Snooze

From the past 3 years, my phone has been my faithful alarm. The new iPhone though is a bit pesky. Phones with "real" keypads snooze when you press any key (you can do that when your hand reaches the phone, mind it, just reaching is enough). The problem with iPhone is that you cannot touch a key (or anything touchable on the screen for that matter) until you slide the unlock button, that too on the touchscreen itself. So, if I am deep asleep, and the alarm is a bit buggy, I have to come to senses to slide unlock the phone, and then hit the snooze button.

I wish Apple realizes soon that some apps should have an emergency touchscreen mode.

Eat the food

Ideas are like open boxes of delicious food lying in front of hungry grad students. If you have an idea, go and (implement)eat it (well, at least ideally). Some years ago, I discussed with somebody the idea of a voice mark up language, pretty much like XML. The idea is: because transferring voice over any network channel is an expensive proposition, one can synthesize the voice at one end, convert it to an XML like stream, send it across and render it on the other end. Of course, both ends have a supporting engine.

www.kirusa.com has implemented the idea - supposedly in a similar way, just eliminating the need of an engine at both ends, and instead bringing both ends together on a gateway running the engine.

No wonder carriers would only use this for SMS and not telephony (no marks for guessing why!)

Alas! If I were a bit less lazier.

MBP infidelity continues

My MBP has been behaving wild since past few days. I decided to capture the beauty
without the mask today. I wonder if its a 10.5.4 issue?








Only a reboot renders it sane.

Got up!

The day is today. Lazy me got up and decided I have lots of stuff to blabber on cool things I see everyday. From past 3 days, I have constantly been meeting people doing cool start-ups, doing innovative research (inn-ovative i.e.), Google chroming and shining, Picasa recognizing, bla blah blahh. No other time would be riper than today to kick this off.

The world around us changes everyday. Its easy to forget everything. This blog is my attempt to document everything I find amazing and impacting.