Links

Omar Zabir’s portal. Let’s you use Windows XP without having Windows XP. Well, actually, it’s just a tour of Windows XP features, but you pretty much get to “use” XP. Quite a piece of programming! via MetaFilter

On figuring Google’s pagerank. It’s interesting to note that Google, and only Google, ranks 11 out of 10 in its pagerank.

An interesting thread on Andersja’s about how McKinsey is blocking competitors from its site. I’m at the receiving end of it. And so far, it hasn’t affected my life in any way.

Another interesting piece related to complexity: a speech on the paradox of randomness by Gregory Chaitin. via missing matter

Quantum information science: a convergence of complexity theory and quantum mechanics. via missing matter

Photoblogs and the Visual Thesaurus via Kribs

Distributed Proofreaders. As the name suggests, it’s a distributed web-based tool for proof-reading books for Project Gutenberg. References from Slashdot and kuro5hin have spiked the number of pages proofread. But even that apart, they’re targetting over 1,000 pages a day. That’s over a book a day! via kuro5hin

An update on the IIT-K prime factorisation algorithm. via Matthai Markose

I’m going to try and not update until Monday (11th Nov, not 4th). Don’t even bother visiting. Happy Diwali!

Oh, so Sam Palmisano made CEO of IBM. Guess that was expected. He wants to focus on on-demand computing (his word for corporatising distributed computing projects).

Shortly, there will be companies creating this [distributed computing] market — focusing on aggregating the retail computing power, and using them across several projects. (Google is already trying to do that through its toolbar, and so is Intel.)

— S Anand, 29 Sep 2002

And now, IBM. I was prophetic 🙂