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Bulls and cows and the Javascript challenge
Mar 03, 20082 min read

Bulls and cows and the Javascript challenge

About 2 years back, I had conducted an experiment with the Bulls and Cows game[ [1 ]](/2005/12/18/bulls-and-cows-computer-simulation-results/) [ [2 ]](/2005/12/12/my-experiments-with-javascript-the...

Bye bye IBM, hello Ugenie
Jan 16, 20081 min read

Bye bye IBM, hello Ugenie

If , December has been a very long month! I quit IBM this week and took up a new position in Ugenie today ] ]. This news came as a surprise to many, who considered that I was quite loyal to IBM. IB...

Google and innovation - take 2
Jan 10, 20082 min read

Google and innovation - take 2

About a couple of years back, I . However when I made that entry, Google had very few services and Yahoo had lots of them. In fact, Google was primarily a search company and Gmail and Calendar were...

Random thought
Dec 23, 20071 min read

Random thought

"There are some points in your life, when you have to just let your brain on auto-pilot and work on intuition and co-incidences than on logic and reasoning."

2007 - a recapitulation
Dec 22, 20071 min read

2007 - a recapitulation

Warning : Some bit of self praise ahead. Nearing the end of yet another successful year. The year 2007 has been one of the 'longest' year in my life. With milestones achieved and several noteworthy...

Prove that you are a human being
Dec 11, 20071 min read

Prove that you are a human being

In continuing with my observations made , I wonder if the following way of preventing someone from spamming a commenting system really helps: Spam protection: Sum of II plus III plus IV ? If I real...

Speed reading by hacking the column count in Firefox
Dec 08, 20071 min read

Speed reading by hacking the column count in Firefox

Recently, I came across a . The script helps us to view Wikipedia articles in multiple columns. I found this to be useful and in fact saw that it improved my reading speed. In the last one week, I...

Internship 2008
Nov 26, 20071 min read

Internship 2008

I had been to SJCE last weekend to conduct internship interview for the current final year engineering students. The turn-up was much less than expected. We went quite late this year and many stude...

Microblogging experiences
Nov 13, 20071 min read

Microblogging experiences

I have been looking for the perfect micro-blogging service. In the last one week I tried 3 services: , and . Here is what I liked in each: Twitter The good - Simple and elegant. Gets the job done....

Twittering at twitter.com
Nov 05, 20071 min read

Twittering at twitter.com

Many a times, I feel like blogging about my thoughts on something, but not necessarily composing a whole blog entry around it. It is easier to do this at a site which is meant for . So here goes: I...

Locating the Friends Apartment
Oct 27, 20071 min read

Locating the Friends Apartment

I was watching Friends for the umpteenth time. Whenever they showed the apartment, I used to wonder if it still exists and if so what it looks like. So here I was Googling for 'Bedford Street' (I h...