Interesting products for service-oriented delivery organizations

Centrata seems to have some interesting products for service-oriented delivery organizations.

Outsourcing Management Accelerator seemed to be especially useful (at least for the organization that I work for)

Infidelity on the rise in India

Infidelity on the rise.

So what is so surprising about it?

Anthropologists have long argued that monogamy goes against the deepest seated evolutionary inclinations in homo-sapiens.

Smalltalk had a completely extensible syntax

Interesting finding at this page

You will be interested to learn that the very first version of Smalltalk (Smalltalk-72) had a completely extensible syntax (in fact the writing of a class also automatically supplied the grammar). This worked very well, except ... that too much freedom here leads to a Tower of Babel as far as other users are concerned. This has also been the experience with the few other really good extensible languages (like Ned Iron's IMP).

Extreme extensibility was removed in the next major design of Smalltalk (Smalltalk-76) in favor of a syntax that could read by anyone, regardless of how many classes had been defined ... i.e., getting stronger meanings turned out to be more important in the end than making language structures fit the task.

Computer Languages History

Brad Adams had a link to Computer Languages History

It is great to see the long heritage of Lisp and it’s GC technology from 1958 and SmallTalk and its extensible framework from 1969… There are really no new ideas in programming languages, it is just about how you stitch the ideas together that makes the magic.

A must visit page Computer Languages History

President rule in Bihar

On President rule in Bihar

Democracy woke up this Monday morning with a stab in the back. The dark night before, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh advised the President to dissolve the Bihar legislative assembly. Because, let’s get this right, it was no longer possible for the Congress and its tainted partner, RJD, to form a government in Bihar. The numbers would no longer add up. And Bihar faced the threat of a saffron takeover.

Could not have agreed more....

Why does petrol cost so much for me????

I am buying petrol at about Rs. 44.5 (INR)
And was just reading an article about how gas (petrol) prices have gone UP in the US. A quick search tels me that its about $2.15 (USD) to a gallon - that is about Rs. 24.7 (INR) a litre. Now thats cheap.

So why this government thinking of incresing the fuel prices??? Any good reason for a further hike when we are already over-paying for the fuel we use...

Strange and Sad :-(

Lawyer nears end of record-breaking speech

Lawyer nears end of record-breaking speech (after 119 days)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050525/od_uk_nm/oukoe_odd_britain_legal
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050524/od_afp/britainjusticeoffbeat_050524233049

I'm 89% freak!!

I'm 89% freak!!

Basically this means that I have a perfectly average need to be the actual me.

Are You a Freak? Take the freak test at http://www.outofservice.com/freak/