2001

Plastic – an interesting news source. I like Plastic work.

Microsoft Deathwatch. No, Bill isn’t dead, but his servers were for a while.

Eight case studies on sanctions: Cuba, South Africa, Libya, Pakistan, Iran, Burma, China and India.

I’ve replaced my old photo (left) with this new one (right). Yes, I know. I’m growing younger by the day.

Fashion lessons paid off. After reading about business wardrobes for men, and how gentlemen dress, I shopped for a suit, hoping to look my professional best. Ended up with a grey single-breasted polywool suit from Louise Phillipe.

Multinational Monitor features the 10 worst corporations of 2000.

MP3 CD players. The next big thing? It’s basically got a hard disk where you can put in any MP3s, and listen to it like a walkman. Why bother with cassettes?

My friend Manu is doing research in graphics at Ohio State. You really must see his morphs: Ash to Mandela, for example. After playing around with the grid, I realised Mandala’s pretty handsome too. Requires Java. Comments rajesh 10 Aug 2009 4:46 pm: great work!!!!!

Thinks.com has some good maths puzzles and recreation links. Cut-the-knot is good. Math cartoons are better.

Info1001 is a good site for info on shopping, investments, and even industry analysis.

Every Night Josephine is out of print. If not for copyrights, one could just copy an old print.

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.

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