MSFT offers to buy Yahoo?
Posted on May 4, 2007
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Atleast that is what this article at ibnlive.com says. I have never heard anything like this before. If it happens it will be one of the biggest mergers in IT industry.
Update: And the story is now on techcrunch.
Must must see
Posted on May 4, 2007
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Microsoft demo of touch screen desk concept. Brilliant but looks a little complex. KISS!
Interesting math for numbers 0 to 9999
Posted on May 3, 2007
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Erich Friedman, an associate professor of mathematics at Stetson University in Florida, has this page “What’s Special About This Number?“. Though he doesn’t cover every number, he has some interesting math for 2849 of them. If you know something interesting about numbers he hasn’t covered let him know. Here’s a few:
- 16 is the only number of the form xy = yx with x and y different integers.
- 4349 is the largest known number n so that 46n – 45n is prime.
- 4624 = 44 + 46 + 42 + 44.
- 6327 = 324 + 325 + . . . + 342 = 343 + 344 + . . . + 360.
Indian Embassy
Posted on May 3, 2007
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Read this about the Indian Embassy at New York. Its embarrassing!
A plan for the improvement of English spelling
Posted on May 3, 2007
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This is an interesting excerpt from Mark Twain, though many people attribute it as not being his we would never know. Here’s it read on.
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter “c” would be dropped to be replased either by “k” or “s”, and likewise “x” would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which “c” would be retained would be the “ch” formation, which will be dealt with later.
Year 2 might reform “w” spelling, so that “which” and “one” would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish “y” replasing it with “i” and iear 4 might fiks the “g/j” anomali wonse and for all.
Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants.
Bai iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez “c”, “y” and “x” — bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez — tu riplais “ch”, “sh”, and “th” rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
Maps
Posted on April 30, 2007
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Check this out. Submarine cable maps and this piece from an engineer at Google Earth.
Business Analyst vs Engineering Analyst
Posted on April 26, 2007
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• A business analyst looks at problem from top-down, starting with what the ultimate goal is and scoping down to how the final product might need to be.
• An engineering analyst looks at a problem from bottom-up, starting with what are the requirements aka data to be collected/manipulated, then how it can be done, then how to piece them together and then how to match that with the business analyst’s goal.
Sun Blackbox
Posted on April 26, 2007
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I’m not sure how many of you’ll are interested in data centers and rack computers. But this is definitely worth checking out. Sun has come up with this innovate data center in a container project called BlackBox which fits in a complete data center in one trailer container.
Mac Ads
Posted on April 24, 2007
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Mac Ads, they never get old. I was watching those ads today (again). And just couldn’t stop laughing.
Today’s Picks
Posted on April 23, 2007
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Mozy free online backup upto 2 GB.
OpenDNS – A faster way to access the internet. Haven’t tried this yet!
Silverlight – A nice white paper on silverlight architecture.