Archive for October, 2008
Vote: Presidential Election
Below is a gadget that will help you find your local polling station (N.B. you must be registered to vote before already before going to the polling station).
Also check out Google’s voter info site for more election related information.
Career Planning
I read a interesting couple of blogs by Marc Andreessen of Netscape fame on career planning. I definitely recommend reading Marc’s blog posts in their entirety.
Here are a couple of my takeaways that I found:
Relentlessly expand your skills.
Try to work in growing companies, where you can quickly expand your skills.
Don’t neglect skills that seem orthogonal [...]
Programming Algorithms for Web 2.0
I just got a copy of a very interesting book: “Programming Collective Intelligence“.
Admittedly the gratuitous use of “Web 2.0″ in the title is a bit misleading, the topic of the book is much more broad than that. It is really about programming techniques and algorithms that have to deal with analyzing data.
With so much data [...]
Validating Web Pages and Feeds
A good thing to do after publish a web page is to check it’s validity using an online tool. A lot of browsers will workaround incorrect HTML, so just because it shows up correctly on the browser you are using, it does not mean that it will show up correctly on all browsers.
You can also [...]
GStreamer
Briefly, GStreamer is an open source multimedia application framework that works on a variety of OSs. An application framework allows you to build multimedia applications - audio and video - using the plethora of codes that are currently available (e.g. audio: mp3, ogg-vorbis, aac,… video: VC1, WMV, AVI, Flash, H.264, etc.)
GStreamer is an alternative to [...]
World Chess Champoinship 2008
We’re at the half way point of the world chess championship between India’s Vishwanathan Anand and Russia’s Vladimir Kramnik. After 6 games the score now is 4 1/2 to 1 1/2 in favor of Anand.
Here are some useful links.
Video highlights and post match press conference of the last game.
Official website. From the sponsors of the [...]
802.11n Chip
Quantenna launched a chip that supports the latest wi-fi standard, 802.11n. According to the wikipedia article, the 802.11n standard is set to be finalized in Nov 2009, and can support up to 600Mbps. Currently popular wi-fi chips can support 54Mbps. Even that is somewhat patchy due to the presense of physical obstacles likek walls.
The technologies [...]
Multiple Operand Adder
I was doing a hardware design and found that I needed to add 3 numbers together (i.e. A+B+C), because there was one global offset (A), a offset based on the line of a frame of data that needed to be processed, and then an offset within that line.
The critical path in an adder is always [...]
Wordpress Setup
The blogging software I’m using is called Wordpress (v.2.6.2). It’s very popular, and easy to use, but still powerful enough to have a wealth of different configuration options available.
I figured I would write down some very basic steps I took to configure this blog.
Permalinks
This allows you to create permanent and intuitive links to your blog [...]
First post
First post from iPhone.
