A Journey Begins: 14-01-08 Pt.1

Balaji Booked tickets to Umesh’s wedding. It was to be held in Kerala, near Umesh’s hometown, Ottapalam. He booked the tickets a month in advance. We left Chennai on the evening of the 12th of January, 2008. It was a Saturday and had been a full day for me. I packed my bags early in the morning, when I was leaving for office, carried it with me, and managed not to forget anything.

And off we go on a merry-go-round…

Here they are… All the new header images that I’ve put up on the blog… So do take a look at them, click on the image to see it full size at my flickr account. And then let me know what you think. You can also go around the other pages on the blog (there … Read more

iPhone… or do i?

Apple’s brand new ‘revolutionary’ iPhoneApple has revolutionised the phone… really? The guys at Engadget don’t seem to think so. They’ve got a long list of things that they think Apple did wrong.

We’ve all heard about the great things that the iPhone can do… now we hear about what it cant!

But first, a recap of the headlines… What Apple did right!

  1. Designed something that looks way cooler than anything else on the planet, yet…
  2. Got all of the mobile devices you would need, and bunched them into one sleek package.
  3. Gave this thing an interface that could have great potential in many different applications.
  4. Made everything upgradable simply by running everything off OS X (software is so much easier to upgrade than hardware).
  5. Made this sleek, shiny iPhone almost completely scratch proof.
  6. Gave it a display that was usable in direct sunlight

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My Rainy Bike

It looks like the monsoons are beginning here, the first of the heavy rain spells began yesterday. Today’s been a bit brighter, but still, its more cloudy than usual.

I like the rains. Especially when it rains this way, rains in the late evening, clears up at night, cloudy mornings with the su

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