Many of us have written one or more resignation letters. Often you are struggling for the right words to put in. Here is a sample letter, which is Humble and To_The_Point. .. more »

Have you counted the number of Malayalam movies that have been recently remade in Hindi? Hera Pheri (Ramji Rao Speaking). Chup Chupke (Punjabi House). Hungama (Poochakkoru Mookkuthi). Hulchul (Godfather). Kyunki (Talavattam)... The list seems endless .. more »

Looking at your spending can be a great way to reflect on what you really want. After looking at where your money goes, do you think it reflects your real values? If not, maybe you can get some insight into what trade-offs you can make to align your spend.. more »

Dave Cheong, has a good article on how to stay focused at work. I agree, sometimes it is difficult to stay focused in office environment - hallway chatters, and shoulder tapping distractions etc. Dave gives it all and provides 18 ways to stay focused... more »

AllPeers get positive comments from Techcrunch. "I’ve been testing the product with co-founder Matthew Gertner - this is going to be a very popular application. Very large (video) files transfered in my tests without difficulty, including after repeatedly shutting down the browser mid-transfer. Like other bittorent clients, the transfer picked .. more »

Restaurant owners in the town of Trissur in the Indian state of Kerala can breathe a huge sigh of relief - the "monster eater" is retiring. That is because Rappai - the man with the giant appetite - has been warned by medics to curb his food intake... more »

Davis Instruments, a company based in Hayward, Calif., had introduced a personal weather station that could wirelessly send continual updates on the conditions outside, even in the crowded canyons of Manhattan. Although similar devices have become quite common among weather hobbyists, the Vantage Pro2 is the first to combine powerful transmission .. more »

Technology is coming to the aid of farmers whose livelihood depends on the quality of the heavy rains that fall periodically between June and September. Under a pilot scheme to be launched this week by Reuters, the news and data provider, farmers will be able to receive accurate weather forecasts and local price information direct to their mobile .. more »

Donald Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming Volume 4: Combinatorial Algorithms is in preparation. The link has the pdf of the draft version... more »

"For people like me, who are proficient in Perl and Java, Ruby is remarkably, perhaps irresistibly, attractive. Over the last week I’ve got an unreasonable amount of work done in a ridiculously short period of time, with lots of interruptions, in a language I previously didn’t know. It’s intuitive enough that I’ve often found myself .. more »

Let me introduce you to the six dumbest ideas in computer security. What are they? They're the anti-good ideas. They're the braindamage that makes your $100,000 firewall transparent to hackers. Where do anti-good ideas come from? They come from misguided attempts to do the impossible - which is another way of saying "trying to ignore reality." .. more »

There are a few known backdoors and other tricks of the trade that can be used to bypass or reset the BIOS password on most systems. Also a list of common default-hidden BIOS passwords for major vendors... more »

Here's a bunch of bookmarklets that I use every day in Firefox. I highly recommend them. To use these, drag each one individually into your Favorites or Links toolbar (in IE), or your bookmarks folder/toolbar in Firefox... more »

Hiroshi Ishiguro is a busy man. Between his two jobs, countless meetings and presentations, his demanding schedule was eating up all his time. So he built an android version of himself to pick up the slack. A robot that looks and moves exactly like him. It sits on a chair and gazes around the room in a very humanlike fashion, just like its creator. .. more »

New radar images sent back from the Cassini spacecraft have revealed an Australia-sized land mass on Saturn's moon, Titan. The region is riddled with geological features very reminiscent of Earth. The surface has been shaped by weather - winds, rain and a flowing liquid, most likely liquid ethane or methane... more »