December 2000

Cliches. Tells you what cliches like ass backwards mean.

Find tutorials with tutorialfind.

Trivialistic’s trivia on entertainment is amazing. The one about Neil Armstrong is my favourite.

I have a sneakemail account – a neat way to kill spam.

It’s finally happened. The Internet has grown to the point were a meta-search engine (a search engine to search among search engines) has come up. Lookoff.com.

Google likes directory sites. Google likes Yahoo!. Google uses peer review. Google is good.

Tamil movies finally get a website at Galatta.com. They’ve started off with Seenu, Priyamaanavale and Snehidiye

Free PCs are dead. Freebies are dying, since online advertising is dying. Now, Altavista’s free ISP died. Is this the beginning of the end for free ISPs in India? For that matter, is this the end of free everything? No. Free software thrives (Opera will be free). Why is that?

Edgar Allen Poe’s 150 year old puzzle has been solved.

ICANN isn’t the only domain-name body. There’s competition for that too, with YouCANN, Open-RSC and others. Wired has the story

The classic collection of smileys and more :-)

I bought an MP3 CD from Tamil MP3 CD. You get about 150 songs for about Rs. 900, including shipping. Of course, you can only listen to it on a computer.

Want to record downloaded MP3s into an audio CD? Want to take home software? See the CD-Recordable FAQ. Rookies, see Josh’s page

What’s new on 123india is a good way to find out new Indian sites. So is What’s new on Yahoo.

You can book train tickets online in Chennai. In fact, the Indian Railways will probably introduce it soon.

What are brands worth?

typographic. All you wanted to know about fonts.

Stephen King has stopped writing ‘The Plant’. People downloaded the chapters, but haven’t paid. So he’s mad. Smart move.

I received a file called Navidad.exe a few days ago and stupidly ran it. Turned out to be a virus that killed the system. Google produced no answers to searches on “Navidad.exe virus” except a posting on egroups – in Spanish. A translation through Babelfish almost yielded readable material and I was able to fix it. Symantec’s AV Center has a cure.

More Indian sites: Fortunecity India, Britannica India, and Weather India.