S Anand

PC Pit Stop. A good tune-up for your PC. I managed to improve my hard disk performance by enabling DMA, and my memory by reducing the video card shared memory.

A story dreaming for the semantic web.

A cool combination of the Amazon and Google APIs to BookWatch. (Incidentally, I downloaded the Amazon and Google APIs.)

I learnt mind mapping. Ref: 1 2

For a few tenths of a second, at the micrometer level, the Second law of Thermodynamics can be violated. The interesting thing is that it happens at such a large scale.

Yahoo’s been filtering e-mail viruses. Good, but they’ve been a little crude. So a Google search for medireview reveals a book on Middle Ages: that medireview chronology, and a treasure ride with medireview jewels, a medireview city and medireview treasures.

A Google blog. And while we’re on the subject, I’ve found Google labs’ glossary very useful. So are some Google applications based on their API. (Incidentally, their server is overloaded. I tried getting a key yesterday, put it politely declined.)

The winner of the Google programming contest.

I know – I’ve been talking too much about Google. Still, here’re the dates on which Google updates itself.

This article mentions a Patrick Critton. Thanks to this innocuous reference, he ended up in jail.

Text-based games on the rise? Skotos’ site looks interesting anyway.

Bottom line. A blog on the economics of IT.

I just bought a Fuji Finepix 2600. Should be getting it in a month.

In-depth portraits of open source pioneers.

More web scams.

If you see the sun at the same time from the same spot over a year, it traces a pattern called analemma.

False mathematical proofs. I ended to get all except the first wrong! (BTW, Math Mistakes is a good read. Thanks, Sriram!)

People’s Daily from China. In English. I’ve found it quite a good source of news recently.

An intruiging experiment on designing a better keyboard using a computer.

This article on supercomputing mentions that supercomputing is beating Moore’s law. Computing power is doubling roughly every 15 months (instead of 18).