Korea re! Bappa Korea re!

Yours truly will be speaking about caTissue in Seoul in the First Asian Chapter Meeting of ISBER and Asian Network for Research Resource Center (ANRRC). It will be in Sep, 09.

http://isber.knrrc.or.kr/

It will be 20 hrs travel for a 20 mins talk but...sab chalta hain! :-)

~Sri

N Korea vs India!!

Can you believe this: N Korea today qualified for the Football World Cup, India got trashed in the cricket world cup!

N Korea:

- a tiny country with an idiot as a leader who supposedly owns the world's biggest pron collection!

- very poor country with no food or jobs

- no facilities to train, no foreign coaches

- no endorsements!

Now compare this with the great Indian cricket team!

The only good thing about the never-ending IPL is that, it converted me from being a cricket fanatic to someone who has almost completely lost interest in it. While many felt bad about India crashing defeats in the world cup, it didnt bother me as much. Not surprisingly, that is what many others feel too.

Update: And while the guys are hogging all the limelight even when they lost badly, the Indian women team is making good progress in the Womens WC. At least they are in the semifinals. Wishing them good luck!

~Sri

Google Page Speed

Google has Introduced Page Speed, an open-source Firefox/Firebug Add-on.  Webmasters and web developers can use Page Speed to evaluate the  performance of their web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve  them.  Google Page speed is very much in analogy of Yahoo’s YSlow a similar  Firefox/Firebug plugin which analyzes web pages and suggests ways to  improve their performance based on a set of rules for high performance  web pages, although google come late with such thing nevertheless  Google’s Page Speed provide bit more in-depth analysis than YSlow.  Page Speed performs several tests on a site’s web server configuration  and front-end code. These tests are based on a set of best practices  known to enhance web page performance. Webmasters who run Page Speed on  their pages get a set of scores for each page, as well as helpful  suggestions on how to improve its performance.  Page Speed add-on also displays a timeline of network, cache and  Javascript timeline event and events are displayed along the timeline  and one can also record activities and collect complete call graphs for  any single web page.  http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/ http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/rules_intro.html http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/using.html  If someone downloads it and finds it useful, please do comment here with  details.  ~Sri 

find an email id - startup idea?

One problem that I face everyday is finding email ids of people whom I dont know. If you do business development / marketting / sales, then you know what I mean. There exists no easy way that I know. 

Is there any? Dont tell me linkedin.

It would be cool if there is a service which can scrapes all the websites and creates a database of people and email id, and provides an easy search mechanism.

Startup anyone? :)

~Sri