Chatting
Yesterday, I was waiting in line to get this year’s flu shot at my work. Two women ahead in the line were loudly expressing their personal opinions about other people they knew, what movies and movie stars they liked etc. It was quite annoying. Afterward many others...
Making Money Using Laws
I am astonished to see that NY DMV fined me $130 ($50 fine + $80 Surcharge) for failing to show current insurance proof. I had both current and old insurance proofs in the same envelope because the new insurance proof comes long before the old one expires. By mistake,...
National Pride vs. People’s Lives
More lives could have been saved but the Bangladeshi government reportedly refused to take assistance from some friendly countries in rescuing garment workers from collapsed “Rana Plaza” because of national pride. I am not sure where is the pride coming from. Other...
Color of Validation Text
You may have noticed that the color of the validation text is black in framework 4.0. To make it red again I found the following solution but some users say that it doesn’t work always. <?xml version="1.0"?> <configuration> <system.web>...
Singularity
The statistician I. J. Good wrote “Intelligence Explosion” where he suggested that if a machine is created to be more intelligent than humans, it will be able to create a better machine. This process recursively creates an increasingly intelligent machine, which leads...