August 2006
11 posts
First week at Columbia Law School by a GNOME...
Luis Villa (one of the hackers at PlanetGnome) blogs about the observations he made during his first week of law school. Personally I have always wanted to see how it would be if a computer geek ever went to law school. There you go! Read Things I’ve learned in law school, part 1 of…well, a lot
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New Netfirms web hosting account
I just purchased a new Netfirms Advantage hosting account for my dad’s startup. Netfirms had a special offer for CNET subscribers (20GB space + 120GB bandwidth + 2 free domain names for a whole year for $10!). It probably is the best hosting space deal I have ever seen :)
I’m thinking of moving this Wordpress blog to the new Netfirms account. This blog is currently hosted at...
Air travel in 2006
The 12 Indians arrested in Amsterdam for alleged ‘suspicious behaviour’ on a Mumbai-bound US airliner, have being released after Dutch authorities cleared them of the suspicion of act of terrorism.
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It looks like you can drop your travel plans to North America and Europe, if you happen to have brown skin and a black beard, wear a traditional salwar...
Control Room: Documentary on Al Jazeera by Jehane...
This is a very interesting documentary made by Jehane Noujaim (Egyptian American) on Al Jazeera, the controversial Qatar-based TV station. The length of the video is around 90 mins and is shot during the height of the Iraq war; largely contains the interviews of a few Al Jazeera journalists and higher-level management, shot at their headquarters in Qatar during the war period. For the first...
Peter and Apple’s Copymachine
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Peter and Apple’s Copymachine, originally uploaded by factoryjoe.
Presentation on Google's Internal innovations by...
Google Internals
[Note: The presenter is not from Google. He works for Turntide (now part of Symantec)]
Topics touched:
1. Google File System
2. WorkQueue
3. MapReduce
4. Sawzall
5. BigTable
Sawzall is essentially a statically typed language built on top of MapReduce and helps Google engineers to write really small scripts to launch massively parallel jobs without thinking too...
Using nanotubes to revolutionalise batteries
Rechargable and disposable batteries use a chemical reaction to produce energy. “That’s an effective way to store a large amount of energy,” he says, “but the problem is that after many charges and discharges … the battery loses capacity to the point where the user has to discard it.” But capacitors contain energy as an electric field of charged particles...
Municipal wireless in Bangalore
Bangalore could be the first city in India to go totally wireless soon. The state government, which had announced this initiative months ago, expects it to happen in the next one year, informed Anup K Pujari, Principal Secretary, Department of IT, BT, Science and Technology, Govt. of Karnataka.CIOL : News : Wireless Bangalore on the anvil
I don’t know if this will ever be...
Why geeks are worth it…according to a Bay Area...
Boy no one understands geeks better than this girl! Found this on Bay Area’s Craigslist via Reddit. Every single reason (there are 15 of them) is right to the point. Thank you anonymous woman for understanding us!
In the wide world of dating, there are many options. Do you go for the flashy guy with the smooth smile, or the dude in the corner typing away on his laptop? The following are...
India IT services industry: moving up the value...
As a result, call centers are becoming a less important feature of the Indian business landscape. In 2000, they represented 85% of the total back-office business; now they’re about 35%, according to Nasscom, India’s outsourcing industry trade association. And while call centers are still growing in India, the business is expanding at about 30% annually, compared with 60% growth for...
Two cars: Two different identities
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Originally uploaded by sem.
Mini Cooper (on the left): I will buy one when I need a car…
Hummer (on the right): should be banned!