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tired of RSS and a bit of weekly highlights

guess lots of people are... here is a blog from bandicoot(LJ) on the same: http://www.livejournal.com/users/bandicoot/2005/03/23/ Why am *I* Tired of the same?of some time, I have been using sharpreader a neat feed agregator with nice simple interface.( http://www.sharpreader.net/ - another result of looking for a free opensource stuff - not quite.. but I love it KISS - Keep it Simple Stupid interface)1. I am sick of things poping up when i am trying to concentrate on something to do2. I think news reading has to do with being relaxing, and reading the terse messages kinda bogs me down3. when I do get the time, I see large chunks of news left for me to read... aieeee..... Kernel panic... ctrl+a shift delete...4. even if do read.. cnet duplicates wired duplicates el register duplicate slashdot duplicates every other darn things... arrrgghh...so i am back to good ol favourites and reading my fav http://slashdot.org/ , http://wired.com/ , ars technica.. bbc and other normal stuff...Gee.....

jokes to start a day

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/topics/MathematicalHumor.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_joke so i guess the topic is mathematics!!!

be a good coder

http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=271 har har... does not speak of the times when the hardware refuses to bahave to oneself (bah...) and then in the drudgery of mistakes stamp on ur own foot and wonder why am i not moving..... then throw the mouse around and wonder why am i getting angry.... boy they never speak of those stuff in any coding books!!!!

outsourcing and mexico - caramba!!

Holla world... This article: http://news.com.com/Solectron+expands+in+Mexican+Silicon+Valley/2110-1014_3-5918326.html?part=rss&tag=5918326&subj=news set me off thinking... as to why is mexico a better place to have one's business than asia.. timezones being one... as in my nice asian friend's opinion " they cannot challenge the intellectual capability of asians". that is the biggest bull i have ever heard.. NO. they are at the very least as capable as asians - but then so are the rest of the world... keeping that factor aside.. Asia should market a 24/7 support capability - in the sense that during american daytime it is americans working and during american night it is asians working... compared to same timezone of mexicans... kinda feel if this means - asians are supplementary to American Labor Vs.. Mexicans will be complimentary to American Labor??? One wonders....till then adios amigos... bye the way... i got some amount of mexican friends.. and they are ...