Brain Rules

Most of us have no idea what’s really going on inside our heads. How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do to our brains? Why is multi-tasking a myth? Why is it so easy to forget – and so important to repeat new knowledge? With the…

Simplicity hurts

The KISS principle (“keep it simple, stupid”) is not new to the tech world. It’s the basis of many successful innovations. The principle is somewhat similar to Occam’s razor (“entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity”), and Albert Einstein’s maxim…

10 Emerging Technologies 2008

Technology Review (published by MIT) presents a list of 10 technologies that they think are most likely to change the way we live. From Offline Web Applications to Graphene Transistors, most of the stuff is darn interesting.…

Mono on the iPhone

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything related to the Mono project, the open source (and cross-platform) implementation of Microsoft’s .NET. But something really interesting came up today. Mono has been ported to the iPhone. Last year, parts of the Mono Project, were…

C# 3.0 Tutorials

As I’ve been using C# 3.0 with VS.NET 2008 at work on a production project, I thought it would make sense to mention the great tutorials posted by Michael Sync on the subject. One of the most appealing aspects of VS.NET 2008 for me has…

The Green Athiest

Would it be fair to say that more wealth makes us less spiritual. The “Wealth and Religiosity” graph seems to depict so. With the spread of freethought, scientific skepticism, and criticism of religion; secular theology has gathered a more specific meaning. What’s your say?…

2008 Web Based Trends

A presentation from HTC Starting, a web-based business seminar, highlights the top trends in 2008 for web-based startups. With the iPhone (and similar smartphones) in the wide, the mobile space looks quite bright.…

Sir Sachin Tendulkar

Noting that cricket is one of the great things that bind the Commonwealth nations together, British PM Gordon Brown has hinted that Sachin Tendulkar, one of the great cricketers of the world, should be bestowed with knighthood. That will surely be a very honourable feather in the cap for the…