A few links and thoughts

I write about a cool new technology. Have a look at it here.

This opens up new possibilities in CAD. Models can now be created using very little UI. History storage will be different. Data stored in the file will be primarily mathematical in nature as it is unlikely to confirm to any one particular standard. More over, if the intent of the user is captured correctly, styling engineers can actually sculpt a model.

One more link on a different subject here.

Notice how easy it is to checkout each and every link, to quickly write some stuff and update or edit it. It is particularly useful for maintaining a to-do list, to keep minutes of a meeting, discussion forum, etc. Exploring the ways can this thing be used will be a intresting excercise. I am particularly fascinated by the fact that this is very unlike googledocs or something like that. Googledocs takes the application to the web but here the web itself is an application - if I may say so. Another good thing is, you just have to download the html file locally and start playing with it. If you want somebody else to play with it, send him the file, he opens it up and sees everything that you have done to it. No sign-in, no account required.

Google tiddlywiki and explore it for yourself.

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My grandfather, when he got talking, he use to cite references from Marathi, English literature. He once casually told me about a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village. It is about people migrating to cities for work.

Now, over a period of time, I have developed a kind of pseudo-Luddite bend and I keep fighting with it all the time. But then things like these come along and makes me rethink all over again. Particularly so when I saw the first link.