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Batting at number 12

Tackiling the yorkers, bouncers and good lengths coming my way... or not
May 05

The famous last lecture

A truly moving lecture by Prof. Randy Pausch of CMU. This guy has incredible story telling skills. He kept reminding me of of Richard Feynman particularly during the first part of the lecture. Coincidentally Feynman lost his life to cancer too…

 
October 05

Scions of the Thirsty Crow

We all know about Aesop's famous thirsty crow. Scientists seem to have found his descendents lately. Crows not only used tools in daily life but they also saved good tools for later use. Cool ain't it? Check out the video below:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12738-tool-use-by-shy-crows-caught-on-camera.html

October 04

Office live workspace on Google

Why am I not surprised that the first news result on Google returns this news? I think it's really difficult. to not do no evil :)

officelive

September 24

A bit of a Google Guile.

Installed a new machine and Google was one of the first sites Google GuileI browsed to. That's when I notice this little box in the right top corner of my browser. "Get a Google-enhanced search box" it said.

Hmmmm... iteresting way to put it. If that's what you want me to get then why are you linking to the Google Toolbar? Shouldn't you link to the Google search provider instead?

I remember when IE7 came out initially, Google used to offer a search provider for IE but no more. Apparently you don't get as good tracking data with it as you get with the Google Toolbar. That's ok Google. Everybody needs that information for tuning search results and Google Toolbar is a great product. But please be open and clear about it. You are the leader of the pack. No need to trick users into installing it.

August 11

Google mathematics: Infinity == 1

Monday, April 2 12:00 AM ET

Google Responds to Yahoo by Increasing Gmail Storage to Infinity Plus One

 
So not long ago: GMail Storage == Infinity + 1
 
When you reach the limit of free storage (i.e., 1GB for Picasa Web Albums, 2.8GB for Gmail), consider this your overflow solution
 
But lately Google says: GMail Storage == 2
 
Infinity + 1 == 2
 
So obviously Infinity == 1
 
Q.E.D.
 
Somebody obviously miscalculated or at least miscommunicated something. :)
March 17

Minnows turn Sharks

2 surprises in the first week of world cup. It's anybody's cup now.
February 21

Are you ready for your new wife?

This guy got a new wife the other day. Here's the account of his experience. Totally hilarious. More so if you have alredy got one too :) If not, you might be getting one pretty soon. So be ready for her.
 
Looks like he's getting used to her but if you are annoyed with her weird fits, there are ways to change her behavior.
 
Have fun!
February 07

So Yahoo! India WAS hacked after all!

I blogged a bit about it last week. I was hoping that it was a false positive and never analysed it much but today I came across a post that looked at it in more details. Looks like it really was hacked within days of its launch. Yahoo! has started its cleanup act but I wish it was detected and fixed earlier.
February 01

Yahoo's got a virus?

Yahoo! introduced 6 new Indian language sites yesterday. Pretty excitig I thought and went right away to check those out only to be greeted by a virus there... or at least thats what my AntiVirus likes to think.

Check out the screenshot below. I hope this is a false warning! If you want to test your anti virus software click here. (Be warned though. My AV reported this page as having a virus (HTML/Hinpack and also the VBS/MS06-014!exploit) so click at your own risk)

January 25

2 Must watch atom films


That's some creativity there.

 

If you enjoyed this then this is another one by the same guy.

  Have fun!
 
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