Eager Perceptrons
kids Reflecting on Grain Gathering 2016
I was lucky enough to attend the 6th Annual Grain Gathering for the first time last weekend. It’s a well-organized event bringing together an It's all about velocity.
An interesting article from JJD (an InfoQ stalwart)… http://www.infoq.com/articles/no-more-mvc-frameworks And an interesting discussion on On Foodie Ecosystems
Ran into an interesting piece by Robin Sloan in The Atlantic delving into two contrasting approaches to experiencing food in San Francisco. I’m not Passing Thought
Youtube recommendations are generally great, but tend to weigh my most recent (read: last two weeks) interests disproportionately higher than Have I done any good?
Have I done any good in the world today? Have I helped anyone in need? Have I cheered up the sad and made someone feel glad? If not, I have Enduring Excellence
I ran into a great piece by Kalyan Karmakar aka @FinelyChopped about the story of Prabhakar Desai and the founding of Sindhudurg. The Procuring the Future - Can India Embrace the US Playbook?
This RFP for an Human Resource Management System (HRMS) for the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is a classic. PDF here: http://bit.ly/1nQPQQG This Remembering Sachin
While I always appreciated Tendulkar, I could never get myself to be a fan of his until latter part of his career. It mainly stemmed from my own Chutzpah, it's good for you.
In 1910, a young Parsi assistant accountant with the Bank of India in Bombay had the far-fetched idea that he could set up a bank of his own. When On Instinct
Ran into a very nice article by Colleen Taylor @ TechCrunch about Code.org’s video A/B testing strategy. A particular paragraph stands out: Using Death
Because I could not stop for Death,He kindly stopped for me;The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no "Tantalizing" is about the word that comes to mind.
Great TED video via Fred Wilson’s AVC blog. Clay Shirky does a great job of explaining tech to the uninitiated. The premise he sets in the talk is In memory of Steve Jobs.
“Quem Metui Moritura” What need have I to fear–so soon to die? Let me work on, not watch and wait in dread: What will it matter, when that I Ode on Solitude
Happy the man, whose wish and careA few paternal acres bound,Content to breathe his native air,In his own ground.Whose herds with milk, whose fields Top 10 Olympic Feats - London 2012
David Boudia - 10m Platform Gold Why: This guy turned into another diver during the semis and finals. Put the Chinese under pressure and found the A Brief History of Document Scanning
1957, Russell Kirsch’s team at the National Bureau of Standards (NIST in the future) invented the world’s first scanner, a drum design. The first Getting Gov IT out of the Woodshed
In both cases, program managers blamed the delays on the challenge of customizing commercial off-the-shelf software. DEAMS managers cited the need England vs. South Africa
Opening day was a let-down due to the lame pitch @ Oval. Two really good bowling attacks need juicier pitches to make it interesting. Batsmen have How many devices?
Tim Bray brought up an interesting discussion on his blog today: Does it make sense to carry around two, three, or more portable computing After Flight 447 - Improving Pilot Coordination
Background: The Air France Flight 447 crash has become one of the most well studied in recent memory, primarily due to the relentless efforts by the ESPN Cricinfo All-time Cricket XI
As any cricket fan now knows, ESPN Cricinfo announced their all-time Cricket team. Not team of the century, not team of the decade. This is it, the Back with some thoughts...
Sorry everyone - absenteeism in the extreme here over the last few months. Good reasons for it though - things have been hectic on the career side Avatar in real life
Pretty interesting post by Sara Sidner (CNN) about villagers fighting a big corp. Only difference is that “Toruk Makto” is not Sam Worthington but a GSM Goes Nekkid
So… looks like Karsten Nohl went through with one of the most pervasive open source experiments in IT history. The GSM A5/1 encryption algorithm is Dawn of Location Social
Dopplr, Whrrld, FourSquare, SimpleGeo, GeoAPI, Layar - welcome to the burgeoning world of location oriented services. As I write this, GeoAPI has Android - Attaining Ignition
From Om Malik (GigaOm) - Android Developers are not happy with sales proceeds from the Marketplace. Must be a slow news day because this is And then came one to rule them all...
Today multi-year, multi-million dollar contracts are common-place in the sports and entertainment business. Whether we are talking about Tiger Open Source in Government - Making it Deliver for the Country
Interesting post by Tim O’Reilly on Open Source technology going mainstream in Government with whitehouse.gov leveraging Drupal. Procurement of Mobile Ultrasound - GE gets closer to stethoscope 2.0
GE debuted their VScan portable ultrasound - check out the video here. Nice unit. But frankly, I saw better ones out there during my summer in the A Schema for JSON
OrderlyJSON Lonely travel, less baggage.
I am truly a “lone traveler” and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family with my whole heart; in the I'm back!
