of cats and dags

¶ Published Sunday, April 29th at 4:22 am ∞ In Asides ∞ 1 Comment »

India to get free broadband by 2009 And how is that, may I ask?
How to be annoying online. Some important pointers to spread irritation and annoyance to one and all.
Proof that God exists. Not just one or two. Hundreds. I am not an atheist, and this only affirms my faith in the divine!

¶ Published Sunday, April 29th at 12:29 am ∞ In World Cup 2007, Cricket ∞ 1 Comment »

Oh come on!
We wouldn’t be far off the mark if we say “We saw it coming”, would we? Three different sub-continent teams played Australia in three successive finals with no answers really. Although the scorecard of the Sri Lankans made better reading than the creaming their Indian and Pakistani counterparts got the last two times.

¶ Published Saturday, April 28th at 4:52 am ∞ In Desi Dabba, General Rubbish ∞ 3 Comments »

My return with a useful post is taking longer than I would want, with my usually healthy posting frequency taking a beating in the process. With the craziness that accompanies semester endings fast coming to an end, the day is not far off before I get back to writing something meaningful. But I still managed […]

¶ Published Tuesday, April 24th at 2:45 pm ∞ In Social Networking, Graduate Life, Texas A&M, General Rubbish, Orkut ∞ No Comments »

Just so that I stay clear of accusations of ‘internalizing’ content, the word ‘Blogical’ was spotted by me in the excellent Blogical Conclusion movie review blog by Baradwaj Rangan. You are welcome to hop over and run through his archives. Anyway, now that it’s out of my system let me move on to the exciting […]

¶ Published Sunday, April 22nd at 12:32 am ∞ In Asides ∞ No Comments »

Heard of Greasemonkey? The brilliant script/add-on that makes the web browsing experience on Firefox that much more special. No? Well read about it first ‘cos the next couple of links have to do with Greasemonkey.
Worried about accidentally clicking on your own Adsense ads? Here’s a solution.
Heard of the killer Reader + GMail integrating Greasemonkey script? […]

¶ Published Friday, April 20th at 8:21 pm ∞ In General Rubbish, Internet, Music ∞ 1 Comment »

Well, I don’t know how long it will last but if you go here it will direct you to enter the MySpace URL of the particular band that you are interested in.
This is the easiest way to download songs from MySpace. All you need to do is copy and paste the bands homepage into […]

¶ Published Friday, April 20th at 3:29 am ∞ In Soccer, Sports ∞ 2 Comments »

This is for those football ‘fans’ who wake up once in four years for the World Cup and lapse into deep football insulation after that. Although it becomes harder to ignore feats such a this [refer Youtube video]. Plenty has been said about Messi’s potential to fulfill the prophecies that burden a lot of Argentinian […]

¶ Published Friday, April 20th at 1:18 am ∞ In Entertainment, T.V., Internet ∞ No Comments »

Yesterday I got an invite from the guys at TIOTI to beta test their system. I duly went about the drill and here are my brief thoughts.
TIOTI stands for Tape It Off the Internet. It is a site that’s targeted at TV shows and provides Bit-torrent links to download shows off the net. I’m […]

¶ Published Wednesday, April 18th at 11:23 am ∞ In Cricket, Sports ∞ 7 Comments »

Okay, I had to break my silence on this. It’s terribly galling to know that a tournament of such significance to Indian cricket gets such treatment from the media, the fans and the board. I find it hard to believe that a format that brought the crowds back into the stadiums in England and South […]

¶ Published Monday, April 16th at 2:29 pm ∞ In Soccer, Cricket, Sports ∞ 3 Comments »

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has urged India to focus more on football than cricket.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter on Monday urged cricket-mad India to embrace football, saying the sport had a great future in the land of one billion people.”At present we are working on Vision Asia and our plan for India is […]