With the imminent introduction of the next generation gaming consoles (Microsoft Xbox 360, Nintendo “Revolution”, and Sony PlayStation 3), a lot of people talk about the future trends and stuff. For me, two things stand out. One is that the console gaming market needs to grow. That is, it should appeal to more than just [...]
In the middle of the October 2004 issue of Communications of the ACM, there was a peculiar-looking insert titled “GLAT: Google Labs Aptitude Test”. It had a very official looking format and was a fairly well-made mock-up test. It was fun and all that, but it somehow reminded me of what Microsoft used to do [...]
Quite a huge gap between the dates, I can see… I have been distracted for the last month or so, I guess. I never thought that I had an addictive personality, but I do get fascinated by gadgets a lot. So for the past several weeks, I have been trying to follow everything about the [...]
Man, it’s been a while… Actually, I don’t have anything particular to say today, but noticing how long ago I updated this page, I just wanted to scribble a few things. Yeah, November last year was about the time… Last winter, I noticed I was getting unfocused, listless and somewhat depressed. I lost interests in [...]
Several months ago, we had a very interesting guest speaker on the campus (the Microsoft campus, that is). It was none other than Douglas Adams, the author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series. He was actually there to talk about his upcoming (then) computer adventure game. Fortunately, I don’t remember anything about that. [...]