Fountains of Paradise

He does it again. I am amazed by Arthur C. Clarke's capability of doing far-fetched imagination. "Fountains of Paradise", an outstanding example of this. No, but I am not talking (only) about the "space elevator" here. I was impressed by the simple yet brilliant "News" system that he mentions just in passsing.

People specify their items of interest (of which he mentions the most interesting ones!)

Eggs, Dinosaur, hatching of
Circle, squaring of
Atlantis, re-emergence of
Christ, second coming of
Loch Ness Monster, capture of
World, end of

And, the intelligent news system blink when any news related to any item of interest comes up!
Interesting.

And it's Sybase now!

Yesterday was pretty adventurous! Going to HP in morning, completing the formalities, flying to Pune in afternoon, and joining Sybase at 2'o clock!
It all came out quite well. Although, it did not seem so when I was stuck in the traffic jam on Airport road in morning, feared missing the flight, vented out my anger on the traffic policeman who was stopping the traffic for some minister to pass, and ultimately became the last person to board the air-van towards the plane!
Anyways, all the three DBMS TAs met today, and now one can imagine the fate of yet to join DBMS students :)