Though Nintendo hasn’t officially launched Wii yet in India, the number of Wiis in India *is* increasing. 3 of my friends, who returned from US last week, bought Wii I don’t know how they got hold of one, as it is in extremely high demand over there now! One of the initial problems you’d face [...]
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Oregon, here I come!
I will be visiting Portland (Oregon) for 5 weeks, starting WW19. This being a very short trip, I can’t hope to explore OR fully. Anyway, I did a quick search to get a list of must-see spots. Filtering the “normal” stuff apart, I am planning to at least cover the following places: Do let me [...]
Switched to 1Mbps Airtel Unlimited DSL
When BSNL came up with the 2Mbps and 1Mbps plan, most of my friends who had Airtel 256Kbps line, jumped on to the BSNL bandwagon. I didn’t, for the simple reason that BSNL came with a data transfer limit! That is, only the first 1.25GB or so is free every month and after that you [...]
Interview with Vishwanathan Anand – IBN Live videos
Recently CNN-IBN ran an interview with Chess world champion Vishwanathan Anand (Vishy). I didn’t catch this on TV, but ,thanks to IBN-Live, found them in their site. The show is split in to 5 parts. Click on the following links to open them in a new window. The site needs no registration to view the [...]
[Spoiler] Harry potter and the deathly hallows
 I am a big fan of Harry potter (HP)! I got hooked in to pottermania around 2001, since then I have collected all original HP books (all thoroughly earmarked) + audio books (US Version – Jim Dale) + first 4 HP movie DVDs. Like every other HP fan, I went ahead and booked the final installment [...]
Bangalore KempKids – Be careful of the dogs
My brother visited me last weekend. On saturday, I took them to Kemp Kids (a.k.a Kempfort) in Airport road. Kempkids is actually a good-enough place to kill a couple of hours, but personally I would leave my wallet in home before going there. They quote exorbitant prices for everything! They have these furry animals (a [...]
The great “Indian” attitude!
This happened during my Chennai visit. When we landed in Chennai, as there were no gates available immediately, we had to wait for ~5 minutes. There was this person sitting 3 rows in front of me, along with his wife and a kid, who also stood up to collect his things. When it took sometime [...]
Limousines in India?
Yesterday I had to go to Chennai, on an official work. The plan was to go there in the morning and return back by night. Morning flight was uneventful, thought the same cannot be said about the returning flight. I saw the above car when I came out of the airport. Interesting! I have never [...]
A look @ Chess Olympiad 2004
Whew, what a month October has been! With the heavy weights Kramnik & Leko fighting it out for the Dannemann World Championship title, I have to admit, I didn’t pay that much attention to the first 3 – 5 rounds of this year’s olympiad. Of course, there were so many elite players playing including my [...]
Problemsss!
Today I found the excellant TamizManam website. I have been thinking of starting a Tamil blog for quite sometime now, so naturally, when I saw this site, I got excited. As per the instructions given there, I installed e-Kalappai, pressed alt-2 and typed happily in Tamil in Notepad!! Not everything was smooth with IE, which [...]
