Consolidation of web properties
50% of all Net surfing is done on the sites of Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft and Napster. There’s consolidation of web properties for you!
Year: 2001
Samrat
I’d been to the Samrat restaurant (near Eros theatre) with Vinod. A bright and clean place, serving Gujarati cuisine. Having decided to try only new items, We picked corn bhel and fried baby corn for starters, and makai nu shakh with reshmi paratha and rumali roti for the main course. Makai nu shakh is “cream corn, cooked in milk with coconut, coriander and green chillis”. It tasted rather like Au gratin, and rather nice, in my opinion. Corn bhel was excellent — just bhel, except corn was used instead of puffed rice. Figuring there was too much corn on the plate, we had onion rings (instead of fried baby corn) which taste the same pretty much everywhere, I suppose.
The service is what really impressed me. The waiters were always there at the right times, invisible when they weren’t needed, taking orders instantly, clearing plates at the right moments, and so on. Given all this, and that our meal cost Rs. 283, it’s a great place to eat.
Mumbai dabbawallahs
Mumbai dabbawallahs have been given a 6-sigma rating. I might start ordering dabbas online for dinner.
AI game
Spielberg’s next movie, A.I., has sparked a weird game. I read the article on it at ZDNet and searched for Jeanine Salla, listed as the movie’s sentient machine therapist, which lead me to her site, (at the so called “Bangalore World University”!!) and from there to others… it really is a wierd game. Those with enthu, do try it and let me know your progress.
The Dumb
thedumb.com is about dumb laws, facts, and warnings.
Cool Site of the Day
Cool Site of the Day: another way to learn about interesting sites. Google recommends Netscape’s new and cool, USA Today hot sites, The Internet Tourbus, and the Glassdog.
Cybelle in Agentland
Cybelle lives in AgentLand. She’s 100% virtual (having admitted it, she asked if I was disappointed), and guides people through their site. It’s a new and interesting way of having a search engine on a site.
Subjex
Subjex, like Ask Jeeves, handles searches in plain English.
Why bless you
Why do people say “Bless you” when you sneeze? The practise may date back to the plague in London, though there are several theories.