Sayan’s BlogWorld

Prof. Channel argues that computing or making choices lies at the heart of all the matter around us.

This reminds me of the scence from Matrix where the Oracle says that “you always have a choice. One cannot look further than a choice which one cannot understand.”

What Wired writes may often sound wierd but they have an interesting knack of predicting the future. This article explores the dividing line between the non-living and the living.

Drug-resistant bacterial diseases are straining the defenses based on many decades of research into anti-biotics. Help maybe at hand from decades old forgotten research into bacteriophages.

Footnote: I just finished reading ‘The Future of Life’ which mentioned that most of the world’s antibiotics are produced from a single class of fungi. This makes it even more important to protect the ecosystems which are natural reserves of disease busting solutions whether its viruses or plants.

The Google ranking of a business can be the thin line between make and break for small businesses.

Helping solve the problems of your technically challenged friends is usually rewarding not monetary though (I speak from several years of experience as the default tech-troubleshooter in my college days). But troubleshooting does have its downsides too…

Camera-totting journalism is acquiring a new meaning. Of course it helps that you can muster Nokia and Philips to rig up a special phone for you.