Was just browsing around when I came across a news item that said that Google was now doing movie reviews. I checked it out and Google, as usual, has done a great job of it. Anytime you want to look up a movie, just type movie: followed by the name of the movie and Google will display a list of movies that match your keywords along with the number of reviews available on each hit. Each link goes to a page dedicated to the movie with an aggregated movie rating along with links to individual review pages from different sites.

Great job Google, I think it’s perfect for movie buffs like me.

I went to visit my Dentist today. Why do all doctors have to have:a waiting area where there’s always dull, mindnumbing, slow, monotonous music playing? And magazines that are at least 6 months old, that too stuff that you never wanna read, like Outlook, Femina, etc?

Anyway, I hung around in the waiting area for like half an hour and then the doctor’s assistant had a look at my teeth. Having an X ray taken of your jaw is a really weird experience, let me tell you. The assistant then told me to wait some more while she had a look at the X ray. So I waited some more. Listened to some really bad music and had a look at a couple of issues of Outlook and got called in again.

Turns out that the main doctor finally had gotten a chance to check out my teeth and confirmed my belief that I would have to have a wisdom tooth removed. God I hate it when they poke around in your mouth and tap on your teeth with those weird metal hook shaped things.

So. I’m gonna have a tooth extraction tomorrow afternoon. Wish me luck!

Yes, I’ll write about how it went, tomorrow.

Which File Extension are You?

A friend pointed out that recently his Gmail account started showing 50 available invites to be distributed. I had long shifted to using Outlook to get and send my gmail and thus hadn’t been to the Gmail site for a long time. Well, after hearing this, I did look up the site and yes, to my astonishment, Gmail’s invite portion was listing 50 invites available!

So it, finally looks like Gmail is broadening their beta to include a lot more people. I wonder, if this is the final testing phase for them, they must be doing load / space quota testing now if they are broadening their service so much.

One can only guess that the next thing that Google is going to do is to open up their service to public registration. And when that happens, with their search engine results pumping in users, they should pretty much start to dominate the free email market. And I think that users would be very amiable to the switch, most other free services are plagued by prominent and intrusive advertising, much lesser space and slow web page serving.

Oh, by the way, my invites are up for grabs, by the way, so, if you still don’t have a Gmail account yet, you can add a comment to this post and I’ll be happy to invite you.

It’s time for some celebrations!

My best two friends are getting married. To each other.

It’s been a long journey from their friendship in school to the now of coming together and proclaiming their marriage. In between most days have been really good along with the few complementing bad ones too.

Now, as the time to begin spending the rest of the journey of their lives together draws close, I would like to raise my virtual toasting glass to wish them a happy, blissful lifetime of good cheer and health.

Here’s to you, Apurva & Romasha: May you have the best of times together – always.

In the end, I find it best to have a quote from Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider’s Northern Exposure:

Marriage is the union of disparate elements. Male and female. Yin and yang. Proton and electron. What are we talking about here? Nothing less than the very tension that binds the universe. You see, when we look at marriage, people, we’re are looking at creation itself. “I am the sky,” says the Hindu bridegroom to the bride. “You are the earth. We are sky and earth united…. You are my husband. You are my wife. My feet shall run because of you. My feet shall dance because of you. My heart shall beat because of you. My eyes see because of you. My mind thinks because of you and I shall love because of you.”