After a poised loss against Australia, this is what the skipper of the Indian cricket team Mahendra Singh Dhoni had to say [http://www.rediff.com/cricket/2008/feb/01dhoni.htm]: > “The crowd was noisy but I don’t think the boys were distracted by it. In smaller towns,…
A presentation from HTC Starting, a web-based business seminar, highlights the top trends in 2008 [http://www.slideshare.net/startuphouston/2008-web-based-trends?src=embed] for web-based startups. With the iPhone (and similar smartphones) in the wide, the mobile space looks quite bright.…
Brad [http://hardcorezen.blogspot.com/], who practices Zen Buddhism and writes about it as well, has a very interesting experience [http://homepage.mac.com/doubtboy/boring.html] to share: > People long for big thrills. Peak experiences. Some people come to Zen expecting that Enlightenment will be the Ultimate Peak…
The latest monster film, Cloverfield [http://www.cloverfieldmovie.com] (IMDB [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1060277/]), has drawn a massive buzz online. This film will not leave you with a middle-ground, so you’ll either hate it, or you’ll love it. We saw Cloverfield last weekend, and for a…
Noting that cricket is one of the great things that bind the Commonwealth nations together, British PM Gordon Brown has hinted [http://www.hindustantimes.com/storypage/storypage.aspx?id=9129cb2d-1f72-4d9d-bd2c-9d48104e63d3&&Headline=Brown+for+bestowing+knighthood+on+Sachin] that Sachin Tendulkar [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachin_Tendulkar], one…
Arthouse style films, specially shorts and micro-movies, have been one of my keen interests for the past few years. This creative medium of depicting and sharing a personal view in a public forum is a challenge, and a delight to watch. The other day, I stumbled upon a short film,…
The project I’m working on at work is gaining momentum, and we are nearly starting with the proof-of-concept architecture solution. While I’ve used ORM [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-relational_mapping]‘s for data objects and domain persistence in the past, we have been playing with NHibernate [http:…
The new Apple MacBook Air looks amazing … Read more at Gizmodo [http://gizmodo.com/345051/apple-macbook-air-looks-absolutely-amazing] or the official MacBook Air website [http://www.apple.com/macbookair/]. By the way, the cute song in the ad is New Soul by Yael Naim [http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=-YUxbDEPFiM].…