I received a file called Navidad.exe a few days ago and stupidly ran it. Turned out to be a virus that killed the system. Google produced no answers to searches on “Navidad.exe virus” except a posting on egroups – in Spanish. A translation through Babelfish almost yielded readable material and I was able to fix it. Symantec’s AV Center has a cure.
Stephen King has stopped writing ‘The Plant’. People downloaded the chapters, but haven’t paid. So he’s mad. Smart move.
typographic. All you wanted to know about fonts.
What are brands worth?
First Round On Saturday (25th November 2000), I dress up in my best suit (only suit, really), and find my way to the Green Park station for an interview with the Boston Consulting Group. Of course, being terribly conservative, I arrived an hour early, so it was time to walk around Green Park and have a look at the Buckingham Palace, while singing “I have confidence…” from Sound of Music. The walk did lift my spirits a bit. There was this tiny poodle that was busy licking a bulldog. The bulldog didn’t seem to mind, though it was large enough to eat up the poodle. Then the poodle’s owners picked it up, and walked away. The poodle was reluctant though. It just hadn’t finished licking the bulldog. After about 5 minutes, the bulldog (and owner), were about half-a-kilometer away, when the poodle was finally let down. Being the determined creature that it was, it ran ALL the way to the bulldog, and proceeded to lick. The bulldog, right through, was wearing a puzzled expression on its face, as if to say, “Are you sure you don’t want me to smack this little white fluff?” ...
Not that I’m into art or anything, but ever since I saw the Louvre, and came out wondering what’s so great about the Mona Lisa, I figured I may as well get some culture. The Van Gogh light exhibition is a good start.
moneycontrol.com is an Indian financial site. Yahoo gets most of its Indian news feed from here. Comments Jayesh 22 Nov 2000 12:00 pm: very good site
Advanced Stock Information has a nice set of collections of the top-10 financial sites in various categories.
Websearch has an interesting set of articles on how to search the Web. Makes interesting reading at the very least. But more importantly, it tells you so many ways of searching that you never knew existed.
Fortune has a 6-part post-mortem of dot-coms. In contrast, the FTC lists the top ten ways to make a quick-buck on the Internet – the dot cons.
Just the service I’ve been waiting for. The Scout Report – one of the oldest and best sources of what’s good on the Internet, has launched a web log.
Because of a shortage of disk space on unix2.iimb.ernet.in, my reports are now at briefcase.yahoo.com/root_node. Long live Yahoo!
From online scripts, I’m moving to online short stories. Never could resist O Henry.
AdFlip is an archive of famous print advertisements.
The Fat Project tried to get two people to gain 30 pounds in 30 days. One made it. One didn’t. For the first time, you can actually see flesh grow.
IBM’s made 5 of the top 10 most powerful supercomputers. India doesn’t seem to have made a single one.
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If you’ve been following the Nobel prize broadcasts, don’t miss the Ig prizes – for the goofiest achievements.
The next stop was Inverness. I didn’t know Inverness had any history to it. It wasn’t till we got there that I learnt that the Inverness castle was where Macbeth (of Shakespearean fame) ruled from. In fact, it turns out that Macbeth was a really nice king. There was this barbarian who fought him, lost, and turned to the English for help – who of course were delighted, and they killed Macbeth. This barbarian stupidly signed a document saying that Scotland would pay tributes to England, and that’s been the source of all the trouble. ...
Scotland’s wonderful. We left on Friday night at 10:30PM on a ‘coach’, as they call it. A bus, really. We would’ve gone by rail, except that because of the recent flooding, trains weren’t available to Scotland. The coach was far too uncomfortable to sleep, until exhaustion overcame me at around 2AM. We reached Edinburgh at 7AM. (Incidentally, it’s pronounced Edinburough, though if you heard a Scot say it, you would be forgiven for thinking it’s ‘Edinbarra’) ...