May 2008
33 posts
Chennai wins! The Superkings were superb today. Very professional performance.
Playing the Super Kings song to keep the support going - Chennai Superkings is on the IPL semi-finals today
Google can do currency and time conversion from the search box - neat and useful
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Inspiring presentation on the heroes of the China Earthquake
MicroReviews - http://microrevie.ws/ looks interesting
Re-built my battered, old iPAQ 1940 from scratch in the weekend; it can play some simple games now
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Rubber man: his head is just amazing!
Saw a guy struggling to sell hard-bound encyclopedias on the street; with Wikipedia and the like it seems to be a dying business
Successfully dodged a few beggars outside the mosque; in India, religious people also need to learn tricks to escape beggar attacks.
Continued playing around with Yahoo Pipes; string manipulation etc; need some good ideas to build a great pipe. Any plumbers around? :)
Very impressed with Mozilla Lightning. Hope to use it on a regular basis - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/index.html
Built my first Pipe at Yahoo
Interesting: “BeTwittered : 32Hours” ( http://tinyurl.com/3dd7te )
Stuck in a long boring meeting in the office at 7.30 in the evening…
Spectra Visual Newsreader | msnbc.com →
Great way to read news!
Could not get into City Center Mall due to lack of parking space; they need to do something quick or they will start losing customers
Headed to Marina Beach; as usual the waves had a calming effect - always have enjoyed the gentle sounds they make
Looking forward to: “E-passports coming from next month” ( http://tinyurl.com/3lp49a )
Getting bombarded with ads of Havell, Max NewYork Life and Mobile Store in between IPL overs; will boycott these products/services for sure
Watching the Bangalore RC reminds me of Gabbar in Sholay saying “Suno Thakur ne hijdon ki fauj banayi hai!” (Eng: look what a pathetic team)
Shoaib Akhtar arrives in style - blasts out the Delhi Daredevils top order
Looking at: “WSO2 Mashup Server ” (http://tinyurl.com/57hfza)
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Chennai Summer and IPL
Nothing much to update except that the dreaded Chennai summer is upon us. Temperatures are in their 40s (C- maximum) and ACs are in action all across the city. Thankfully, we have still not seen very many powercuts which are so prevalent in summer here. Apart from the weather the only interesting thing these days is the IPL season. By now, anyone reading this blog would have known through my...
Changed the desktop and Firefox theme to resemble Gnome’s Clear Looks theme.. a ritual I follow every 3 months or so
Cleared IBM’s SOA Associate certification; phew! what a relief!
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Losing is okay but losing without a fight is unacceptable; Dhoni should apologize to the CSK fans for a spineless performance
CSK looking down the barrel…. waah!
Disappointing batting performance by Chennai Superkings; if Sehwag gets going then CSK will lose their first match
Reading: “How We Use Twitter for Journalism - ReadWriteWeb” (http://tinyurl.com/652bdb)
April 2008
25 posts
Ilaneer or tender coconut water seems to be the best drink for the Chennai summer along side Butter milk and plain water