Famous Engineers
These people are engineers or have an engineering background.
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Yahoo 360
About time I blogged a little something on this. Yahoo 360 (I refuse to put the exclamation point, I think it draws undeserved additional attention to Yahoo’s name :P) is Yahoo’s social networking service, much like Orkut, Wallop, Friendster, etc. It will be interesting to see how these services diverge and attempt to set themselves…Continue Reading…
Many things
..have happened in the past few days. I shuffled around some sites, created a donate page for the solar car project, and snapped up gsearchblog.com. Dunno, I just like doing stuff like that. I’ve also tried some new AdSense placements, specifically, on Invision Plus. The problem with a forum community is that they retaliate against…Continue Reading…
Colleges expect more from Asians
It seems strange that students are actually competing with other students in their high school for admission to the top colleges. To get out of a high school full of high-achieving Asians, a family “moved 10 miles north to Keyport, N.J., where the average SAT score was 300 points lower and there were almost no…Continue Reading…
Issues with blogs
An interesting topic from CollegeConfidential. What’s the point of using a blog to air complaints and personal life issues? One can get feedback, or provide news for others. Complaints can be acted upon, and life issues contain lessons to be learned. This could be done with a private diary, but blogs are more suitable when…Continue Reading…
Big problems in the search engine world
Something big is about to happen. There are major issues with CSS spam and the use of stylesheets for a new kind of cloaking. And even more pressing is the numerous reports of 302 hijackings. Unscrupulous sites are using 302 redirects to blast legitimate sites out of the search results. This can happen in as…Continue Reading…