Voter Registration

I tried out voter registration on http://www.jaagore.com/. I had some problems printing the form from Linux. (using Firefox browser). Later I tried from MS Windows ((using Firefox browser)) and it worked. Best thing about Jaaro Re website is that it debunks many myths about voter registration process. Specifically if you are living away from your native place (i.e. permanent address, which for most young people, parents' residential address), you could still register and vote. In other words, even if you are living in rental apartment in some city in India, you can register and vote. Overall good work Jaago Re (meaning Wake Up in English) team!

People can also fill voter registration form (Form 6 etc.) by downloading from Election commission website http://www.eci.gov.in/forms/forms_Voters.asp

I have filled the forms, now I need to find out where to submit. Jaago Re website has some information about that too.

Books On Computational Geometry

Spent afternoon looking for some good books on computational geometry algorithms. Following is the compiled list. Just ordered one book from A1 books, hope to get it by next weekend.

• Computational Geometry and Computer Graphics in C++

by Michael J. Laszlo (Author)
Publisher: Prentice Hall; Facsimile edition (October 20, 1995)

• Computational Geometry in C

Joseph O'Rourke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 2000 edition (February 15, 2001)
# ISBN-10: 0521649765
# ISBN-13: 978-0521649766

• "Comptuational Geometry: Algorithms and Applications"

Mark de Berg et al
Publisher: Springer; 3rd edition (April 16, 2008)

• Computational Geometry (Monographs in Computer Science) (Hardcover)

by Franco P. Preparata (Author), Michael Ian Shamos (Author)
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K (October 1990)

Story of Internet: No. of Users

Yesterday watched TV program "Download: True Story of Internet" in Discovery channel. One of interesting statistics mentioned was number of Internet users. The sheer adoption growth rate is awesome. Today I tried to search for Internet statistics. Following is what I found:



I imported data from Wikipedia using Google spreadsheet's ImportHtml function.



(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_internet_users )