Archive for February, 2007

My Underwater Running World Record attempt took a hit today, being rejected by the people at Guinness World Records. They were very polite: Dear Mr Pratten, Thank you for sending us the details of your recent record proposal for ‘Underwater Running’. We are afraid to say that we are unable to accept this as a...
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Pramati announced Dekoh this week. Dekoh is a platform that supports applications that run both on over the network and on the desktop. It embodies some of the ideas of an Hypertext Computer (HTC): Dekoh Desktop is a small footprint download that can be installed on user’s desktop in a single click. Dekoh Desktop includes...
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Today I submitted the papers to Guinness World Records (GWR) for an attempt to set a world record for running 20metres underwater. Yes – it is possible to run underwater. Although, as far as I know there is no current world record for this discipline! Hopefully GWR will approve my attempt before the water...
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A chip with 80 processing cores and capable of more than a trillion calculations per second (teraflops) has been unveiled by Intel. see the BBC report. This new chip presents a great challenge to the programming community. The proposed HTC may be part of solving these challenges. The BBC report continues. The challenge “It’s not...
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