Horn Clause

www.dot.tk is a cool idea that gets a domain name for URLs. Try it. It works for me! www.thoughtslot.tk

http://thoughtslot.blogspot.com/2008/09/personica.html

I always wanted a feature in all kinds of exploratory software utilities: navigation history. Isn't that obvious? Apparently not to firefox or Ie or even the I Suffer ! But someone thought about it; way before I did! A Bob from somewhere thought long ago when I was still learning how to use Multi-ICE, about the need for such a tree. Opera and Konqueror were supposed to have it. I have not seen them! Got some time? Write a firefox plugin. What say? So I begin here! My ಹೆಜ್ಜೆ ೦.೯ ಆಟ plugin (hejjeh 0.9 alpha)! Will tell ya when it is ready.

The variables in Perl and bash scripts need a $ behind their ass. Why do we need $ in a free stuff like Perl? Let me know if you have an intelligent answer or atleast a solution :)

Instant Distributed Operating System. ------------------------------------------ Why should computers take a minute to boot (start) while a much cheaper Dvd player can sing instantly? A TV, tape recorder, you name it, they start working the moment they are powered on. One pays lot of money and yet computers tale anywhere between a minute to ten depending on your fate and its own speed. An engineer will quickly tell you that, "BIOS.. POST...", hold it. I do not care. All we want is a thing we can use to, "do stuff". That explains the need for "Instant". I have two laptops and a mobile phone. They are always out of sync. Let us forget ubiquitous computing for a while. We need to deel with these multiple devices to make them data location and interface invariant. I'll leave it at that. Fill in the blanks please. Drivers are not OSs' business. We need a slim OS that just does what its name says, 'operate the system'! Indos by the way is the Gre...

Sun's ceo calls it Lookout! But many use it including me. Managing contacts in Outlook is tricky. Here are few things I do when I move. By default all email ids are recorded in a file called Outlook.NK2 which is, by generocity of Microsoft, hidden. These are used to auto fill when we type an emil id. These are not stored in the address book. Its default location is: C:\Documents and Settings\ \ Application Data \Microsoft\Outlook\Outlook.NK2 is your user login id on the computer. Application Data is a folder that is hidden from view. Go to Tools->View and select Show Hidden files. When I move, I copy/backup this file. When I setup outlook on new machine, I zimbly copy the backup file to the default location in the new machine. Address book is a sacred thing. Mine is mostly empty! To manage autofill email address we can use a freeware availale online. It is called NK2View (Download).

I thought of a word, "Dizzy Logic". I searched to see if it existed already. It does and in an interesting way. Here is an example: Dizzy Logic

These have changed our lives more than some, more famous discoveries such as: wave nature of particles, string theory and uncertainty principle. The list will grow as I learn about them! [0] Horn's paper: "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras" [1] Codd's paper on Relational Database Model [2] Shanon's A mathematical theory of communication [3] C language: developments [4] Fuzzy Logic - Zadeh [5] Fuzzy Dizzy sets [6] Some essays on philosophy of science

It is one of my blogs! My latest foray into understanding programming from the perspective of Formal Systems resulted in a few blog posts that you can read here , here and here . The interest got a kick when I had to relate a formal debate and its mechanisms to first-order-logic. I was only partially successful. But it has increased my understanding (also misunderstanding). I noticed that my blog turns into an activists website when I sympathise with certain causes. It is not bad but it also drags me away from what brings me bread: computer science! In an attempt to put all understandings to "ready to understand" form, I will write about my readings in computer science. Next few things to ecxpect here are: My definition of the interface construct in Java, Quicker Sort Links to older posts related to computer science are bellow. My first encounter with a computer Cursors in Java Swing Perl Continuation Spinning Lady Height of a tree Information Pollution (this is a bit craz...