no need to memorize…

Today, I’ve found sth really nice, called Personas.

You give it your name (or any name of course), it searches the web using sophisticated natural language processing, groups the result data with some clever logic and gives you your online portrait.

It’s built by Aaron Zinman @ MIT Media Lab.

Go try yours: http://personas.media.mit.edu/personasWeb.html

And here is mine:

Besiktas JK’s supporter group (carşı) has done yet another awesome thing.After the death of Michael Jackson, they’ve prepared a banner written that:”God forgive MJ’s soul who is a great Besiktas supporter and lived half of his life black and the other half white.”
Btw, this banner has no racist content, it’s just for fun, and really fun for a turkish person.
Fyi, the colors of Besiktas are black and white

a gallows humor about Turkey’s current media… Sorry, in turkish…

Last thursday, I had the last mid-term exam of my undergrad life, and first time in my life I decided to read the course book. I eventually caused my failure from the exam since reading 260 pages in 2 days was impossible. And see what I’ve focused in the book Here are some interesting foot-prints from the history of computer networks:cell phone networks

Finding locations high in the air to place base station antennas is a major issue. This problem has led some telecommunication carriers to forge alliances with the Roman Catholic Church, since the latter owns asubstantial number of exalted potential antenna sites worldwide, all conveniently under a single management

Invention of automatic switch:

In the early days of the telephone, the connection was made by the operator plugging a jumper cable into the input and output sockets. In fact, a surprising little story is associated with the invention of automatic circuit switching equipment. It was invented by a 19th century Missouri undertaker named Almon B. Strowger. Shortly after the telephone was invented, when someone died, one of the survivors would call the town operator and say ’Please connect me to an undertaker.” Unfortunately for Mr. Strowger, there were two undertakers in his town, and the other one’s wife was the town telephone operator. He quickly saw that either he was going to have to invent automatic telephone switching equipment or he was going to go out of business. He chose the first option.For nearly 100 years, the circuit-switching equipment used worldwide was known as Strowger gear. (History does not record whether the now-unemployed switchboard operator got a job as an information operator,answering questions such as ”What is the phone number of an undertaker?”)

Value of copper:

At one time, 80 percent of AT&T’s capital value was the copper in the local loops. AT&T was then, in effect, the world’s largest copper mine. Fortunately, this fact was not widely known in the investment community. Had it been known, some corporate raider might have bought AT&T, terminated all telephone service in the United States, ripped out all the wire, and sold the wire to a copper refiner to get a quick

payback.

Cadillacs going crazy

Sometimes omnidirectional radio is good, but sometimes it is bad. In the 1970s, General Motors decided to equip all its new Cadillacs with computer-controlled antilock brakes. When the driver stepped on the brake pedal, the computer pulsed the brakes on and off instead of locking them on hard. One fine day an Ohio Highway Patrolman began using his new mobile radio to call headquarters, and suddenly the Cadillac next to him began behaving like a bucking bronco. When the officer pulled the car over, the driver claimed that he had done nothing and that the car had gone crazy. For sure nobody believes him but in that year, it becomes a usual event in Ohio Highway. Later GM engineers realize that the wireless system that Ohio Highway Patrol use affects Cadillac’s computer controlled break system.

Were the king blessed by god?

A case could be made for redefining the foot as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1 nsec rather than basing it on the shoe size of some long-dead king.

Does humankind have to solve any problem that he faces with an invention?

It is noteworthy that modern wireless digital communication began in the Hawaiian Islands, where large chunks of Pacific Ocean separated the users and the telephone system was inadequate.

While surfing on facebook, I found a cool website where you can very quickly put yourself in cool photos.

FACEinHole.com

it’s easy, you choose a photo where the face is blank, than upload your own photo or have a webcam shot. then you become a new person

nice and cool website to have fun, it is really easy to use which made me write this post,

good job faceInhole !

here what they do:

Once one of my friends sent a link of a poem, then there was more of him on the website, and the first one I clicked was this awesome poem, there must be sth that made me click that link.

It is cool because it  defines one night stands in a nice way:

Half an hour

I never had you, nor will I ever have you
I suppose. A few words, an approach
as in the bar yesterday, and nothing more.
It is, undeniably, a pity. But we who serve Art
sometimes with intensity of mind, and of course only
for a short while, we create pleasure
which almost seems real.
So in the bar the day before yesterday — the merciful alcohol
was also helping much –
I had a perfectly erotic half-hour.
And it seems to me that you understood,
and stayed somewhat longer on purpose.
This was very necessary. Because
for all the imagination and the wizard alcohol,
I needed to see your lips as well,
I needed to have your body close.

Constantine P. Cavafy (1917)

taken from : http://users.hol.gr/~barbanis/cavafy/halfhour.html

today, while I was trying to find some interview questions for a guy coming for the interview today, I came across to a good presentation…

It briefly explains when should use flex, when should use flash by comparing flex-flash , flash player-air .

It is good for people who has problems to distinguish flex-flash and overuse flex (or flash).

So I decided to share it here:

I was working on some stuff about openfire and made a google search

openfire AuthCheckFilter

then google returned this page:

Couldn’t match
/search?q=openfire+AuthCheckFilter&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a

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seeing google main page with an error is not common, so it was good seeing the giant failing to handle a request

after 1-2 minutes, google started working, but i have a screen shot !

This is a website which people submit their photomontages, generally edited up-to-date photos. Generally funs belong to Turkish culture, so you may not laught them at all,
but most of them are really awesome. Take a look at the website, you will like it!
http://www.bobiler.org/
And one of my favourites: