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July 4, 2008

The gift of Life

An excellent video released by Disney. Although I’m not sure it’s allowed to be on YouTube. The very reason Google has been asked to hand over all our personal information to Viacom.
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July 3, 2008

Organised Widget

Very useful widget that combines the calendar, to-do, clocks, notes and events. Makes it easily accessible too.
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July 2, 2008

Six Fatal Errors

Interesting read. No this isn’t a funny article on Windows but is a serious one listing the mistakes Microsoft made.
He quibbled over the meaning of the simplest words (”compete” and “ask” were real stumpers). And on the occasions that he remembered e-mails he authored, he denied knowing what he meant by them. The same detail-oriented, […]

July 1, 2008

Dave’s About Me Page

Dave is the same guy who wrote Spam Karma for WordPress and he has one of the most interesting ABOUT ME pages I’ve come across. It’s in the form of a list.
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June 17, 2008

Whoah. This is science!

Sheesh?
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June 14, 2008

The pathetic Mac vs. PC debate

I haven’t heard anyone talk sense(including me, as I realize later) whenever I’m involved in discussions.
I’ve finally come to the conclusion that no platform is superior, inferior to another. They’re all different frameworks. What matters is what you create with your platform, not the platform itself.
Here’s someone who puts it a little differently on his […]

June 13, 2008

Being a Good Programmer

Unfortunately, this is for the people who are more inclined to learn about the Science of Computers rather than those who want to study Computer Science.
The only additional thing I have to say after you read this and this(in the correct order) is that winning a programming competition is a great thing. But losing them […]

June 11, 2008

The iPhone 3G subsidy is going to make it fail

That’s what the idiots at CNN money have to say here.
The maker of a hot-selling revolutionary phone cuts its price to spur more mass-market demand. Sound familiar? That happened to the Razr, and while the move spurred sales for a while, Motorola (MOT) couldn’t duplicate the success because it failed to innovate.
How foolish? What […]

June 9, 2008

Twitter WWDC Edition

You don’t want to see that whale image today while you’re discovering tweets. Which is why Twitter has taken measures to help serve you better. I only wonder why such techniques cannot be implemented throughout the year.
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June 8, 2008

What a way to ignore a deficiency

The wp-cache plugin is known not to work with Wordpress 2.5, but there is an alternative which people are switching to. It’s called WP Super Cache.
In description tab, they talk about a few the plugin having an issue of not generating fresh static pages when required. And they simply ignore it saying:
The good news is […]

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