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.…
The Anatomy of a Search Engine
The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine [http://www-db.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html], the original research paper on Google.…
Maze Classification Algorithms
Maze Classification [http://www.astrolog.org/labyrnth/algrithm.htm] shows the theory and concept behind how various algorithms both create and solve mazes.…
'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/].…
FireFox 1.5 is out!
FireFox [http://www.getfirefox.com/] 1.5 is out! Can’t trust IE (yet [http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/]) for online banking and stuff that requires digital security.…
Stirring Sound of Stress
Stirring Sound of Stress [http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-19990501-000014.html]: The internal alarm clock. Why we sometimes wake up a minute before the alarm rings?…
The 70 Percent Solution
The 70 Percent Solution [http://www.business2.com/b2/web/articles/0,17863,1134713,00.html?promoid=rss], Google CEO Eric Schmidt gives us his golden rules for managing innovation … “Spend 70 percent of your time on the core business, 20 percent on related projects, and 10 percent on unrelated…