January 2001

A neat banking & finance portal by Northern Light. Covers mergers, reforms, technology, regulations, country-specific info, etc.

Asian option calculators from Enron and DerivativesModels.com.

Fantastic websites, Section A and Section C.

Apparantly looks do matter. May as well learn a bit about men’s fashion.

Sweden has ruled that it’s OK to have links to illegal MP3s, so long as the server is in a country where illegal MP3s are legal. That’s in stark contrast with France vs Yahoo. In fact, the norm is that linking even to the front page of commercial sites needs permission sometimes. A court in Utah ruled that providing links to copyrighted material could constitute copyright infringement. Better check out cyberlaws and ensure compliance with copyright rules on the Internet. ...

Software can kill. Literally. Read software horror stories.

The TRAI recommends that telephone companies could provide limited mobile services (WLL), and vice versa.

Statistics on websites that have been defaced.

What is IT?

Oil prices could rise further. That’s bad.

Free online science fiction at the Baen Library.

After telling Yahoo to remove Nazi memorabilia from its auction site, France is now considering taxing computers and other recording devices to compensate artists for piracy. I mean, Paris and art is all fine, but this is crazy! And Germany’s apparantly already done this.

FICCI’s site and their Business Information Services Network are invaluable resources about Indian policies.

“Write a one-line C expression to determine if a number is a power of 2”. Microsoft is famous for asking such questions to their programmers. Or you might want to find out what the assembly code CWD XOR AX, DX SUB AX, DX does. Satish’s site has the answer, but not the question. More questions: 1 2

I thought the next generation devices would use voice input. But maybe written is more likely. You can write on IBM’s Thinkpad and on Sony’s VAIO desktop.

Learn web-development at w3schools.

Yahoo! Internet Life surveys the year that was.

A bit of the surreal: Digital inkblots and Encyclopaedia Mythica

Kumbh Mela 2001, Allahabad.

A history of the Macintosh computer.