Author name: S Anand

Opera 7 Beta is out. It sports a new look, which one tires of quite soon. But it’s as fast as ever, and has better standards compliance. via Anand

Another interesting piece related to complexity: a speech on the paradox of randomness by Gregory Chaitin. via missing matter

An interesting thread on Andersja’s about how McKinsey is blocking competitors from its site. I’m at the receiving end of it. And so far, it hasn’t affected my life in any way.

On figuring Google’s pagerank. It’s interesting to note that Google, and only Google, ranks 11 out of 10 in its pagerank.

Distributed Proofreaders. As the name suggests, it’s a distributed web-based tool for proof-reading books for Project Gutenberg. References from Slashdot and kuro5hin have spiked the number of pages proofread. But even that apart, they’re targetting over 1,000 pages a day. That’s over a book a day! via kuro5hin

Photoblogs and the Visual Thesaurus via Kribs

Quantum information science: a convergence of complexity theory and quantum mechanics. via missing matter

An update on the IIT-K prime factorisation algorithm. via Matthai Markose

After Googlebombing, now we have Google glossary bombing. via Metafilter

Oh, so Sam Palmisano made CEO of IBM. Guess that was expected. He wants to focus on on-demand computing (his word for corporatising distributed computing projects).

Shortly, there will be companies creating this [distributed computing] market — focusing on aggregating the retail computing power, and using them across several projects. (Google is already trying to do that through its toolbar, and so is Intel.)

— S Anand, 29 Sep 2002

And now, IBM. I was prophetic 🙂