Nik Kalyani's Irrationally Exuberant Musings on Technology
If you are using IIS7, it’s very easy to ensure that all requests always go to your preferred canonical URL. It’s a two step process:
Step 1: Install the UrlRewrite module for IIS: http://www.iis.net/expand/URLRewrite
Step 2: Add the following rule to your applications web.config file:
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<clear... 
Om Malik posted about the NSF website chronicling the birth of the Internet. What a cool site. I skimmed it briefly and found this entry for 1980s:
In the mid-1980s, NSF decided the time was right to try to link its regional university networks and its supercomputer centers together. This initial effort was called NSFNET. By 1987, participation in the new NSFNET project grew so rapidly that NSF knew it had...
I have been thinking on and off about Posterous since I first used it and decided to put my thoughts down in a post. Nischal asked the question “Would you stick to Posterous?”
My answer today is “No” for the simple reason that it’s difficult to
make the commitment to use Posterous as my primary blog until custom
domains are supported. Redirects just don’t cut it.
Also,...
At the height of the dot-com boom, I founded a venture-funded startup
called iWidgets.com. My vision was to have mini-apps called “widgets”
that you could plug into web portals that were all the rage at the
time. Unfortunately, the market was not ready for widgets back in 1999,
and when the stock market took a dive a couple of years later, so did my
company.
Fast-forward to present day and...
Dennis McDonald tagged me in the “8 Things You Didn’t Know About Me” game so here goes:
I love Chai and drink a lot of it (not the Starbucks kind…the regular Indian kind which is way better).
I am a digitalmediaholic. I have over 6 terabytes of ripped movies and 100 GB of music.
I am a dot com bubble survivor. I founded a venture-funded startup called iWidgets.com that created... 
