Best Practices of Web Development!

Last updated on: March 20, 2006 at 9:36 pm By Desh Kapoor

This is a great article on Best practices in Web Design and Development! This is a VERY GOOD reference for ANY site that wants to get any visitors! # 1. Respect your visitors. Don’t try to force your visitors to read the content of your web-pages. Let them choose and decide what they want to read. For if you have someting to tell, you’ll find your listeners. Frankly, you are as good as everybody else. What would be your reaction to a dozen of pop-ups and the overflown ad blocks? My point exactly. Read more

Pre-emption is Sound says Bush

Last updated on: March 20, 2006 at 9:23 pm By Desh Kapoor

Bush seems to have said recently " The Bush administration has issued a statement that "the doctrine of preemption remains sound." For a guy who is in the midst of one of the worst crisis of Presidential credibility that this country has faced BECAUSE of pre-emption.. to say this is just incredible! In Hindi there is a phrase "Vinash kalya Vipreet Buddhi" - (When the time for total destruction comes the intellect goes into reverse!) Pre-emption could be a useful technique if one is absolutely sure of the evidence and consequences. But here the situation is nowhere near it. In my opinion, this administration has single-handedly destroyed the future of American kids... and in a way, my personal opinion (and I can thank them for it) built the foundation for a good future for the Indian kids to come (though not a direct consequence but an indirect one!).. Read more

Whacky Resumes and Indian BPOs

Last updated on: March 20, 2006 at 6:41 pm By Desh Kapoor

If you came across a CV/resume like the one below would you hire this kid? (Btw, in India its usual to give out age and gender and other "personal" stuff unlike India!) But the issue here is the chutzpah of the candidate! Name: Peter, Sandy, Williams, Fred, Allen, Tom, Dick and Harry (Subject to employer’s choice, although my name is Prabhakar Parsu) Age: Jeans 'n' teens (Am young and wear jeans) Sex: Prefer thrice a day, but happens only once a week Gender: Not sure, guess bi-sexual Family background: Educated, peaceful Email id: [email protected] Read more

India, China and the US

Last updated on: March 20, 2006 at 5:53 pm By Desh Kapoor

Here is an article on the economic future of India, China and the US. In my view, these few lines describe what is wrong with the China-US combine in the BEST possible way! The role of the United States in the world economy is to buy, he said. China had a problem in over investing, Prestowitz continued. For every dollar of GDP, China invests half, resulting in tremendous capital in manufacturing. "If you set up a plant in China, the government gives you half the capital," he pointed out. But the main buyer for the manufactured products, US, could not go on buying, he said. Read more

Video Game Therapy – from Brain Dead to Normal

Last updated on: March 20, 2006 at 5:06 pm By Desh Kapoor

Video Games are not always exactly the thing that parents would want their kids to be playing on during a day... but here is an example of how it has helped this kid in going from a vegetative state to almost normal kid! Doctors pronounced Ethan Myers brain dead after a car accident dealt the 9-year-old a severe brain injury in 2002. After he miraculously awoke from a nearly month-long coma, doctors declared he would never again eat on his own, walk or talk. Read more

Ramanujam: The Man who Knew Infinity

Last updated on: March 20, 2006 at 4:50 pm By Desh Kapoor

Ramanujam was a mathematical genius of the last century. One of the greatest if not THE greatest! Recently, it was announced that a movie would be made on him. British director Stephen Fry and India's Dev Benegal are to make a film about an Indian mathematician whose ideas underpin the digital revolution. The shooting will start in Tamil Nadu next year. Who will be there in that movie? This is what they say: Read more

New Features on del.icio.us!

Last updated on: March 20, 2006 at 4:00 pm By Desh Kapoor

New features that have been introduced on del.icio.us site - have fun!! Because many of you have asked for it, we have just rolled-out a beta of our private saving feature. To try it out, go to “settings” and click on “private saving” to activate; you’ll then see the new option whenever you save a page. This is a big step for del.icio.us, but one that I hope will make it more useful. Because del.icio.us is all about sharing and we don’t want to di Read more

Was Einstein's wife responsible for his discoveries?

Last updated on: March 20, 2006 at 5:00 am By Desh Kapoor

Mileva Maric' was Einstein's wife who is credited by some as the main brain behind his Theory of Relativity. It is usual to discredit the big names.. some times - as in case of Thomas Edison - with some strong reason.. but in this case it seems to be a case of overenthusiasm as is shown in this article! It is significant that in relation to two instances in which Einstein uses inclusive language Maric' explicitly states in letters to her close friend Helene Kaufler that the work in question was written by Einstein. In one of these letters she adds, “You can imagine how proud I am of my darling”, and in the other, “I have read this work with great joy and real admiration for my little darling, who has such a clever head.”[11] It is evident that these are not the words of someone who made substantive contributions to the papers in question. Read more

Regret

Last updated on: March 20, 2006 at 3:38 am By Desh Kapoor

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. Read more

Intelligence

Last updated on: March 20, 2006 at 3:34 am By Desh Kapoor

Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence. Read more