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Awesome high-res photos of Earth from NASA

There are some awesome high-res photos from NASA available in this link. Unfortunately they are not available for downloading as wallpapers.

Pruning categories

I realized today that there are many categories some of my posts have covered, however all these categories listed there blur the purpose of the blog: Which is to provide commentary on some of the technological changes coming to Software and IT in general, with a focus on Open Source and Web Technologies. Hence I will eliminate extraneous categories and put them under the category "misc".

April Fool’s Day RFCs

Some time back on Slashdot there was a story running on a technology, developed in China, to remotely control pigeons to make them move up,down, left and right. Obviously there are some very serious ethical issues involved in this. However in the same slashdot post I came across two RFCs which I was not aware of:

RFC 1149: Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carrier

RFC 2549: IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service

Both have been published on the 1st April, and by the same guy!

Upon further investigation it turns out that there a whole bunch of April Fool's Day RFC, published every year (Although none was published last year). Wikipedia maintains the entire list. Some of them are a fun read!