQL based query language on top of the facebook's object database.
- It has similar restrictions to the kinds we had when we were thinking of how to implement a usable query language on top of objects ( not a full blown OQL implementation)
- The WebApis are just simple wrappers on top of FSQL which help in packing/unpacking of data etc.

In the first couple of weeks in sunnyvale we visited SF and I managed to grab some nice snaps of the streets of San Francisco. I finally managed to upload and tag a few and here they are!