Mycroblog- Simplifying Saral March 20, 2010Why does the FM (as in the ministry, not just the man) need to make simplifications to the Saral form almost every year ? Why not get some design experts, and get it done with in one shot ? Someone from google should help these guys ! […]
- A free guide to Google Wave March 20, 2010A free guide to Google Wave: This free guide to Google Wave is a great starting point for understanding how to leverage the power of the new platform. In addition, it’s free, and will be updated regularly as more features are added in wave. […]
- Short ebook on software pricing March 20, 2010Short ebook on software pricing: Neil Davidson has come up with a great guide to software pricing, which also covers the basic microeconomics therories on demand-supply curves, etc. Good read. […]
- "Dear Facebook,
I do NOT want to
* Poke someone
* Right on someone’s wall
* Send a message to..." March 20, 2010“Dear Facebook, I do NOT want to * Poke someone * Right on someone’s wall * Send a message to someone * Reconnect with someone I am already connected to * Suggest a profile picture for a needy * Help make facebook better for someone by sending a message So please stop suggesting these irritating activities which you recently started suggesting !” […]
- "If tumblr is a microblogging site, why isn’t the page load time on its site in..." March 20, 2010“If tumblr is a microblogging site, why isn’t the page load time on its site in microseconds ? Takes more time for a new-post page to appear than the time it takes to write a post !” […]
- Simplifying Saral March 20, 2010
Monthly Archives: May 2005
Fuel cell uses blood to run
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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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
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
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
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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Whats the big deal