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May 2006

May 31, 2006
The Z3 computer is presented by German engineer Konrad Zuse in May 1941 to an...
May 31, 2006
Something for your smile this morning!! ============ A battle weary American soldier boarded a crowded...
May 31, 2006
I had heard of getting technicians and scientists to help for various projects, but hiring...
May 31, 2006
Immigration is in the news.. and how people from poor countries and societies move to...
May 30, 2006
Herman Hollerith invents the Tabulating Machine in the late 1880s. Inspired by railway ticket punchers,...
May 30, 2006
Behind every argument is somebody's ignorance.
May 29, 2006
Saudi Arabia's Internet Service Unit runs the country's web-censoring system that is set up to...
May 29, 2006
I--like an elephant in battle, enduring an arrow shot from a bow-- will endure a...
May 29, 2006
Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point...
May 28, 2006
This is a hillarious take on the absurdities of the caste reservations.... ====== Check the...
May 28, 2006
Practice patience; it is the essence of praise. Have patience, for that is true worship....
May 28, 2006
Neither the sense of acting, nor actions, nor the connection of cause and effect comes...
May 27, 2006
People can do anything to attract attention - the best thing going for him was...
May 27, 2006
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on...
May 27, 2006
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
May 27, 2006
There is a benefit even in misfortune, for it is the rod With which a...
May 27, 2006
One alumni of my alma mater where I did my Masters wrote this on reservation:...
May 27, 2006
British mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage conceives the ideas for the Difference Machine and the...
May 27, 2006
In this day and age of clamour for reservations and high fees that the educational...
May 26, 2006
Here is another article on India's ascendency where the author looks at the different reasons...
May 26, 2006
Dell India's Operations Head in India Romi Malhotra talks about moving of Dell's Customer Service...
May 26, 2006
Despite the limitations on the infrastructure, the movement towards India is growing anyways!! These numbers...
May 26, 2006
More Desis on their way to the US!! The US Senate has approved a landmark...
May 26, 2006
There is this Howto wiki - where people from all walks of life write on...
May 26, 2006
Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men...
May 26, 2006
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are...
May 26, 2006
This was a strange stat I got from this news byte!! Here in Tamil Nadu...
May 25, 2006
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures;...
May 25, 2006
Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen...
May 25, 2006
Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively...
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