Anand’s Blog

I write this post in the middle of the biggest college technology festival in the country. With what would have begun as an attempt to create, connect and relate aspects of technology, it has now taken the shape of an entirely commercial event with enormous budgets and unprecedented extravagance.
Forced to wonder, is it [...]

I still remember the day, when I attended my first lecture at this university. The one thing my Prof warned me then was to make sure that I keep my passwords *cryptic*. For me cryptic then meant anything that was not my name or my date of birth. Of course how could I expect somebody [...]

India celebrates Republic Day today. Let’s hope that this day enthuses vigour and vitality, inculcates in us a feeling for our nation, its rich heritage, and kaleidoscopic life. As my friend wrote in his Republic Day Greeting email, “Let’s hope that this momentous occasion would also bring more food to the needy, more clothes to [...]

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From web pages to Television programs. That; swhat Google has now ventured into in its quest of organizing world information. According to Google, “Google Video enables you to search a growing archive of televised content – everything from sports to dinosaur documentaries to news shows.”

I had written in my previous post that the use of rel=”nofollow” attribute wouldn’t be all that useful in stopping comment spams. Nikolaos writes on his blog that this could also lead to the already overcommercialised Internet becoming evn more commercialised.

The big guns- Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have gotten together in the crusade against comment spam with the use of rel=nofollow attribute in the links.
Why it wont score a 10/10?
From the Google blog,
From now on, when Google sees the attribute (rel=”nofollow”) on hyperlinks, those links won’t get any credit when we rank websites in our [...]

It ain’t a great feeling being “Bangalored!”

“I have inside knowledge of call centres, having worked in several. It’s crucial that the agents be efficient. Barraging them with 60-second calls will ruin their stats and also lower their morale. Eventually, they’ll start thinking ‘another damn rude American a******’ every time a call comes up. [...]

Google – Some interesting facts from Alan Williamson:

The prime reason the Google home page is so bare is due to the fact that the founders didn’t know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. Infact it was noted that the submit button was a long time coming and hitting the RETURN key was the [...]

BBC News has a very interesting article on the origins of the Swastika- a mark made on people or objects to give them good luck in Indo-European culture.

The EU wishes to ban the symbol because of its Nazi associations, but the Swastika has been around since long before the Nazis decided to make the [...]