This is practice: D-uh

In Progress

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 04:33:18 GMT

Well, the intentions are still noble and there are a few things I intend to post...but most of the time I'm either too busy or too lazy to do so. So its not that things are not happening...for instance I'm in Aurangabad where the hotel shows Ten Sports in the morning and Star Cricket at night...so I miss the India v/s Australia series in the morning and the West Indies v/s South Africa series in the evening. I'm sure the cable operator hasn't been paid for a while... considering the only thing worth watching (and with fairly decent reception) this morning was New Zealand v/s Bangladesh. The cable operator also seems to suffer from power cuts at the most inopportune times...which means I have to switch to DD (National & News) quite a few times. Scary stuff that... Chennai correspondent says that Govt. is now going to throw the book at people buying pirated stuff from the market. I hope they were referring only to computer software (cable was restored and I stopped watching). Those with access to the Hindu may kindly take note and let me know... and pray that Bombay doesn't follow suit.

Gotham Comics still can't get its deadlines right...which isn't that bad considering that they were out of circulation for two years before they came back on this year. Their choice of titles/ story arcs is pretty decent though. Batman & Son first ish looked good and Ultimate Spider-man & Astonishing X-Men storylines are pretty cool. Virgin comics - well, they're not as bad as a lot of people have made them out to be.

Videos on this site need to be changed. (Simpsons movie was excellent) and I got 3:10 to Yuma on DVD. Its on my "watch" list...along with some 20 others. RSS feed looks OK for now. Guys may want to check out my friend Aditya's blog (kaulout.wordpress.com) if your'e interested in his thoughts on mobile and wi-fi networking and the other things that form part of his life.

Cricket: Police deny reports on Woolmer killing suspects

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 07:55:56 GMT

I know what youre thinking....thats one heck of a revenge story! The last thing you expected to arise from the Bob Woolmer murder investigation was...umm... Bob Woolmer himself? Personally, I hate the fact that almost every figure of authority like the Government or the Police discounts the supernatural and makes us believe that dead people don't go around killing other people. I'd be filing this under "Supernatural/ Gothic/ Horror/ Revenge" had my natural sense of curisousity not intervened.
No...this is not from the Times of India. Its from the International Herald Tribune (IHT Sports - quoting Bloomberg). RSS Feed towards bottom left of this page.

Another addition to the week's cool headlines...

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:38:50 GMT

...though I think this may have been more of a goof up. From today's TOI.

"Tata's Rs 100,000 car to hit Two-Wheelers"
...as opposed to other car manufacturers' Rs (*much larger amount*) cars that also hit other cars, people, lamp-posts and every other object that is in close proximity of anything bearing resemblance to things that India refers to as roads??. This could be a step up considering Tata's project has been met with much cynicism and is now being closely watched by all and sundry. The earlier hypothesis...that a cheap car won't hit anything as long as it does not exist...seems to have been tossed out of the window.

They've changed the headline in the online edition. I suppose the change might've made it to the late-city edition as well...but this is what the Pune edition carries. ..(later on why I'm reading that.) For those inclined to read it...its an article on the probable impact on the sales of expensive motorcycles. No...no one's worrying about the obvious lack of parking space. Yet.

Other cool headlines this week:
India Takes Shorts of Bermuda - TOI
Viru scores century (against Popatwadi XI) - Mumbai Mirror