November 30 03
The iPod turns 2 The New York Times has come out with an article on the second anniversary of the iPod. In an attempt to look under the untouchable veneer of the iPod to see what makes it so cool, and what drives Apple to make “innovative” devices, Jobs tells him that Apple doesn’t really [...]
November 29 03
A new photoblog That’s right, I’ve put up a photoblog at textamerica. Textamerica is a moblog site (for publishing photos taken with mobile phones), and the site says that it’s been created with my sony ericsson T616, but that’s just because I couldn’t figure out a way to get rid of that message. So here’s [...]
November 25 03
How not to get fired because of your blog! Blogger has this timely post that addresses the issue of blogging at work. It might be a good idea to read it and avoid the fate of the Microsoft employee who posted a picture of macs being unloaded at the Microsoft campus and then proceeded to [...]
November 21 03
The top 40 directors in the world The Guardian, UK has come out with a whimsical rating of what they feel are the top 40 directors in the world. While the talent of the directors in the list is never in question, the relative importance given to each director is certainly an open question. It [...]
November 20 03
MSN Newsbot Microsoft, in its never ending quest to put a finger in every pie has brought out a pathetic tool that imitates Google News. Named MSN Newsbot, this reeks so strongly of innovation that you might be tempted to think that someone mined the Google News site and changed the colors and fonts around [...]
November 18 03
Azim Premji, Chairman of Wipro, and an alumnus of Stanford was conferred an honorary doctorate by IIT Roorkee on monday. From his acceptance speech: • A rupee earned is of far more value than five found. • Learn to lose and also to enjoy winning. And when you do lose, do not lose the lesson. [...]
November 17 03
Long week… midterm, project… messed around with the Google toolbar dll during one crazy night..
November 11 03
An interesting way to copy-protect discs Macrovision has come out with an interesting way to deter piracy of games/movies. Of course, it’s impossible to prevent discs from being copied bit-by-bit unless all hardware is designed to prevent that – something that is practically impossible. The region encoding in DVDs doesn’t really work outside in the [...]