Time server and nice day night graph

It has a very nice day-night graph of the world:
http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?UTC/s/0/java

Hats off to Jews!

As a group they should have been the most persecuted in recent times. It is the resilience of humanity they survived to tell their story to grand children.

Nazi Genocide Timeline

Genocides of Rwanda, Bosnia or Gujarat riots pale in comparison [That is not to say they were not significant].

Nice scripting Q & A

More importantly it is written with good humour! Very nice to read:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/qanda/default.mspx

Uploading photos to web!

If you are searching a place for uploading photos to web,

http://picasaweb.google.com/

Is a nice one! Allows 1 GB free.

Also associated Picasa software is nice too. Makes uploading a breeze!

BTW, Vista has very nice image importing and organizing built in - Liked it!

Nice puzzle from an Olympiad!

if a,b are integers,

q = (a^2+b^2) / (ab+1)

prove if q is an integer, q is perfect square.

Has a beautiful solution!

BBC Documentary archive

BBC has an archive of all the nice documentaries broadcast in BBC world service.
There are some very good ones:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/documentary_archive/

LDAP and AD

The worst system I have worked on!

If you get an error no way to find out what is the problem. Try doing random things till something works out.
You get beautiful errors like "unspecified error", "server is unwilling to process the request".

This should be taught to all computer engg. students to teach them how not to design a system.

This system was designed and implemented by brainless morons who decided that we kings will only implement features, error handling is for normal programmers.