August 2001

SOME people have updated their website, and done a jolly decent job of it too. ONE may appreciate that.

Chris Coutts has a chatter’s version of Romeo & Juliet. A hilarious but accurate 10-minute flash movie. (Coutts has also made other movies.)

I’d missed this earlier. Microsoft has released its Windows CE source code to the public!

Corante filters tech news.

I had several minutes of fun using the Virtual Stapler.

If nothing else, the Moody downgrading and S & P downgrading mean a further slowdown in India, despite any rate cuts.

DotComDoom.com – about the demise of dot-coms. News links.

Joel writes on software. “Good software takes 10 years” is a good read.

When the boom was on, America’s flexible labour laws made it a haven. With the slowdown, American layoffs are faster. Flexible labour laws come with the penalty of volatility.

Don’t work too hard on keyboards. You’ll ruin your wrists like I did.

Funny Churchill quotes.

The full texts of Supreme Court rulings. Online and free.

Encyclopaedia Britannica is now a paid service.

If you don’t want spam, here are some things to do and not to do. Don’t post usenet articles, to start with.

In some quiet corner, something different is happening to copyrights. The law of eminent domain is being applied to content. Not good enough, but its a start.

This study has some nice animations on how the Code Red virus spread geographically.

MIT’s Blogdex crawls weblogs (like mine) for popular links. Nice concept – somewhat like Google’s, except more “current information” based. The page of only weblogs has a good list of weblogs (not as comprehensive as Eatonweb), and Rebecca’s written a good history of weblogs.

My site actually has pretty bad design against these parameters. Need to work on it. Besides, the time is up for static sites. Dynamic website design will rule. Wonder when Geocities will start offering these features.

A $45 billion writedown from JDS Uniphase. The largest ever loss in corporate history.

I’ve started needing a time zone converter pretty badly, with all these international interviews that I’m doing.