This is an extremely biased review of the city based on the 2 days that I was there. So in the event that you happen to love the city for a reason unfathomable to me, you can save your energy and not hit out against this review because… I just don’t care for your point [...]

Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) is expected in about a week here. I am definately going to upgrade have upgraded to it. albiet after about a week or so of the release, since I am pretty risk averse. So, I thought that this would be a good time to do a long term review of Ubuntu [...]

Here is a little humour that all Americans could use considering the amount of stress that they must be under.
If you had purchased $1000 of shares a year ago in:

Delta Aitlines, you would have $49 today
AIG, you would have $33 today
Lehman Brothers, you would have $0 today

But if you had purchased $1000 of beer one [...]

I finally saw Letters from Iwo Jima yesterday. The movie was extremely well made and the depictions of the time and life of the Japanese was very well done. The conditions on Iwo Jima (from what I have read) were shown well. Ken Watanbe was good as usual. I wonder how Client Eastwood was able [...]

I have now moved onto the 2nd book in the Dune series. The book is called Dune Messiah. The story takes up 12 years after the first book in which Paul Atreides comes back to defeat the Harkonens and the Padisha Emperor to take back Arrakis as his Dukedom.
In the second book Paul Atreides has [...]

At about 10:45PM Indian Standard Time, I tried to access my Adsense account and it was down. Then I tried again at 11:30PM IST and it was up. The page displayed was the site down message in about 20 languages.
I wonder how many people like me will put this up on various blogs and sites.

Microsoft has confirmed that its next version of Windows is actually going to be called Windows 7, dispelling rumours that it is going to be called something fancy. Hopefully this minimalistic approach will also spill over into the operating system as well and they will be able to deliver to us something that is clean [...]

The Municipal Corporation of Mumbai (BMC) has gotten together its plans to start a Wax Museum in the city of Mumbai at the Birla Krida Kendra in the Marine Line area of the city. This ambitious project would occupy a total area of 56000 sq. ft. and will be akin to the famous Madame Tussauds [...]

I recently read in the newspapers that Mumbai is going to get a brand new monument/tourist attraction. The Eye. Mumbai Eye. LIke… London Eye. That’s right. Mumbai’s Bandstand area is going to be the location of the Mumbai Eye overlooking the Arabian Sea on one side and Bandra West on the other. You can also [...]

October 14th saw the release of Firefox 3.1 beta. With this release Mozilla wants to showcase improvements in the user interface and greater support for emerging web standards. This release was originally intented to come out in August but they released an additional Alpha before this release.
This release has some interesting new features. The most [...]

I am no Apple fan. I feel that in terms of computing, Apple occupies a niche that I don’t really want to be a part of (I prefer the Linux niche). But, of course I am interested in all that Apple does from time to time. Be it the iPhone, the iPods or the brand, [...]

There is a website that I visit very often. I have a special affinity to it as a person in the Service industry and also as a sales person. A website that is a slap on the face of the person/persons who came up with the term “The Customer is Always Right”, because in reality, [...]

This is one of my favourite xkcd comics. It literally sums up the music that I had to listen to while growing up. Listening to the music and understanding the words was as much as a challenge as getting the music in the first place. My brother used to charge my money for the lyrics. [...]

The lower E string has broken.
All updates on hold till I get that fixed.