When I bought my first laptop, a 12" Powerbook G4 (still chugging along nicely), I was asked by the salesman if I wanted a .Mac subscription also. Hmmm, while the vanity of having a @mac.com address was attractive, paying $99 annually for it was not. Irrespective of the free ...
Category: Computing
Read MoreI had written in a previous post about joining a new DVD subscription service started by the Reliance conglomerate called Bigflix.
One of the main attractions for me was that there collection seems to have a good smattering of what is called "world cinema". Though euro-centric, it's great to ...
Category: Movies
Read MoreThe first Wired magazine that I read was in 1997. My father being a journalist had obtained a copy from someone he knew, magazines like Wired being practically unobtainable in India at that time. For a person brought up on the shoddy design and print quality of Indian technology magazines ...
Category: Magazine
Read MoreFor the longest time imaginable, I have been fascinated by fantasy - whether it be the science-fiction staples of Arthur C Clarke, Isaac Asimov and Philip K Dick or the lands of elves, dragons, and gods as laid down by writers like JRR Tolkien, Anne McCaffrey, Neil Gaiman and so many ...
Category: Reading
Read MoreBeing quite new to a city has its advantages and disadvantages. The advantages mainly being the simple fact that everything you experience in terms of sound, sight, taste is coated with a thick varnish of newness. This sadly though doesn't last as long as it should. For a person ...
Category: Movies
Read MoreWell, am now back to the world of the living and the gainfully employed. I have taken up an opportunity to work with a startup microfinance organization based in Mumbai For me, the attraction is two fold:
Category: India
Read MoreWell, I have been away from this blog for more than two months now. My resignation from the current job as well as the myriad complications arising out of it, the piles of work from the transitioning process and the general sense of ennui with life has kept my hands ...
Category: Ramble
Read MoreA few weeks back I got my hands on a book that shook my perspective on how engaging non-fiction could be. That book happened to be Richard Rhodes' "Making of the Atomic Bomb". A 900-odd page look into the genesis of the idea of the bomb and its actual birth ...
Category: India
Read MoreSorry, I just could not resist that. Getting to the point, I have in my hands an Asus Eee PC that I have been using for the past two days. My office has just bought two of them for evaluation purposes so thought I'd do a quick evaluation to ...
Category: Gadgets
Read MoreSeems like it is the season for lists. Another list that I came across courtesy Kottke, on the 1001 movies that you have to see before you die. Now, I do find this list a lot more dubious than that on books, because can there be honestly 1001 ‘great’ movies ...
Category: Movies
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