of cats and dags

¶ Published Friday, March 30th at 9:52 am ∞ In Entertainment, T.V. ∞ 4 Comments »

I have never been a fan of reality TV. And most of all I can still never get myself to watch American Idol. Yet when something crazy (where crazy is the biggest understatement in this case) happens, it becomes hard to ignore. Gentle readers, do not worry, I am yet to watch an episode of […]

¶ Published Thursday, March 29th at 2:50 am ∞ In General Rubbish, Internet ∞ 8 Comments »

When I first saw this I felt ‘yeah right!’. Apparently its a service that pays you for surfing the net. I have seen plenty of them earlier but this one seems to have grown so much in popularity that it might be actually prove little hard to ignore. It started with much fanfare and a […]

¶ Published Saturday, March 24th at 12:47 am ∞ In Operating Systems, Linux, Ubuntu, Technology ∞ 9 Comments »

Forgive the clichéd use of a familiar punchline modified for convenience. For a want of a better title, it was all I could come up with.
The past couple of days were spent in installing and tweaking (and more tweaking) a new operating system in my laptop. Ubuntu (meaning ‘towards humanity’ as its Wikipedia entry […]

¶ Published Friday, March 23rd at 10:15 pm ∞ In World Cup 2007, Cricket, Sports ∞ 1 Comment »

Didn’t we see it coming? No how could we? After all… all those companies that sponsored the Cup are Indian, aren’t they? (At least they all have major Indian market presence)
In a brilliant exhibition of bird brained batting, the Men in Blue (or should we say the Blue Man Group) hit balls perfectly aimed down […]

¶ Published Thursday, March 22nd at 12:40 am ∞ In Entertainment, General Rubbish, Videos, T.V. ∞ No Comments »

He is the main reason I watch House. Two consecutive Golden Globes is no mean achievement (depending on how you view the awards). I knew he could play the piano. But never knew he could sing as well as play the guitar. Multi-talented, he sure is. This video shows a much younger Hugh […]

¶ Published Tuesday, March 20th at 12:20 am ∞ In World Cup 2007, Cricket, Sports ∞ 7 Comments »

The Team finally performed to what they were famed for. Although, you have to feel sorry for poor little Bermuda. Surely they were not going to put up much of a fight. This performance however proves that the Indians (and Greg Chappell) value their lives as well as their property, as Dhoni had to find […]

¶ Published Sunday, March 18th at 12:48 am ∞ In World Cup 2007, Cricket ∞ 5 Comments »

Was definitely chuffed after the knockout blow that Pakistan suffered at the hands of the Leprechauns. Sometimes I wonder if the post match Urdu directive from above had anything to do with morale in general. You know, stuff like Inzy losing his edge and deadpan wit and all. But today he did speak in English, […]

¶ Published Thursday, March 15th at 11:18 am ∞ In Murderous Humour, Blogs ∞ 6 Comments »

Before the pikeyspeak faithful gets all bleary eyed and begins to lookup the date of my first post on this blog, I would assert that this day is neither the day I started this blog nor is it the first time I set foot on the lazily named blogosphere. It is also not the date […]

¶ Published Tuesday, March 13th at 8:37 am ∞ In Murderous Humour, General Rubbish ∞ 6 Comments »

Time passes, with all the precision that we come to associate with it. Its gait being ever so slightly hastened with that most meaningless of all farces also known as Daylight Savings Time. So an hour is what we lose (this time three weeks earlier than past years) but with Spring round the corner, the […]

¶ Published Saturday, March 10th at 11:57 pm ∞ In World Cup 2007, Cricket, Sports, Internet ∞ 2 Comments »

It’s a strange feeling. Just when you resign yourself to the truth that the Americans couldn’t (and would never) care less about football (soccer), you have another sporting event that most of them will never ever hear of in their lifetimes. Quite understandable, their hatred for Britishness. Baseball and American football were invented out of […]