An Eternal Quest for Incremental Improvement
One day Kerry celebrated her birthday. Two days later her older twin brother, Terry, celebrated his birthday. How come?
It’s cold outside! Betty and her husband were speculating last night that this has been the coldest winter they can remember. Out of curiosity, they decided to check out the old newspaper records for this week in their area during past years and were astonished at what they found ...
This sunday (yesterday), me and RJ (a classmate of mine working in Infosys) went to Nandhi Hills for a small trip. We started from Bangalore (BTM Layout) at 10:30 am. Here is the direction to go there. Take the Hyderabad/Mysore/Tumkur road. There will be a diversion ahead ...
In your cellar there are three light switches in the OFF position. Each switch controls 1 of 3 light bulbs on floor above. You may move any of the switches but you may only go upstairs to inspect the bulbs one time. How can you determine the switch for each ...
Cisco on friday announced that it would buy Scientific-Atlanta for $6.9 billion. So, this will be the second largest acquisition ever made by Cisco. This acquisition will help them to enter home entertainment segment. But IMHO, I don't feel that there is going to be a good ROI ...
There are no tricks - this is a straight forward problem. This is supposed to be one of the questions which potential Microsoft employees are asked.
U2 have a concert that starts in 17 minutes and they must all cross a bridge to get there. All four men begin on the ...
I have spent more time to prepare the solution for this problem compared to the time I took to solve it. This is one damn case where a lot of problems with formatting. Hence I am not able to post it as a comment. So, I am posting it as ...
The beguiling ideas about science quoted here were gleaned from essays, exams, and class room discussions; most were from fifth- and sixth-graders. They illustrate Mark Twain's contention that the "most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop."
Google has launched yet another service known as Google Analytics. This service is used for monitoring the traffic of a website. If one has a Google account, he can signup for this service, all for free. One can have multiple sites linked with a given account. The interface between Analytics ...
Today is my last day at Novell. It was nice working with Novell on an open source project for the last 6 months. It is so unfortunate to leave Novell now, but I didn't have options. Will defintely miss all the fun that I had in the Evolution team ...