Monday 12 July 2004

Once again
I am not feeling like working on monday[though i will end up working late nite] it is being 11.45 am and not started yet with anything though seen what is happening in the whole world :)
at the moment busy reading about lake vostok.
Hopefully after this I will start...ohh will not the lunch start than

GIFs are free now in ca too

Today 8 july 2004 IST last patent of famous LZW (Algo used in GIFs) is expiring, this last patent was in Canada(so canadian time it was 7th July 2004, it expired.) So now US, Europe, And Canada all are free for LZW usuage
Will be interesting to see what unisys do now
or sites like this will still be needed, I request unisys let it be free now, it is long time they have stopped popularity of GIFs and who can forget who the popularity of GIFs declined since 1995, and yes, you IBM you also don't jump in fight this time.

Interesting story - Tale of two cities

I was just searching and trying to find the free version of paid story of forbes story
http://www.forbes.com/premium/archives/purchase.jhtml?storyURL=/forbes/2004/0412/094.html&_requestid=11987

I was expecting there must be a free version somewhere in some uni website but to my wonder it was found in forbes.com domain itself, I wonder! don't they know that google crawl forbes.com also
anyhow here is the link
http://www.forbes.com/home_europe/free_forbes/2004/0412/094.html
Pretty interesting story, and seems forbes has done good work of collecting facts.