S Anand

For those as ignorant about the World Cup as I am, the FIFA website has a summary of Stage 1 and Stage 2.

This purple and crimson diamond is supposed to be the most valuable object in the world. (Weight for weight.)

Joel on why companies try to sell free products. (To sell more complementary products, to spare you the suspense.)

Almost no site has linked to my page. (I sort of like that a bit. It means the 30-odd hits a day that I get are from people who TYPE my URL.)

If there’s a nuclear war between India and Pakistan, about 3 million could die. I live in 3 of those 5 cities. I’d better take a vacation.

I am on vacation. Please don’t expect updates till 20th June 2002. (Sorry!)

Kartoo has an amazing Flash interface for a search engine. I’m not sure how to use it effectively, but I’m sure someone’ll take this idea up and make something really useful out of it.

An SMS Weblog. That’s a cool idea.

Essential Blogging: a book on weblogging. Quite good. Technie note: This RSS thing looks interesting. Daypop has started offering RSS output. Need to see how I can use it.

The Economist Technology Quarterly. Great tech news, a little infrequent though. (Thanks, Markose!)

Staci Kramer interviewed the CEO of Turner Broadcasting (who, among other things, said stuff like not watching ads is theft). Staci traces how news of this spread through the Internet into sites like top 10 copyright crimes and “But Daddy I need to go”.

Netscape 7.01 is out. Preview release, mind. No, I haven’t tested it yet. Awaiting reviews. (24 May: No reason to switch)

SearchOnline meta-search engine. Seems quite good so far.

Nice of whitehouse.gov not to have sued whitehouse.org.

5,000 ways to make a living.

PigeonRank. Google’s amazing technology (funny).

I always felt using voice to communicate with computers was a bad idea. In my case, it’s more because speaking takes up a lot of energy. But looks like it takes up a lot of thought power as well. Maybe speech recognition is not such a good idea.

Bored. “When you have nothing better to do.”

The US $20 bill can be folded to create “pictures” of the 9/11 explosions. Comments bob 29 Nov 2006 1:40 pm: now that is some fucking crazy shit

Effective networking.