Swaminatham A. Iyer , a known economist writes in TOI Op-ed that he expects Sensex to reach 30k with in 6 years , logic being 18% profit rate per annum is perfectly sustainable…If not for anything , there is a case for stashing away some money in the index funds..

Searching for content in mysql was always an issue. The implementation that I was aware of ranged from the very basic “select * from xyz where name like % " to using indexing and culling out statistically significant result. The implementation itself took quite sometime. Recently I stumbled upon Sphinx, an open source full text search engine. It is very very useful for any app which includes showing users some sort of search results based on text mining.

Shouldn’t there be a bot to cut down the 25 web pages mentioned below to possibly 2/1 links ( I mention the activity and the bot carries out on the net ) Experience teaches us not to trust new sites straightaway. There are so many web sites out there, when we’re searching for something, it’s likely that this unfamiliar site we’re on is the wrong one. If we’re on the right site, we’re probably on the wrong page.

Today was design day . I had made up my mind to spend the entire day on understanding the elements of Design. Picked up a book titled " The Non - Designer’s Design Book" by Robin Williams. Had heard a lot about this book from various sources and hence plunged in to it, considering that it is the best book available or visual novice. The book starts with a basic premise that once you name something, you are conscious of it, you can control it and you have power over it.

This book is written by Andy Kessler. It’s a fascinating account of the way in which author runs a billion dollar fund and becomes one of the top performing hedge fund managers in US. But more than that, the book teaches a reader about trend spotting. The biggest factor that he attributes success is “trend spotting” The first part of the book is about raising funds Raising Funds is a very hard task as every investor worth his salt would ask for “EDGE”.