Plastic money has a lot of appeal to youngsters since money is hard to come by at that age. If an indulgent parent hands out an add-on card for emergency usage it’s the best gift one can get. But usually each time one is a little short of cash out...
You might think this is a joke, but Dan Kunkle and Gene Cooperman of Northeastern University, Boston beg to differ. They can do theirs in no more that 26 moves !! Kunkle, a computer scientist at NEU and his advisor Cooperman jointly came up with some advanced mathematical and computational...
“Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we will redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes,...
These days I often ponder upon the circuitous routes that life takes you on time to time. A few months back I got swept away by a whirlwind like that. It caught me head-on and the flurry of activities was so intense and so diverse and I was so hard-pressed...
So far, I’d only heard about my friends’ sites being taken down.. this was my first personal encounter with hacking of any sort. You may have noticed that Chaos Lab was down for quite a while. I’d been extremely busy over past couple of months travelling around and didn’t get...
This guest post was written by Shrimoyee Mukherjee from Wanderer Moon. Pets have always been a part of our family and were always looked upon more as family members than pets. Over the years I’ve learnt to read them to such an extent that it’s become a second nature for...
A picture is worth a thousand words. So here it is… Thanks to good old Mik aka Twitch for providing the link to the picture.
If you are one of those who believe “Size does matter”, this one’s definitely for you 😉 Along with a free 6MB Webmail-box comes the ownership of the “Longest Alphabetical Email Address” in the “Whole Wide World“. Why on earth would you want one? Reasons may be plenty… Some Webforms...
Finally I managed to squeeze out some time and get a much needed job done – i.e. devote a separate section in my blog to Coding. I’m primarily a .NET & PHP coder and I intend to showcase little pieces of my work in there. The stuff will mostly consist...
You think you can turn your back to what has come to be “man’s best friend” for 24 whole hours? If you are brave enough, do let Denis Bystrov and Michael Taylor know. These experimenters have proposed March 24th, 2007 as the World Shutdown Day in an attempt to figure...