Archive for June, 2008

How Facebook stores billions of photos

David Gobaud writes “Jason Sobel, the manager of infrastructure engineering at Facebook, gave an interesting presentation titled Needle in a Haystack: Efficient Storage of Billions of Photos at Stanford for the Stanford ACM. Jason explains how Facebook efficiently stores ~6.5 billion images, in 4 or 5 sizes each, totaling ~30 billion files, and a total [...]

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The making of the Nokia N82

Darla‘s posted a cool video of the Making of the Nokia N82 on her blog. Nokia Conversations “Video of the Day” is an introductory video of the making of the N82. I thought this was pretty cool and hadn’t seen it before. Check it out here. Its pretty cool. I stored the video in my [...]

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Facebook Emoticons

By now everyone who’s anyone knows about Facebook chat. I was chatting with a friend of mine when he noticed that the client supports emoticons and smilies. I told him it always did since day one lol. Anywho , here’s a list of the smileys/emoticons that facebook chat supports : smile :-) :) :] =) [...]

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Picture O’ The Moment ( June 24th )

The Picture O’ The Moment is : I think it shows nicely , the state of Udupi right now lol.Rain , mud , buses , people , chaos its all in there. The only thing missing is a cow ! -Teh Cj

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Where the Hell is Matt ? In India and Kuwait !

Matt Harding became famous by accident awhile back when a video of him dancing in front of landmarks in different countries became an overnight success. Now Matt is back with a new video thats been in the making for over a year. This time around he visited and danced in 42 different countries and he [...]

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Knight Rider GPS Unit !

Move over, Dash Express. Take a seat, Garmin and Tom Tom. As of right now there’s only one GPS unit worth buying, and it’s this trick Knight Rider unit from Mio that issues directions in the voice of KITT. Yep, Mr. Feeney William Daniels is gonna be right there with you, although i doubt he’ll [...]

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Thanks y’all !

Whoa ! In just four days, i’ve crossed a hundred unique visitors. I know that by average blog standards on the world wide web, thats not much. But its huge to me ! I know these site meters arnt 100% accurate half the time but just in case I must say a big thank you [...]

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Zomg its Cj on your Mobile !

I’m very pleased to report that ZomgitsCj is now fully compatible with all new N-series devices that support Flash 3. Surf and read about the Cj-ness while on the move ! I.E : The Nokia N95 variants , The N82 variants, N96 , N78 and newer devices.Those with older Nokia (read N-series) phones will be [...]

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A week with the Nokia N82 Black Edition

(Picture taken by my Fujifilm f810) So its been a week since i got my new phone. The Nokia N82 Black edition. Here’s my mini review in regard to my Nokia N95-1. First thing i noticed ? The N82 black edition does not grab any attention at all from anyone ,whatsoever.It does however, look leagues [...]

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My Nokia Backup : New online method to backup your phone !

How come I’ve never heard of this “My Nokia Backup” feature on the My Nokia website ? It seems marvelous ! I was mindlessly surfing around the Nokia India site when i found it. Backup your phone directly to your My Nokia account using WiFi or your network data plan. Unfortunately for some retarded reason [...]

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Travels of Teh Cj

Note : All images from March 21st 2008 to May 30th 2008 were taken with a Nokia N95. From there onwards to the present date, all images have been taken with a Nokia N82 .If you had any doubts about the aforementioned phone’s camera capabilities, this page should definitely clear that up for you.(Some images [...]

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Welcome, Peeps!

I hope you enjoy my new home. And here we are … this is where new posts will be published from this time forward. Unfortunately MSN spaces wont let me migrate any of my old posts from My old blog to this new site. Version 1 of Cj’s blog will stay online as an archive, [...]

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