Posts Tagged ‘ engineering ’
Since this is an annual thing, I thought that I should just put a few words down to tell the kids who got rejected by JPA – Don’t Give Up! Dear JPA Reject, I shall use the words that I had once heard, from a good professor of mine: “Although you may feel dejected, do not feel [ READ MORE ]
At work today, I got to toy around with some equipment worth millions. I use the word ‘toy’ because I was literally fooling around with it to figure out how things worked. It is nice that we get to play with these kinds of toys at work because I would not be able to afford [ READ MORE ]
We started our day by visiting the tribal people – Karens. These are those famous long-necked women that depress their collar bones for beauty. The thing that interested me more during our visit was their use of local engineering and technology. I observed that their roofs were made with regular dried leaves and they used [ READ MORE ]
This day began with a visit to an elephant camp, where we went on three separate rides – elephant, bullock cart and raft. It was mainly a trip meant for the kids as they loved elephants (influenced by Horton Hears a Whoo). In my case, it was also an interesting experience as I cannot remember [ READ MORE ]
Okay, I thought that I should get this all written down while the memories are still fresh in my head. So, here goes. We left for the LCCT at the wee hours of the morning and drove two cars there. Since this was my first experience with AirAsia at the LCCT, I would like to put [ READ MORE ]
The NVIDIA Tesla is a fairly interesting computer from NVIDIA, whom are famous for their graphics chips. The Tesla is a supercomputing workstation that combines a number of graphics chips and a regular processor. The result is a remarkable desktop machine with the total computational power of 933 GFlops at under US$ 10,000. While the computer [ READ MORE ]
I had recently been contacted by a final year undergraduate at my previous university, where I finished by Bachelor’s degree. He was interested in continuing the work that I did there as an undergraduate and he would appreciate any heads-up that I could give him. He also had little knowledge in the specific area and [ READ MORE ]
I successfully made it home in one piece, although there were several interesting things that happened along the way. I think that this is probably the most eventful flight that I had ever been on. So, I thought that I’d share a few of the things that had happened on that fateful day. It all started [ READ MORE ]
A bunch of friends and I went to watch the Dark Knight last night. Although I lived closest to the cinema, I ended up arriving the earliest, a full 30 minutes before the show began. The cinema was packed full and we were lucky to get the seats that we managed to get. Right after they [ READ MORE ]
For some unfathomable reason, a mailing list that I was running, decided to stop working last week. Whenever anyone sent an email to the mailing list, they would get a bounced error and fail. I was forced to reboot the server two weeks ago, but I had not changed any settings since. So, I was [ READ MORE ]