Posts from ‘November, 2009’

This picture is given the title – “Master Plan”

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Whatsay??

The other day I saw a debate on a talk show on TV which I found quite interesting. The topic was “One year post 26/11: Is India a safer place?” I know.. thought provoking. Thats exactly what encouraged me to watch people’s thoughts and opinions on it. I won’t go into the details of the [...]

a guy WAS chatting with a female – Online chat.
(Background both are s/w engineers by the way and both work for real big MNC’s)
Hero : Hey…GM (Good Morning)… How’s u doing today?
Female: VGM…Day is going good and it got better having found u on chat
Hero : wow…am honoured, u know what, my day starts only [...]

“The Knowledge Grid is an intelligent and sustainable interconnection environment that enables people and machines to effectively capture, publish, share and manage knowledge resources. It also provides appropriate on-demand services to support scientific research, technological innovation, cooperative teamwork, problem solving, and decision making.”
The above definition of Knowledge Grid is given by Professor Hai Zhuge, China’s [...]

As the focus of USB devices slowly starts turning towards USB 3.0 it hasn’t stopped some companies continuing to push on with new, smaller, rugged USB 2.0 storage solutions. Active Media Products is one of those companies and has just announced what it believes to be the smallest 16GB USB flash drive available.
The Wink USB Drive [...]

Google has open-sourced an experimental programming language that attempts to crossbreed a dynamic web-happy language like Python with a compiled language like C++. There has been a growing rebellion against cumbersome type systems like those of Java and C++, pushing people towards dynamically typed languages such as Python and JavaScript, [but] some fundamental concepts such [...]

Was the secret to Stairway to Heaven’s success the fact that it gave DJs the chance to nip out for a cigarette? That’s the theory of Led Zeppelin biographer Charles R Cross, who claims that 100 radio presenters “literally … swore” that they aired the now classic tune because it was the “perfect length” for [...]

The story of a playboy Communist party official who castrates himself after he is banished to live on a river barge has won celebrated Chinese author Su Tong the Man Asian Literary Prize.
Su, by far the best known of the five shortlisted authors, is the second Chinese writer to win the three-year-old prize, which is [...]

From Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland to JRR Tolkien’s Middle-earth, CS Lewis’s Narnia and the parallel universes of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, Oxford has played host to some of the UK’s most enduring literary creations. Now a £2.5m donation from an anonymous private benefactor means the first steps have been taken towards the creation of a [...]

French book publishers gave a hostile reception Thursday to new proposals by the Internet giant Google to clear the way for millions of books to be sold online.
The proposals “do not mark any progress on the essential question of non-English language works pirated by Google,” said a statement by the Publisher’s Association (SNE), which groups most [...]