Archive for May, 2005

777-200LR Flight Test Journal

I am hooked to Randy’s Journal. It’s like cocaine; powerfully addictive. Quoting from his recent post:

Which all brings me to a launch of a different kind. There’s a new blog in the Boeing universe. This one is dedicated to the ins and outs of Boeing’s flight test program. It’s a first, really: personal accounts of […]

Mobile phones in the work place

Why can’t people put their mobile phones on “Silent” mode when they are at work? When you are deep into work and your thoughts are shattered by those jarring ring tones, it makes you want to slap the person and stick the mobile to his/her ears. And, for god’s sake a mobile phone is meant […]

The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline

A one thousand mile oil pipeline starting from Baku, the cpaital of Azerbaijan, and ending at Ceyhan, a Turkish port has been opened. Read the full Q&A on this jumbo pipeline built by a consortium led by BP.

Book Review

Title : Managing Reality
Publisher: Business World
Price : INR 200/-
Bought @ : The Oxford Bookstore in The Leela Galleria

Review:

May 17: Yet to start reading the book! Stay tuned.
May 27: A very good collection of case studies on topics that affect the way we work, live and play in this modern […]

Acronym

HEU = Highly Enriched Uranium
Source: The Cryptogram Newsletter

SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator

Mission statement:

SCIgen is a program that generates random Computer Science research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations. It uses a hand-written context-free grammar to form all elements of the papers. Our aim here is to maximize amusement, rather than coherence.
One useful purpose for such a program is to auto-generate submissions to conferences that you […]

The Power of Hyper-Threading

MSDN Magazine has a technical article on tapping the power of the Intel HT enabled processors in your application.
Link: Juice Up Your App with the Power of Hyper-Threading.

The Venomous 10

Here is a list of the top ten venomous snakes on Earth.

The King Cobra
The Taipan
The Black Mamba
The Olive Sea Snake
The Tiger Snake
The Reticulated Python
The Death Adder
The Rattlesnake
The Saw Scaled Viper
The Anaconda

Update: September 21, 2005
The above list seems to be wrong. Adam has been kind enough to point me to the correct list.
http://www.reptile-gardens.com/reptile/topten.html

The B787 Dreamliner

Image courtesy Boeing.


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