2001

With the US economy slowing down, the need for technology workers has dropped 44%. Those with H1-B visas, and body shoppers, are facing the brunt.

After seeing how costly it is to detect hacking, and the fact that anything you say can be logged against you, one wonders if being online is worth it. If you’ve got a permanent Internet connection, keep it switched off.

The preview release of Internet Explorer 6 is out.

Agentland is a portal for online agents – somewhat like Apps.com

Details on who paid how much for the US Presidential elections, and what they expect in return, on Mother Jones 400. Incidentally, candidates who raised more money than their opponents captured all but 29 of the 469 seats.

Better be a bit careful about online payments. A Russian hacker stole from 40 companies. Amazon’s subsidiary was hit. And IBM’s Net.Commerce is buggy.

The Megapenny Project helps you visualise how big ‘big money’ is, by stacking pennies up. Our highly paid friends at IIM-B would earn a 6’ block of metal each year.

Two MIT students have written a 7-line program that unscrambles protected DVDs. It’s downloadable. The legal issue is whether source code deserves protection on par with freedom of expression.

BIFR has a website. Their ‘Hearing Schedule’ section is a useful way of keeping up with what companies are in trouble. I’m surprised to see Dunlop India (West Bengal) on the list. Currently, the site does not have the actual decisions. Maybe soon. Comments m s b 16 Mar 2001 12:00 pm: the schedule is not updated after March 2007

Some press clippings about the IIM-B convocation (and me).

I’m graduating today, and there’s a live webcast of the IIM-B convocation starting 6:15PM IST.

Adobe lets you create PDF files on the Web without using any software.

With the Internet economy booming despite the collapse of dot-coms, the OECD countries are getting ready to tax the Internet.

I can’t seem to locate the access log (which used to be on unix2 at /usr/local/apache/logs/access_log). So, sorry – can’t give any more statistics on the hits.

IBM has been accused of aiding Nazis during WWII.

Human Spell Check tosses out some glaring spelling mistakes at famous websites – which presumably would have run a spell-checking software on their site. Mind you, I personally do not.

Warner Brothers are making a Harry Potter movie. Comments Khanjan 26 Sep 2008 12:27 am: Harry Potter is best movie. please watching me thi movies

China and the Internet.

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