Novel way to Stop Spam

An innovative project has been kicked off to stop spam. The solution attacks the spammer before even he/she tries to start to send junk mails ! The way it works is: The website owner installs a Honey pot page with under his sub domain which cannot be surfed by a regular user but is crawled by spiders and robots. When a crawler visits one of those pages, the page will generate a unique e-mail address that contains information about the time it was harvested and the IP address, or identity, of the computer that harvested it.

SoftWar (Biography of Ellison) : Book Review

From many months, I have been yearning to read the story behind Oracle’s success and more so about its megalomaniac founder Lawrence Ellison, who is very often seen in the media, sailing boats rather doing anything else. I was very curious to know about the individual who is portrayed in the media as one who makes bombastic statements about his company and deplores his rivals. He is also known to remove any key people whom he thinks as rising starts at Oracle.

Desktop search becomes hotter

With the launch of X1, google desktop is left far too behind Looking at the rave reviews of X1, Desktop search is certainly one area which will see a lot of competition in the days to come http://www.x1.com/

The Seven Day Weekend – By Ricardo Semler

The title of the book itself evokes a feeling of interest to any person, who stumbles on it. In these times where people have seven-day weeks, the phrase “seven day weekends” comes across as a surprise. True to its unconventional title, the book took me through the making of Semco and the way it is run. Every page is filled with so many anecdotes to spell out the practices at Semco, that at the end of it, I felt like traveling all the way down to Brazil and work at Semco, to have a look at the organization in a much closer way

Tuesday Conversations

Today I happened to pick a book which is slightly out of my usual reads. It’s a book by name “Tuesdays with Morrie.” I completed it in one sitting which shows that book was really an engrossing read The narrator , Mitch tells his experiences with his professor Morrie after 20 years of his graduation , when he suddenly comes across his professor. Morrie, a lively character is struck by a deadly disease and doctors say that he would not llive more than 6 months.