What a Day! - Interesting News From Around The Globe

April 17th, 2006 Google News apparently has decided to serve local news instead of its regular fare of U.S. centric news.

April 7th, 2005 US has again achieved the dubious distinction of being responsible for maximum amount of spam (35%) with South Korea (25%) at second place. What is more interesting is: According to Sophos more than 50% of all spam is sent from "zombie" PCs, computers that have been take over by hackers or virus writers.

August 15th, 2007 I glanced over the Facebook source code for both index and search pages. As an enterprise developer of some experience, source code is always interesting to me as it provides an insight into the health of a company.

June 26th, 2006 In a typically sandwitched message format (good news-bad news-good news), Quentin Clark from Microsoft announces the death of WinFS filesystem in WinFS blog. "we are not pursuing a separate delivery of WinFS, including the previously planned Beta 2 release.

May 24th, 2006 Rumors are rife about Google's venture into lucrative online music store market, thereby competing with Apple's highly successful iPod. Declan finds that Google has added /music to its robots.txt file, potentially indicating the site can come up anytime.

April 28th, 2005 Sometimes I find people evangelizing some religion through comment spamming. Is it spamming? I think it is.

February 15th, 2005 Apple's move to issue subpoenas to PowerPage and Apple Insider brings up the thorny issue of applying the first amendment right to online publications aka blogs. Either way this will be a ground-breaking ruling to look forward to.

February 15th, 2008 Interesting articles and announcements emailed to me - 1. Compilation of BlackBerry Tips, Guides & Resources - link.

May 14th, 2006 Playing with SAJAX (AJAX framework for php, ruby etc.) I found an interesting quirk. Keep this in mind while using SAJAX (unless you have already found it (or want to find) the hard way).

February 24th, 2006 Gautam Shah has written an interesting article in Javaworld where he discusses ways to use SOAP over MOM (message oriented middleware) implementations, instead of default HTTP, to build reliable web services. The premise is simple.

August 21st, 2006 Times has compiled a list of 50 coolest websites for 2006 with some ridiculous entries like human clock, which shows a different photo for each minute of the day, being categorized under News & Information, instead of Time Wasters. The only information it provides is photos with specific time of the day.

September 23rd, 2008 As you may have noted, Simple Thoughts sports an enhanced headline section with 4 tabs. They are: Headlines - Provides latest news we deem to be worthy of headline Hot Topics - Most popular news in the last 24 hours (from Google Analytics via free Gadging service) Most Voted - Most popular news ever based on your votes Most discussed - Most commented news in last 30 days Would you like more such tabs? What should they be? Do you find them informative? Would you like any changes?

August 21st, 2006 I was just visting PodTech.net, Robert Scoble's (ex-human face of Microsoft) new startup. It was founded in 2005 by John Furrier in 2005.

January 7th, 2007 1. More regular posting Sometimes I have posted too many and sometimes none. I aim to post more regularly in 2007 2.

February 12th, 2005 I think many of us, including myself, often find ourselves distracted while doing a job on computer. The distractions could range from checking email, IM, checking RSS feeds of latest news or getting sucked into google mode and continuing browsing, in detrement to the work at hand.