Archive for February, 2007
Wednesday, February 7th, 2007
Discoveries and Inventions
Just the other day I was relaxing in the patio at night and I looked up at the sky. There were the stars, the moon and the void. It was an awesome experience but I thought their mysteries were already known - atleast to satisfy the limits of my curiosity.
And I thought, the problems of [...]
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Wednesday, February 7th, 2007
Assumptions
I believe life is all about assumptions.. the biggest of them is being alive the next moment!
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Wednesday, February 7th, 2007
What irritates me..
A banana that doesn’t peel off easily.
A commode that chokes up on me
When I drive for about a mile and realize I have forgotten my wallet @home
Elevator buttons don’t work as toggle switches.. Why can’t I undo a pressed button if I accidentally hit a 2 when I wanted to press 12!
Waiters generally start looking [...]
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Wednesday, February 7th, 2007
Longest domain name..
Seems like the longest single word domain name is named after a welsh town - http://llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com/
This is a 58 letter domain!
But this is not the longest place name in the world. That goes to one place in Thailand - 163 characters in length (I don’t want to write it here.. it will mess up my [...]
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Wednesday, February 7th, 2007
A great saying..
If all you’ve got is a hammer, every problem tends to look like a nail.
Anonymous
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Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
A 1.6 million year old ‘Turkana Boy’ skeleton in Kenya
This will be on display for the first time later this year since being discovered in 1984. There are more than 160,000 fossils going on display with it including a 200 million year old imprint of a lizard on a rock at a time when Earth’s continents were just beginning to separate! More about the [...]
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Monday, February 5th, 2007
OQO.. a cool gadget!
OQO : A really cute computer : http://www.oqo.com
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Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
Overloaded Alphabets..
These days, companies, technologies start overloading alphabets once they are successful.
Take the case of ‘J’ - everything in Java world starts with a ‘J’ - JBoss, JTA, JMX, JUnit, JNDI, JNI, JDBC, J2EE, AspectJ, JSTL, JMS, JAXP, JAXRPC, JMeter, JProbe, JSP, JSR, JAXB, JAX-WS, JAXR, JAAS..
Now consider ‘X’ - the world of XML - XML, [...]
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Friday, February 2nd, 2007
Which side of the road has your country chosen?
Very interesting..
http://www.i18nguy.com/driver-side.html