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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.

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).

Guardian’s favourite blogs. Satish’s Random Thoughts is on it.