Saturday, October 02, 2004

Yahoo!!

Just upgraded my Yahoo account with new beta version. Looks slick !!! Love their calender. Will try the crawler next.

/pd

10/02-Update : I luv the iCalender GUI !!! If you want to see my iCal, shoot me a msg

Friday, October 01, 2004

MicroSoft Outsourcing even More !!

Whats the score here with the worlds richest man ???

"You can't go wrong in computer science.It is a little scary for me to see people thinking of this as a zero-sum game. It is not like a war where you have one winner and one loser," Gates said. "China and India are the big change engines for the years ahead, and as we embrace that and understand our new role in that".

Yeah, who's God Given Americans right is it, to think, that they are the only ones who can leverage knowledge to humanity ??

Ok here it looks like as per ISO country codes

1 CN = .03 US
1 IN = .94 CN
1 US = .0001 CN/IN

Go figure the thought harverst happening... take a peek at channel9/India !!

Blind child needs help

What a response and harverst of thoughts...spontanous liberty ??

Read the thread very very carefully !!!

/pd

sexual orgy ???

Justice Scalia surprised his audience at Harvard University, telling them: "I even take the position that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.

Rebutal offering

In fact, Scalia said, "I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged."

Harvard University Sept 29th 2004


/pd

Blog Wars Go Big !!

Sun Microsystems Inc.'s high-profile President and Chief Operating Officer Jonathan Schwartz has struck a raw nerve with his inflammatory Weblog entries

With big contenders going into blog wars. Whats going to happen next ???

Read this and this !! ... Comes from here.

Innovations

Innovations is the main rant of industry. What does this mean. Keepin eye on these features coming out here and here

Ultimately, innovation is about continually pushing back the boundaries of what is possible. The true genius of capitalism is that it provides economic incentives for sustained innovation.

So whats the landscope going to be for my grandchildren eh ??

Breaking news Cybersecruity

Amit Yoran, a former software executive from Symantec Corp., informed the White House about his plans to quit as director of the National Cyber Security Division and made his resignation effective at the end of Thursday, effectively giving a single's day notice of his intentions to leave.

Amit heads the cyber division of Homeland Security !!

Out of the box into the neighberhood !!

Way to go Andrew !! keep on rocking dude !!


We up in Canada can not only watch everything we can watch on TV, on a whim they can watch every episode of the original Star Trek in the order they were broadcast ALL ON ONE WEEKEND.

Go figure - open source viewing !! :)-

60 second strategy

This week's : 1 - Minute Strategies:

* Slow them down on voice mail. In the rush to leave a voice mail message, people often jumble their words. One word from you - "slowly" - reminds callers to speak carefully. Example: " Please leave a clear message and slowly say your phone number so that I can return your call."
* 3 easy ways to reduce computer eyestrain.
1. Position papers the same distance away as your monitor, so your eyes don't constantly refocus.
2. If you forget to blink while concentrating, keep artificial "tears" handy to lubricate your eyes.
3. Clean the screen.

B'lore tough on cybercrime ?

The governor of Karnataka State in southern India is reported to be close to passing the new law. New regulations forces cybercafes provide police with names and addresses of all their customers.

What is the primary motive behind this ?? Are they saying that too much hacking going on from these public booths ??