Rainbows End

Presently I am reading a science fiction novel called "Rainbows End" by Verner Vinge.The story is set in a post singular society where books are obsolete,laptops are backdated, people are networked via wireless devices attached to their clothes(known as wearables) and smart contact lenses.But the central theme of the story remains a global terrorist conspiracy and personal struggle of the protagonist to adapt to this changing world.So it's about a world where the gadgets have got somewhat advanced and human beings are trying to utilize and adjust to that.Society has evolved technologically but the human beings have not changed fundamentally.

Dismal Week ,Few Interesting Findings

This week was a rather dismal one.Project issues/problems.Bad news from the financial markets.Future of IT industry looks uncertain and gloomy.Today another massive terrorist attack in Pakistan.God knows how many seals are still left to be opened.
So bored with all these bad news,movie channels repeating same old stuff I started random search using Google and some blog directories(the greatest cognitive tools I have found till date)

ColdTrail - A Thriller From IceLand

Over the past couple of months I have become a regular viewer of the UTV WorldMovies(http://www.utvworldmovies.com/). Apart from the movies of world reknowned French,Italian directors,I can find good movies from various parts of the world about which I knew very little.

Silver(Moon)Light - Cross platform CLR

In today's Kolkata .NET User Group we had a very good discussion on Silverlight the latest User Experience technology launched by Microsoft.This is a cross browser and cross platform plugin to deliver rich media content and enhanced interaction capability to the users over web.In very simple terms we can think of this as something like a Adobe Flash Player.

Steve Jobs and Calligraphy

Today we had a session on "Windows Presentation Foundation" and "Silverlight" as part of the monthly Kolkata .NET User Group meet.While discussing about various graphics related stuff and fonts somebody pointed out about Steve Jobs contribution about the fonts in PC based software and his inclination on calligraphy.I was not at all aware about this.So coming back home first thing I did was googling with Steve Jobs and Calligraphy.