December 2001

Hacking and social engineering.

I’m on vacation till 2nd Jan.

The world’s funniest joke.

Grammer: the first casualty of war. Funny.

I was scouring various chat rooms on Yahoo, when I hear music stream down one of the Mumbai chat rooms. It looked like fairly professional music. Quite nice. After a while, a message came on the the chat room… mahomedyaseenkhan: did you hear my music? I did. So,… anand_m26blr: Hi maho… I do. Heard you. mahomedyaseenkhan: hello!!!!!! mahomedyaseenkhan: was my singing nice mahomedyaseenkhan: must i sing more songs anand_m26blr: A bit on the higher side, the pitch. ...

An interesting response to FBI’s demand to hand over login and password data.

News is free. Very good.

Scripting News awards of 2001 for the best blogs.

Why does free software exist? An interesting article.

Linking to illegal sites is illegal. But if you just type the URL like http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/ that’s fine.

Google catalog. For mail order catalogs.

If it is to be believed, then coincidence design is the creepiest website I’ve ever visited.

Simple ways to increase the computing power of your desktop.

Thinking over it, Megway’s probably better than Segway.

Fellowship of the Ring. Releasing shortly.

Finally figured out that lorum ipsum dolor… means nothing.

The FBI snoops around and raids campuses. Virus fighters are trying to hold out.

A whole lot of webloggers linked to KPMG once they heard about this letter.

A versatile picture search tool.

No God particle?