Feb 28, 2007

First dynamically balancing biped robot

http://paulgraham.com/anybots.html

Call me an old-fashioned-geek, but this really got me excited. The video is worth a look. Really impressive.

Budget 2007

"While Chidambaram kept income tax limit unchanged, he increased the threshold limit by Rs 10,000 giving every assessee a relief of Rs 1,000."

Why? Granted that there are a lot of poor people in the country, but how much of a difference is a thousand bucks a year going to make?

BSE has already dropped by more than 500 points as of writing.

And now I'm beginning to question expenditure like the following:

"Rs 150 crore to be given to Ministry of Youth and Sports for Commonwealth Games and Rs 350 crore to the Delhi Government for the purpose. Rs 50 crore to be provided for the Commonwealth Youth Games in Pune."

Feb 25, 2007