Firefox and retarded browsers!

Interesting Trivia

Did you know that Arizona does not observe Daylight savings time, but stays in Standard time all year long?

Solar-powered implant could restore vision. If this indeed works, wouldn't that be awesome?

Microsoft makes Visual Studio Express 2005 free forever! Am i the only one to get the feeling that Microsoft may even make a basic version of Vista free as well?

TN Elections 06

In case you are one of those like me, trying to get every possible info coming out of TN regarding the elections, then the following links should quench your thirst for information :)
Idly Vadai
Sambhar Mafia
Chennai Today
Arasiyal Talk
Hot Machi Hot
All about politics

Do let me know in case there are some other related blogs out there.

Iam now a proud owner of a 30GB white video ipod. :)

AIADMK has an up-to-date website dedicated for the 2006 Assembly Elections. [Doesn't look like an official one though!]

Golden Gate Bridge

That's pretty quick!

Google Calender went live only a day back, and there is already a greasemonkey script which can show the calender details on your gmail page!

Ever heard of beltway bandits?

Davinci Code

http://www.google.com/davincicode

Canon SD450

Last week picked up a Canon SD450. Pretty sleek camera and some nice features as well. Iam loving it. ;)

Switching from Bloglines to Google Reader!

Bloglines has been very sporadic most of today. And its now totally down now. I think the site has been going down quite a bit too often these days. So Iam finally switching to Google Reader. I have always liked the Bloglines UI much better than the Google Reader's "Lens", but may be I'll get used to it after a while.

Anand Sridharan writes about his views on the government planning to raise the caste-based reservation quota for higher education. This is one of the issues that i have a strong opinion about, and i agree 100% with Anand on this.

Stanford on iTunes. Faculty lectures, interviews and more.. And its free!

The Top 100 April Fools Day Hoaxes of All Time

What will India's innovation and booming economy mean for Americans? An ABC News Video

Are Software Patents Evil?

I attended a nice talk given by Paul Graham at Google last week on whether software patents are evil. The transcript is available here. I'll update this post when the talk gets uploaded in Google Video.

All about politics has a decent summary of Jaya's second term.

Compared to her first term (1991-96), Jayalalithaa Jayaram's second term was more reasonable. This term had its own share of controversies, personal vendettas, stupidities, blame games, mismanagement, prostrations and what not. But it also had its own share of constructive elements as well. If Jayalalithaa manages to negotiate the incumbency factor & manages to scrape through, this writer feels that it would be the case of people feeling "give the devil its due".

Hard Disk failing?

If your hard disk is making strange noises and you are worried that the hard disk may be failing, just check out this set of hard disk noises to make sure what's actually wrong with yours :) (via)