2002

My current project: transcribing every Calvin and Hobbes into text. Because I’d like to search, using text, for the strip in which Tracer Bullet has “six slugs, one of lead and five of bourbon” or where Dad explains why the Sun rises.

Mahesh is experimenting with a new blog format. Something like this has been on my mind for a while too. Will be watching it with great interest.

Is using the Net for schoolwork plagiarism? James McKenzie had some thoughts right in 1998.

Rail accidents are nothing new to India.

Greenspan’s defence. On why he couldn’t have raised interest rates earlier and prevented the bubble.

The next step to globalization. The Columbian President will use video-conferencing. To cut costs and to save time.

ABC News managed to smuggle uranium into the US. Reminds of when George Stalk was talking about the security checks in India being much tighter than in the US. He was body-frisked twice, and barely escaped a third random check.

andersja talked to a spammer. Some insights into the spamming world.

Professional news feeds. A treasure for RSS news junkies.

Beautiful backrounds with a bar-code theme. In Russian. But the pictures make sense. And yes, there’s an English version.