My apologies for the 10-week or so blogging hiatus. I was attending Singularity University for the inaugural Graduate Studies Program for 9 weeks. I Anguish by Moonlight
Here’s my feeble attempt at painting. I usually emote with textually or vocally… it is unusual for me to express stuff visually. I named it “anguish OECD - Open Data Done Wrong
The Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development, a Paris-based group of 30 countries with market economies released its annual labor Google Wave - A Content Collaboration Future Realized
Around the first quarter of 2008 I got interested in comet-enabled applications because of the richness and immediacy they deliver to the Zachary Quinto a.k.a. Young Spock Spotted
The ImageWork team was having dinner @ Acqua last night and we spotted Zachary Quinto - who plays Spock in the new Star Trek film at the place. When A Tribute to Mr. Yip
Back when I started at ImageWork in 2001, all I really had were strong technical fundamentals and confidence. The beauty of growing up in a small Oracle's Masterstroke, IBM's Loss.
The day the IBM-Sun talks disintegrated after weeks of deliberation, I knew something was up in Oracle land. The same day over dinner, I told my Vote! India Vote!
In the upcoming 2009 General Elections, most of the political front-runners are not representative of India’s population. In a nutshell, they are You need a distiller.
danah boyd - is just cool. I follow her work closely because her research is applicable to the world we live in today and one I am intimately Mars Travel Experiment
This is really cool. Really. Good on them Russians to do this and pay the candidates well. Unfortunately, there is one fundamental problem with this Happy Navroz 2009!
Happy New Year all my fellow Zoroastrians. Here’s to a healthy & prosperous year ahead for everyone! God Bless! digs it Twitter as an Economic Productivity Indicator
Twitter, that irresistible force and leading light of web 2.5 (Participative+Realtime) never ceases to amaze me. It’s not the platform that gathers Table for Two - Elegant Humanitarianism
I was browsing the McKinsey & Co. ‘What Matters’ site and came across a particularly interesting essay by M. James Kondo, President of the Health If Programming Languages Were Airlines
Read a pretty funny article hypothesizing a world where Airlines inherited the traits of specific programming languages. I figured I’d throw in my 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
The book is out! 40+ Contributing Authors including yours truly. 97 Useful Axioms for anyone with the slightest inclination for building Finding Ri
Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror and Stackoverflow fame needs no introduction. The Ferengi Programmer My style of development and testing is highly Vivek Kundra is going to be America's CTO!
A few days back I had blogged about the two horse race for the Federal CTO position and picked Vivek Kundra to be the selectee. Seems like the Obama Re-igniting a Mature Technology Sector Through Professional Open Source
It’s been an interesting time in the technology industry to see four sectors follow very similar maturation patterns. The Four Are: Business Android 'Cupcake' Release Thoughts
Google’s Android OS continues to make great strides in development and their latest development branch code-named ‘Cupcake’ is showing fantastic The Airbus A320 - Charmed Life?
Plane lands in the Hudson river (US Airways) - A320 Plane busts a wing but somehow manages to avoid crashing catastrophically (Lufthansa) - A320 America's CTO - Looking forward to it!
Federal CTO - a position President-elect Obama’s new administration will create is arguably the most powerful technology shaping position in the Enhancing Gmail Attachment Handling
I love Gmail, as does the world. It doesn’t surprise me remotely that it outpaces Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail in terms of year-on-year growth. As much David "Coiled Spring" Warner
It was 3am on a saturday night and sleep beckoned but I just wasn’t feeling like shutting down just yet. Then I remembered the Australia vs. South Distributed Development - My Two Rupees
articleInfoQ Geographical distribution definitely affects code quality. Additionally, when the Architects are not geographically located in the same Clinical Disassociation Like This Makes Me Sick
I was browsing my usual technology blogs and obviously layoffs are a central topic on many of them. Tech is feeling the crunch just as most sectors The Importance of Sound Engineering
Dan Creswell doesn’t post too frequently, when he does, it’s usually something that gives me food for thought. I may not always agree with his The Price of Being the United States of India
The events in Mumbai triggered recollection of an exchange I had in an elevator with some Russians in Dubai just 5 days ago. My mom and dad, with Some Poetry
Do I? It’s been a telling journey, A path one can’t call pale. But with the tumult around me, I feel a little stale. A little spice before the Some days, Marcus Aurelius makes a whole lot of sense...
Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, in an interview with Fareed Zakaria, talked about his passion for reading philosophy and particularly Marcus Aurelius - The Definitive Guide to Apache MyFaces and Facelets is Out!
