Month: September 2008

Lord McCaulay’s address to the British Parliament



mccaulay, originally uploaded by g_c_mouli.

I had read a bit about how tactical the British were, about the process of colonization of India. But this just blew me away.

My personal opinion — I think he got what he wanted. A majority of the self-esteem is now gone. Anything western is good in this culture of today. If it is our own culture, then it is ancient, traditional, or too conservative. Sad. It is brilliant, how this guy strategized about this about 150 years back !

Life lessons from the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony

(pic courtesy: flickr user yggg)

Lifedev.net has a great article on some life lessons to be learnt from the Opening Ceremony of the recent Beijing Olympics. The gist of it is in the following points:

  1. Step outside your comfort zone
  2. Hard work 
  3. Always strive for better (for yourself)
  4. Do your homework
  5. Work around obstacles
  6. Thing big. Really BIG.
  7. The details pay off.

Read the full article here.

20 new tech habits

A great list of 20 tech habits, that can make you effective computer users. A lot of helpful advise here – ranging from telecommuting to automatic backups to reminder tools to password management. All in all, I think it is a good collection. 

Read the full article here. 

Warning: Annoying irritating PC world article, which splits the article into 4 pages, and you have to click ‘Next’ after every 5 habits. Grr.

A new browser in the arena – Google Chrome

Google has just announced that, it will be releasing a beta of a new open source browser named Chrome tomorrow. By the looks of it, Google has been developing this thing for quite some time. It seems pretty advanced and very cool. It is based on the Mozilla and the Webkit libraries. Some nice things that can be said from what I have read:

  • super tabs – completely multi-threaded
  • sandboxing – for more security
  • a new virtual machine for javascript.

What is more, in true google style, Google has released this info in a very different way – in the way of a comic book ! Read the very cool comic here.

Read more about Chrome on Techcrunch and on the official google blog.

Update: If you have already downloaded chrome, go and type about:internets . LOL. It is an awesomely funny easter egg.