« the ego has landed »random thoughts while floating on TCP/IPNT- November 28, 2003 A wee bit of mostly harmless Microsoft bashing ;-)http://murali.typepad.com/the_ego_has_landed/2003/11/nt_.html Bill Joy (Co-founder of Sun) on Open Source- November 22, 2003 Open source is fine, but it doesn't take a worldwide community to create a great operating system. Look at Ken Thompson creating Unix, Stephen Wolfram writing Mathematica in a summer, James Gosling in his office making Java. Now, there's nothing...http://murali.typepad.com/the_ego_has_landed/2003/11/bill_joy_cofoun.html 5 Blind Men: India's Cricket Tragedy- November 19, 2003 Well ! After India succesfully snatched defeat from the jaws of victory yesterday aginst Australia, here's a piece by Prem Panicker (on of my favorite Cricket writers) Good to see that Prem is warming up well before the Indian tour...http://murali.typepad.com/the_ego_has_landed/2003/11/5_blind_men_ind.html The new Mozilla Web Site- November 14, 2003 Nice to see the new Mozilla look !!! Good show guys :-) Mozilla Web Site Projecthttp://murali.typepad.com/the_ego_has_landed/2003/11/the_new_mozilla.html What does Brand India stand for- November 13, 2003 Culture, Mystic, Large Huge (as in population), Elephant (slow Hindu rate of growth), Peace Non-violence (Gandhi Ahimsa), IT (Sweatshop ) Frankly, as things stand today, there is nothing specific I can put my finger on when...http://murali.typepad.com/the_ego_has_landed/2003/11/what_does_brand.html long time ...- November 13, 2003 It's been a couple of days since I've posted to this blog ... A few things running in my mind : I'm doing some thinking on Search engines & Personalisation Some activity on weblogs.us I should come up with...http://murali.typepad.com/the_ego_has_landed/2003/11/long_time_.html Do you want to co-author a book on Google- November 10, 2003 Now this is something straight out of the minds of one of those Socio-cultural theorists commenting on the influence of Blogs on modern life ! Tony Perkins of AlwaysOn fame has a posting inviting his readers to contribute to his...http://murali.typepad.com/the_ego_has_landed/2003/11/do_you_want_to_.html iTunes - TIME mag's coolest inventions '03- November 10, 2003 Apple's iTune is without doubt one of the coolest things that hit the Computing world this year, but the article in TIME was an eye-opener on 2 fronts (quoting TIME): For every 99 Apple gets from your credit card, 65...http://murali.typepad.com/the_ego_has_landed/2003/11/itunes_time_mag.html Google toolbar sans IE- November 10, 2003 The Google Deskbar is just the right solution for people like me who got used to the Google toolbar in Windows & have switched to Firebird The Google Deskbar gives you all the regularly used functionality of the Toolbar without...http://murali.typepad.com/the_ego_has_landed/2003/11/google_toolbar_.html 2004 - The year of Linux- November 10, 2003 The New York Times comments on Novell's acquistion of SuSE Linux : Already, Microsoft has felt the sting of Linux, which many corporations see as a reasonable and less expensive alternative to the Windows operating system. In only a few...http://murali.typepad.com/the_ego_has_landed/2003/11/2004_the_year_o.html |