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At least Google seems to think so. Take a look at any of the Chrome download pages here or the Beta download page here . Nowhere we see the version numbers. So unless you download a version and install it you won't know which version are you going to use! Neat huh? Considering the fact that most of the Chrome users are early technology adopters and have switched from Firefox (which seems to give an overdose of versions!) this is moronic in my opinion. There are other and better ways to keep your homepage clean but not specifying version numbers? I am not sure!

I think before we woke up to Twitter, status messages in GTalk were (and are still are) the easiest way to spread a message, show off some geeky/cheesy/funny/wise quote or post your blog link for others to see without pushing it! Now my Twitter is connected to my Facebook and when I post anything on Twitter, my Facebook status is updated. But I still post blog/photo links in my gtalk status message and so do many of my contacts. So I was thinking yesterday if there is some mechanism which would let me post to Twitter as well. Just imagine, how cool it will be. I write something in Gtalk status message and that is posted on twitter and that goes to Facebook! Now does Google provide an API which would let export/import status from GTalk status? Or do you know any such mechanism?

Glassfish v3 seems to have a few rough edges, but this seemed to be funniest. A test page that someone forgot to remove, may be!

Andhra Pradesh (India) Chief Minister Dr. Y S R Rajashekhar Reddy's unfortunate death in a chopper crash on 3rd September reached up to 3rd rank on the Trending Topics on Twitter for a while before getting back to 4th where it stayed for long. I would hesitate to attribute this spurt to swelling number of Twitter users in India because there are lot of Telugu people in US as well.

Reliance Energy is the only Indian company among select few in the world, which have been announced as first allies for Google's PowerMeter project. (source: Engadget ) PowerMeter will help you monitor your power consumption on your home PC. I don't know if they would ship Itron's meters here in India also or any other local manufacturer (Reliance's existing vendor most probably) will be given license to use Google's software. Whatever happens, this is a news worth watching.

I was getting this exception during build while running ant. Googling didn't help much and I was flummoxed because the same code was running fine till now. My code reads a text file and does some operations on the basis of values read. It was only when I saw the text files I understood the error. I had copied the text in wordpad and saved it as .txt file. Wordpad had put lot of formatting information before and after the content. Also there was "\par" after every line, which was giving this error. So moral of the story: if you get this exception check your properties file (or any other file that your code might be reading.)

If you have made a Hyperion Planning application you can migrate the definition of any of the artifacts (dimensions, rules, variables, composite forms) you may have created. Open the application from the applications' list. This lists all the major categories of artifacts. Click on 'Global Artifacts'. This shows the artifacts I mentioned above and which are of interest to us. Each of the artifacts further act as subcategories, e.g. under Common Dimensions we have Attribute Dimensions and Standard Dimensions. 'Composite Forms' lists the forms according to their folders. You can select all the artifacts you want to 'migrate' and click on 'Define Migration button. I selected the Composite Forms. A popup will ask you if you want to include dependent dimensions. I checked the checkbox and all the dimensions which were used in those composite forms were also migrated. If you don't want the dimensions, don't select it. Next screen asks you if you want t...