premshree

I just got my copy of Ajax Hacks (I’ve contributed couple of chapters sub-chapters). It happens to be one of their bestsellers, btw.

I was supposed to get the book quite sometime back, but since I didn’t, I was asked to choose any O'Reilly book of my choice. Now that was not an easy thing to do: I couldn’t think of anything that I wanted bad. (I would have asked for any book on Haskell or OCaml, but they don’t seem to have any books on functional programming languages.) I ended up asking for AppleScript: The Definitive Guide. What book would you have chosen?

Anyway, apart from those two books, they also sent me a copy of AppleScript: The Missing Manual. Sweet!

• Yahoo! Taiwan Blogs has been launched! Hong Kong Blogs was launched some days back — these were what I had been working on. Check out some of the cool doodles that one colleague, Lulu, created. Here’s my blog. :-)

• Jason Lewitt has an article on ways to get get around cross-domain XMLHttpRequest. One of them is the pass-through proxy that I had discussed sometime.

• Man, it’s been a weird week: I haven’t gone home (Bangalore home, that is) since I got back from Bombay; I can no longer sleep in the night; and it’s been hectic in some sense. So I’m off home in a while to eat good food and maybe catch up on some reading.

  Oh man, Freakonomics is awesome. Everyone should read it! I’m going to read The Rainmaker next. How I wish I didn’t read all the Salinger books.

Yahoo Hacks

Yahoo! Hacks was released some days back. I got a copy while I was in Sunnyvale (thanks, Paul!). And there’s one that arrived in Bombay too. Sweet.

(In case you don’t know, and didn’t read Paul’s entry: I contributed two hacks to the book — one on Ruby, and another one on REBOL.)

Go, get yours!

Other things

Hong Kong is sweet. Too bad I couldn’t meet Cecily. After having lunch with some of the Yahoo! HK folks, I headed to the airport. I reached there at about 15:30 or so; my flight was at 16:00. I thought I’d reach easily and all, but gate 70 was like at one end! Anyway, I reached the gate at 16:10 — that’s ten whole minutes past the departure time. Interestingly, there was some problem starting the engine or something, so I made it! :-) Haha.

After I reached Bangalore, I wait at the baggage claim for an hour or so with no sign of my baggage. A few more minutes and there’s no more baggage from that flight (TG 325 from Bangkok). Yay, you couldn’t screw me up better, suckers! I was hoping to fly to Bombay tomorrow (err... that’d be today now), but thanks to all this baggage crap, that won’t happen.

The other day, my dad was telling me something about a domestic airline called “Go Airways” or something like that. Heard of it? Got a URL?