What’s Keeping Me Busy

June 21, 2009

It has been a while since I have written. Work has been hectic as usual but its at the home front that my attentions tend to linger on more than usual.

Sharadha, barely 10 months old, but holds my interest more than all that Greece and Rome can throw at me.

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The Bogeyman Called Corporate Standards

March 15, 2009

Corporate standards exist for variety of functions. What impact does it have on the new and different, does it let it rise up or does it get beaten down to the old standard?

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Processing via JavaScript - Rise of the Browsers

March 14, 2009

Processing, a open language/environment for graphics from MIT is made to run within JavaScript by John Resig, the author or JQuery.

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Every Problem Has a Solution, If You Want It Solved

March 12, 2009

A characteristic trait of dysfunctional organizations is that of problems that are allowed to exist tacitly. Business Reasons, Political Alignments, Incompetence seem to contribute to this state of affairs.

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Shepherding Data

March 5, 2009

Content is a bunch of bytes whose meaning is subjective. Content closely tied to an implicit context limits its usefulness. Metadata is key to allow machines to interpret content. Article covers current practices that hinder this goal.

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Characteristics of a Semantic Web Application

February 26, 2009

What are the characteristics of a credible Semantic Web site? That was the question on a semantic web group on LinkedIn. Data portability, ubiquity, inferencing and exposed data graph are the four criteria for anything to be called SemWeb app.

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Ditching Google Reader and Chrome, Feedly is in the House

February 26, 2009

Google Reader has worthy competition with Feedly. Comes with seamless integration, integration with FriendFeed and Twitter. Usability enhancement via the Feedly Mini-bar and more.

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Do We Lose By Measuring Blogging?

February 9, 2009

Success of a blog is not always captured in analytics. The simple act of reading and writing, changes and transforms the reader and the writer.

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Meaningless Patriotism

February 4, 2009

Rumors of $10 laptop from India are untrue. The price was for a storage device, ostensibly. A clear case of misguided patriotism.

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An Idea is a Stumbling Block

January 27, 2009

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Ideas are dime a dozen. Anyone with imagination, and an ounce of logic, can spin a ton of them. Turning these ideas into reality is always a challenge.
I came across this neat article on MSDN magazine on pushing your ideas to reality. The quote that struck a distinct chord in me [...]

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