April 29 03
Now why didn’t anyone think of it before? Apple launched two products yesterday. A new version of it’s iTunes software which doubles up as an online music store. I think that Apple has carried it’s philosophy of simplifying everything right down to the name of it’s music store which is called.. well, u guessed it [...]
April 25 03
A new class of crimes.. and how strong is the Sun Dollar system? It is getting easier every day to become a criminal without doing anything wrong in the conventional way, i.e. u don’t have to hurt someone or steal anything physical to get on the wrong side of the law. Information theft is being [...]
April 24 03
The ultimate recyclable computer! Scientists are creating a way of storing data in the DNA of bacteria to create an organic storage that would survive even a nuclear attack. The idea is to encode data in the genome of the bacteria and then allow the bacteria to replicate, so that you have the ultimate backup [...]
April 21 03
Occam’s Razor The very well known KISS philosophy (Keep It Simple, Stupid) has a more formal version known as Occam’s Razor (attributed to William of Occam, a 14th century logician and Franciscan friar in England) which states (ironically, in a complicated way) that “one should not increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities [...]
April 19 03
Perils of the trade Being a techie can cause more than carpal tunnel syndrome, if you go by the research conducted by doctors in the city of techies, Bangalore.
April 13 03
To Patent or Not To Patent… So you have a great idea that you are sure no one has ever used before. How do you decide if it is worth all the expense and trouble to patent it? Remember, patenting requires plenty of time and money and at the end of it all, you may [...]
April 12 03
Best Pictures of the 20th Century I got this one by email today. It is supposed to be one of the best pictures of the 20th century.It’s certainly amazing enough and I wonder how it felt to be really there! It shows singers performing on a giant stage on Lake Constance(on the border of Germany, [...]
April 7 03
San Diego.. and a take on Yahoo! Pheww! Back in action after more than two weeks. It’s been a long week with midterms, project submissions and a great trip to San Diego, courtesy IEEE at USD. SD was a welcome change from the dull landscape of Phoenix where the only vegetation is the omnipresent cactus [...]