July 27 03
No Nonsense this! Nonsense is one of the more interesting projects on Sourceforge. This one produces, yes, nonsense.. lots of it.. it can produce nonsense versions of popular websites among other stuff. Looking for a great sounding, meaningless mission statement for your organization? No sweat, Nonsense can help you out! Reload the page for more [...]
July 27 03
“How dare the government intervene to stifle innovation in the computer industry! That’s Microsoft’s job, dammit!” Microsoft has been portrayed as the evil big corporation so many times that it has become part of common knowledge. As per Goebbel’s philosophy, a lie repeated from multiple sources will eventually become known as the truth. True, Mircosoft [...]
July 27 03
Guys who have to cope with late nights and loads of unfinished work might find this discussion on slashdot interesting.
July 19 03
It was a dark and stormy night… The San Jose State University’s 22nd Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest celebrates bad writing. The 2003 winner Mariann Sims wrote the following opening line for a fictional novel to bag the $250 prize. “They had but one last remaining night together, so they embraced each other as tightly as that [...]
July 19 03
This is hilarious! Someone at Microsoft Research has come out with a really great system for generating and remembering complicated passwords using inkblots! The idea is that as with the Rorschach tests, each person interprets a random inkblot in a different way. So this program generates a series of random inkblots and all you have [...]
July 15 03
Of all the dumb uses of good technology I can think of, this one takes the cake. Guys at Monash University in down under have created technology that makes it possible for people to log on to their computers by simply laughing. One of the uses mentioned is “the system could be used to follow [...]
July 15 03
Outsourcing to create savings of US$ 390 billion by 2009! Nasscom has released a report which says that contrary to popular perception, outsourcing actually saves jobs and helps the US economy. According to their statistics, US firms have saved from $6-8 billion in the last four years due to outsourcing to India. This isn’t as [...]
July 13 03
Just out of curiosity, I’m gonna put up my webcam online for a while. I think it takes snapshots every 30 seconds or so and I’m really curious to see what kind of embarassing pics make it to this site. Here’s the pic, if you are curious. (Make sure your browser doesn’t cache it). [I've [...]