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Archive for March, 2006

Riya - Online Photo Album and Search with Face Recognition

This is the second big news item today. (The first being Vista moved back to 2007)
I’ve encounted Riya in the past already, on one of these Web 2.0 site thingies.. It was closed beta so I couldn’t actually try it out, but the idea sounded really cool.
Upload all your hundreds of photos overnight - Train [...]

Windows Vista Delayed Until 2007

vnunet reports that Microsoft has delayed the release of its consumer Windows Vista operating system until January 2007.
The application will be made available to enterprises in November this year.
I have to be honest, it disappoints me since I’m pretty anxious to get the actual final Vista working…
Oh well, just release it anytime, but PLEASE don’t [...]

Google Finance

Well, another daily addition from the Google people has been launched today: Google Finance.
Google has launched a long-awaited financial news site, which will compete directly with significant Web traffic generators for Yahoo! and Microsoft’s MSN unit. Google’s site, finance.google.com, will compile news, stock-price data, stock charts, company fact pages and other financial data, much like [...]

Top 10 replies by developers when their programs don’t work

Top 10 replies by developers when their programs don’t work:

10. ‘That’s weird…’
9. ‘It’s never done that before.’
8. ‘It worked yesterday.’
7. ‘You must have the wrong version.’
6. ‘It works, but it hasn’t been tested.’
5. ‘Somebody must have changed my code.’
4. ‘Did you check for a virus?’
3. ‘Where were you when the program blew up?’
2. ‘Why do [...]