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Nokia did it again and I am in love... again.

So, what’s this all about? It all started with William Bates, ophthalmologist, who first published his ideas in Better Eyesight magazine, in the 1920’s. As he treated his patients, Bates noticed that contrary to what he was taught in optometry school, people’s vision did vary from day to day; astigmatisms did change or disappear.

Marvell on Tuesday introduced a new kind of personal computer, called SheevaPlug, along with its Plug Computing initiative. The idea is to make make a high-performance, ultracompact, and green computer that consumers can plug right into a wall power socket.

Did you know that at birth a newborn baby has approximately 270 bones, whereas on average an adult human has 206 bones (these numbers can vary slightly from individual to individual)?

I saw a glowi-in-the-dark cat today on TV and I was shocked. The cat has a jellyfish gene, hence the glowing in the dark. I welcome the technical progress and innovations but I find this one on the extreme side. What's next? Maybe, a puppy with chameleon genes that changes its color in accordance with its owner outfit. This reminds me very much of Michael Crichton's book "Next". I really wonder what's next. Btw. the cat's name is Mr. Green Genes. Cute, isn't it?

There is a very easy way to retrieve random records in MySQL. You just need to use the following query:

SELECT * FROM tbl_name ORDER BY RAND();

Very cool

The Julian date (JD) is the interval of time in days and fractions of a day, since 4713 B.C. January 1, Greenwich noon

Cleopatra was part Macedonian, part Greek, and part Iranian. She was not Egyptian.

The ant has the largest brain in the animal kingdom, in proportion to its size. An ant can lift 50 times its own weight, which is equivalent to a human being pulling a 10-ton trailer.

I saw the new Nokia concept today, Nokia Morph, and I was wowed.

Nokia Morph is a concept of a cell phone that will uses nanotechnolgies and all of their advantages. Here's what it will look like:

Dating back to the 1600s, thermometers were filled with brandy instead of mercury.

I was really cheered up by an article I read about the new Google Mail functionality. According to the article, GMail will ask you arithmetic questions during predefined hours of the day and night (defaulting to Friday and Saturday nights) if you try to send an email during these hours.