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Monthly Archives: May 2005

Whats the big deal

24-May-05

It really turns me off when I get to know about great developments (Overseas trips, weddings.. ) in certain people ’s (who I consider to be close friends) lives from a third person. It’s not that me knowing the news would upset the plans -  I’d wish them all the best anyway (and still [...]

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Fuel cell uses blood to run

15-May-05

Researchers in Japan have come up with an innovative fuel cell where the “fuel” part is blood. Best of all, this cell is non toxic, and hence, could be used in artificial organs.
Link to the news item (via /.)

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10-May-05

This month’s Linux Gazette has a great article about making your linux computing experience more interactive by using a text to speech synthesizer “festival” alongwith shell scripting.
A nice way to cheer up would be to have it dictate fortunes at (not-so-frequent) intervals..

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Goodby TCL

07-May-05

This post (and the thread it started) discusses the wane of TCL and the rise of python as the new scripting language to go with.
Python is increasingly being embraced for all kinds of development/scripting, thanks to its great OO approach (which is lacking in TCL’s core) and availability of a lot of stuff which requires [...]

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Python Riddles on the net

05-May-05

This site has a set of puzzles (one level after another) where a bit of intuition and a short python script help in solving each one.
A nice way to start learning python too !

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Google Web Accelerator

05-May-05

http://webaccelerator.google.com/   acts as an intermediary and uses google’s infrastructure to deliver web content faster over broadband connections.
Too bad it only works for windows right now .. I would love to use it with linux.

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