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These are some awesome digital art pieces made by my friend Murtuza Ali Hussainy. I am using his work as an advertisement poster, so that people visit my blog :) Note: I did not make them, though I wished I did. And now I wish I could. For those who are interested, Ali uses Bamboo fun as tablet and Artrage as his drawing software. For seeing more of his awesomeness visit his blog here

Today Natthu's status message led me to another of google's fundoo easter eggs. Try googling recursion! or click here No doubt they are God

Its an irony that Deadlines are called Deadlines! After all those are the times which attest that life is really present in the living. Heard about the 80-20 rule? That 80 % of the work is done by 20 % of the people That 80% of the money is with 20 % of the people That 80 % of the work is done in 20 % of the time allotted to it I would like to edit a little That 80 % of the work is done in the last (deadline kissing) 20 % part of the time allotted to it

As humans, our mere ability to think 'What if?' makes us believe that we are in control. But do we really change things, do we affect the reality. If we do , to what degree? It is said that if a butterfly makes an extra flap of its wings, the reality can change so much so that after a decade a nonexistent cyclone can result.Is it really true? Even if it is, does the butterfly really have a control enough to make that extra flap? Is it really free will or an illusion of free will? A very fascinating example is seen in first person games like Prince of Persia or God of wars and so on.The game makers try hard to give the gamers a feeling that they can do anything in that virtual world. The game programmers know very well though that they can program only a limited number of options. There cannot be more than a finite number of stimulus- response pairs that they would have programmed. Even then, while we play the game we feel that we are in complete control (at least that is the ai...

This is an early post to direct you to a new story (slowly converting into a novel) which I have started writing. Hope you enjoy the start of the "start at the start" novel. http://www.storyofthebeginning.blogspot.com/ In fact the regular followers of my blog (who includes me and only me for now) would have realized that this is somewhat like the older post I wrote. I would say to them "Thank you very much for following the blog so intently and yes you are right. That is were this all started". For others, this is the link to the old post the older post .

About 5 years ago I read an article by some guy who used to write in the NY times, science column. I don't remember the guy's name or the exact story, I only remember what matters. It is the crux. Here I rewrite the story from what I remember (and of course add some of my style) One day I was sitting in my study trying hard to come up with an idea to write an article on. I knew it had to be on Fermat's theorem. This theorem was so very peculiar because, it was found written in the small top-left margin of his notebook. without a proof, without any preceding thought.It was written as a matter of fact.Great mathematicians have since tried their lives out in proving the theorem or maybe disproving it, without success. Maybe I was trying too hard, or maybe i was disillusioned by exhaustion, but i saw a shiny warp in my garden , just outside the window. I could not resist so i went near it and before i knew through it, and literally before i knew, i came out of it, knowing not w...

This is made as a word of appreciation to Jatin for arranging all the superb trips in Bangalore