Rambling Thoughts

Google’s New Online Newspaper Archive Search

Posted on 11. Sep, 2008 by Nikhil Sheth.

Google announced that they are expanding the already massive News Archive search by “partnering with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives.” Google is  bringing the historical newspaper articles online, one newspaper at a time.
The articles are scanned, and optical character recognition can distinguish between headlines and text. This is an outgrowth [...]

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World’s Biggest Science Experiment

Posted on 10. Sep, 2008 by Nikhil Sheth.

Buried under the French-Swiss border, the Large Hadron Collider has gotten its share of ink–and for good reason. Hearing about the sheer magnitude and price of what’s been called the biggest and most expensive scientific experiment in human history is enough to instill fascination and excitement in even the most non-particle-physicists among us.
Once it’s running [...]

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12 Breeds of Client

Posted on 01. Sep, 2008 by Nikhil Sheth.

Came across this interesting article describing loads of different types of clients.
Client Breed #1
The Low-Tech Client

How to spot one:
Looks confused and disoriented when discussing anything high-tech, calls rather than emails, wants everything to be faxed. The Low-tech client needs to go through everything twice to get it, but will then happily take your advice.
Client Breed [...]

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