The Twilight Zone

I remember staying up late those nights, a couple of years back, to watch The Twilight Zone [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone], a television anthology series. Some of the series episodes were way head of their time, some I couldn’t even comprehend, some were way obscure…

Da Vinci’s 10 Best Ideas

Leonardo Da Vinci’s 10 Best Ideas [http://www.livescience.com/history/davinci_bestideas_top10.html]. Da Vinci helped revolutionize science. And sometimes he just dreamed up fanciful concepts.…

Skype 2

The all new Skype 2.0 [http://www.skype.com/products/skype/windows/] (currently in beta) features free video calling. I wonder how’s the video compression state, specially in a cross-platform (Windows, *nix, Mac) scenario. It would be an interesting tool to try out and review.…

'Final scene of Iqbal still moves me'

‘Final scene of Iqbal still moves me’ [http://www.rediff.com/movies/2005/nov/29nagesh.htm] says Nagesh Kukunoor, the director of the film. I agree with it all the more [https://www.nilkanth.com/archives/2005/09/06/iqbal/].…

How IT projects work?

A funny yet moderately realistic perspective to how IT projects generally work in some companies. Agile [http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/newMethodology.html#id2249392] anyone? [http://www.scaryideas.com/project.html]…

Google acquiring Riya?

It’s highly rumored yet unconfirmed [http://gigaom.com/2005/11/16/googles-riya-designs/], but the buzz is that Google may buy-out Riya [http://www.riya.com], which eventually would make sense for Google to integrate Riya’s photo tagging framework with Picasa [http://www.picasa.com] or even Google Images…

Google Logo Maker

Ain’t this Google Logo cool [http://googlefor.com/MSNger]! You can also make your own. [http://googlefor.com/mygoogle.asp]…