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Business Week | The Digital Village

Excellent article on how ICT can be leveraged for social development. The Bhoomi project in Karnataka and other similar projects in Andhra Pradesh are pioneering e-governance projects which need to be implemented nationwide.

canadaeast.com | Computer pioneer Bob Bemer passes away

Bob is credited with developing the ASCII standard, the backslash and escape keys in modern computers. He also brought the Y2K problem to notice way back in 1971.

New Scientist | ‘Anomalies’ in first private spaceflight revealed

The Ansari X Prize is still open….. The flight of the first private astronaut was not as perfect as it first appeared � a number of glitches occurred during the flight, some potentially catastrophic.

The revelations were made by Burt Rutan, designer of SpaceShipOne, which on Monday became the world’s first privately funded craft to enter space. Until the team fully understands exactly what went wrong during the flight, he said, they will not go ahead with the pair of flights needed to claim the $10 million Ansari X-Prize.

Business Week | Q&A With MIT’s Nicholas Negroponte

The director of the fabled MIT Media Labs gives his thoughts on the next wave of innovation.

Wired | Quantum Leap for Teleportation

In a step toward making ultra-powerful computers, scientists have transferred physical characteristics between atoms. Key to the process was a phenomenon called entanglement, which Einstein derided as “spooky action at a distance” before experiments showed it was real. Real cool- so I guess “Beam me up Scottie” maybe answered by “I’m sorry, Dave, I cannot do that.”

Spaceflight Now | Jupiter’s moon Io is hottest body outside the sun

The tiny Io has turned on the heat on its competition, move over Mercury, Venus… the new kid on the block is Io ! Second only to big daddy Sun in the entire solar system.

Moderator points on Slashdot

I have got 5 moderator points today on Slashdot ! So as Slashdot recommends I better “Use ‘em or lose ‘em”

Slashdot | Akamai DNS Outage Messes up Net

Looks like this incident had a direct impact on me. My site was down for a short while yesterday, but everything seems to be fine now.

NASA | Pioneer 10 is the farthest man-made object from Earth

Check out the Pioneer homepage for the spacecraft carrying mankinds’ message to the stars. The Voyager program also in this league.

Science Daily | Climate change and carbon content in soil are related

Trapping Carbon In Soil Key For Protecting Global Food Security, Dealing With Climate Change.

This is my last post on http://sayanc.blogspot.com
What a better way / reason to move from this free hosting on blogspot.com than to my own site and hosting which I got by trading Gmail invites.

Please visit my site at www.sayanc.net and my blog at www.sayanc.net/blog

Wikipedia | Freeman Dyson

Stumbled across this very interesting biography of one the leading futurists of our time.

Portrait of an INTP

I was reading this Slashdot post when I chanced upon this page describing the personality type INTP (Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving)

I have been off the air for a couple of days since I was trying to put my site (with my own domain- www.sayanc.net). Finally got at least the blog working on my site at www.sayanc.net/blog and migrated some content too…

I will move all my content over the next few days…