Anand’s Blog

It was to be plucked out of the air by two helicopters and brought back safely to Earth. But the Genesis space capsule carrying captured particles blown off the Sun crashed back to Earth in the Utah desert after some malfunctionality with its parachutes.

Genesis spacecraft on the ground. Source: www.nasa.gov

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After hours of loitering on the web, I finally read something relevant to my academics on ACM Ubiquity. – a paper by Benjamin Bederson on Interfaces for Staying in Flow.
This paper reviews the literature, and interprets the characteristics of flow within the context of interface design with the goal of understanding what kinds of interfaces [...]

Let me wish a very happy birthday to my fav technology company Google which is turning six.

Imagine my world without Google today!
Read Google’s history at:
http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html

I just checked out a new bookmarking service – del.icio.us , a very convenient way to store bookmarks. From any Web page, you can use a del.icio.us bookmarklet to post the page’s URL, title, description, and a set of keywords or tags. These pages can then be recovered by searching for text in the [...]

IBM is making the design of its “blade” computer servers widely available, so as to gain wider acceptability in data centers and the ICT industry.
IBM and Intel, partners in the design of Blade servers have announce that they would not be charging any royalties and there won’t be the need of any patent licensing. It [...]