Check out this headline from Times of India! Funny.

A great story about Love and Marriage

Guardian has this article on Bangalore's worsening infrastructure problems.

Yahoo search blog has a list of job postings for Yahoo! Search.

Given all the noise about a Google browser, what will Google name it if they come up with a new browser? They can't name it gBrowser, as somebody has already taken that name.
Any ideas?

Software that lasts 200 years - Must read!

I will be attending the Convergence 2004 at Detroit from Oct 18- Oct 20. Iam mainly interested in
Session 1 : Mobile Digital Entertainment
Session 6: Impact of consumer electronics in automotive electronics
Session 7: Systems Architecture : Software.
Should be an interesting conference with most automotive companies participating. We too are exhibiting there.

And finally Sony decides to add native support for mp3. I can't figure why it took them so long to decide on this one!

Never knew there were so many different ways to make chai!

A case history on Google by Economist. Very well written one. (via Lazy Geek)

Time Asia has an article on India's Olympic Debacle. Interesting read!

A very interesting site with avery detailed comparison of the user interface in OS X and XP. Wonder if there is a similar unbiased comparision between GNOME/KDE and XP somewhere on the web.

Political Compass. And here is where i stand!

I have moved to Microsoft Outlook from Thunderbird. I was happy with Thunderbird for so long, but Lookout has changed my mind to move back. But one thing i dislike about MS Outlook is that i have to open Outlook express to read newsgroups. Is there no way they could have added that functionality to MS Outlook?

Is anyone able to view unicode websites properly with firefox? I have no issues with IE, but firefox just doesn't seem to like any of the settings i have. Single charecters come out fine, while the majority of the two letter combinations are inverted. Has anyone seen and set this right?

iTunes accused of overcharging their UK customers. A track costs 79p in the UK, whereas it costs around 67p in France and Germany. On similar lines, i wonder how much Apple will price its tracks if it opens a India-specific iTunes site.

Just noticed that Google News has added pages for China , Hong Kong, Korea, Japan and Taiwan.

Project Rebirth. This website captures the day-to-day activity at the site of the Freedom tower. It has links to the architects, the freedom tower plan, and a live cam for the site too. The basic aim of the project is to capture the rebirth of Ground zero using 6 time-lapse cameras.

Damn frances! My orlando flight is cancelled! :-(

A nice article on Why you Shouldn't Write your Own Kernel Anymore?. As an embedded systems developer, i tend to agree to most of the author's thoughts.

The Perils of Being the Best and the Brightest