31dec2013

Robert W. Wilson, a person who gave away his entire $800 million before jumping to his death from his 16th floor apartment in NY. R.I.P.

"I was a bellhop and Kenton was a valet," says Herrema, recalling how they worked 14 to 16 hours every day — even holidays — for years to pay their bills and test their ideas in rented lab space.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/30/plastic-from-carbon-emissions/4192945/

my respect for this duo, seriously!

29dec2013

“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.” — Socrates. (an interesting quote!?, possibly a case of sour grapes? ;-) )

something new i came across today, RAAS (renin angiotensin aldosterone system)
article: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/open-page/evolutionary-mismatch/article5512897.ece

"to see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle." -- George Orwell (i like the it and the sound of it)

24dec2013

subnet masks http://www.iplocation.net/tools/netmask.php
lan rj45 http://en.kioskea.net/contents/98-creating-a-local-area-network

21dec2013

how to consume c++ .lib library in c# projects

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/299da822-5539-4e5b-9ba7-b614e564c9f4/presenting-a-c-library-lib-for-use-in-c-project?forum=vcgeneral

printer dongles sporaw com
join . me by logMeIn
www VoIPStreet com
www VirtualTAS com
www dolibarr org

19dec2013

visually presenting information http://www.infomous.com/

one another similar idea is TreeMaps, from human computer interaction labs (from CMU, if i remember well)

14dec2013

an interesting read on india's weak macro-economics and it's political nexus
http://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/arvind-subramanian-india-s-troubling-trilemma-113121300990_1.html

12dec2013

sleep positions and their plausible insight into personality
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3112170.stm

04dec2013

'Isak ki baat to besua jaane
 hum bahu beti hain, hum ka jaanein'
 -- anonymous