All About Cookies

The web is just not a safe place any more. People take all sorts or measures to protect themselves from online threats — firewalls, antivirus and anti-spyware software, phishing filters, popup blockers, anonymizers, and anything "anti" that I may have forgotten; you name it, people... [More]

Cuil-de-sac

Cuil, the latest search engine, launched with much brouhaha yesterday. In a world where googling is a verb in the dictionary, I wouldn't even give another search engine a try. What caught my eye, however are three features touted by Cuil: Thrice the number of pages pages indexed as comp... [More]

Can't Go To The Moon? Send Your Name Instead

If you Submit your name before 27th June 2008 here, NASA will send it to the Moon onboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft. And for instant gartification, you can download a certificate like the one below:

Bloogging May Be Injurious To Your Health

Just last week, The American Journal of Psychiatry reported in an editorial that excessive surfing might be a mental disorder. Now it's the blogger's turn to be at risk. According to speculations from an article in The New York Times, the stress of blogging and the des... [More]

Forgot Password?

I don't know about you, but I am drowning in a sea of user ids and passwords. Let's start with my computer network. I have an administrator-level id and password for my computer network. Having been a developer for a couple of decades, I know the havoc I could cause by hitting the wr... [More]

Can't Stop Surfing? You Must Be Crazy!

It's official. The American Journal of Psychiatry reports in its March 2008 editorial that excessive surfing might be a mental disorder after all. Check out the symptoms in the article. I wonder whether surfing at work might qualify you for workman's comp...

RTFM!

Have you, by any chance, read Office Live's online help? How about Internet Explorer's help? Windows XP help, may be? No? Don't worry. You're pretty normal. Most software comes with reference documentation of some sort - if not old-fashioned manuals, then online help at least.... [More]