> The first person to live to be 1,000 years old is certainly alive today … whether they realize it or not, barring accidents and suicide, most people now 40 years or younger can expect to live for centuries. Sounds overly optimistic? A Cambridge University geneticist, and many other researchers,…
What makes a programmer good at their craft? For years, organizations which hire programmers have reasoned with this question. Yet, the criteria for selection of a “good” programmer differs by the lot. As candidates, most programmers are put through tough technical interviews, grinding analytical tests, and twisted coding sessions. Employers…
It’s a known assertion that software applications (desktop or distributed) are not truly platform agnostic. Even if a software application is developed as a cross-platform solution, it is very difficult to make it look and work identically across all platforms (operating systems). Hence, lately I’ve been thinking about…
Long story short. Today I was having some trouble with one of my email addresses. I raised a support request with the hosting provider. Within a few minutes, their technical support person replied back telling me that nothing is wrong at their end. And then, soon after, the problem was…
Past research has suggested that certain activities like gardening, cooking, philanthropy, yoga etc. are almost therapeutic in effect. These activities are said to “heal our soul.” For some people, its even judged rejuvenating. But, what about meditation? I’ve always been curious to know, how does praying, a spiritual meditation…
The other day I wrote down this Haiku [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku] out of disappointment: > With a necktie in January: Erratic spacing at the end of lines Heedless programmer continues to code Disappointment that came from recently inspecting gallons of ruthlessly written source code. The business logic,…
A day after my birthday last week, I came across an article, ironically, titled ‘Why Does Time Go Faster As We Get Older? [http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/volume_9/v9i39_yaffe.html]‘ by Philip Yaffe, in which the author contemplates: > It seems as if there is never enough…
Earlier this year I worked on an experimental sci-fi short film, “Memoirs of a Spore [http://www.vimeo.com/5445784]” (Chapter I, The Rains). Plot Summary: Once in a long past future, a cyborg ponders their rehabilitation in a metabolic society ravaged by the war, continuous rains, and other artifacts.…