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Our World Tour: A Photographic Journey Around the Earth is a book of photographs & travel notes by ace photographer Mario Dirks. His world tour of 50 weeks was sponsored by SIGMA Corporation, a lens and camera manufacturer, after he was chosen as the ultimate winner in a contest among more than 1000 photographers. In 50 weeks, Mario visited 6 continents, 48 countries, and 77 cities. He writes that to get to those places he took 101 flights on 56 different airlines and logged 264 hours in the air and on the ground, he trudged almost 2,500 miles by foot! The book contains breath-taking photographs of landscapes and landmarks as well as of exotic places and people. The narration of his travels is peppered with enlightening tips on photography. Our World Tour will especially appeal to those who like travelling and photography. Having read & enjoyed, Cooking for Geeks , I liked the concept of this book mixing two different topics in an entertaining way. I have a fascination f...

This Week I Learned: Co-administrators can fully manage the services within an Azure subscription . The owner can  delegate co-admin access to other Microsoft Accounts Responsive Design View feature which can be invoked with the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+M in Firefox is great for testing RWD view of a website on the desktop and generating screenshots  JSter , JSWiki , CDNJS , jsDelivr ,  this article on Wikipedia  are good sources to track JavaScript utility libraries  More software programmers moved to Bangalore, India’s technology hub, in the past year than the original Silicon Valley, says data by  LinkedIn Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), a $66 billion energy firm, announced that it would spend Rs.4,000 crore to take complete control of Network18 in the biggest takeover in India’s media industry. With 100% control, RIL now has access to all the content put out by the Network18 Group. This includes in.com, IBNlive.com, Moneycontrol.com, Fi...

This Week I Learned: Azure Web Sites can be used not just for hosting web apps but also for hosting REST Endpoints, SharePoint Apps and executing scheduled jobs . Geo-replication is not just limited to Azure Storage. The Premium service tier of SQL Database includes “active” geo-replication It is possible to hyperlink superscripted text by enclosing sup tag within anchor tag Interesting use of hyperlinked superscripted text Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter had 160 mn users but made less than Rs 100 cr in 2012-13 Web Hacking Incident Database , or WHID for short, is a Web Application Security Consortium project dedicated to maintaining a list of web applications related security incidents.  WHID's goal is to serve as a tool for raising awareness of the web application security problem and provide information for statistical analysis of web applications security incidents.  Apollo Robbins is a self-described gentleman thief and deception specialis...