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2005-11-01T09:45:00.000-08:00

The Office of the future I have been just checking out some of the AJAX stuff. Needless to say, the techie junkie that I am, I am pretty much blown away. What is more impressive is not just that ability of the browser to act really like an application container than a markup display module. The movement of the web towards righer media looks more possible from the AJAX point of view rather than

2005-09-12T06:25:00.000-07:00

Article on Security I hate to make this a blog where I drop in links from around the world and feel happy at having put something on it. I definitely wouldnt want to do that. Anyways, came across this link on email today. If you are reading it, dont read it as the six dumbest ideas in Computer Security. Rather read it as the One reason why Computer Security is all screwed up. The first one. Most

2005-09-11T07:45:00.000-07:00

The Brand Name For those of us who have been bought up on a diet of management jargon or clothing catalogues, the word 'brand' invokes images of name labels, glitzy ramps and press conferences. We believe that branding is a third party activity, which we then use to show off to our friends. Many of us miss the universal meaning of the word brand. A brand is the sum total of images and feelings

2005-04-22T10:25:00.000-07:00

Google: My Search It is about time google put together this. Everything that Google produces has me responding in one of two ways - Can they really do that? or Damn! Why did they take so long to get this out. And this is an example of the latter. Google already does our searches for us. It already has all the strings with it. All it has to do is dump them in a database of some sort and allow us

2005-04-04T14:07:00.000-07:00

Haiku Have been trying to understand haiku and never really thought I would have haiku 'moments'. A couple of moments. This came to me as I was watching my first snowfall silent whispers falling winter snow on me wet cotton candy Inspired by the modern Corporate workplace spring winter summer fall, carpet halls unnoticed vacuum cleaners scream

2005-02-25T11:41:00.000-08:00

iMusic The ability to share and enjoy music is inherent the music itself. No matter what the MPAAs and RIAAs of this world want us to believe, music is not just another merchandise. It is not like a scoop of ice-cream that you enjoy more if you have the whole thing yourself. Music is meant to be exchanged, loved, discussed and sometimes cherished. Notwithstanding the lawsuits, the advertisements,

2005-02-15T23:33:00.000-08:00

Freedom to Share The thing about thought process for me, is that it does not go forward unless there is a IO port attached to it. In other words, if I ever had to think a thread through, I need to either be talking or typing or wriggling toes in the language of the three toed sloth. So, as it happenned, I knew deep down that I felt quite strongly about music, piracy, sharing etc. However, never

2005-01-28T05:23:00.000-08:00

Books et al I have kind of caught the reading bug again. Have been reading a bit recently. Well, nothing to the levels I used to as a kid, but decent neverthless. The current one is called In Search of Schrodinger's Cat by a guy called John Gribbin. I think I really want to read the book twice. If not anything it will be something I can talk to unsuspecting friends about quantum physics. <evil

2005-01-28T00:18:00.000-08:00

The Alternative Desktop One of the biggest selling points for Open Source and/or Free software has been the alternative desktop -- an alternative to the Microsoft desktop. There has been a great gig and dance about how Open Source can replace Microsoft on the desktop. However it is something that has not materialized and might not in the near future too. The problem with the statement "

2004-11-19T03:26:00.000-08:00

New Blog templates It is wonderful how a company makes a difference to a product. For all that dilbert says about companies, which I am sure I almost always agree with, it its own way the company is an indespensable part of getting something done. Yeah, it will always be slower than a motivated individual, but it will always be better than the majority of us randomly spending time who might

2004-05-11T03:30:00.000-07:00

GMail: A First Look I am sure that it would be very different for someone like me, who has been desperately looking forward to have a dekko at GMail to give anything other than a positive first view of GMail. So I sat over it a full weekend, and I still feel the same about it. So here is my review of GMail. This in fact is one of my first full fledged reviews. gee mailing away, - GMail <>

2004-05-07T02:00:00.000-07:00

GMail This is todally wonderful. They actually said that I was an active user of blogger. Wonder how they found that out. Read news that this beta was now being opened for blogger users. Was disappointed when I came here the last time and did not figure out how to do it. Anyways, now that I am in, feels totally wonderful. I dont know what it is about technology that gives me the shivers. Have

