Anand’s Blog

I am showing symptoms of a hyper-caffeinic existence. But then, there is not much I could do about it. With all that sleep I am losing out on, and the amount of coffee I am drinking, I couldn’t have been hoping for anything else.
Got to burn midnight oil. It’s the end-sem examinations.

eWeek.com reports that numbers released by OneStat.com showed Mozilla Foundation browsers share of global usage increasing to a 7.4 percent while that of IE’s dropping by 5 percentage points to a tad under the magical 90 percent mark. Cheers for Firefox that has been chiefly responsible for this!
But I was left confounded by a quote [...]

Imaginative as it may sound, but a team of researchers at the DartMouth College in US have come up with a computational tool that could actually authenticate paintings and drawings.
A press release on Dartmouth News has:
Using high resolution digital images of drawings by Bruegel and some of his imitators, [...]

Something prompted me to look for certain English words and I found the following:
According to Guinness World Records,
- the shortest word In English with all five vowels is “eunoia” which means sometning like “beautiful thinking”.
- the longest English word consisting only of vowels is “euouae” which is a medieval music term. [...]

In a few hours from now, I’ll be giving a talk on ‘The sense of touch” as a part of my humanities course. Here is how I plan to open:
Realizing the truth of our existence. Understanding the sense of true happiness. Praising the creation that is us. It is only touch that colligates us and [...]

Thanks to Pao, I finally got my wallop invitation. For those who aren’t aware of wallop, it is a ‘Yet Another Social Networking Service’ from the stable of Microsoft. Presently more of a research program than a commercial service, wallop is trying to add two new dimensions to the realm of social networking- music [...]

Imagine a scenario where walls will be erected across the web limiting not just what you could search but also how much you could search. As MSN launched its search service recently, the new fight has highlighted a new speciality of the high-tech industry. Specualtions are being raised on issues on not just the future [...]

An hour watching television and one can’t help but take notice of the plight of the Indian advertising industry. You wouldn’t come across any interesting and eye catching television commercial just as creativity seems to have been thrown out of the window in quest of ‘mass appeal’!
So when Tata Group’s new Television commercial was released [...]

Have a sparkling Diwali !!

Preparing for my trip, I decided to load myself with some hard currency as my credit card alone can’t help me drag on for long. So I rode on to this nearest ATM and waited for my turn as I found a gentleman with his 2 cute kids having a gala time with the machine. [...]