Sunday, March 19, 2006

Innovative monitoring

Interesting article about using a PSP for plant monitoring. Read on:

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Holi

This post has nothing to do with Holi other than the fact that its being put up on 'Holi' day. The good thing though about today is that we get a holiday for it! Bonus!

There was something intereseting that crossed me yesterday though... I came across this blog which was saying goodbye to everyone. Something to the extent of, "I had a good time blogging and reading all your comments but now its time to say goodbye." Seemed kinda weird, cause you can blog no matter where you are unless of course someone has unplugged your net connection.

What it did though was re-iterate this thing I had come across of how people are now communicating with eachother using blogs. Its like, stuff email and IM, I'll just blog about myself and people can come and comment on it and end up knowing what's going on with me and what I think by reading my blog. Reminded me of message queues in programming. Asynchronous communication if you want.

Subscribe to a service. The service keeps posting information. Whenever you feel like seeing it, you go and view it using your service reader. Pretty neat. Something I guess that .NET also is trying to push with WCF et al. I could be wrong of course, so correct me here if I am but it does look like message driven architectures are coming up.

Anyway, while this type of asynchrous stuff seems good as far as programming goes, but is just a bit too weird to think of talking to people that way. Maybe that will also evolve. :-)))