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Maybe the DMCA is not as Draconian as we thought.

Yahoo PayDirect is free again. This is the first time I’m seeing a paid site turning free. I’m sure Internet history of some sort was made. Yahoo!

Air Sahara is auctioning tickets. Pity Chennai is not on their list!

A Wired article, Born Digital, talks about kids born in the digital age. I liked the bit about them trading places with adults.

Coke and Pepsi paintings on the hills have to be removed because “… species of moss… have been destroyed by the painting.” Gosh!

A dozen IIMB junta got together at Hotel Pritam, Mumbai.

I like this. Information Wave, an ISP, has banned RIAA from accessing their network. But, they will take their own measures to ensure copyright violation doesn’t happen. That’s solid.

A blog on tech gadgets. Love it!

The STAR exchange is a stock exchange listing companies with good governance. That’s a good criterion to list by, given the accounting we read about. This exchange has managed to outperform the conventional counterpart (Borsa), BTW.

Here’s a new problem with the online format of GRE tests: leaks! Bad enough that they’re expensive, tough to write, …

Intel vs Hamidi raises the issue of whether sending an e-mail could constitute “trespassing”.

Now, if you earn dollars, you can keep the dollars. Interesting that this move comes at just the time when the dollar is falling.

To: Rajnish Kanojia Subject: Would love to talk/meet up. Mail me.

I just furnished my kitchen. While my aspiration levels were high, I ended up with this. Mind you, the photo makes the kitchen look a lot better than it really is.

Incidentally, this kitchen hosted my latest attempt at making pasta. I found a simple pesto sauce recipe, and ended up spending about Rs. 500 for the ingredients. We managed to eat it. Barely.

Update: There used to be an unflattering (Photoshopped) picture of Amitabh Mall here. It’s been taken down on request. I got a digital camera. Here’s a snap from it. Now, you may be wondering why the snap looks bad. That’s not true. Meet Amitabh, friend and colleague. Looks a little different. Unfortunately balding early. After all, he’s a consultant. Currently unsatisfied with the object of his attention (either the food or me) to the extreme. Following a unique love-life model.

Conway and Doyle prove that it is possible to divide by 3. The paper, which is distributed under the GPL, unfortunately comes without a warranty. (via Gimbo)

They’re piloting a magnetic levitation train at Virginia. These trains can run much faster than conventional trains.

In the meantime, Tim Berners-Lee is talking about the Interplanetary Internet. Given the Internet’s ubiquity, it sounds a lot more real than it did a few years ago.

Meg calls for professional blogging. I agree. Like all good things, blogging will have to go commercial, and like Faraday said, “… someday you can tax it.” (Note: Actually, Faraday didn’t say it.)