Merry Xmas everyone. We had a quiet day.. productive and good. Watched Pirates of the Caribbean again. Jolly good.

Btw, last night we watched The Last Samurai. Awesome! Must watch! One of the best!

We decided we will go skiing one day this weekend. We'll see..

It looks like a wet weekend here in the bay area and near Tijuana too..

Its XMas eve and we are still planning for the weekend..

Calafia. This is where we have been thinking of heading for our XMas break. A few friends showed interest. It looks to be a great getaway from the cold, wet bay area (I didn't imagine winters like this in California when I lived in England)

As you have probably realized by now, I have completely taken to the Mac.

Older macs interest me, primarily because they are cheap to obtain and they are of much higher build quality than the PCs. And thanks to Yellow Dog Linux, they serve as fine Linux servers. I am yet to try this, but I would love to.

At the other end, I am convinced that Apple has done the right thing with Mac OS X by building it upon FreeBSD. I was surprised to find out that the core of Mac OS X is Open Source and is available to everyone in the form of Apple's Open Source Effort, Darwin. Aqua (the GUI for OS X) is the best OS GUI available anywhere today. Together, UNIX and Aqua are the future of OS Software. Waitaminit, its already available now!! If Apple (or anyone) could get Aqua ported to x86 Unix distros, then it would be a whole different ball game ..

Holiday season on in full swing. Had a great party at Stephen & Rachael's last friday. On sunday we hosted the Parikhs and that was good too. We could have done better with the dinner we prepared though.

Thanks to the wonders of technology, I was able to conference with my parents and brother this last weekend. :)

I have started bringing my iBook to work and that's great. It serves as my email and music machine. I am also usually online in MSN, Yahoo and ICQ.. so I can exchange quick messages with you

So we finally saw Cats last night! It was fun for the most part, a little boring at times. The choreography and dance was excellent, the whole cast was great. It was very different from The Phantom Of The Opera, which we saw earlier this year. Both App and I loved the Phantom. Cats was ok.

Had a good weekend again. Going to the CRC Fundraisers is fun to me so I guess I'm a nerd!

Picked up more pieces in the missing puzzle to upgrading the old PowerBook 5300 and getting online from it. Its become some kind of obssession for me. I hope it will not dissappoint in the end. I still need a 50-pin SCSI terminator and Mac OS 8.5 or 8.6.

It was the big 30 for old neighbour Tom on Saturday. As always, it was a pleasure to hang out with the neighbours and the ex-neighbours.

We also picked up a new computer table from IKEA. It offers a lot more desk space and App has been grateful. Will post a pic when possible.

The Holiday season is upon us and keeping with the tradition we have potluck lunch at work today. It will be followed by a gift exchange. It tends to get a little crazy, I will update you with the rules in a bit.

I just cooked some fresh pasta - tri-colored Tortellini with fried portabella mushrooms and garlic in tomato, mushroom, olive sauce. Smells great if I say so myself. :)

I have been keeping myself busy while App has been in Santa Barbara. Mostly playing around with technology. Last weekend I picked up an old PowerMac 8500/120 and I have been impressed with it. Its got RCA video/audio in and out, runs OS 9.1 and seems to work just great. Now if I can only get a monitor and keyboard for it..

Had a good weekend. Can't post an update right now because I am tied down at work. Apologies but I will have a post for you soon. Hope all is fine with everyone! :)

Alright, I've been dying to give you the scoop!

For my birthday, App got me a new laptop computer. The one I've been using has been acting up and I really needed one. So a new one was a really good present. Better still, its an iBook!!

I have been drooling over the new iBooks since they came out and my wife was sweet enough to get me one.. awww!! ;)

The specs are awesome (I have the 12 inch one). iBook Specs.

Its beautiful.

Happy birthday to me! Thanks for the wishes everyone..

I was sleeping well before midnight. Mahesh/Shuba and Ranjit moved yesterday and we had a long day helping them move. I was completely exhausted by the time I got back home.. after about 9-10 hours on the job.

Ranjit has moved into an apartment in San Francisco. Its a pretty cool place and I think we shall visit him regularly during the weekends now.

For all the smart alecs that wished me Happy World AIDS day, I'd like to remind you that the birthday came first! :)