Raju Alluri’s Personal Blog

SecurityFocus reported Javascript vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader, including the most recent 9.1 release. Read more here. Here are some quick tips.

Want to use Wi-Fi while flying? Checkout this US Airlines list.

GE’s experimental (laboratory grade) breakthrough can put about half-terabyte data on a standard disc sized media. That would be about 20 Blu-Ray disks and about 100 DVDs. May take a while to get this to mass production.

క్రితం సారి మొగల్తూరుకి అర్ధశతాబ్దం పూర్వమే పేరు తెచ్చిన ఒకాయన గురించి వ్రాసాను. తెలుగు సాహిత్యం లో ప్రవేశం ఉన్నవారికి ఆయనెవరో తెలిసే ఉంటుంది. ఆయన పేరు బారిస్టరు పార్వతీశం. నరసింహ శాస్త్రి గారి మానస పుత్రుడాయన. సినిమాలు రాకముందరి పుస్తకాల కాలం నాటివాడు కాబట్టి ఆయనను మన ఇంజిను డ్రయివరుగారంతలా జనాలు గుర్తుంచుకోలేదు. పైగా నక్కబావ, పులితమ్ముడు వంటివారి తోడు లేదు కాబట్టి ఆయనకు రావలిసినంత గుర్తింపు రాలేదని నా స్వంత అభిప్రాయం. మీరేమంటారు?

We applied for Tata Nano today. Given the specifications of the car, it might be a very good commute car. Hope we will be in the first 100,000 applicants that are selected for the first batch of delivery.

US News posts this list of new car technologies. I like the Split-View.

What do you pay per calorie in US? Read here. In countries like India, the scenario may be different. The cheapest food may not feature high fat calories.

Yahoo announced that it is closing out the GeoCities services later this year. GeoCities featured one of our first web sites in late 1990s. Once looked upon as a geeky cult, GeoCities couldn’t keep pace with the rest of the web world. (Read here and here.) Even though it may not look good by today’s standards, GeoCities was a great service in late 1990s. For example, we hosted our 3-4 page website, a total of a few Kb, for free! That is during the times when registering a website costed about $75 a year and hosting it costed a lot more than that. Thank you and bye bye GeoCities!

The rest of the state of Andhra Pradesh voted today. From what I hear from my parents in Godavari districts, the elections are smooth. The polling percentage (of about 70%) is good too. Now that the fate of the candidates is sealed in the Electronic Voting Machines, they have a tenst time till 16th May, the day out counting the votes.

This list of stars who die the most (Hollywood) is really cool. Just wondering who will top the list in Bollywood and Tollywood. Villains excluded.