November 1, 2002

No more updates for a while

I’m going to try and not update until Monday (11th Nov, not 4th). Don’t even bother visiting. Happy Diwali!

Google glossary bombing

After Googlebombing, now we have Google glossary bombing. via Metafilter

Distributed computing grows

Oh, so Sam Palmisano made CEO of IBM. Guess that was expected. He wants to focus on on-demand computing (his word for corporatising distributed computing projects). Shortly, there will be companies creating this [distributed computing] market – focusing on aggregating the retail computing power, and using them across several projects. (Google is already trying to do that through its toolbar, and so is Intel.) – S Anand, 29 Sep 2002 And now, IBM. I was prophetic :-)