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’) ...

I’m leaving for Scotland tonight, and will be back on Monday morning. Await interesting stories… While academics has prevented any outdoor adventures over the last few weeks, the underground has been an unending source of intrigue. This morning, for example, I decided to take a survey of what people in the underground were reading. People on the trains would either read something, talk on their mobiles, or listening to a walkman. The last category are uninteresting. The only mobile phone conversation I overheard is too embarrassing to be be printed here. So I’ll stick to what people were reading. ...

I win the bet. ~sanand strikes 14340 to 2931 versus ~mkalidas. Must admit that some people disagree with the majority, though.

A study shows that the world is producing about 250MB of info per person per year. It means that, on average, each of us is writing 50 times the size of the complete works of Shakespeare every year! If you’re wondering how that’s possible, just wander around this web page :-)

Speaking of viruses, anyone heard of a virus called ‘Hanson.scr’? I got this mail from home that had nothing but an attachment, and I’m sure it’s a virus. It keeps sending itself to me, and tries connecting to the Internet when I run it.

I got the film rolls developed from Fotango. You can see my photos on Yahoo.

The gale caused all kinds of trouble to the underground trains. When I got on at Newbury Park, there was an announcement that trains would be running slow today because there were trees on the track. It wasn’t too far after that accident, and the British Rail was running slowly as it is. Looked like the underground would match it. Then there was another delay – signal confusion this time. ...

Sheer laziness kept me in bed till 9:30AM. Then I got dressed, and logged on to the computer, only to be greeted with “I’ve set the clock an hour behind, because it’s Daylight Saving Time. Check if it’s OK.” or something like that. Neat! I truly got an extra hour. I mean, I actually did something useful. So I told Ashwin (an exchange student from UCLA) that I’d gained an hour of life. ...

The gale caused all kinds of trouble to the underground trains. When I got on at Newbury Park, there was an announcement that trains would be running slow today because there were trees on the track. It wasn’t too far after that accident, and the British Rail was running slowly as it is. Looked like the underground would match it. Then there was another delay – signal confusion this time. ...