Aardvarks to Zorillas - Anything goes

Buying the iPad - the cheapest version the 16GB model for 499 USD is the first step into the Apple iPad World. The iPad needs the paraphernalia of other things to be complete. To start with is the sleeve cum stand that they peddle to you is 39 USD. But it helps you to have a resourceful wife. This is the contraption that she made for my iPad. It works and comes with the iPad. The BoM for the holder are 1. Th e iPad Box 2. Two Popsicle Sticks 3. A Sharp Knife. Check out the pictures you would get the idea.

Is this a kindle killer - Sort of and May be yes. We love colors and colors make our lives interesting. The iPad brings that to the ereaders and much more. I have tried using the iPad in the last few days and have liked the great screen and the sensitive touch screen on the iPad, but there is a large laundry list when it comes to nice to have features. As always the case, an Occam's razor hangs over its head, we expect it to do much more than that - after all it is an Apple product. There are quite a good bad ugly list for this product. I have in this post rambled on those lines after using the device for the last few days. The Good: It is apple quality build. Have not seen any other company, which has the industrial design team as apple does, it shows and the now familiar aluminum billet laser engraved to fit the components, oozes class and has the finish and finesse. The product has a great screen, from the colors it displays and other aspects of it. Though I hate device...

History The stories told by the victors - An non objective descriptions of things lied over the years History is always in the making. What you live on today is history tomorrow. But over the years, as it unfolds, we see a clear pattern. This pattern if we look at it is very obvious, slowly but surely we have a tendency to fudge things and write history as it needs to be perceived to meet our ends now. (The present) It is unfortunate that alternatives even though they exist are subjected to obfuscation and over time they are lost in the quagmires of document repositories around the world. Lets see how this phenomenon unfolds. Lets say that an event X has happened to such a certainty that it exists in the collective conscience of the general public. But as the Government or as a body with sufficient muscle to change public opinion, there is a campaign to bombard with information over time about the event in such a way that people have to perceive it as required by the body that wields...

web 4.0 Virtual Keyboards and the new Web 4.0? Well thought why not make it Web 4.0? Whats my concept of Web 4.0? There are a few areas that would be interesting to mull about.. This is beyond Web becoming a Services Oriented behemoth. This is the next level wherein devices start interacting among themselves a supply chain linkages that bring about changes that would change the way we do things? Lets see how things would be with this example? 1. You are looking at a recipe on your microwave oven? Well you loved the recipe http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/BUSHS-Gnocchi-with-White-Beans-and-Pesto/Detail.aspx Presto, the microwave makes a service call to your refrigerator, oops a few ingredients are missing.. reports back to you and then makes a service call to your grocer for the missing supplies. The grocer promises to deliver the goods in the next few minutes. The grocer makes a service call to his inventory manager and the robotic system delivers the goods requested and pushes it on the c...

Initially thought of calling this blog.. " Death of the Phone Company.. Long Live the Phone Company" then changed it to something interesting and simple.. Well Oxymorons are fun, and the way the voice calling is evolving, it is a great time to be in. First we had Google Voice - The grand central of ideas coming to fruition and then we have a slew of products that make use of google Voice. There are so many opportunities that we may see the old gaurds failing if they do not move up the order and provide the necessary services as well as upgrade technologies. Gizmo5 and similar companies may take the mantle of AT&T.. But then the biggest block to the move from PSTN to VoIP is the cost of the phone instruments. Hopefully this is on its way too.. a tumultous times but an area to be watched in the coming days. How do I use Google Voice, Gizmo5, My Android G1, and SIPDroid and a Clearwire Modem? These devices can make a big difference to how I have come to use my Phone in the ...

It is crazy that a cash starved as well as food starved North Korea spends useful funds on Nuclear Armaments, Unfortunately, this is because of the overtures from US that make them belligerent.  US is a trigger happy country and want to act as the cop of the world. This is never an area where there is common world opinion. When countries are cornered by the US and put under pressure, they tend to do something on the contrary. Export of US ideas to other countries is considered a cultural invasion and is always resented upon. This is very similar to the US missionaries that push Christianize the world by economic incentives rather than as a philosophy and as a spiritual way to attain salvation.  Why does not the US take on the North Koreans they way they did with the IRAQIS. The economics of such intervention is never positive and even though North Koreas is much worse than IRAQ was under Saddam, still we do not see the US trying to destabilize North Korea and bring US brand of democrac...

Is PCI-DSS enough to ensure security of personnel data. Is it the minimum required to protect user information. But the way the standard has been prescribed, it looks more like a system designed to transfer the incidence from the card issuing organization to the organization handling information for the card issuers. If the controls are adequate, why are there breaches. Is the system designed to protect the end user sufficient and complete enough to warrant a certification. What does the certification achieve. If you look at the issues in hand, it is clear that the problem is not with the organization handling the data but the protection afforded by such systems to personnel information. Is it not that the card industry to protect itself have an publicly available standard that has gone through peer reviews and public scrutiny imposed on organizations which process credit/debit card information inadequate?  The balance between what is prescribed in the standard and what is requ...