NDTV has a long list of restaurant reviews for Bangalore.

The Prophet - by Kahlil Gibran

Hands-on Guide to the Debian GNU Operating System - A really nice guide!

Installing colinux. Pretty straight forward to install, with no major hiccups. I haven't been able to set up my internet connection though.

The Fuss About Gmail and Privacy : Nine Reasons Why It's Bogus

Some good linux kernel articles from the top hackers!

Cilk is a C-extended language for multithreaded programming.

Now google has an official blog

Linus vs. Tanenbaum. The legendary debate between Linus and Tanenbaum on the merits and demerits of monolithic kernels versus microkernel kernels.

Microsoft's WTL Off to Open Source. The Windows Template Library allows the creation of quick GUI apps in C++. Microsoft has posted the library and source code in SourceForge.

Sharp V602SH & Sharp V402SH, two new mobile phones for the Japan market, and one of them includes a dog bark translator as well :-)

An interview with Craif Silverstein, Google's Technology director and employee number one

10 Principles of Change Management

PigeonRank, the technology behind Google's search. :-)

Google Opens Indian Research And Development Facility

Sasser -b, the first virus to have affected my office PC. Iam safe at my home pc though, as it runs linux.

Google's Gmail hit by trademark claim

Google sets a $2.7B IPO. Will this really trigger off another dot-com IPO craze, as most analysts have ben predicting?

How Do You 'Vet' an Employer? - A nice discussion on what to look for in your prospective employer.

Hackers: Under the hood - Five real-life hackers

Got my gmail account. Impressed at first glance. Need to see how well their spam detection is.

A Car Stereo That Can Kill You? Cool.

New optical disc made from paper

Fontifier - You can create your own handwriting as a font!

Indian economy drifting towards crisis - A nice article by Prem Shankar Jha

Is Google the future of e-mail?

The Tamil Calendar

World's Most Expensive Hotels

Design Principles

In June 1999, Tim Peters channeled Guido and listed 19 guiding principles
for Python's design in a comp.lang.python posting. The principles shouldn't
be taken too seriously, as they're not hard-and-fast constraints and for
each rule you can probably list instances where it's been broken. Still, no
one has had much disagreement with this list of design criteria:

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Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.
Sparse is better than dense.
Readability counts.
Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
Although practicality beats purity.
Errors should never pass silently.
Unless explicitly silenced.
In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
There should be one -- and preferably only one -- obvious way to do it.
Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
Now is better than never.
Although never is often better than right now.
If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!
====

How Microsoft Got Smart About Phones

You can download the Cog television ad here. This ad for the Honda Accord Euro is acclaimed as the best car ad in recent years.

A nice quote. "Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people"

Stanford ready to give Einstein big exam - Satellite experiment will test whether General Theory of Relativity is correct

iTunes: How Copyright, Contract, and Technology Shape the Business of Digital Media. A Harvard research paper

Why Gmail gives me the creeps

A Nation Betrayed.com. Congress' reply to India Shining

Google to offer gigabyte of free e-mail

Beyond Google. Speciality search sites.

Google tests souped-up Web searches / Users can tailor results to interests, get e-mail updates

Linux Kernel 2.6: the Future of Embedded Computing, Part I

TomTom. A standalone car navigation appliance.

Open source software development and Xtreme programming

Near-Field Wireless Tech : Next New Thing?

In search of India's inventors

NASA can recognise words before they are spoken

AOL has right to buy nearly 2 million Google shares

How Maybachs Work

Coneteq, a new Lebanese search engine aims to overtake Google

Google Programming Contest

Camel Critiques. The best and the worst Perl books.

E Ink - Electronic Ink Displays

ZVUE, a personal video player for $99

MP3 to get digital rights management

Gerrymandering is the deliberate manipulation of political borders (in many countries, specifically the 'electoral district/constituency boundaries') for short-term electoral advantage, usually of incumbents. The word gerrymander serves both as a verb meaning to perpetrate the abuse and as a noun describing the resulting electoral geography.

Gates predicts death of the password. Microsoft has teamed up with RSA for developing a strong authentication system for Windows

Linux - Converting an existing development system to the 2.6 kernel

Wired | The Complete Guide to Googlemania!

Programming Competitions and Archives

Great Books on computing. A very good list of the classic computer books.

Have chess computers surpassed the strongest grandmasters?

Slashdot | Google to Launch Free Mail Service?

Goodbye, Currency Notes

The name 'Splunge' is a commentary on clever project names. The name comes from a Monty Python sketch. The scene is a business meeting, where executives are queried for their opinion of a business proposal by the CEO, and then summarily fired for giving the wrong answer—which soon becomes clear is unavoidable. Finally, one of the last remaining executives, in a panic, simply spouts 'Splunge.' Splunge is hastily defined as 'something that could be a good idea, but not necessarily, unless of course it's not, in which it isn't, but otherwise may be, but also may not be, depending on whether or not it is.' This is (of course) the only opinion that is acceptable by the CEO. All the other executives scramble to change their answers to 'Splunge.'(source)

The Death of Bluetooth: Intel Moves to Ultrawideband

Novels of Kalki R. Krishnamurthy - Ponniyin Selvan, Sivakamiyin Sabatham, Alai Osai - Online(html)

Paul Allen's Mobile Computing Fantasy. FlipStart, a new product from his company, Vulcan Ventures. A laptop at the size of a PDA?

A quick look at the Win2k source code comments - kuro5hin.org

Yahoo stops using Google

Search wars are about to get personal

A Computational Complexity Web Log

The e-mail you save can be held against you

Microsoft Office in Hindi

Indiashining.com

Red Hat delivers test of 2.6 kernel Linux

MP3 players for AK-47s

How to manage smart people

Don't Hurry, Be happy

Muse Log, a blog which talks about a lot of things that interest me.

Ockham's Razor, or in Modern english, "Keep it simple, stupid"

Thomas G. Stockham Jr., 70, Father of Digital Audio Recording, Dies

Debugging with strace

Why Run Free Software on a PDA?

Ailing Spirit may be juggling too much data. Looks like the software on Spirit opens files, but never closes them?

With Friends Like These, Linux Doesn't Need Enemies. A good article on the MyDoom Worm.

Google's Orkut goes offline. Might open again shortly after some improvements.

India to get a peek at Windows source code

Google spawns Orkut, a social networking service. But it doesn't look like its easy to join. You need to someone who is already a member of Orkut to invite you. And i dont have any! ;-(

eXtreme programming(XP) deconstructed. The article tries to see if XP is a valid option for the embedded world.

Working with compressed files

An interesting way to draw a clock - (via vj)

Linux CDROM API reference

How to handle a GPL Violation? - A Discussion at Slashdot.

Alpine debuts Car Audio Head units that allow integration with iPod. Read it here

Vying for that extra space on your desktop. Search companies are trying to leave behind the browser, and provide search capabilities using toolbars. An example is the Google deskbar

Intel's future: That's home entertainment

The New Leadership - Sober, Spirited, and Spiritual

Asia Loves Linux -- And Microsoft Scrambles

The best and worst managers of 2003

Santro Xing vs Palio NV vs WagonR

An interview with Amar Bose: the sultan of sound