Archive for May, 2006
This is a very interesting article on a very common phenomena in software, bugs. Eric Sink has written an article titled "My life as a Code Economist" which attempts to explore and reason out why software companies release software with bugs.
All software engineers know that the products that we release have at least a few [...]
Now this is a cool idea, Portable Apps! I guess you can call it the next revolution. Although the proponents have not labeled it revolutionary, I personally think it is. Or, the next big idea after the Internet!
Why I say it is the next best thing after the Internet is, if Internet propelled mobile computing [...]
This may be the best news if you were looking for an excuse for 'apprently' sleeping too much! This article 'sleep more and stay slim' explains it.
The latest studies show that if you don't sleep for least 7 hours in the night you are at a higher risk of gaining weight. And here I was [...]
For anybody who will be travelling this will be very useful. Whenever I travel Iusually arrive at my destination with clothes that are wrinkled and crushed.This should help prevent that in the future.
6 Tips for Wrinkle-Free Packing
I wrote about Google whining about IE 7’s default search box having MSN as the default search engine in an earlier post. Seems MS has got the clearance from the US Federal court to go ahead with its plans for IE 7 and that Google has been told to shut up.
As I mentioned earlier, I [...]
We (as in my wife and I) decided to do something special for our mothers this mothers’ day. The more we thought and the more lost we were. You see our mothers are pretty happy living their lives in a very simplistic way. So, trying to get them something that will truly make them happy [...]
News has been traveling around saying that Google is worried about a new feature on IE7, which has a Search Box built in which, by default, passes the search query to MSN search. And quite rightly Google must be worried that this will take away a significant percentage of their search traffic.
But to me, this [...]
I have a thing for Pens. Fountain pens to be more particular. So I had the habit of asking for a fountain pen whenever I got entitled to a present from my father, be it because I passed an exam, or for some achievement.
So this time when my wife wanted to buy me something special [...]
Today I started my new job. I moved over to Affno, a software company specializing in web solutions and knowledge management products, as a Project Manager. I am very exited to get start working on the solutions offering of Affno. They are an award winning software company that has won both international and national awards [...]