2002

I was waiting for Vandana and Prashasti at ticket counter of the Andheri (E) station. Mumbai is extremely warm these days, so I went in search of a fan to stand under. I found one, but the place under it was occupied. By a dog. Now, I have to describe this dog. It looked like on of the normal mongrels. Not too discoloured or anything. Looked pretty young. And it was lying on its back. Yeah, sure, dogs aren’t supposed to do that, but this one did it pretty well. In the middle of its sleep, it woke up, and tried scratching itself. Poor thing must’ve felt itchy all over, so it ended up trying to bite its paw several times over, and not always succeeding. ...

Now we can control rat brains. Dr. Talwar’s comment is apt. “Nonetheless, the idea is sort of creepy.”

Some people petitioned that “The Two Towers” (sequel to “Fellowship of the Ring”) was named after the World Trade Centre. Curiously, this petition has a far larger number of votes compared to its counter-petition.

Things Mil and his girlfriend have argued about. I dread to think of my future.

Babu is looking to IT-enabled movie distribution too. Long live Babu.

I was traveling from VT to Ullas Nagar to buy furniture. Since it’s an hour-and-half, I had taken a printout of an article on Scenario Planning to read. Being the gripping reading that it was, I’d fallen asleep on page 4, when I feel a gentle tap on my shoulder. “Excuse me, are you reading this?” Since I was asleep, I clearly wasn’t. But I looked at him, just to make sure he hadn’t mistaken it for a newspaper or something. He had a moustache, was wearing a blue shirt, and didn’t looked like the type who could mistake Scenario Planning with the latest political gossip. ...

12:05 Churchgate Hmm, maybe it’s not just the London and Tokyo trains you can set your watch by. On the way back from my trip to Ullas Nagar, I was sitting at the Bandra station waiting for the 12:05 to Churchgate. (That’s 12:05AM – as in the middle of the night.) The train was late, and I was enjoying the last of my plum cakes on the platform. Two old people clad in khadi strutted in, and looked at the display. It said “12:05 C”. The older one said, “Heck, we’ve missed the train. Let’s go to the next platform.” ...

I can send SMS via the Web through NetXCell. Neat.

Resources for scenario planning.

Google answers questions.

The game of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I played a bit of it at Suki’s house on his Atari. A game I remember fondly since 1984. Thanks, Prachi!

The first case of hacking under the IT Act has been registered. Had to be someone out of jurisdiction, didn’t it!

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Free annual reports online.

Star Trek scripts. All 10 of them. Makes me nostalgic. (Please don’t overload the site: it’s hosted on Geocities and has exceeded its transfer limit.)

While on the subject of free, Christophe’s little experiment on the value of words via Google lists “free” as the most valuable word, at $7,500 a day.

The End of Free. What’s going from free to fee. Of course, the service has to be immune to reactions like burn all gifs.

What can military history teach us about network security?

Encyclopaedia of integer sequences. Funny, it couldn’t find “1,2,3,4,5,6…” though.

Wow! A robot-building kit with an open platform architecture. Wish I had one of these. ($1,500)