Mmmmmm, that’s Good Search!

A little thing I picked up when I worked in a restaurant is that it’s more important that people go away thinking they’ve been well-fed than if they actually have been. A restaurant my crowd used to visit was famous for the quality of its food and the generosity of its servings. “Do you know, there was so much I just couldn’t finish” was a typical comment. I went there, and I watched what they did. First of all, they kept you waiting for ages and ages for your meal but kept you well supplied with bread. This wasn’t just plain old bread, this was fresh, crusty and delicious. While we were waiting for our meal, we’d fend off those annoying pangs of hunger with, well, we’d just tear off another piece of that fresh, wonderful bread.

The upshot inevitably was that when the meal eventually did arrive, we were all too full of that fresh, wonderful bread to actually eat it. Being full of the quality (and expensive) wine we’d been happily knocking back (while waiting for our meal and eating the wonderful, wonderful bread) everyone was quite, shall we say, expansive, at the end of the meal and were full of praise for everything. A delightful time was had by all, we clearly remembered the next day, and “Do you know, there was so much I just couldn’t finish” was a popular refrain. Well of course we couldn’t finish it – we were full of bread!

And Google – well, Google’s a bit like that too.

Hey, I bet *she* had Good Search today…

People enjoy using Google. It gives Good Search. Searchers may very well not have found the most recent, or the most in-depth, or the most comprehensive sites available, but they’ll feel like they have, and that’s what’s important. Apart from a few specialists like me, who would differ?
They may not have had the best, or the most expensive, or the most exotic feast that they ever had in their life. But they’ll come away with a full belly.
Every time. That’s the Good Search Experience.
And you only get it from Google.

Via Kruse.

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I just peeped in #Iranelection and here is what I found:

And the 177 updates happened in just 10 seconds and it was still walloping as I pressed the “Prt Scr” button.

Had I waited a full minute the update count would have crossed 1000. Such was the hyperactivity by netizens on this issue.

And what has triggered this avalanche to a great extent?

Playing and replaying over and over again of the brutal killing of Neda, a teenage Iranian girl during the protests. Here is the video footage:

[There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.]

Read the ZDNet commentary on the effect of this video on Iranian regime.

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Saturday’s rally will see these men asserting their right to be in touch with their children.

It is the brainchild of Children’s Rights Initiative For Shared Parenting (CRISP), a city-based NGO fighting for shared parenting rights, in association with Save the Indian Family Foundation (SIFF).

“Not every child is lucky enough to have the love and care of both father and mother, even when both the parents are alive during their growing up days. Due to a rise in divorce cases in the country, most children of separated parents are deprived of both their parents’ affection,” Kumar Jahgirdar, president of CRISP, said.

“On the occasion of Father’s Day, CRISP members will have a rally in the morning — near Mahatma Gandhi statue at MG Road — to create awareness on the importance of the father in the life of a child,” added Kumar.

He himself has been battling for the custody of his daughter for almost a decade.

Formed in May 2008 in Bangalore, CRISP today has 1,000 members across the country. On Saturday, around 500 members of CRISP are likely to take part in the rally.

Explaining on CRISP’s work, the president said, the organisation has fathers, mothers and grandparents as its members.

“I want to clarify one thing. The members are not only fathers who are fighting for the rights of their children’s custody. We have both fathers, mothers and grandparents, who are fighting for justice and equality in child custody laws of our country and who believe in shared parenting when the parents are either separated or divorced,” said Kumar.

“The idea of our organisation is to give every child their right to be raised equally by both parents, to get an equal amount of love and affection from both parents,” he said.

According to the figures available with CRISP, around 13,000 cases of divorce are pending in various family courts in Bangalore.

“In the process of parents getting divorced, it is ultimately the children who suffer the most. Thus we want equal rights for both the parents over their children,” said Lokesh Reddy, a member of CRISP.

“We want a change in Indian family law which in most cases is tilted towards the mother when it comes to a child’s custody,” he added.

According to CRISP, parents contemplating divorce should be given mandatory counselling on “shared parenting” and its benefits by a panel of experts supervised by the family courts.

“This will eliminate unnecessary child custody battles, stress to the parents and children and waste of the precious time of the courts,” said Jayant, another member of CRISP.

“It is always better to have the care and love of both mother and father while growing up. I too support the concept of shared parenting. Differences between parents should not affect children in their growing up days,” said Sharada Patil, a Bangalore-based teacher.

News: Times of India

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Well, err…

Ok. I use Yahoo!; I use WolframAlpha – It’s really good. Try it; I even use Bing (from the stable of Big Bad M$)…

But when I am really in need of some information, I just “Google” for it!

Habits die hard, Man!

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The term High Level Language refers to the higher level of abstraction from machine language. Rather than dealing with registers, memory addresses and call stacks, high-level languages deal with variables, arrays and complex arithmetic or boolean expressions. In addition, they have no opcodes that can directly compile the language into machine code, unlike low-level languages like Assembly language. Other features such as string handling routines, object-oriented language features and file input/output may also be present. In general, high-level languages make complex programming simpler, while low-level languages tend to produce more efficient code. In a high-level language, complex elements can be broken up into simpler, though still fairly complex, elements for which the language provides abstractions, keeping programmers from having to “reinvent the wheel”. Therefore, PHP is a high level language and it is completely unrelated to whether or not you use it to develop desktop applications.

PHP is a language that is used primary for web development but this does not mean that this is the only use that it can have. You can develop PHP programs that run on a console and also desktop applications with a complete GUI. For more information, check out the official site and this tutorial for a quick introduction. So, you are in the wrong, believing that it is simply a web language.

Finally, you can create web applications using PHP. You may want to have a serious look into the language and especially with the release of PHP5, sky is the limit. Remember that in any computer lanuage you can possibly do more than you think that you can.

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Here is an except from the latest blog entry:

It is with great sadness that I write about the passing of my teacher and good friend Professor Rajeev Motwani. But I would rather not dwell on the sorrow of his death and instead celebrate his life.
…
Today, whenever you use a piece of technology, there is a good chance a little bit of Rajeev Motwani is behind it.

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Here is a pithy comment to the article:

By Gray_Hair

… I get such a kick out of youngsters confidently proclaiming that MSFT produces “good software”. Good software is the one thing MSFT has proven repeatedly they do NOT want to produce.

Good software does not lock your data away in obtuse formats to prevent you from using other software on it. Good software behaves the same way every time you use it. Good software allows you to use the computer you bought to do productive things with the data in your life, without enabling criminals and greedy scum from every corner of the globe to steal your computer cycles and data from beneath your very fingers. MSFT has yet to realize that Good Software can be very profitable. If you honestly believe MSFT S/W to be good, you have my sympathy, you have never used good software

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Read this:

In the palace of the Jat ruler at Deeg, there is a courtyard overlooked by a dozen or so marble pavilions. Once it housed the zanana women of the ruler.

In the Turkish capital, Istanbul, there is a palace which had 500 rooms set aside for the Royal harem. Our own Mughal emperor, Akbar is said to have had more than a thousand women in his harem. It is not easy to come to terms with the idea that any one man could even remember the names and faces of so many women, and separate the wives from the concubines.

The Chinese seem to have organised it a little better. In the 7th century, the Tang emperor had in his palace “one empress, four imperial concubines, nine consorts, nine graces, four beauties, five selects, in addition to 27 each of three lower classes of women.”

Thanks, The Tribune

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