QFI Open Quiz 2007

The QFI Open Quiz is happening on 3rd June. Details are available here. Going by the shows the quizmasters have put up in the past it promises to be loads of fun.

water, biscuits, chicken, dosa, ice cream, burp!

Some days back a colleague of mine; whom I shall refer to as X to avoid disclosing any details about the person such as name, gender, blood group, shoe size etc.; put up the following GTalk status

Life is like a normal biscuit, if you add love which is butter it becomes a butter biscuit

The above statement is so utterly butterly undelicious that it prompted a slew of GTalk status changes from colleagues

Life is like chicken, if you add butter which is love it becomes butter chicken

Life is like soda, if you add lime which is love, it becomes lime soda

Life is like ice, if you add cream which is love, it becomes ice cream

Life is like Palar water, if you add love, it becomes corporation water

Undeterred by the responses, our friend X cooked up a second status -
Life is like dosa, if you add onions which is love it becomes onion dosa. (Note that this statement is grammatically incorrect and coming to think of it the process of making such a dosa might bring tears to your eyes and after a while you life might stink)

At this point I’m wondering if there is a point to this post, and apart from the 3 that are in this statement, the point is that this is a blog and if I add a post which is like love then it becomes an updated blog

La joie de vivre

A crimson backdrop to the green of the cocunut trees - Ah a picture postcard perfect sunrise. The sight I got up to, this morning, was reason enough to get up and get on with life; after pausing to watch the dark red fade to a light red, orange, to merge with the blue and become a part of the infinite expanse.

A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
-- Leisure by WH Davies

Under Transition

Moving my blog to the new Blogger Beta, so just hang on till I set things up properly

I am India

Awesome video! Make sure your speakers are on as well. Link here

Pepsi - Yeh Devta maange more

All this hoopla surrounding Gods drinking milk has given me an idea. Let’s face it, whether you believe in surface tension or divine consumption, milk is running down the drains and milkmen are running to the banks. The cola companies need to change their marketing strategy and I am assuming its not going to be very hard to spread the word that Lord Ganesh loves Pepsi or Coke. Think about it, if someone thinks their God drinks colas then they will too and if that does not happen, then at least in the process lots of cola would have gone down the same path as the milk and sales will go through the roof.

Preview of new KDE start menu

This is a link to a preview of the proposed new KDE start menu, Looks kick ass!

Happy B'day Chennai and Nandan the working man

Today Chennai turned 368! Yeah!!! and yours truly completed one year as an engineer.

Firefox Crop Circle

Check this out. While you are there, also check out the other cool things those guys have done. Even though I use Opera most of the time these days, Firefox still rocks!

Thanks to Paddy for the link. Coming to think of it, an appropriate person to have gotten a link from about work done in crops ;) What say?

The x86 days

Yesterday(2/8/6), today(3/8/6) and tomorrow(4/8/6) are the x86 days :) Found a post on /.
Reminds me of the 1st computer we had at home a "fast" 486DX2 @ 66Mhz with a "massive" 4 MB of RAM and a "humongous" 520 MB hard disk and a video card that could do only 256 colours.
Ah.. Those were the days. Life was simple and DOS ruled and Dangerous Dave kicked ass and that CGA racing game was my favourite pastime.