favourite sites

http://www.yahoo.com (but of course)

http://www.google.com  (an efficient search engine)

http://www.msn.com 

http://www.sulekha.com  (best community site i've seen so far)

http://www.britannica.com  (arguably the best reference site)
 

favourite news sites

http://www.samachar.com  (check out what's happening in India today)

http://www.news.com  (the ultimate news site)

http://www.msnbc.com

favourite cs research sites

http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cs  (the best CS research site on the planet)

http://www.cora.whizbang.com/

http://www.acm.org/dl/newsearch.html

Computer Science Bibliographies Search 
 

favourite online seminars/talks (technology related)

http://www.technetcast.com 

http://murl.microsoft.com 

favourite investment sites

http://moneycentral.msn.com/  (powerhouse for investment analysis)

http://finance.yahoo.com

http://www.scottrade.com

http://www.fool.com
 

favourite indian magazines

http://www.india-today.com  (the india today magazine)

http://www.outlookindia.com  (the outlook magazine)

http://www.the-week.com  (the week magazine)

http://www.filmfare.com  (the filmfare magazine)

http://www.internetindia.com/CineBlitz  (the cine blitz mag)

favourite music sites

http://www.padmalekha.com  (awesome site)

http://www.teenstation.com   (well designed site for hindi music)

http://www.musicindiaonline.com   (neatly catalogued songs from all indian languages)

favourite computer sites

http://www.sysinternals.com  (bible for nt internals)

http://www.pcwebopaedia.com   (a nice pc encycolpaedia)

http://www.pcguide.com  (another good pc bible)

http://www.2wire.com  (find out what your actual network bandwidth is!!)

http://www.ntfaq.com  (the ultimate nt faq)

http://www.geek-girl.com/unix.html  (a cool unix site)

http://www.perl.com   (*the* perl site)

http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin  (i worked for a year on this project at wipro, bangalore)

http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/bngusenet/comp/lang/c/top.html   (C programming faq)

Bjarne Stroustup's C++ page 

Douglas Schmidt's C++ page 

Ingo Cyliax Columns 

http://msdn.microsoft.com  (a developer's paradise)

Numerical recipes in C online 

Computer Architects 

Programming Languages People  

favourite sports sites

http://www.cricket.org   (the best site for cricket)

http://www.khel.com   (alternate cricket site)

favourite misc stuff

http://www.sciam.com  (scientific american's website)

http://www.qixo.com  Meta-search engine for Travel

http://www.mrwakeup.com  (setup phone reminders/alarms for free)

http://www.worldofescher.com  (check out the genius of m.c.escher)

http://www.image-in-asian.com/ramesh_m   (ramesh mahadevan's humorous stories - the best nri stories i've ever read)

http://www.rediff.com 

http://crec.bus.utexas.edu/