Adnan Masood's Weblog! عدنان مسعود

Google's personalization is the best thing after sliced bread, period; but automation doesn't always pay, especially if you are possibly aggregating (fancy screen scrapping) without checking the upper bounds. Ken just sent me a picture of the personalized google where slashdot feeds says the following:

Your Headline Reader Has Been Banned

Tomorrow morning, I'll be driving down to San Diego to attend the San Diego Spring 2005 Technical Summit. Other than regualr webcasts. this would be my third Microsoft event this month (SoCal.Net Technical Summit, Long Beach, LA .NET monhtly meeting), ; there is always something to learn.

OVERVIEW
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The San Diego .NET User Group is pleased to announce our fourth quarterly conference, the San Diego Spring 2005 Technical Summit, will be held on May 21st, 2005. Come hear world-class speakers discuss topics devoted to SQL Server 2005, Web Services and .Net.

LOCATION
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Windmill Banquets and Catering
890 Palomar Airport Road
Carlsbad, CA 92008 USA

MAP
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Click here for map:

MORE INFORMATION
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Click here for full description: http://www.sandiegodotnet.com

Couple of days ago, Ken gave me a vintage April 1998 edition of Dr. Dobbs Journal. Interestingly enough, DDJ's May 2005 issue was also about algorithms; reminds me of

Heuristics are bug ridden by definition if they didn't have bugs, then they'd be algorithms.
-Anonymous