Transit of Venus

It’s that rare, once-in-a-lifetime occasion – infact it is, since no one alive today has ever witnessed it. The last time the transit of planet Venus [http://www.transitofvenus.org/] (between Earth and the Sun) occured was in 1882 and it will occur next in year 2012. Transits of Venus…

Motorola A835

I’ve been using the Motorola A835 mobile phone for a little over 3 months now and overall its been a good buy. I’m using the 3G service from Three Australia [http://www.three.com.au]. Following is my personal review of the handset. Things I like about the…

XML powered blog system

And finally an XML powered blog system called Synacto [http://www.syncato.org/] (Demo [http://www.xmldatabases.org/]). > Syncato is an XML system from top to bottom. It’s written in Python, but my goal has been to minimize the amount of Python code involved. All data is defined…

Google Blog

Google has an official blog [http://www.google.com/googleblog/] now! Looks good. The unofficial Google weblog [http://google.blogspace.com/] is also around and its a great source of information. Well, I’m still trying to get hold of a GMail [http://www.gmail.com] account for myself, so…

Real "real-time" Auctions

> “So say you’re driving down the street and want to find a close gas station with great prices. If you have a Java cell phone, you can run a JXTA [http://www.jxta.org]-based, peer-to-peer auction in which near gas stations automatically bid for your business.…