Wonderful Optical Illusions

November 4th, 2005 IBM claims a major breakthrough in the quest developing photon based computers instead of todays electron based silicon chips. In its Silicon Wave Guide chip it claims to have managed to slow down light to 1/300 of its normal speed of 186, 000 miles per second.

October 21st, 2005 I use and test my web applications and blogs primarily on Firefox these days. I do however occassionally look at Internet Explorer.

November 4th, 2005 More than 10% of net users are going online with the Firefox browser according to analysis firm One Stat. In US it has higher shares of 14%.

December 19th, 2005 I came across a minimal and elegant theme from Ulf Pettersson. It has horizontal navigation with lots of white space, wonderful color selection.

December 18th, 2004 A wonderful christmas/hanukkah present I must say :) http://tech.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Spam-Lawsuit.html Looks like if you are in Iowa you can claim damages of 10 $ per spam! Wondering if I should shift my residence to IOWA. Looking at the amount of spam I get I could be a millionaire in no time :)

October 31st, 2008 Well, air cars are nothing new to those who keep a note of automobiles. MDI is  experimenting on it  since last 20 years.

July 24th, 2006 Are we seeing the beginning of the end of Microsoft days, finally? It may be too soon to say but YouOS looks pretty functional to me. "YouOS strives to bring the web and traditional operating systems together to form a shared virtual computer." It is a wonderful concept.

December 15th, 2008 You can potentially make tinyurl to host tons of pages of content for you and for free. Hard to believe? Read on for the juicy details and an example.

May 23rd, 2005 All along my life I had wondered how South-Indian, especially Madrasis (aka Chennaites) can eat ravenously (at least my friends) and still manage to maintain a stick like figure. Now I know. They consume large quantities of imli (tamarind) pani (water) in the form of Sambar and Rasam which helps to control their sugar better and keeps them thin.

July 21st, 2006 Normally we don't associate Evite requests with spamming. That trust has been broken.

February 2nd, 2004 Much has been said about Sister Teresa (Mother Teresa to many) and her work in Calcutta (now Kolkata). The reality as we perceive from Calcutta is much different.

August 28th, 2006 The spare processing power of Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) will be harnessed by US biologists trying to understand the cause of diseases like Alzheimer's. Sony has teamed up with US biologists who already run the distributed computing project, folding@home (FAH).

June 23rd, 2005 I installed the wonderful WP-Cache 2.0 plugin by Ricardo Galli. It incorporates the features from the previous Wordpress caching plugins like Staticize and Staticize Reloaded.

March 5th, 2009 It's tough continue working at a stretch without a burst once in a while. I know you don't want to die of boredom.  It creativity when you are thinking about capers to beat the heck out of coworkers.

March 12th, 2008 Dell in India doesn't offer the range of customizations that you would normally come to expect from them. Moreover calling Dell may have some unintended consequences like possibly a call from Microsoft.