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

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.

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

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:

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.