A site which has a comprehensive list of illusions and explations too...

http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/index.html

Another good site with category based listing

 http://members.lycos.nl/amazingart/E/index.html

 

 

 

I am Kung Fu Master. I like to be in control of myself. I dislike crowds, especially crowds containing people trying to kill me. Even though I always win, I prefer to avoid fights if possible. What Video Game Character Are You?

Here is my latest set of characters for new cartoon series on technology impact on people. Still havent decided on the title of the strip , but the broad area in which the events of the strip shall take place.

what do you think

While going thorough the online documentation for Gimp , I came across an link a free vector graphics editor called InkScape . I already use another free software called blender  for 3D graphics, the three of this make a very powerful Desktop publishing suite for free :)

Here is site that has How to's on Blogging .

expert from the blog..

"It is important to note that a blog is another type of web site but it is not just a web site. Blogs are social tools and I don't think that term "social tool" has been overused just yet. Without the social characteristics of a blog, you don't have a blog...then you have just a web site."

Now how can I make my blog more "social" 

Came across a good listing of Common Sources of Processor Performance Penalties: Five Issues , Rico Mariani’s Blog also has good information related to performance. Wiki on performance topics.

I was playing around with the new anonymous delegates feature of the Visual Studio 2005 (widbey), I wondered if i could use the this to write for age old data structures in different way, and here is the result!

class ADStack<T>
{
     delegate T popdelegate();
     private popdelegate popper=null;
     public T Pop()
     {
          return popper();
     }
     public void Push(T value)
     {
          popdelegate oldpopper = popper;
          popper = delegate{
                popper = oldpopper;
                return value;
          };
     }
}

 

I came across this interesting Project by one of the Microsoft Researcher's call MyLifeBits , it attempts to create a lifetime store/record of a persons activities and data related to him, hmm now that will eat up Terabytes quite soon! 

Find the latest interview with Andres Hejlsberg.

In this he talks about one my per peeves in .NET 1.x. "People do a lot of database access, and yet there are some pretty notable impediments to interactions between databases and programming languages. One of these mismatches is the absence of nullable types from programming languages. SQL databases have always had nullable types, but programming languages have never had nullable types."

His thoughts on XAML "One of the trends I think is interesting is the integration that is happening with programming models like ASP and XAML, which are mixtures of declarative and programming code that give you an amalgam of two different programming disciplines."

And this is exactly the reason I give my employees/clients for .NET based developments "The unique value proposition for .NET is that all languages ride on a common runtime and therefore the learning curve...well, 10 or 20 years ago learning the syntax of a language was 50% of the learning curve, and 50% was its APIs; indeed it might have even been that the language was more. Now, the API is the overwhelming learning curve, 95% or better. So, having a common API regardless of your choice of language is an enormous benefit!"

Came across an interesting site that highlights the "western" take on Outsourcing to India

Over last year blogging became a "in-thing" in terms of Upper Management & Heads of Programs actively embrassing it. A sizable portion of Microsoft employees have unique individual blogs. A list of them can be found here Novell already lists employee blogs in their company directory along with the employee’s email address.With Boeing's and GM's senior execs are starting to write blogs themselves, we know it is in!.

Yesterday Adea Solutions India CTO started blogging this got me wondering how wide spread is corporate blogging is in India?

I found a good explantion on Trackback out here. It is important to note that "TrackBack Ping URL is not the permalink for an entry--it is a different URL."

Been to a Mark Knopfler concert yesterday. It was breathtaking display to Guitar Mastery ! I was lucky enough to find a first row position in the crowd for about 50,000 .

One thing I noticed yesterday was how time and again Mark Knopfler goes into this zen like zone while doing his jams! That got me curious so I googled about the pshycology of getting to the zone, I found some articles like "In the Zone" ,"Flow"  also "Psychology Tips for Entering the Zone".

 

"the merging of action and awareness in sustained concentration on the task at hand" - Daniel Goleman, in The Meditative Mind: