Indispensable Top Blog/Websites

Below i will list a bunch of blogs/websites that i visit regularly, please feel free to add yours in the comment and i will add them to the list as long as they are not explicit/adult content.

News
Robert Scoble's Weblog - Talks about Microsoft(like Homer would say "Duh..", offcourse he would, he works for Microsoft) and other interesting tech happenings. Nevertheless an interesting character.
Dave Winer's Scripting.com - He has links to important tech news of the day.
Digg.com - A website created by Kevin Rose where the user gets to vote on what stories to keep on the front page.
Slashdot - If you are a geek/tech savvy person, you already know about it. And if you are not, the title of the page should explain it, "News for nerds, stuff that matters".
Microsoft-Watch - All things Microsoft.
Engadget - Gadget reviews/news.
Scientific America - Scientific news.
OS News - Title should say it all.

Personal Development and Productivity
43Folders - It is a "site about personal productivity, life hacks, and simple ways to make your life a little better." I love this site, lots of informative tips.
Steve Pavlina - writes about various personal development topics.
Life Hacker - It "recommends the downloads, web sites and shortcuts that actually save time."

Entertainment/Interesting
Variety Music - Music news
Paul Graham - He writes very good essays.
Neat New Stuff - Weekly reviews of websites.
Daring Fireball

Automated Installation of WindowsXP

Have u ever wanted to automate the installation of Microsoft WindowsXP? Instead of sitting hours in front of your computer entering your name, password and choosing configurations instead of just letting it run on its own. Well(i know i am late), but i found a solution for it. So for any one of you out there wondering if its possible, here's a step by step instruction from msfn.

Gada Be a Meta-Search



Chris Pirillo has released a new meta-search website called Gada.be . The site was preety slow earlier today(takes a few mins to get your result back), i can understand because of the heavy traffic and hopefully all the kinks can be worked out. Otherwise its a darn good service. The service is described as "......... a metasearch service with a few unique features.......gada.be is for anybody with access to the Web and in need of immediate, impartial results..........Then, there's having to visit several sites just to get the results you want." You can also get the result in OPML. The site seems to be suffering from some sql/database error.

To learn more about Gada.be, you can read about it over at

Chris Pirillo's Blog

Techcrunch has a review about Gada.be

Links for Sunday, Oct 9th 2005

Interview of GTD guru David Allen by Bill Hammersley
Cnet's Top 100 Blog
Free Online Video from MIT - From MIT's site, "MIT World™ is a free and open site that provides on-demand video of significant public events at MIT."
Kick Procrastination Ass - This is what i need to do :-) .
Interview at Microsoft - Interview process at Microsoft

The Internet

Let's take a vote. So how many of you actually know the history of the Internet? Thats what i thought and i am actually one of them. In one of my network class, we were asked to read about the history of the internet. And i thought, why not share it with everyone else by posting a link on my blog :-) .
And what about the various protocols that you use to surf the web(http), check your email(smtp), ftp, telnet etc. So how does it work and how is it implemented? And if you learn these, you will fully understand the jibberish that you see when you run Ethereal(software that captures packets, displays and analyzes it). If you are even vaguely interested to know about these, you should definitey pick up a book called
Communication Networks:Fundamental Concepts and Key Architectures or
Read Chapter 2 of Communication Networks for Free(this way if you have any interest, you can purchase the book).