2004-04-26T08:01:00.000-07:00

Data Integrity Certification Service There has been a big hullabaloo around EVMs and electronic voting. And one of the main requirements that has been consistently missing is what is called a "paper-trail". Many detractors of electronic voting have cited lack of a paper trail is the main reason why electronic voting is being called unreliable. What is it about paper that makes a paper-trail

2004-02-10T02:14:00.000-08:00

Metacomm Pollution I was sitting having a sandwich and cold coffee, reading BBCi over my T610, when this idea struck me. It started with someone making some sort of wearable computer which is intended for a human, but a robot can also use it. Somehow building a robot that used stuff made for humans seemed very funny to me. I thought about it. The reason I thought it was funny was that it seemed

2004-01-20T23:48:00.000-08:00

Personal Programming - Requirements A Personal Programming Platform (P3) is a programming platform, that is built to be a very portable and easy to use programming language/environment. The following are some of the requirements for a language to be called P3. Small Footprint: This is the most important requirement for a P3 platform. The entire programming and executiong context, including

2004-01-20T23:45:00.000-08:00

Personal Programming This is an idea that has intrigued me for some time. It came to me when I was thinking about doing something to automate my website. It is a pure-html site, and I wanted to do some kind of automation of updation of links of each page when a particular page was altered. A very obvious means would be to use a "content management software". But I was too lazy to search for one

2004-01-13T06:17:00.000-08:00

Intelligence Is a question that has troubled me. Why is that a question? The question is, what is it? People frequently confuse knowledge with intelligence. People confuse with with intelligence. Or don't they? Where does knowledge end, and intelligence start? Consider this, when we sit here, discussing stuff, what part of the discussion is intelligence? If I tell you something you dont

2004-01-12T00:00:00.000-08:00

Sony Ericsson T610 I recently bought this piece, and thought I'd introduce you to it. I was seriously considering buying a cell, and of course no Nokia for me. Agree, nokia has quality, but it suffers from the same problem that plagues all industry leaders. The basic technology is cheap, but all bells and whistles are priced out of the world. And frankly Nokia low-to-medium range cell look like

2004-01-06T02:08:00.000-08:00

Nothing works like praise... does it? Check this out. I am sure a lot of you know about dmoz right? In their own words, it is the largest human-edited directory on the web. Which mean, in simple words, that people, not machines or algorithms, make the entries in this directory. Which also means that quality, has no proxies in this directory. What people feel they say. This is what dmoz says

2003-12-18T04:33:00.000-08:00

Careful what you wish for... A very popular line of thought in the FOSS camp is that we desperately need a shot of the corporate for true success - a successful business based on FOSS, a successful business partner, a corporate contributor, a successful corporate desktop. A favourite pastime for moderates and arm-chair supporters in the FOSS camp is to smugly wallow in the success of products,

2003-10-31T03:24:00.000-08:00

User Interfaces Gawd, I _*HAD*_ to post this. check this out for the best in User Interfaces. we aim to please, - ravikiran n.

2003-10-14T07:06:00.000-07:00

logic... I was talking today and I got this idea. Think about the time when you were faced with a problem. Not a problem which is defined in terms of problem -> ? -> solution. Rather a problem which is like a mass of unknown mass. All you know is ?? -> ?? -> ***. You only have a vague idea about what you want, and what you can get depends on what you have, and what you have is not totally

2003-09-30T01:22:00.000-07:00

con This has to be online. Did you know DOS had device files? NO? You thought only *nix had that disease? Welll, do this. Create a folder called con on the root of your drive... yeah yeah, in Dos or Windows boxen not *nix... What was that again? you could not. Dont tell me you cannot create a simple folder in your drive? You cannot even create c:\con on your computer and you are reading

2003-09-24T08:31:00.000-07:00

Frustration Hola, Well, the first news is this. I have the domain name anarchius.org with me. You can do a whois on it by clicking here. That will probably give you a lot more information to you than you probably will need :). The second thing and the thing I am frustrated with is what Verisign has been doing. This is so frustrating to see. I mean, this is the reason why enterprise should be

2003-09-23T00:12:00.000-07:00

another link I had to blog this for future reference. This is a story that talks about the origin of Murphy's Laws. Considering that I have quite an affinity for these laws, I am sure I will remember to check this out one day in the future. And no further update on the site yet. Dunno when I am going to get any response on it. hope dyeth not ~!nrk