Archive for May, 2005

Hacking Amazon

Saturday, May 28th, 2005

Since Amazon has to display the same image in many different sizes with subtle modifications for different promotions, they don’t actually store all the variations of the images. They have a standard picture and dynamically generate the image based on parameters passed in the url. Someone spent some time figuring out the different […]

Tamil wiki

Saturday, May 28th, 2005

I just stumbled upon the Tamil version of wikipedia. Now my grandmothers can read about Albert Einstein, Tony Blair and Christopher Columbus on the internet. Wikipedia now supports over 100 languages and many of them use different scripts.

The font strays a little from traditional Tamil. The […]

JERRY!

Tuesday, May 24th, 2005

Geetika, Nisha and Yaamini ran in the Bay to Breakers this year and met Jerry Rice!! I’m pretty jealous. There are only a few famous people that I have a strong desire to actually meet, but the two that top the short list are Jerry Rice and Steve Young.

Unfortunately the autograph […]

I’m officially a blogger

Monday, May 23rd, 2005

Hallo!