Yahoo acquires Oddpost
Yahoo acquires Oddpost [http://www.oddpost.com/]. More … [http://news.com.com/Yahoo+acquires+Oddpost+to+bolster+e-mail/2100-1038_3-5266019.html?part=rss&tag=5266019&subj=news.1038.20]…
Open Source kills jobs
Bill Gates shares … [http://www.asiacomputerweekly.com/acw_ViewArt.cfm?Magid=1&Artid=24328&Catid=2&subcat=19] > “If you don’t want to create jobs or intellectual property, then there is a tendency to develop open source. It is not something you do as a…
World Alcohol Consumption
Luxembourg leads the world in alcohol consumption [http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=2877868]. A complete country-wise breakup (for 2004) is also available on the site. Cheers mate!…
Example heuristic algorithm
A nice and simple example (the TSP problem) [http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~papagel/project/tspprobl.htm] of the heuristic algorithm [http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~papagel/project/kef5_5.htm].…
Inventor of the remote control is “confusedâ€
Inventor of the remote control is “confused†[http://www.engadget.com/entry/7832617637315816/] > “You know it’s a bad sign when even Robert Adler, the retired Zenith engineer who helped invent the remote control over 50 years ago, says that “you need a pilot’s license to…
Refactoring Whidbey
Overview of the refactoring support in Whidbey [http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2004/06/28/whidbey_refactoring.html].…
CLR Spy
“CLR version 1.1 (Everett) debuts a set of debug probes that enable you to find and diagnose difficult bugs, even in a production environment. CLR SPY [http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/Details.aspx?SampleGuid=c7b955c7-231a-406c-9fa5-ad09ef3bb37f] is a C# Windows Forms program that exposes these probes in a simple…
Pizza ... healthy?!?!
“Pizza is undoubtedly the healthiest fast food option available …” as some say so [http://www.apache.ie/food.htm]. I’m a big fan of pizzas and sandwiches myself. Not just about everything that has salad in it, but some delis and outlets make it well (like Quiznos [http://www.…