Guido sums up his role at Google in his blogpost.

And did I mention that I get to spend 50% of my time on Python? No strings attached. Of course I get to spend the other 50% on Python too, but that's in a corporate setting. Fortunately it's easy to separate the two. If it uses two-space indents, it's corporate code; if it uses four-space indents, it's open source. (If it uses tabs, I didn't write it! :-)

Overheard in Newyork.

TI -> Google

After six years at TI, I have decided to move on. Tomorrow will be my last day here at TI. It has been an excellent six years here, having had the opportunity to work with some great, nice and friendly people. It will be very hard to be away from all of them. Thanks to all the folks, especially the arattai gang, for the great time I had here.
Iam joining Google on Monday, the 16th of Jan. Regular readers of this weblog will know that I have been an ardent fan of Google and its produts for quite a few years now. So it would be interesting to be actually working on some of those products. As part of the move to Google, i will also be moving from Bangalore to Hyderabad. As it will take me a while for me to get settled with my new job in a new city, blogging here will be light atleast till the month end. My next post will be as a Googler(or Noogler, as the newly hired googlers are called).

Wish me all the best!

Microsoft Research India to work on cryptography

Guy Kawasaki on The Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs

CNET has the streaming video of Larry Page's CES keynote.(Duration: 9min 8sec)

Tatkal Booking!

IRCTC has introduced online booking of Tatkal train tickets. But the extra premium charged for these online tatkal tickets is pretty high, especially for short distance trains. But isn't this still better than waking up early for those long tatkal counter queues?

Teekada's take on the events of 2005 is hilarious

Lenovo to embed cellular connections in laptops. Looks like a very interesting idea.

BBC - 100 interesting things we didn't know this time last year.