Google Hires Vint Cerf!

Google hires Vinton Cerf! Thats a cool hire! Wonder what all these high profile folks are doing out there in Google!
Update:
1) Vinton Cerf has posted a blog entry at Google blog!
2) SiliconBeat On Vint Cerf, Google, dark fiber and video

Thanks!!

Thanks for all those who wrote in and asked about the scarcity of posts over the last two weeks. Extremely sorry for not replying to mails from some of you as well. Will catch up with that soon. Its been an extremely busy period with lots happening on the career front as well as on the personal side. Will continue in this mode for some more time till things get settled down. Till then, expect only a occasional post or two.

CruiseControl - A continous build framework. Need to check this out soon!

• The Powerbook Prank. Extremely Hilarious.


• And someone has already posted a Google Talk Hack. A how-to on broadcasting using Google Talk.

Tuning Firefox!

FireTune helps you to optimize Firefox settings

Catching up..

• Microsoft Design Webpage


• Blogger adds Word verification for comments.


• Blogger also has a MS Word plug-in. So you can post directly from MS Word itself.


• Adobe starts blogging


• SlashFood. All about Food.


• A picture of the Googleplex from a B-24 Warcraft

Slow Blogging!

As you would have noticed, blogging is and will be slow for a few more days. In a house shifting-settling down mode.

Happy Independence day!

Symbian Worm!

There's a worm doing the rounds which affects Symbian Series 60 devices. Kiran reports that it has hit him thrice in a day. So if you have bluetooth enabled on your mobile, watch out!

IE7!

Got my hands on IE7 today. Should say that it is pretty good. In a typical browsing session for about an hour, i didn't miss Firefox at all! One nice(and surprising) thing was that the search bar in IE7 had Google as the default! And yes, you can also choose other search engines.

+ Tabs
+ Feed discovery.
+ Phishing Filter (Haven't checked whether this works!)

- Looks bland. May be i miss my fav Firefox themes! :)
- There is an addons page for IE, but it doesn't have the kind of cool extensions that makes Firefox effective!

Top 20 innovative Companies

Businessweek has a list of Top 20 innovative companies in the world. The list was compiled after a poll of 940 senior executives in 68 countries by the BCG.

A messenger idea!

Woudn't it be nice to have a single Yahoo! messenger window with the various chats arranged in tabs? That will atleast save some task bar space!

TI Completes 20 years in India

It's been 20 years since TI first set shop here in India. To commemorate this occasion, TI chairman Tom Engibous is here in India. Press coverage of Tom's visit is here, here, here, here and here.

Updated: Added the TI India 20 years of innovation logo! Pretty cool, isn't it?

Who the heck is interested in these kinds of studies?? No wonder there are just too many TOI bashers around!

Are Python and Perl obscure and strange languages? Atleast Novell seems to think so!

And now, Bush questions the theory of evolution.

Never knew there were so many procedures involved in eating food with your hand! :-)

Temptation Blocker!

A windows software that you can use to block programs that you do not want to access for a specific period of time. Basically it helps in resisting your temptation to use your mailer/browser/game when you could better be doing something productive! And it's free.

Can Google Stay Google?

A Fast Company Story.

How can Google keep its edge for the long run? What can it do to make sure it's still a hot company in 2010? How can a maturing organization with 3,000 people hold on to what made it a great startup?

The article strives to answer the above questions. Nice read!

Another funny patent!

Adding and removing white space from a document - Patent applied by Microsoft.