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Sepember 3rd is the Programmer’s Day for non-leap years. So why it’s September 3rd? September 3rd is the 256th day of the year and 256 is a power of two. 256 = 2^8. It’s the point after an 8-bit unsigned byte has rolled over.
I’m really against celebrating the 256th day as the programmers day, the […]

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Google was founded in 1998 and their first address is 232 Santa Margarita Ave., Menlo Park, CA. They rented a garage from a woman who’s now Brin’s sister-in-law, bought the house last October to preserve this piece of the Google legacy. Below is the picture.

Want to know where other Web 2.0 stars where born? Check […]

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I just happened to see a Google Adsense Ad in Hindi in my blog. Here is a screenshot of the same. The advertisement is for makemytrip.com. I’m just noticing the Ads in an Indian language for the first time. Let me know if you have notice it before.

But the question is, if a site has […]

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Today Microsoft announced the official launch of Silverlight (via techcrunch), which can be used to build Rich Internet Applications (RIA). And if you remember Sun gave an answer to Microsoft’s Silverlight, that’s JavaFX, in the Java One conference last May (link here). Adobe also came up with its own RIA platform called Adobe Integrated Runtime […]

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I came across this YouTube video, an Ad for Zune Phone. Look at the way one has to dial a number, it’s very funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRKIDdIaFyE

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George Hotz, a 17 year old manages to unlock the iPhone, so that it could be used with other wireless networks other than AT&T. He trades it for a new car and 3 new iPhones. The deal is offered by CertiCell, a Louisville, Kentucky-based mobile phone repair company. Terry Daidone, co-founder of CertiCell, also promised […]

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I really apologies, if my previous post (about Shakeela’s myspace page) had offended you in any way. I have received some feedback and some personal e-mail’s as well, asking me why I did write something related to pornography. I just want to let you know that I never meant it to be a post related […]

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Apart from managing this Blog, I’m interested in reading Indian movie related blogs. So I was searching for a Malayalam movie blog and came across Shakeela’s myspace profile (here is her profile link). Okay, if you are from India and if you don’t know about Shakeela, you might have been living under some mountains in a remote […]

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This week end is the Indo-US Job fair that was organized by ClickJobs.com in New Jersey. I have been talking to some of my friends, who are planning to settle in India, their opinion is that these Job Fair’s are not that useful and they are planning to use head hunters to find a suitable […]

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IBM India on Thursday opened its sixth global delivery location in Chennai, India to provide better service to its customers. The new facility, situated in DLF Park, is spread across 295,000 square feet and initially would employ 100 persons. IBM has plans to employ as many as 2,500 people at this facility in the near […]

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