politician-speak cracks me up

In January last year, President Hu Jintao reportedly ordered officials to regulate the internet better and "purify the online environment" ensuring that online information is "healthy" and "ethically inspiring".

Seen on BBC's website

ingenious game, with no glitz

It has been a long time since I stopped playing new computer game - I have not yet played the Half Life 2 (the one that was released on the Source game engine). I rarely follow any new game releases and YET this game demo has me mesmerized.

The game that I am talking about is the Crayon Physics Deluxe which has a demo on youtube. The game allows you to draw objects and those objects become part of the game. The goal is to create objects that propel a ball toward a star. I know, this sounds pretty simplistic, but check out the demo before you make a judgment.

Links:

• slate's article about the game
• a prototype of the game available for download

results of poll

Very few people voted, but I am OK with that . The first choice is MySQL tuning. However, I must give full points to Chad, who pointed out

Just be regular, I think most readers would demand this one thing only.

I agree Chad - I really need to be regular.

Thanks for voting!

Third anniversary at Yahoo!

Today I completed 3 years at Yahoo! Bangalore. Thanks to t3rminator for reminding me the happy occasion (t3 had joined a day before I did).

Thanks to great teammates, partners in crime and mentors for making this day possible.