I found something interesting about Google Ads today. You can actually opt-out from Google Adsense. I’m not surprised that they require you to opt-out rather than opt-in. However, it is good to know that we have some choice on the amount of advertising we get exposed to.

If you are interested in opting-out, go to this site.

I found myself explaining the Double Slit Experiment and Schrödinger’s cat to my co-workers this week. Ironically, one of my friends posted a video on Facebook about the Double Slit Experiment which explains the phenomenon.

I heard about a cool Software Engineering Podcast from StackOverflow. From the few episodes that I watched, it seems to have a lot of potential.

I found a great set of lecturse from Shtetl-Optimized which you can find on his course website. I haven’t had a chance to read them all yet, but it is on my reading list.

The hackers within Microsoft must know in their hearts that if the company really cared about users they’d just advise them to switch to OSX.

-Paul Graham