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jQuery Simple Modal not Centered?

If your modals are off, be sure to set width & height of container manaully:

$.modal({ containerCss { width:200, height:200 } });

Check here for more options: http://www.ericmmartin.com/projects/simplemodal/

G1 battery life – update

So after almost 3 weeks of G1 use, I can say that battery life is not a problem on G1, at least for me. When I first got G1, I was using it constantly. But now that I am done playing with it and using it like I would use it, battery life is not so bad.

I still need to charge it every night unlike my last cell phone which can go on for a week with a single charge. But then again my last phone, well just a phone. With all the features that G1 provides, I think daily re-charge is a small price to pay for those. Another cool thing about is since G1 uses USB to charge, you never have to worry about about charger. My TomTom’s chatger works with G1. I have used PS3 at times to charge my phone at friend’s place. USB is just everywhere. Gotta love standards.

My Laptop Applications

Since I am re-installing windows on my laptop, here is a list of apps that I run, just for my reference:

  • Firefox
  • Google Chrome
  • Quicken
  • Canon Camera Utilities
  • TortiseSVN
  • Aptana
  • WinSCP
  • Eclipse
  • Java
  • Limewire
  • gVim
  • Acrobat Reader
  • Picasa
  • .net Framework
  • Gimp

Wow thats a lot of apps to re-install.

Windows XP Backup script

I always used xcopy for my backing up my files. However, I always forget to backup my backup script. So after fresh install of Windows XP, I sat down to re-write my script. Then I figured that there got to be some open source simple command line backup script, somewhere. That’s when I found out this excellent vbs script for backing up in Windows.Its very easy to use and alter. Author has extensively documented it.

Go ahead try it.

technology should not drive business

Today in one of our meetings, senior leader said that technology should not be driving the business instead it should only come into play after business need is defined. At some level, I always knew technology is just a tool for a solution but not a solution. But I never really put that into practice. I guess thats why so many of my previous ventures failed cause every time I learn about something new, i want to go out and build a business around it. I wasn’t sure how I can build a business on Facebook but I just wanted to do it. Perhaps I just wanted to learn technology. I just bought G1, not because I wanted a new cool phone but because I wanted to write applications for it.

I guess now I need to find out what I really want to do, perhaps, it is not even related technology.

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