A Guide to Collars!

Never knew the collars have so much about them. A few months ago had read similar information about shoes too. Really interesting to know.

Amazing Idea from Korea! A Must see... [Video]

These stores are operated by Homeplus a Korean retailer. According to Wikipedia, Home plus is jointly owned by Samsung and Tesco (a British company) with 113 branches throughout South Korea.

Will these be successful in India?

A top comment on the Youtube page of the video may indicate what may happen in India - 

Idea: instead of wasting time scanning the products, visit the online shop of a supermarket website while you're on the train. It's better than a whole crowd standing in front of those walls, punching??? with their elbows just to take pics...

Basic [and Witty] Rule of Online Security

And God said, "Trust not the tinyurl, for it is subtle and quick to abuse your trust." 

And it came to pass, that Robert did click the tinyurl and was assaulted from behind by gay pr0n popups. 

And God said, "wtf? I told you..."

-The Book of Stein 

- Message on this TinyURL decoder/expander

History of Microsoft Excel [Videos]

[Update: Excel turned 25 a few days ago!]

Office - Excel is one the most awesome piece of softwares ever written. Here is its history -

Part I:

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZodlyeiQeIo]

Part II:

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2PgYGK85lI]

Reality Is A Farce

Today I got to read 2 extremely brilliant articles which propound a line of thought to which I subscribe whole-heartedly. Interestingly these articles might have seemed a bit politically incorrect had there not been an economic slowdown.

A little secret that will make the world fall apart

Most of the time, the valuelessness of money doesn't really matter. As in a Ponzi scheme or a run on the bank, unless everybody tries to cash out at the same time, nobody ever notices that the bank didn't actually still have all the money you gave it in deposits. Conversely, unless everybody tries to actually exchange their money for goods and services all at once, nobody realizes that the economy didn't actually have all the goods and services you thought you could pay for. When people realize it all of a sudden, that's when you get inflation.

-- Does not this post reflect the title of this blog itself!

The future is… boring

Computers again. We made text editors; text editors expand until they can read email. We made web browsers; now web authors spend half their time choosing an optimal shade of blue and tweaking animation timings. We made software installers with automatic downloading and dependency checking; now systems like Debian split each package into infinitesimal pieces just because they can. We made spreadsheets; they were done by 1995, so we added Clippy instead. We made fancy GUIs with detachable, customizable toolbars and subwindows; now we have non-detachable, non-customizable ribbons and tabs. We made email, then newsgroups, web forums, blogs, and now twitter; the same thing over and over.

And yet we keep trying. Technology fixes a problem, and then it overfixes it ...

-- Is not this the reason why our generations can fancy a 4-Hour Workweek? My father and his father’s father never had any time to kill…

Freaky Nokia Photo

This happened yesterday, in Mumbai, when at the same time, a person was called and also was being answered. Look carefully - if you are a regular Nokia user, you will instantly understand that this is not a call-hold situation. Incidently, the operator is Vodafone (who acquired Hutch, who acquired BPL).