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I've uploaded the first batch of france photos to Flickr. You can view the set by clicking here . You can also see the newest seven uplo...

Pink Lily Originally uploaded by Siddhi . Taken at the Botanical Garden in Singapore

One of the sights in south france was the huge number of cyclists on the road. We aren't talking about your average cyclist like in Chen...

So I arrive at Paris CDG from Heathrow, disembark from the plane and enter the terminal. There is a sign saying "Baggages", so I f...

So I'm back from the France trip and after two weeks without Internet, I have access again... only to find out that my comp at home is n...

After thinking some more about my complaint on plug shapes, I realised that having incompatible plug shapes is actually a good thing. Differ...

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" .