Apple kicked off its annual Worldwide Developer Conference today in San Francisco. The conference provided Apple CEO Tim Cook the opportunity to take to the stage and present some drool-worthy facts to the audience and outline new cool stuff that’s on the way: What’s Coming OS X Yosemite – Apple’s successor to OS X Mavericks […]
I love the idea of iStick, which debuted on crowd funding site Kickstarter three days back to a rousing response. Against a target of $100,000, iStick has already received pledges for $413,717 (as of 2:15AM ET, May 5, 2014) and still has 33-days left before the funding campaign ends. I won’t be surprised if funding […]
Put God First and Everything Else will Follow. – Jesus in the movie Son of God If you ask me, Jesus of Nazareth was either a blithering idiot, clueless about key concepts like balance of power, or had more than one screw loose. Most likely, a combination of two loose screws and a feeble intellect […]
If you schmucks thought all the cool products in the world emerge only from the womb of giant corporations like Apple or Sony, you’d be so wrong. Thanks to the paradigm shift wrought by the Internet, even unknown individuals with limited resources but bright ideas can get funding to realize their giant dreams. In 2014, […]
Since I found sleep hard to come by, I got off the bed and picked up an old issue of New Yorker (January 20, 2014). While leafing through the magazine, I hit upon an article on pediatric palliative care that had eluded my eyes during the first reading last month. Lives Less Ordinary by Harvard […]
When it comes to web programming or any kind of programming, a lot of people tend to instinctively think of the Coolies aka Indians. The fraud-laden H1B, B1 and L1 Visa programs, large-scale outsourcing to India and Coolie factories like Infosys, Wipro and TCS have made Indians synonymous with programming skills. Increasingly, Indians are held […]