On the occasion of first lasing of CIRFEL

CIRFEL, an acronym for Compact Infra-red Free Electron Laser was built over a period of ~5 years in the Physics Department of Princeton University by a team of Physicists, Engineers, and Programmers from Northrop Grumman Corporation collaborating with Prof. Austin at Princeton University.

CIRFEL started producing light around March 1997. This picture was taken on the occasion of first lasing of CIRFEL in the Joseph Henry Room at Princeton University Physics Building.


Right to left: D. W. Feldman (Consultant), Ira Lehman, R. A. Hartley and Jayaram Krishnaswamy

You can find here a list of articles published during this period.

Is this title adequate?

I was tempted to read this article in New York Times. I don't buy the newspaper but read highlights online.

This article is titled,

"Asian Markets Follow Dow's Decline"

Probably you would be expecting to read about Asian Markets. There is exactly one short paragraph in an article that covers two browser pages.

I ask you, Is this a good title?

This should have been titled,"Global Markets Follow Dow's Decline"

Notes on Binary Democracy

This two party system in USA is only binary democracy.

The hall mark of democracy is plurality which is sadly missing. It is either this or that.

As for me, while voting, I look for any third party and vote, no matter what they stand for. May be someday some other party will make it to the top.

When it comes to voting on public questions I am at least on a firmer and clearer ground.

My articles on Crystal Reports

Crystal reports 8.3 was used for all most all the articles.

Crystal Report from OLAP Data

Generating a Simple Crystal Report using VS 2005

Generating a Multiple Table Crystal Report using VS 2005

Creating a Crosstab Report in Visual Studio 2005 Using Crystal Reports

Publishing Crystal Report as a Web Service

Hats off to the government in Dublin

Read New York Times article

"Motivated by a Tax, Irish Spurn Plastic Bags"

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/02/world/europe/02bags.html?th&emc=th

Text quoted from New York Times:

"In 2002, Ireland passed a tax on plastic bags; customers who want them must now pay 33 cents per bag at the register. There was an advertising awareness campaign. And then something happened that was bigger than the sum of these parts."

Great stuff to emulate