Jun 30 2005

43 Places!

Tag: Discoveries, Raves @ 10:51 am






Just saw a new link on 43things right beside my account saying I am going to 0 places and clicked it to figure out what was going on, and….. voila!, they now do places!


Same account, more goodness!


It’s really cool, each place you click on shows up with beautiful pictures and people’s experiences there and recommendations.


Your account page even shows a global zoomable flash map highlighted with all the places you wanna go.


Awesome. Not just recommended, you must go and check it out.


Incidentally, 43things also has been adding more stuff, there are now tags with goals and subscriptions. These guys keep updating their stuff. I like. :-)

Jun 20 2005

Mama again!

Tag: Friends @ 3:45 am

Over the weekend, my sister, Rachna, went into labour and on Sunday afternoon, gave birth to a healthy baby boy. I am now a Mama (Uncle), again.

Both mother and child are fine, the baby weighed in at 3.17 kilograms at birth.

There’s something about seeing and holding a newborn that awakens feelings of wonder at the magnificence and beauty of nature that really doesn’t compare to anything else.

Stand by for pictures of the baby boy, they’ll be coming in soon.

Currently, there’s a hot debate going on over the name of the boy, the current choices have been narrowed down to Arnav and Abhimanyu.

Update: They just confirmed it, he’s been named Arnav. :)

Jun 17 2005

Holy Supersmooth pates, Batman!

Tag: Discoveries @ 5:04 am

A while back, I went through a phase where I decided that the sparse hair on my head was not worth keeping on and had regularly started taking it all off.


Those days, I would regularly go down to my barber and have him do the needful to emerge with a freshly shaven bald pate.


Perhaps, I would have kept up doing it if I had - the Headblade S4. This thing would be an awesome experience - to shave my head. It even has a kickstand - to keep the blade off it’s edge when it’s on rest.

Jun 15 2005

UberGeek Keyboard

Tag: Discoveries, Weird Stuff @ 1:44 pm






So you think you’re a super geek.


You think you can key in stuff from your keyboard faster than the eye can see.


You think you are the best that’s out there.


You need Das Keyboard.


The keyboard for the UberGeek.


This is just the kind of thing that us UberGeeks love to show off on. A keyboard without any key labels. None. Whatsoever. So even if you look down while you type, you don’t see what you’re gonna get. ;-)


The site says: “Since there is no key to look at when typing, your brain will quickly adapt and memorize the key positions and you will find yourself typing a lot faster with more accuracy in no time. It is amazing how slow typers almost double their speed and quick typers become blazing fast!”


Something I would definitely wanna try out.

Jun 14 2005

TV Tome

Tag: Raves @ 3:27 pm

I’ve been watching a lot of TV episodes lately. Quite often I found myself going to this nice site called TV Tome, where it had a comprehensive review and fun facts about shows, like goof ups and other trivia. It was sometimes quite useful to see the story of an episode if I missed any in between or to find out the finer points about a particular episode.


Recently, a CNet text links bar started appearing on all TVTome pages. Since the site continued to work as before, I didn’t bother checking it out, surmising that there had been another website bought over by the CNet network.


Imagine my surprise, today, when I tried to go to TVTome, it redirected me to TV.com - the new home of TVTome. CNet had also acquired the TV.com, two letter domain and moved the site there. There’s something about two letter domains that simply ……. gives me a feeling of absolute awe. :)


Anyways, the new site, while keeping with the old content, is a lot more…. CNetish now, there’s a whole different, heavy, feel to it. On the other hand, it not only brings the well known CNet look and feel to the site, the CNet common account also works, so you can use your CNet account to put in your own reviews, select your favourite shows, etc.


Try it out, if you’re a TV buff. Good show. ;)