Monthly Archives: December 2007

Inconvenient Truth – Al Gore on Global Warming 8

I just finished watching “Inconvenient Truth” – A documentary film by Al Gore detailing the rationale behind the truth of Global warming. I found the film captivating and moving. I personally believe that human activities contribute to Global warming and that we all should consciously do our part to counter this threat. According to Wikipedia, [...]

Topic extraction using Wikipedia data 12

In an earlier article, I mentioned that I was trying to use Wikipedia data to do news article clustering to make it easy for me follow news feeds. I have made some progress. I’ve written an algorithm to produce a list of Wikipedia articles relevant to the input text. Input text has to be in [...]

Google’s Knol – A new Wikipedia? 4

KNOL Google has announced “Knol”. In their words a new, free tool that we are calling “knol”, which stands for a unit of knowledge. Our goal is to encourage people who know a particular subject to write an authoritative article about it.

Accessing your home computer from the internet 25

I recently bought a computer to use at home for development. Sometimes I have to access stuff (code, pictures, bittorrent) on my machine when I am away from home. I keep my machine running all the time and recently upgraded my internet connection from 128 kbps to 512 kbps. If you are in Bangalore, India, [...]

Firefox tattoo from FOSS.IN 2007 6

My colleague got me a tattoo from FOSS.IN which I promptly wore. Go Firefox, go!