While I was cleaning up my draft posts, a reference to a movie surfaced, which my friend Gautam recommended a couple of months back. The film – 11′ 09” 01 – September 11 [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0328802/] – is an omnibus collection of eleven short films inspired by the events of…
Alright, its got nothing to do with Ornithology (which, as I just learned, is the study of birds), but the golden bird has just become a trillion-dollar economy [http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=cb43db0e-5b6e-4463-9157-d68383cb9cb2&MatchID1=4457&TeamID1=8&TeamID2=1&MatchType1=2&…
What if you get a paper cut from a Get Well card? [Photo by Pavel Potocek [http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3822624]]…
There’s a short claymation show called ‘Prometheus and Bob [http://www.nickelodeon.com.au/toonroom/kablam/prom.php]‘ (wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_and_Bob]) on Nickelodeon that really amuses me. Prometheus is a smart alien that is trying to teach a dumb caveman, Bob. Bob is…
What if the next time you longed for a piece of software to help you do your job, you could simply create the software yourself, in a few easy steps? That’s the promise of some do-it-yourself online web application builder tools, like Coghead [http://www.coghead.com], Dabble DB…
While I was looking for some data replication [http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/replication-intro.html] stuff over at the MySQL web site, I noticed a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) comparison chart [http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/tco.html] for the leading database servers. Here’s…
[http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070205.html] A rare glimpse of the fascinating universe, shot in Perth, Australia. Sometimes the sky itself is the best show in town!…
My favorite text editor (and also the only tool I use for PHP web application development), Notepad2 [http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html], has recently been updated. I must say that Notepad2 (only 500kb in size) is one of the best text editors for all sorts of text editing.…