January 25, 2006

Web design patterns.

Hilarious post on Pallu baby. Nice read, Karthik. Stay on course. Here’s his follow-up (which I can’t find on his blog any more). Confluence 2005 is happening and there are students from so many B-schools who have come down to IIM-A. Some of my friends from BITS, now studying in other B-schools, have come down as well. Yesterday I happened to get a call from one such friend of mine who’s studying in ISB (with whom I wasnt in touch at all). After a couple of hi-bye statements, the first thing she asked me was “How’s Pallu baby? And why arent you blogging at all? Your blog is very widely read in ISB. Everyone knows your blog in ISB. That Pallu baby post was circulated around like crazy.” ...

O’Reilly hacks.

Inspiration - not motivation - for writing. Comments Madhu 29 Jan 2006 12:26 pm: Forget writing, sometimes it even difficult to find inspiration for working(not motivation)! Chitra 3 Feb 2006 10:04 am: He he too good !!

My hard drive is experiencing some strange noises but I am unsure if the drive is failing. How can I determine if the noises are due to a failing hard drive? By listening to hard disk noises – available as mp3s.

Google web authoring statistics. An analysis of over a billion pages to see how people use HTML markup.

Data visualization. Examples of charts that convey a lot of information in a visually obvious way.