For those who weren’t following the India vs. Eng series, Sachin was unfairly given out when he was on 91 and as usual I was totally frustrated. I was so down for sometime that I couldn’t even eat my breakfast. Then as I was watching the match, I saw Sachin come out on the balcony with an ice cream in his hands with his usual smile looking totally unbothered. It was one of those moments. I immediately hurried for my breakfast feeling totally embarrased.
I worry too much about our Indian cricket team, probably more than the team management. The last few days, instead of writing my own blog, I have been visiting a series of cricket blog sites and reading all the blogs about the latest India vs. Eng series.Obviously I feel frustrated to view comments that conflict with my own views and happy to read what I would like to see. But it has kind of kept me occupied. My mind is kind of filled with cricket thoughts and refuses to look outside of it. I guess that has kind of made me stop looking at fairly obvious day to day observations I write about in my blog. I hope I get out of this cricket halo soon and start observing the world around me more.
I heard from a lot of people around that Apple Iphones are somehow flooding wireless LAN's and bringing the servers down. I read an article about it Network World. Here you go.
I walked into my doctor’s office for my yearly medical checkup with a lot of apprehension. I knew in the back of my mind that my triglycerides are high and I expected the doctor to confirm the same.
The doctor came in and went through my blood work reports with a lot of enthusiasm. There were 5 pages of it and she went through page by page. I saw her skip the third page in the process and I immediately knew it was not a good sign. She usually informs the bad news at the end. As expected she returned to the 3rd page after the 5th, moved her chair a little bit closer, and informed me the bad news. As usual she prescribed me TRICOR and asked me to start on it immediately.
I have gone through the same chore for the past 4 years and just like the last year I went back to google to look at the side effects of TRICOR. I had done the same thing last year and know it does have some nasty side effects. I just wanted to make sure that nothing has changed and as expected nothing had changed. So as I am typing this mail, I have this hope at the back of my mind that I can reduce it through exercise and diet just like I did last year. May be I am right.
What if I am not? Any Advice?
Celebrating mediocrity is a part of American culture. Here People tend to celebrate anything that would be deemed ‘silly’ in other cultures. As an example, here in school, they celebrate graduation for moving from one grade to other. So if you are moving from 1st to 2nd grade, they celebrate it as a big thing. Parents, grandparents etc. attend such ceremony and make it a big thing.
Lately I have been wondering whether it is a good thing to do. Is it good to celebrate mediocre achievements? Would that leave a contented child even though he/she is capable of achieving more? Or will it instill a lot of confidence in the child’s mind?
My wife always says that a little encouragement to the child will make him go a long way. I accept that. But at the same time, wouldn’t even a small failure affect him immensely when such things should be just brushed away? I personally feel that there should be a good balance in celebrating mediocrity. But where the balance lies is something hard to figure out.
What do you think?
Have you guys seen the demo video of new Microsoft Surface? It really opens up a whole lot of possibilities. If this thing really works like it's shown on the video, it'll definitely revolutionalize various day to day things we do.
Check it out
Microsoft Surface
We all know that companies like Samsung, LG, and Nokia etc. come up with new phone design every other quarter or so. But none of them have been a roaring success like IPhone is. We all know that it’s because of Apple’s great design team which is above par compared to others. Their user interface is so sleek and beautiful that it attracts people of all age groups.
Another major factor is Steve Jobs. The man is almost always followed by a mob of journalists. Everything he talks about is overly analyzed and that by itself is a free marketing for Apple products. Who knows the CEO of Samsung, LG, or Nokia? I don’t. I am assuming most people don’t. I think the first thing these companies need to do is to recruit some good PR people and spend more on Marketing rather than focusing more on technology. Motorola is doing a decent job with this. They have some decent publicity because of RAZR. But I still feel that they are still losing the battle.
These companies must somehow come up with ways to hype up their products. Also they need a good design team who can design something with good aesthetic sense. Then we can see some stiff competition for Apple.
Have you came across the new ‘Xplorer‘ air dry systems installed in most restrooms these days? Aren’t they obnoxious? I am not sure who came up with the idea. I understand it saves paper, it’s environment friendly etc. But I see that almost everybody who uses it is just frustrated by the amount of noise it generates while using it. After you walk out of the restroom, you’ll be deaf for a few seconds.
It definitely does a good job of drying your hand fast. But the side effect includes deafness, scaring kids etc.
It’s almost time that my cable contract ends with Comcast. I have been paying a reasonably low price for the past 1.5 years and it’ll go up steeply in the next few months.
I have like 300+ channels in my package. They call it a sliver package and package has all kinds of crappy channels. Our family hardly watches 10 of them. But the package is so designed that to watch all our favorite channels, I have to subscribe to all 300 channels. I don't understand why the cable companies can’t let consumers choose the channels they want and pay accordingly?
Now I have to go through the ordeal of shopping through various cable/dish providers. Also I have to go through the hassle of installation and other crap just to save some money. I know most people go through this cycle once every 2 years or so.
I just wish that our legislators pass some kind of a bill providing flexibility to consumers so that we can just stick with one provider and save all the hassles and of course save a good amount of money.
