What do people do with too much time on their hands?

July 12th, 2005 Have you wondered why Hotmail is so uncool these days? Read on.

April 17th, 2008 Microsoft sales team has too much free time on their hands to make a terribly inept music video about Vista. For some reason it really made me sick in my stomach.

April 5th, 2005 Is there a broader plan behind latest Google innovations? At first sight some of them seems random addition to the Google family (20% effort or not) and somewhat unrelated to its search focus. Lets scan Google News lately: Google Maps now has a satellite Google Ride Finder - Builds on top of Google Maps to show you the live positions of various taxis in your area.

June 16th, 2009 I often come across some glassy-eyed questions asking whether Hunch (the hyper hyped web service) a search engine? Well, even I'm confused with it, because, I never really was bothered to demark a Google from an WolframAlpha to a Hunch, coz as long as it served my purpose, I never cared. So here the real question for me was, is it utalitarian enough? For a more comprehensive understanding you could read it as an amalgamation of different concepts, which this lesser mortal is going to unveil.

July 14th, 2006 A free 10-week "AJAX Programming" online course is about to start from August 4th, 2006. This course is for anyone who wants to learn AJAX for the first time or increase their knowledge on AJAX.

May 28th, 2005 WordPress team has come up with yet another security fix (1.5.1.2), which fixes the fix (1.5.1.1), which fixes the fix (1.5.1), which is a fix for undisclosed security defects in WordPress 1.5. Update: Now it should read: WordPress team has come up with yet another security fix (1.5.1.3) which fixes the (yet another undisclosed security risk) fix(1.5.1.2), which fixes the fix (1.5.1.1), which fixes the fix (1.5.1), which is a fix for undisclosed security defects in WordPress 1.5.

July 20th, 2007 I have to say Mrs. J. K. Rowling loves her Harry Potter fanbase too much and listens not only to their requests but their humors too.

March 19th, 2009 '123456' is the most common password used by people on the Internet. Obscenities, names of fast cars and even ncc1701 - the ship number for Star Trek's Starship Enterprise, have made it to the list of top 500 worst passwords of all time.

January 6th, 2007 Today I made a decision on my blogs which went in my mind like this - "If it is good for Guy & Jeff then it is good for me. I will reveal more on the decision soon but what I thought was interesting is the thought process behind this decision.

April 19th, 2006 Time and again I have been asked by people - where is the link? And it is not their fault. In this blog the links were in semi-bold with bright-red color (and without the underline) which made them sometimes hard to find for color-blind and sometimes even normal people.

July 24th, 2006 Over 74,000 .eu domains have been suspended and 400 registering companies sued by EURid, the non-profit organisation in charge of the European Union's top-level domain. EURid has taken legal action after a review of the system for .eu domains (which went live in April) revealed that only three companies had registered several hundred phantom companies in order to manipulate the system.

January 5th, 2007 The first batch of computers built for the One Laptop Per Child project could reach users by July this year. However test XO machines are expected to reach children in February before the formal launch.

May 13th, 2009 1.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo U9300 Processor, 2GB of RAM, and a 128GB SSD hard drive, Intel GMA 4500MHD Graphics processor - Don't get disheartened yet. I know this is a standard feature that is gettable in most of the laptops today but Dell Adamo is not 'just another' in the box.

May 23rd, 2005 Self-proclaimed "blogologist" Alex Halavais on how to career-blog without it coming back to haunt you.

Having a blog is almost like building a brand for yourself, so it's largely meant for that tacit process of having people scout you. If you have a medium readership of 1,000 or so people who read your blog daily, those are 1,000 more people who might think of you when a job opens up.

September 15th, 2007 UK Ministry of Defence is using secure Blackberry's to allow their staff to communicate on the move. It uses The Blackberry Enterprise Server system which allows lost or stolen smartphones to be remote controlled, shut down, or even wiped clean by IT administrators.