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After all these years of electricity why can't countries standardise on the shape of the plug point? I'm not even talking about the ...

I have uploaded some Berlin photos to flickr.

The first thing that struck in Berlin was how few people were on the roads. I don't think I saw more than five pedestrians in the entire...

A former manager on the Vista team asks Are Vista-scale software projects essentially uncontrollable by nature? Or has Microsoft been beset...

Expressions UK Fashion Show Originally uploaded by Siddhi . A model from the Expressions UK fashion show. The show was a part of th...

Programs should be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. -Abelson and Sussman, Structure and Interpreta...

[via Ned Batchelder ] It seems that Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken Fast forward to 2006. I was shocked to learn that t...

I recently started working on a new project at home. Its a web application to help out with project management. The two goals were 1) to dev...

Gaurav has a nice post on welcoming freshers to the "real world" .

Just ran into this quote: We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occ...

I've added a cool new lightbox feature to this blog. Rather than explain it, it's a lot easier to demonstrate. In order for the ligh...

One of my gripes with Windows XP has been the lack of proper symlinks. They have shortcuts, but a shortcut is not a symlink. Try this: Creat...

The following is a part of a series of articles I had written on recursion. This, the final part of the series contains sources for the arti...

The following is a part of a series of articles I had written on recursion. This part deals with two areas for which recursion is commonly a...

I recently heard this podcast with Dave Thomas. Dave has talked on many occasions about the Dreyfus model of Skill Acquisition, which is si...