2001

Oil prices could rise further. That’s bad.

Free online science fiction at the Baen Library.

After telling Yahoo to remove Nazi memorabilia from its auction site, France is now considering taxing computers and other recording devices to compensate artists for piracy. I mean, Paris and art is all fine, but this is crazy! And Germany’s apparantly already done this.

FICCI’s site and their Business Information Services Network are invaluable resources about Indian policies.

“Write a one-line C expression to determine if a number is a power of 2”. Microsoft is famous for asking such questions to their programmers. Or you might want to find out what the assembly code CWD XOR AX, DX SUB AX, DX does. Satish’s site has the answer, but not the question. More questions: 1 2

I thought the next generation devices would use voice input. But maybe written is more likely. You can write on IBM’s Thinkpad and on Sony’s VAIO desktop.

Learn web-development at w3schools.

Yahoo! Internet Life surveys the year that was.

A bit of the surreal: Digital inkblots and Encyclopaedia Mythica

Kumbh Mela 2001, Allahabad.

A history of the Macintosh computer.

Global Trends: 2015 (CIA) says technological development will be in IT, biotech, materials & nanotechnology. And that India’s main problem will be to improve agriculture.

Some people think CEOs get paid too much.

A good day. Bought 5 books, and cut an audio CD with 15 songs. The Bear and the Dragon | Fist of God | Abduction | Prometheus Deception | Druid of Shannara

More deaths. Chemdex, the B2B chemical market. Send.com, the gift store. Musicmaker, the CD-burner. Foodline, the restuarant agent.

Stephen’s Guide to the Logical Fallacies – a comprehensive list of common fallacies.

Apple releases a UNIX-based operating system – OS X.

Cellular calls will become cheaper. I might buy a phone.

Bhagavad Gita online. Has audio, translations in several languages, etc. Very well organised. The final quote was very fitting for Mr. Krishnan’s IIMPressions, incidentally.

VAIO Slimtop is a computer by Sony which has a flat screen monitor you can write on. $3,000.