Links

More Indian sites: Fortunecity India, Britannica India, and Weather India.

I received a file called Navidad.exe a few days ago and stupidly ran it. Turned out to be a virus that killed the system. Google produced no answers to searches on “Navidad.exe virus” except a posting on egroups — in Spanish. A translation through Babelfish almost yielded readable material and I was able to fix it. Symantec’s AV Center has a cure.

What are brands worth?

Not that I’m into art or anything, but ever since I saw the Louvre, and came out wondering what’s so great about the Mona Lisa, I figured I may as well get some culture. The Van Gogh light exhibition is a good start.

moneycontrol.com is an Indian financial site. Yahoo gets most of its Indian news feed from here.

Websearch has an interesting set of articles on how to search the Web. Makes interesting reading at the very least. But more importantly, it tells you so many ways of searching that you never knew existed.

Fortune has a 6-part post-mortem of dot-coms. In contrast, the FTC lists the top ten ways to make a quick-buck on the Internet — the dot cons.

Advanced Stock Information has a nice set of collections of the top-10 financial sites in various categories.

Just the service I’ve been waiting for. The Scout Report — one of the oldest and best sources of what’s good on the Internet, has launched a web log.

From online scripts, I’m moving to online short stories. Never could resist O Henry.