November 2001

Yahoo is outside the jurisdiction of French law.

Is Jose the tourist guy?

The Harry Potter site is becoming quite popular. But what I don’t get is the comment on CNet saying “Females made up 63 percent of the site’s audience, while males accounted for more than 37 percent.” Hmm… what were they expecting? Martians?

I’m back, after a Diwali break. So’s the late Douglas Adams, with A Salmon of Doubt.

Opera 6 Beta is out.

I saw Memento. This film is incredible. Of the class of “Citizen Kane”. Likely to win an Oscar? (It also stars Carrie-Anne Moss, of the Trinity fame in “The Matrix”.)

Pretty faces help you think better.

Dave collects Disney art.

Mathworld is back.

I am not a blogaholic. I scored 48/100. 39% scored more than I did. I am “a casual weblogger … blog when nothing better to do … post more often … readers happy.”

In the meantime, Microsoft XP’s copyright protection has been hacked. Their digital rights management scheme: hacked. Passport: hacked.

The origin of Dogbert.

A portal of urban legends. The bunk stops here.

Linux has saved Amazon $17 million.

The Harry Potter movie is coming to India only in Apr 2002. :-(

DOS is dead. Is Altavista dying too?

The April Fool RFCs are hilarious.

Windows XP is good at fixing itself. (But don’t upgrade yet!)

I saw an old MPEG of Red’s Dream in 1995. In a sense, graphics hasn’t changed much in the last decade. It’s just become more accessible.

You can hack into MS Passport. And just today, BCG decided to move us all into a passport ID using .Net. Still, MSN Messenger 4.5 is pretty good.