Published by Vinaya HS May 27th, 2005
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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 […]
Published by Vinaya HS May 27th, 2005
in General Stuff.
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 […]
Published by Vinaya HS May 27th, 2005
in General Stuff.
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.
Published by Vinaya HS May 27th, 2005
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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 […]
Published by Vinaya HS May 16th, 2005
in General Stuff.
HEU = Highly Enriched Uranium
Source: The Cryptogram Newsletter
Published by Vinaya HS May 13th, 2005
in General Stuff.
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 […]
Published by Vinaya HS May 13th, 2005
in General Stuff.
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.
Published by Vinaya HS May 12th, 2005
in General Stuff.
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