Spotted the Google street view mapping car once again at Bishan.This is the second time I spotted it here but this time I managed to take a picture with my cell phone. I think the owner of this car stays somewhere in Bishan. Because both time I saw it at the junction of Street-11 at around 9:00am. I cant wait for Singapore to be on Google Street View. 

Former CEO of Vodafone, Arun Sarin could be the next CEO of Yahoo!

His name is the latest in consideration for the top post at  Yahoo! after  the founding CEO Jerry Yang quit.

Arun Sarin is well known for turning around Vodafone.

Last month I moved to Singapore. I am still with Philips Design and now will be working from the Singapore office as Art Director for Interaction Design.

This was just a quick update I will post more about life in Singapore soon.

I have recently started using GMAIL as my pop-mail spam filter and its working great so far.

I used to check my pop-mails through web based system. I decided to centralise all of this and just use GMAIL. I feel GMAIL has a better SPAM filtering logic, and secondly I wanted to centralise all my emails.

The way I went about is, for my pop-mail, I went to the "C-Panel" and added a filter to sent all mails to 'something@mydomain.com' (an existing email adderss) to 'test@mydomain.com' (a non existing email address)

Then I created a "FORWARDER" to send all email coming to 'test@mydomain.com' to 'my_gmail_address@gmail.com'

Now, in my GMAIL account, I created a "LABEL" to identify these emails and added a "FILTER" such that all email where "TO: contains something@mydomain.com" should be 'applied the newly created label' and should 'skip inbox'.

This works like a charm for me.

1. I check all my emails at one place.
2. Storage capacity is not a problem as emails stay only in GMAIL box. Even if you own a 5MB webspace, no need to worry
3. Even if your domain expires (for those lazy people like me), you still retain all your old emails.
4. Take advantage of Googles Spam Filter.
5. Probably many more advantages I havent figured out yet...

If lately you have been playing the Da Vinci Code Quest on Google, you must be answering some questions at the end of each puzzle.

I recently came across a situation where a right answer was not accepted strangely.

After I completed a "Symbol" puzzle, it asked me this question:

"How much is 2905 didot points in Inches?"

When I typed in "42.9999727", it said "Sorry, wrong answer"
hint: Try searching Google for "2905 didot points to inches" and see the result.

When I typed "43", it accepted

Why????

Today its a post not related to Flash but vereymuch related to where i live, INDIA.

Watch this ...while it is still on their archives.
Listen to Friedman's signoff line at the end.

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=1674437

John Maeda is a professor at the MIT Media lab.

I dont know if others are aware of his blog on Simplicity.

This blog is specifically run by Maeda to discover the Laws of Simplicity.

He will terminate this blog when he reaches the 16th Law of Simplicity (I dont know why, but he is a strange guy :] )

So far he has discovered 10 Laws and they are worth reading. Some interesting thoughts there. You can find these laws listed on the right navigation panel of his blog.

The history of 404: Before the beginning of time, whenthe Internet was still very much under the spell of bare Unix shells and Gopher, before SLIP or PPP became widely used, an ambitious group of young scientists at CERN (Switzerland) started working on what was to become the media revolution of the nineties: the World Wide Web, later to be known as WWW, or simply 'the Web'. Their aim: to create a database infrastructure that offered open access to data in various formats: multi-media. The ultimate goal was clearly to create a protocol that would combine text and pictures and present it as one document, and allow linking to other such documents: hypertext.

Because these bright young minds were reluctant to reveal their progress (and setbacks) to the world, they started developing their protocol in a closed environment: CERN's internal network. Many hours were spending on what later became the world-wide standard for multimedia documents. Using the physical lay-out of CERN's network and buildings as a metaphor for the 'real world' they situated different functions of the protocol in different offices within CERN.

In an office on the fourth floor (room 404), they placed the World Wide Web's central database: any request for a file was routed to that office, where two or three people would manually locate the requested files and transfer them, over the network, to the person who made that request. When the database started to grow, and the people at CERN realized that they were able to retrieve documents other than their own research-papers, not only the number of requests grew, but also the number of requests that could not be fulfilled, usually because the person who requested a file typed in the wrong name for that file. Soon these faulty requests were answered with a standard message: Room 404: file not found". Later, when these processes were automated and people could directly query the database, the messageID's for error messages remained linked to the physical location the process took place: "404: file not found".The room numbers remained in the error codes in the official release of HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) when the Web left CERN to conquer the world, and are still displayed when a browser makes a faulty request to a Web server.

In memory of the heroic boys and girls that worked deep into the night for all those months, in those small and hot offices at CERN, Room 404 is preserved as a 'place on the Web'. None of the other rooms are still used for the Web. Room 404 is the only and true monument to the beginning of the Web, a tribute to a place in the past, where the future was shaped.

Received from a friend, if anyone knows the actual location of this text, please let me know as I would like to add a link here.

Thanks for comments, here is the source of this text: room404/

As they say, "A lot can happen in two weeks". 17th August 2005, Andrew Eddie made this announcement. With this, the core development team of Mambo has seperated itself from Mambo Foundation.

This core development team will continue to develop the future versions of this award winning software.

I wish the core team all the best and we support the cause.

The latest beta version of Mambo has been released:
Mambo 4.5.3 BETA

BUT

PLEASE read through this thread to know about the reality :).