July 2004

Excellent article by Paul Graham on great hackers.

A good way to get things done at a call center.

Conversational cheap shots.

Kevin Rose tests gmail performance at 1 GB.

An animated description of how DNA gets converted to proteins.

Marc’s Outlook on Productivity – a good blog on productivity software.

Apologetic software.

Picasa is good. I incorporated all my photos in it, and I can now search for photos of people by name. (I have catalogued my photos’ file names with peoples’ names.) Now, with Google taking over Picasa, we will soon be able to store/share photos on Google, and search across others’ shared photos, using Google’s image search!

Microsoft bought Lookout. Lookout searches for e-mail in Outlook across .pst files. As soon as they did, Microsoft closed downloads of Lookout. In contrast, when Google bought Picasa, they opened it up for free.

I have no gmail invites left. Please wish Rajneesh, Joseph, Kannan, Mark, Mohamed and Naresh all the best with their accounts.

I have 3 gmail invites available. Mail me if you’re interested (and WHY you’re interested in gmail).

BugMeNot – registrations for famous sites, along with passwords. Mozilla also has a Bugmenot project.

I have 6 gmail invites available. Mail me if you’re interested (and WHY you’re interested in gmail).

About the FastTrack (Kazaa) network.