Bill Gates has expressed concern in an interview that the US is not producing enough qualified computer engineers-you would think this would be a call for more outsourcing, except that I know that India, one of the worlds' great outsourcers, is also facing the same shortage...
From the Seattle Times.

Stop those boring Power Point Presentations

Stop boring us, from Core 77 blog

If you are frequently called upon to create Power Point Presentations, click through, this post is for you.

It's that time of year again - when the Forbes Billionaire list is released. (Not that long ago, I remember when it was the Millionaire List).

"Of note, when speaking about the Indian billionaires on the list:
In aggregate, their wealth surged to $351 billion, a bit more than double last year's $170 billion, making India's 40 by far the wealthiest such group of all in Asia. The four richest Indians are worth an astonishing $180 billion. Together the foursome are worth more than the forty richest Chinese combined..."

Ok, the website looks kind of cheesy, but if you wanted to add any audio welcome message on your site, this Audio Generator seems to make it easy for you to add.

The fastest Asian computer-made in India

Tata announces that the supercomputer it built at Pune factory has been named as the forth faster in the world, and the fastest in Asia.

The rankings were announced last night during the prestigious SC 2007 Conference held last night in the USA.

This is the first time that India has made it to the top 10.
Tata's supercomputer

A faster easier way to share photos-FINALLY!

Link to story in Wired
Eye-Fi has produced a 2-GB SD memory card mated with a Wi-Fi chip. You can sync the card to a hard drive or Wi-Fi network, then plug into a digital camera and click away. Photos are routed to either the hard drive or to one of 17 photo vendors - Facebook, Flickr, etc. The card's software handles scaling and compression while privacy settings at the individual sites allow you to filter what gets published.

Another pearl of wisdom from Seth Godin about tailoring your site to fit the visitor's needs...

If you own a web page, you really owe it to yourself and to your users to pay attention to state.

Don't treat everyone the same. First time visitors want something different than repeaters. Loyal customers want to see something different from the masses.

Get your IT person to show you how to divide the world into states. Then start from scratch and make a different experience for everyone.

[PS years ago, at Yoyodyne, we had a wannabe competitor who kept stealing our ideas. We programmed the site to recognize traffic from their site and put up all sorts of fake announcements and stuff, just to throw them off. You can get really specific if you want!]