Three weeks ago Yahoo! launched Buzz, a digg like news site. Get news from several pre-approved news sources, vote, rinse and repeat. We’ve all heard about Digg/Slashdot/Reddit “Effect” bringing websites down, but Yahoo Buzz trumps them all. Since Yahoo! publishes a few of these links on it’s homepage, a few minutes can garner you a [...]
Australia maybe have been a champion need for the past decade however once you are at the top of the mountain there is nowhere to go but down. India has shown this by beating Australia consistently this year in Twenty20 games, at home in India and in the CB Series at Australia. South Africa is [...]
G-Archiver professes to be an application which backups your Gmail messages.
G-Archiver is your one click Gmail backup solution.Backup Gmail email messages to your computer using G-Archiver.Never lose another message - backup Gmail messages and you’ll have a stored copy on your computer in the event of Gmail data loss incidents. Gmail backup with G-Archiver allows [...]
Forbes magazine has declared that Warren Buffet is now the world’s richest man. Even though Buffet pledged 85% of his wealth to charity in July 2006 his wealth is increasing and is now at $62 billion, an increase of $10 billion from last year. More to donate now Buffet? Bill Gates ($58 Billion) who was [...]
Techcrunch links to a new news aggregator called Newspond. Although the features of the website aren’t that great, the design of the website is just awesome! The buttons, links are really well done. The design is done by Chan Karunamuni of Injection Design, check out his portfolio it has some amazing work.
Today morning there was the first ever IPL draft. IPL the Twenty20, corporate version of cricket. There was a lot of bidding going on the final results of which you can view here.
On the overall process: All players were divided into categories. These categories were created depending on the base price for every player. The [...]
Paul Graham has a very interesting essay on trolling. Being a troll is just so easy.
Credit and Credit Cards are one of the most evil things on this planet. You are buying things with money you don’t have, on the promise that you will pay it back. Everything comes with a financing package - a house, car, computer, tv you name it - don’t be tempted by it.
People are buying [...]
DRM - Digital Rights Management
My favorite quote on the whole DRM Issue:
“DRM ‘manages access’ in the same way that jail ‘manages freedom.’ “
~ Anon.
My Internet is toast.
It seems an underwater cable got cut, (for the third time in 2 years) and internet has taken a big hit . Connection is as slow as 56kbps, while i’m on a 512k DSL connection. During peak hours you can’t access POP/IMAP accounts anywhere and all my SSH sessions timeout. With no [...]
