Daily Archive for September 10th, 2006

September 11th @ 12:04 AM

Published on September 10, 2006 .0 Comments

Warning: This post contains traces of academics. Academics are highly toxic and should be handled carefully and only when the situation demands it.

Well, I was trying to study for the Design and Analysis of Algorithms test that’s all set to attack in about 10 hours. As I’ve spent most of the day studying, I’m real frustrated and hungry, and what better way to commemorate the fifth aniversary of 9/11 than blogging about how frustrated and hungry I am and what I’m studying for.

Let’s turn up the toxicity dial shall we?
I’m studying from Cormen’s Introduction to Algorithms. I’m reading about HeapSort, and I want to be done before 2.AM. I have class at 7 in the morning. Why did I spend my whole fricking day studying Kinetic Theory, or atleast, try to study it. I hate this. WAAAAAH.

I’m wasting time right now. eight minutes down the drain.

I seldom use smileys, but here goes:  :(

[tags]me, frusst, exams, acads, arbit_crap[/tags]

Are they still EVIL?

Published on September 10, 2006 .5 Comments

This article is very pro-Microsoft. If you hate technology or Microsoft, this article will offend you and please comment saying it did so. IF you honestly do not care, comment nevertheless :P

http://www.microsoft.com/MAX/images/graphic_newsScreen.jpgI personally don’t have anything against microsoft, but lately, I’ve been favouring them. Their Desktop Blog editing tool, Windows Live Writer, which I’m using right now, is one of the best applications I’ve used, let alone blog editor. Now what’s funny, is that:
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  1. It’s free.
  2. It has an open API so has many plugins are available for it.
  3. It’s microsoft.

Now, I just opened up digg and I see this article about microsoft’s feed reader. Microsoft’s products, office, or whatever are very elaborate, though expensive, but this was free. I checked the reader out and it was love at first sight. It had the brilliant office 2007(or office 12) interface system that’ll fit well with vista. It is mainly a picture organizer, with many features. It’s sort of a picasa and a feed reader put together. It is called microsoft MAX.(www.microsoft.com/max). I’ll let you check the features out.

I see where microsoft is heading with this. This, live writer and most of their new apps have an open API(Automated programming interface or something like that) which means that people can easily write programs that enhance their features. This more importantly means that microsoft programs enhance each other. Even Internet Explorer 7 has a new open API, and has a site dedicated to addons (www.ieaddons.com). Now I’m expecting that Vista will see all these put together and seamless interactivity. I would really love to see something like that. Making vista more open could seriously pose a threat to Linux.

Microsoft seems to be going the google way by not being evil to get more money. IE7 is a mile ahead of IE6, when firefox 2 is hardly any different from firefox 1.5, and microsoft’s moves are looking good.

But as for the blog reader, though it’s good and intuitive and strong, I’ll stick to my current feed reader mainly because:

  1. This new feed reader doesen’t offer anything NEW. It’s just better interface and better graphics coupled with .net Framework 3.0 betarc1.
  2. My current reader, FeedDemon, has a few nice features that can be added as plugins, but absent nevertheless.
  3. MAX is mainly an image editing and desktop reader. Stupid stupid microsoft made it one application. I don’t know why, they’re unreleated. If the reader was standalone, I’d probably get it.
  4. It’s 54 fu*ing mb, and the net speed sucks right now.
  5. And last but most important, I have exams I need to study. I’m sorry but I don’t have time to install, troubleshoot, subscribe compare and type.

Sorry Microsoft.
Better Luck Next time.

[tags]microsoft, microsoft_max, max, rss, aggregator, review, technology, software, live_writer[/tags]