At long last, we got this true community effort out to the bookshelves. It’s been a long time coming and a good bit more delayed than anyone might Simon Peyton Jones & Microsoft Research Cambridge
Creator of the Haskell language. One in a billion. He really is in a league of his own. I have to say, the Microsoft Research Lab in Cambridge, Future Projects and Apple Deep-Sixing Anarchic Collaboration
Check out the Android SDK and build an application that takes advantage of the multi-tasking support in the OS. Build that oh-so-cool iPhone Google Chrome - First Impressions
Get it here. Amusing installation process, works great until the bookmarks and profiles are transferred - then there is a period of silence for Assessing Google Chrome
Google finally played out the first step of its display platform strategy by introducing Chrome to the world. I like the name, in the sense that The iPhone Wins
Well after much deliberation my hand was forced after my interim motorola decided to not start anymore. It’s never fun being gadget-less, so off I NBC, thanks for the Oldympics
So, the Pool & Gymnastics events @ Beijing 2008 are over and the Oldympics broadcast from NBC got pointless. NBC, currently, is frantically rolling Assessing Critical Mass for Mobile Applications
I was reading uber telecom/broadband industry blogger Om Malik’s article on how undersea network cables are much akin to the sea-lanes from the Happy Navroz 2008
Phelps' Hand of God Moment
So, everybody following Phelps likely knows about the magical 7th gold he attained in the 100m Butterfly edging Cavic by 0.01 seconds. It’s moments Iran - A Call to the Emperor:Empress Within
National Geographic (awesome photos) ran a story on Iran and focused on the country’s legacy, people & culture. The Iranian people are fiercely Facebook's new UI continues a trend
So FaceBook’s new UI got pushed out to me with a letter from Zuckerberg verbosely proclaiming their commitment to usability and neatness blah blah. RIP - Bernie Mac
One of the Kings of Comedy, Bernie Mac, passed away today. Way too early, and just when he was starting to enjoy himself. While he’ll never be in Beijing 2008 Olympic Ceremony Perspectives
Just got done watching the Olympic Opening Ceremony for Beijing 2008. Wow. All I can say is… that it was a spectacular exhibition of China’s intent Akamai Goes Flat on Nike Olympic Ad Streaming
So I am currently watching the Olympic opening ceremony (which I will comment on shortly) and a stunning Nike ad comes on themed “Courage”. It’s a BitGravity - Bringing on the Symmetric Web
So I was checking out Scobelizer.TV as usual and he had an interview with Perry Wu, founder of BitGravity. Any title with the word “Content Delivery Prediction - Olympics Mumbai 2036
So, with all the hoopla around making Cricket an Olympic sport by 2020 (Twenty20 in 2020, get it?) I figured we could concieve of a theoretical Flexing the Amazon Cloud
Pretty interesting graph eh? I am a big Werner Vogels fan, and it is nice to see that he definitely practices what he preaches when it comes to Online Process Modeling - state of the union
A lot of deserved attention goes to Lombardi’s Blueprint tool for innovating with GWT and bringing collaborative process modeling and sharing to the Missing those pizzas
Our Bakery in Dubai, BakeWell, made it to the “Top 50 things to eat in Dubai” list again this year. The list is compiled by TimeOut magazine, an Microsoft - why won't you share?
Seeing Microsoft’s research OS Singularity become the Midori Project reinforced some prevailing beliefs about the conflicted operating structure Generation Kill - Combat Jack
This was the 4th episode of the HBO series, and an amusing one. If the viewer successfully subscribes to the characters and unsubscribes from the Drizzle 'whets' the appetite
So, the Sun-MySQL boys, specifically their Director of Architecture Brian Aker, announced the new light-weight cloud store - Drizzle. I like Good on ya, Brain.
It’s interesting how on some nights, one’s mind is just energized when you least expect it. Thoughts & concepts form quickly & presciently. I was Ode to Freddie Flintoff
To get my Cricket fix, I usually purchase a web feed from Willow TV. They are a good setup, they’ve stablized their act over the last year and the Recommendations for Cuil to make Ice, Ice, Baby
Well, the verdict is in: Cuil has a great publicity team, but operational execution & brand damage control are clearly not strong points. 50 million Videogame Nostalgia
When it came to gaming, my experiences began with the Atari 2600. River Raid was a favorite. Boxing was fun too. And Pitfall. There was also this Moving Indian Manufacturing Ahead
Another subject that intrigues me is foreign policy & geo-political trends. Particularly when it comes to the interesting battle for Asian supremacy Goodbye Randy Pausch
Today, Earth lost a gem of a human being. Randy Pausch, 47, passed away after a prolonged battle with Pancreatic cancer. It is no surprise that his iPhone 3G vs. Nokia E71
Trying to figure out what my next mobile device needs to be. A little history I guess gives some perspective: I have gone through phones like the The Genius of Nature
Pretty amazing video. Most of the video is true… I always wondered who the 3rd guy in the video is, turns out it is George Adamson - the “Father” of Bright Spark
People like Chandrakant Patel make you proud to be part of a country powered by knowledge. Great video that really focuses on some of the pressing Understanding Sachin
It’s a bit difficult to really define Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar in a holistic sense. But pictures speak a thousand words sometimes and this YouTube Indian IT Majors - Stir that pot
So, finally, after triple digit growth, yearly staff doubling, billion+++ revenues, the larger IT services providers in India are showing signs of Facebay?
Rumors are that FaceBook is developing a payment service and Zuckerberg doesn’t like the idea. And I agree. It’s a dumb idea that says “me too”. FB Dubai - Solar Giant?
The story of the U.A.E. is a pretty amazing one. The journey since independence in 1971 has been simply spectacular, with a lot of it documented Jovial Joyrides a B-2
Mission critical software. I’ve never understood how people building systems that decide between life & death sleep peacefully at night. One of my