Tow, tow, tow your car
Gently down the road
Tow it tow it tow it
To the tire store

-Rishi Krishnamurthy, 3.5 years

[you will remember his debut poem- stones, stones, I need bones]

My student- Matthew Carmean- produces an unofficial Starbucks commercial.

Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi.

Electoral Vote Predictor. Neat application.

Google, circa 1960.

Blogger's invitation process is terrible.  I have tried using it with limited success.  It especially does not work well if you have a Hotmail a/c.  The official help page admits this.  I am currently trying to persuade Blogger that their invitation process is BROKEN.  They are still in denial, I think.  I thought all Google's technology was supposed to work reliably.  Well, this does not.  It is really a shame. 

Most wanted Gmail features. What an easy way to do market research!

Meet Jimmy Wales- the man who created WikiPedia.

An academic conference asks- "Does marketing need reform?".

Heard of Googles.com? It is a kid's site, folks. Why didn't Google buy this domain out in the early days?

A student- Frederic Ingold- pointed me to Ujiko. It is excellent. The most interesting feature is this. If on visit 1, you click on a link that was ranked 5th, that particular link will show up as # 1 on your next visit.

Yahoo has a research lab? Really?

My class blog is # 2 if you search for "search & the web" on Google.

Mozilla Firefox is better!

My class blog has taken off.