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A query language for searching websites
Jan 27, 20052 min read

A query language for searching websites

It does seem stale that you just write a set of words to query for a particular piece of information. For example, consider a query such as: "Were there any video releases in the last one week that...

Effects of computer aided decision making
Jan 27, 20051 min read

Effects of computer aided decision making

A quick thought: Tell me what is 19 X 18 Are you able to calculate this without using paper? Probably you can, but I cannot. I remember having mugged up the tables when I was in my high-school. But...

A peek into the near future
Jan 24, 20052 min read

A peek into the near future

It seems that I am getting crazy over this subject. Here's yet another blog entry in its name. (I am talking about Information Management). Here's a list of tools that various sites provide to help...

Tried My-MSN
Jan 21, 20051 min read

Tried My-MSN

I just tried My-MSN today. It rocks!!! (Gana, please don't tell me I am easily excited by anything.) Some features that I liked in My-MSN were: The look and feel: It is really great. The module col...

And now Personalised search from Yahoo!
Jan 18, 20051 min read

And now Personalised search from Yahoo!

Yahoo has come up with yet another idea - Personalized search. (I think it was already there, but this is really cool.) My Yahoo search lets us search for pages, save them, save keywords and also a...

Information is cheap
Jan 16, 20052 min read

Information is cheap

And it is here finally. Yahoo was the last one to take the plunge. Just write "Desktop search" in Google and have a look. You will be surprised. Google, Yahoo, MSN, AskJeeves all have entered this...

LiveJournal was down
Jan 16, 20051 min read

LiveJournal was down

Although LJ was down on Jan 15th, my My-Yahoo Feed reader was able to show all my LJ friends' blogs without any problems. I click on some interesting article and it doesn't work because LJ is down....

Lab exams went well
Jan 04, 20051 min read

Lab exams went well

My lab exams went well. For Internet Programming it was our beloved HOD. He as usual was least interested in our project. The Networking Lab was too good. I can't forget it for some time. Our proje...

Blog spamming?!
Dec 18, 20041 min read

Blog spamming?!

Recently saw some anonymous comments in many of my friend's blogs. (I don't know if it is there in some entry of mine. I didn't care to check.) Well, this made me check on the web about blog spammi...

Blogging - the new revolution?!
Dec 03, 20041 min read

Blogging - the new revolution?!

I had to add something, after all I had to tell people that I am alive! Good to know people are joining this new community. It reminds me of the day when Bharat introduced me to blogging. The first...

Nearing the end of it...
Sep 15, 20041 min read

Nearing the end of it...

We are nearing the end of our first tenure at the IBM campus. And we have learnt a lot here. I liked the training a lot. It is hard to believe that we have been here for about 1 and a half months....