ISO:8601 Date Format!
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My geeky freaky friend Jason Anthony suggested that I follow the ISO recommended date format (CCYY-MM-DD) in all my blogs. This site is very informative on the date format and Eleven good reasons why you should start using the standard format stipulated in ISO:8601. Besides, this universal format eliminates the confusion of date first in one part of the globe and month first in another!
And think of the millions of $’s that would have been saved, had all 1st generation C - coders followed this format upfront (Remember Y2K, the biggest hoax of the Millennium!).
It is U.S of A, “Made in China”!
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Yes, whatever you purchase - be it in K-Mart or Wal-Mart or Macy’s or any of those malls that crave after your Greenbacks so earnestly - they are all made behind the Bamboo Curtain!
Beats me as to how mainland China is able to swarm all over the the Great Society with their assorted ware to such a mind-boggling proportion! Take anything - a Barbie doll or a mechanized toy or a game or a kitchen utility or a hand tool - you name it! I picked up a Mancala made with solid strong Oak of Northern America and Lo! It it is made in China!
But what worries me is, will service sector alone provide sufficient jobs for Americans without manufacturing factories? Where will the Greenbacks come from for stacking the made-in-china’s in trolleys!
You may like to attribute this phenomenon to cheap labor, precision manufacture, no democratic hassles and a host of other juicy capitalistic darlings! But then how things that are ethnically American (sic) can be made to typically American standards and taste to a T by a diametrically different society and ethnicity! I’m still at a loss to fathom this fully!
I dream of an era when most of these trinkets will sport a “Made in India” label on them for a change! If they can write such volumes of handsome software code, can’t they make a sleek can opener? Well, perhaps much of exports from India consist of raw materials and semi-finished’s that they don’t get to add the magic line “Made in India” on to them!
Though serious manufacture left the shores of America long back, may be a new trend will be ushered in like Toyota starting manufacture of cars on the U.S soil recently.
Let’s wait and watch!
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Manage, and be Dammned!
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Here is what Stanley Bing has to say about the vapid and lackluster “All work no play” life of a typical Manager of the day in his last page of Fortune Magazine:
They (managers) stumble into office grim-faced, high on nothing but anxiety and coffee. They go to their stoic lunches munching on greenery like starving llamas and bolting down enough mineral water to float a midsized dinghy. After work they repair to watering holes for more water, unless somebody in authority is having something, in which case they may join the boss in a moderate quaff.
It is time managers learn to take time off and unwind, relax and have some fun. After all life is to be lived, as you only live once! (You are not the Bond, buddy!) - what about rebirth? OK, I give it in, but then you will be somebody else then, won’t you be?
Think about it!
Trifles make perfection!
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I found a pretty annoying shortcoming in the otherwise awesome and wonderful American Museum of Natural History in the New York City. Though floor plans and maps are available everywhere, you can still get lost since the floors and levels will take you on a spin! Yes, though the locations are indicated in the map level-wise, directions to the actual halls housing the various sections are not prominently displayed. This results in you going on a volute and ending up querying each time for directions.
Even the piecè de résistance viz, the Imax theater has a mere arrow of relatively small size only some four feet from it!
Hope the good folk in the museum would do something about it!
But please don’t get me wrong! This bellyaching on my part is prompted by only a feeling that such a marvel as this monumental museum should not have even this tiny deficiency!
End of the story!
A rare sight!
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During one of my diurnal perambulations on the pavement of the 34th Street in the Big Apple, suddenly a familiar sight emerged on the road. Lo and Behold! what do I find? A cycle-rickshaw! Yes, the one being pedalled by a guy with a funny cap! Perhaps one of those Christmas revelries! Real indulgence in American standards! But I was not armed with a camera at that point of time, hence no shoot!
Mute Ants!
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I found an interesting treatise on the ubiquitous but enigmatic ants and their behaviour at the web site of Mute, a simple file-sharing tool! The analogy of ants’ collective behaviour is leveraged in the function of this tool!
But what is particularly interesting is not the tool per se, but the well-researched article on how ants find food, which you can read here!
Here is a sample:
Ants display collectively intelligent behavior when foraging for food or fighting off predators. Each ant in the colony acts in a rather simple way, but together they end up doing something clever, like discovering the shortest path between their ant hill and a food source.
You can try Mute and also emulate the ants in the process!
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Bob’s Pulpit!
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One of the web pages I love to visit regularly is I, Cringely, the Pulpit, the very insightful, informative, well-reasoned, futuristic and incisive essays of Robert X.Cringely on the happenings on the techno-world and their real impact on the society. Bob’s prophesies are always proved true! The ones on Taguchi and the threat of ID theft were really eye openers. His essay on Microsoft’s .NET is the pièce de résistance!
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