Predicting the Future

“The best way to predict the future is to create it”

-Abraham Lincoln

Saw this on someone’s e-mail signature last week. More on e-mail signatures later…

Yahoo! Open Hack Day India Returns

Yahoo! India R&D is organizing it’s second Open Hack Day in Bangalore this weekend (14-15 February, 2009. Yes, it’s Valentine’s Day, and it also coincides with Aero India, Asia’s premier air show). The event is a semi-unconference comprising of structured technology presentations and unstructured hacking time, where participants try to come up with new and interesting ways to use Yahoo!’s APIs and libraries.

Yahoo! co-founder David Filo will be kicking-off the event. The hackday website contains useful info and links to the hackday blog.

I Survived, So I Must be Crazy

Well, it’s been a long time, and I owe an apology to the folks I so enthusiastically ranted about this blog to (and that includes you, dear reader). It started out as a big, interesting idea, but like most of my big, interesting ideas, it became too interesting first, and then too big (for me). I started running out of time and energy pretty quickly as real-world events started taking over.

I switched jobs in July last year, and the strict Internet policy at my new place of work restricts access to blogs and forums. Between that and driving to and from work, I was left with little T&E and an ever-growing backlog of stuff I wanted to write about.

And then I suffered the effects of acute dehydration at a rally race last October, which ended with a week-long stay at the hospital in December. It’s only last week that I finally caught up with my huge backlog of work.

I’m not sure what to do, there’s a lot I want to write about, but I doubt if I’ll be able to do it in a consistent way. And I don’t like that thought. I have lots of notes, but no time to fill in the gaps to make them complete. I’m trying to think of a workable plan to commit time to my writing, but in the meantime I guess these random spikes in the stats would have to do. Thanks for reading!

I came across this while looking for inspiration : Growing Rich by Blogging is a High-Tech Fairy Tale

Also, someone sent me this, a scientifiic explanation of “enlightenment”:

Roman Numerals

A quick summary of roman numeral conversion is available over at Nova Roma

Why it’s so Important to Just Start

Jason Calacanis of of Mahalo.com (a human-powered search engine) wrote an interesting post about why it’s so important to just frackin’ start. One of the things he says that really struck me is “if you don’t start you can’t iterate”.

Tips For Dealing With Information Overload

Philipp Lenssen over at Google Blogoscoped asked a few people the question “What are your top tips for dealing with information overflow?” Read here what the folks at the top do to stay on top.

Microsoft Control Naming Conventions

A discussion with useful links about what naming conventions Microsoft follows/recommends for controls (specifically in C#).

ExtremeExperts.com

ExtremeExperts.com hosts some interesting technical articles and HOWTOs for Microsoft .NET based technologies.

C# Reflection and Dynamic Method Invocation

Gopalan Suresh Raj has written up a detailed article on the subject. I used it for dynamically creating objects of a class whose name was read in as a String.

What if Google Had to Design for Google?

A humourous take on what would happen if Google had to design their website so that their own Search Engine would rank it right up there…