My Wierd Wired World

Here’s wishing You and your Family Members and Friends,
A Very Happy And Prosperous New Year ahead!
May the coming year bring you all the joys and happiness that you desire!!!

New years are a chance for a beginning
Even when there hasn’t been an end.
Wheels turn in an interminable bend,
Yet, marked in one spot, seem to wobble spinning.
Each year we hope to do a little better
Although we know that really nothing’s changed.
Reason thinks that everything’s arranged,
So we must dream if we would fate unfetter.

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Nice to be back at home!!! Itz not been that great a hiatus so nothing’s seemingly changed much but just on the surface! Who knows what lurks around the corners….

Anyways, throwing a spanner in the works is the fact that most friends have chosen not to come here during their Winter vacations and its compounded by the awkward academic schedules of the Family’s kids n bright-heads! Their examinations (what are they supposed to be ) will end only on the last day of the year so no rollicking visits till then!

So its main aur meri television for the time being now! The English Premiere League has been hogging much of the view-space and was followed by yet another Trilogy - an oft-viewed one that too - but this time on the satellite tv!

Time for moi annual New Year’s Vacation. Itz become an annual event since the past couple of years! Take a week or two’s vacation towards the end-of-the-year….spend some time at hometown with family and friends….usher in the new year in the company of nears and dears….

….and get back to the daily grind a few days later

And I’ve just noticed that my last year’s vacation had also commenced on 28th of December! Punctual, to the date, ain’t I

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Back in October, the storage space on GMail had touched the 3 Gigabyte mark much to the delight of all mail users. Back then, the GMail folks had umm..errr…(for want of a better word) “predicted” that the storage space on GMail would effectively double i.e. reach 6 Gigabytes by January of 2008. But hey! Seems they’ve undershot their target…for on Christmas Day itself, GMail’s counter ticked over to the magic mark of 6 GB!

But I’ve noticed one curious thing: When one opens the GMail sign-in page in the browser, just as the page loads the storage space counter shows 2757 megabytes and when the page does load fully, the counter changes over to 6066 megabytes. Anyone else see the same err..umm…anomaly?

Here’s Wishing Everyone a Very Merry Christmas!!!

P.S: I miss donning the garb of Santa this year

Nope! This post ain’t about the book of the similar name. But instead refers to moi state of mind at nights. I’ve discontinued my ISP subscription for the time being - in view of the upcoming holidays and the subsequent journeys & trips - and will be without nighttime-connectivity for at least a month…or maybe even more. While I can easily claim it was an easy decision for me, skeptics (read friends and roommates) argue to the contrary. Why would anyone want to sever one’s ties with the online world is their question and I simply answer them with a shrug of the shoulders

Its a been there done that kinda scenario for me. After all, I was connectivity-free till the OOD arrived and even for sometime after that. I honestly think that a month’s sabbatical (if one can call that!) would do a whole lot of good for me. I haven’t indulged in any of my fav pursuits ever since the advent of the ood - 4 books, 8 journals, 3 audio cd’s, 1 rubik’s cube, 1 tangram box (new one) and other miscellany are awaiting my attention. Time to turn attention onto them.

Phurst there wer Lolcats at the lolcat site: I Can Has Cheezburger.

When the Cats is have own feline-dom, is the Dogs and the canine-dom be left behind?

So lots of Loldogs come with their own loldog sites. [V searched for loldogs at that Google and this come]

The lolcat peepul have start their loldog site also: I Has a Hotdog

Please to visit and see it dogs.

k thx bai!

P.S: Iz it a Loldog?

As was widely speculated in the media as well as in my previous post, ex-Renault F1 driver Heikki Kovalainen has been snapped up by McLaren-Mercedes to partner Lewis Hamilton for the 2008 season. So McLaren will have both one-year-old rookies in its team next year but given the pace of the car and the talent of both these drivers, they still can be a formidable threat. Kimi and Alonso may have the numero uno status in their team, but its not the case with McLaren and that can be a big advantage for Kovalainen - who showed us that he’s got the pace and the nerve for F1 - but it remains to be seen how his err…umm….partnership with Lewis pans out. Given McLaren’s undue fondness for the Briton.

P.S: Whats with Finnish drivers and McLaren? Keke, Mika, Kimi and now Heikki!

Reports: Formula1.com | BBC Sport | Grandprix.com