when will IT departments adopt this idea en masse ?

Filed in Uncategorized, September 19, 2004, 8:15 pm by

Corporations started with the big-iron mainframes in the glass room, moved to ubiquitous PCs on the desktop, swung back to Unix/Windows/Linux server farms in the glass room. Will the glass room be usurped by commodity PC-based massively scalable systems a la Google Cluster Architecture ? Make sure you follow the link onwards to the IEEE Micro article.

nice article on email & productivity

Filed in Management, September 16, 2004, 10:43 pm by

Critical Section – The Tyranny of Email
Read the revisited article at the end of this one as well.

Heart warming charity work

Filed in General Interest, September 14, 2004, 10:15 pm by

While our very own Sridhar and Ganesh encourage us to do more for charities, here is a touching write-up on the Brent Woodall Foundation.

Any experiences with Vonage?

Filed in Uncategorized, September 11, 2004, 8:44 pm by

I am planning to replace my land line with this Broadband/VOIP company – Vonage? If you have had any experience with this company (service, quality etc.) or any other such company, let me know!!

The Butterfly Effect – interesting spin on time travel

Filed in Uncategorized, , 5:37 pm by

We watched Ashton Kucher’s The Butterfly Effect last weekend. The movie opens with an explanation of  “butterfly effect” from chaos theory. I wouldn’t say the movie was outstanding, but since  we did not have any expectations to begin with, we enjoyed it. It employs yet another variation of time travel, so it was kind of interesting. The plot, cinematography, editing were all pretty good. It got me thinking, as to how many different types of time travel would we have seen in movies, because we had just seen Christopher Reeves’ Somewhere in Time only a few weeks back which used a slightly different time travel technique. Looked the subject up on the internet, sure enough 2 sites (Site1, Site2) caught my attention.