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Live Mesh Invites - First come first serve

Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 3:40 PM by Mahjayar
I have been using Live Mesh for quite some time now as they were our first Silverlight internal customer. Its been a pleasure to work with the Mesh team and its even more fun to be seeing your code being used in real life large scale online app. I have Read More...
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Setup my personal blog on a new domain. Finally!!

Posted Thursday, November 08, 2007 4:30 PM by Mahjayar
After a lot of procrastination I finally got a new blog on my personal domain hosted at http://maheshwar.net/Blog . Thanks to all the people who responded via comments and emails to my earlier post asking for suggestions on domain hosting providers. I Read More...
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Experimenting with the new MSN Messenger IM Control

Posted Tuesday, November 06, 2007 8:22 PM by Mahjayar
Microsoft just announced the Messenger IM control . I took a quick look at it and found it to be pretty useful idea and want to test this out on my blog. Sometimes I get email from people who have follow up questions on a blog post and this would be a Read More...
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Recommendation for a good Windows based web hosting

Posted Friday, September 14, 2007 8:02 PM by Mahjayar
I have always toyed with the idea of having my own domain and I am finally ready to move my blog off to my personal domain. I was searching for good domain hosting providers and wanted to throw the idea out here to see if I could get some good suggestions. Read More...
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Can you believe this!

Posted Saturday, June 30, 2007 5:53 PM by Mahjayar
Funny way to welcome your new employees. The video ends with one guy saying "this experience is going to last forever". Translation: "I need to visit my psychiatrist to erase this memory" Read More...
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Funny clip

Posted Tuesday, May 08, 2007 11:38 AM by Mahjayar
Came across this really funny clip on SoapBox. Enjoy. Tough Guy Audition Video: Tough Guy Audition Read More...
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Debugging the mystery of the crashing desktop

Posted Sunday, April 01, 2007 7:51 PM by Mahjayar
My home desktop running Vista would crash with a blue screen everytime I logged in the main console if I had remotely logged in via TerminalServices prior to that. This was happening every time I connected remotely to the box and couple of weeks earlier Read More...
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World Record - Six sixes in an over

Posted Friday, March 16, 2007 12:06 PM by Mahjayar
Cricket lovers around the world rejoice. Sir Gary Sobers unique feat has been acheived by Gibbs in ODI's. I dont know how to compare this with any other sporting activity to explain this. Imagine hitting six consequtive home runs in the same game, now Read More...
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Photosynth preview. Wow

Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 10:56 AM by Mahjayar
First VirtualEarth 3D and now PhotoSynth .No words to describe it. Check it out for yourself (esp the 3D overview of Piazza San Pietro) . Maheshwar Jayaraman Read More...
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Is Live search usage increasing

Posted Saturday, October 14, 2006 11:59 AM by Mahjayar
Robert Scoble has a post where he feels that Live search is getting better. I have been using Live search for quite some time and now use it fulltime as I find it excellent. Now you may think that I am biased as I work for Microsoft but that's not the Read More...
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FF vs IE debate - WOS (Wrath of Slashdot)

Posted Wednesday, December 22, 2004 11:51 AM by Mahjayar
Peter torr posted his experiences * Installing* (notice the bold on installing) firefox and got swamped with backlash comments from FF patrons. He then followed it up with a follow up post and I think both the posts are excellent. Gr8 posts Peter and Read More...
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MSN Desktop search beta - Usage update and my 2 cents

Posted Wednesday, December 15, 2004 12:34 AM by Mahjayar
I got more time to play with the desktop search are was about to post my views on it. There has been ton of blogging going on and more information related reviews and user experience can be found at msnsearch blog , scoble blog #1 and scoble blog # 2 Read More...
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MSN Beta Desktop Search Revealed

Posted Monday, December 13, 2004 12:08 PM by Mahjayar
As most of the WWW now knows, Microsoft had announced it would release a Desktop Search tool. The beta of the Desktop search was revealed today which can be downloaded at http://beta.toolbar.msn.com/ . Have played around with it and the initial feeling Read More...
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