swimming season begins...

I went for swimming class yesterday. It was fun, since it was a begineer class, i was the best..heheh. i loved it. I tried treading in 7 1/2 feet water, was very scary. But I did anyways. I wasn't good, hopefully by the end of 3 weeks, i would know to tread. My free style is pretty good, thats what my good-looking (;-))instructor said!:) hehe. Fun to be back in learning mode. i might go to swimming today. we dropped anna at airport yesterday and saw Kurien. He is getting married on July 10th. It was good to catch up with him. Worked whole of last night and slept thro the morning. busy, busy, busy...

Tiger Server

Lest we forget, Apple has Mac OS X Server and Tiger Server is worth checking out too.

Keynote from Apple WWDC

You can watch the keynote presentation from yesterday here. Quicktime required. Be warned that it is long, over one hour in length although you can skip the boring parts.

The wait is over!

Steve Jobs just finished his keynote at the Apple WWDC. The Apple site is already buzzing with all the new stuff. Notable links -

Tiger preview - Tons of new features, keeps the heat on Longhorn.

New Apple Displays - Unfortunately, no price cuts. The 30" display is HUGE. It needs two DVI connections.

XCode 2.0

New iChat - Chat with multiple users



Guess an iMac G5 is still in the works :)

Apple mania

is building up, leading to monday's WWDC in San Francisco. Rumor sites are rife with rumors, here's some of the top ones -

1. New LCD displays (a new 30" widescreen is expected to be introduced at $2999, prices on 20" and 23" LCDs are to be dropped). The new displays are to drop ADC and embrace DVI.

2. A G5 iMac in a new enclosure - the rumors point to a new design with the logic board behind the LCD. Its hard to see how Apple can lift sales higher than the current iMac without a major price reduction.

3. There has to be at least one significant iPod - related announcement. There are no solid reports about this though.



Of course, Apple has been on a roll recently. After Airport Express, they have launched iTunes in Europe, new PowerMac G5s, Remote Desktop 2.0 and iPod connectivity for BMWs. Stock prices are hovering around highs and at least a couple of analysts have increased their target prices. Apple mania has set in. Watch this space next week :)



And oh yeah, the next version of OS X - OS X.4 (Tiger) will be previewed too.

Ipod your BMW

Read here if you haven't heard already. One more reason to buy a Mini.

Hiking Burma road

in Mount Diablo was fun. I was there with Stephen, Mike and a friend of his. Stephen took a jump and went para-gliding first. He was in the air a short while - we drove down and picked him up. We started on the Burma road loop, which was termed "short but astoundingly steep" (read here), trying Stephen's mountain board wherever we could. It was fun, with its share of falls - I fell once, Stephen fell once. Climbing down the steep start was dangerous and slippery. I fell a couple of times more.. we ended the evening with dinner at an English pub in Danville - fish and chips English style - yum! None of us had a camera, unfortunately.

Finally..photos!

I have been busy this evening!! Check out the new photos section of the website - link on the right. I've decided to host my images on my website so I can share full res images :)

World's most expensive cities

Here's an interesting listing of 144 cities ranked according to the cost of living. Its weird that major Canadian cities rank below some of the Indian cities!

Like Panther but using XP?

Well maybe you want to take a look at a PC to Mac Makeover. You'd be surprised how much your Windows desktop can look like Mac OS X.3! :)

Smallest dog

This Chihuahua is *small*!!

Apple intros AirPort Express

Score one more ace for Apple! Apple - AirPort Express is wonderfully simple and elegant; I can't wait to get mine!!

Last weekend

Last weekend(6/5 and 6/6) was fun.. We both had a good time. On friday, we tried to see "Harry Potter" but it was sold out. So we booked for saturday and came back. We both got early next morning, went for a car wash and then we were off to redwood park. I wasn't aware of this big hike, so i ate very little for breakfast :( so I was very tired when i hiked in redwood state park. It was very beautiful but the climb was tough for me.

here is the map(approx. 4.3 miles):

. Came home took a quick shower, ate something and ran to the movie. Movie was awesome. I loved everybit of it. There was lot of missing info, since i read the book, i filled in the gaps for ag. Then, we had a very lazy sunday morning, went to REI and got something for our kayak and went for a walk. Saw a bit of "EuroTrip" movie. It was funny, arvind was laughing his heart out...its funny to see arvind laugh like that. O yeah, lakers lost. Cant wait for game 2.

Catch you all soon!:)