Tivo & Netflix deal is for real

Read up on the exciting news. I can't wait (just like a lot of others) for this to come online. Tivo and Netflix shares are up today, in the long run I'm betting this will affect Blockbuster. I hope there won't be an extra charge for the service.

Big debate is today

Round one of Kerry Vs Bush is tonight, starting in about 100 mins. Hey, any reason to get home early will work for me!! But seriously, this is important.. Kerry is supposed to be good at this, lets see if he can convince the country to give him a chance.

Blair goes to hospital - I was there first :)

Tony Blair is in the news. This, of course, is the very same procedure I went through in the summer of 2000, just a little bit earlier in life than Blair ;)

A larger quake

Small earthquakes are a frequent enough occurrence here in California. Today, we had a larger one though - 5.9 richter. I felt it for a couple of seconds at work even though the center was more than a 100 miles away. More here.

Drunk driving leads to the loss of a young life.

I just read about the death of a girl called Stephanie Audwo in an auto accident in Madras. It appears she was chased by 4 boys driving a car drunk. Its a sad case of eve-teasing and drunk-driving, both of which need stiffer penalties in India. I haven't the time now for details or links but you can probably search Google for all the details.

I feel strongly about this issue and added a comment to Suderman's blog.

We're driving down to Las Vegas! Should be leaving in about 30 minutes. More Apple Stores opened up today including one near Ranjit's house but I didn't want to stress myself out (I do have a 10 hour ride ahead!). Watched 'Old School' last night, it was alright, funny. Nothing much else right now, catch up with y'all when I'm back!

Gotta love Trader Joe's - our friendly grocery shop. Anyway, had some sushi with Darrell for dinner. He brought over some Sake. My friend Ramanathan's trip to the bay area has been cut short by the axing of his project. Pretty sad but we had some good times together when he was here.. gotta get to bed and try to keep up the early mornings :)

Hey folks, things are ambling along.. been an active week thus far - went bowling with Ranjit, Rama and Mahesh last night. Did alright but felt could have done better. Spent time with Darrell watching Monday Night Football the previous day.
Finally got around to spending some time on the iFrame project today. I'm now booting off the CF card which is much faster and quieter compared to the hard drive. The hard drive has now been removed which makes the frame lighter. I tested some JPEG slideshows using Jade and it looks cool, just need to work on scripting it or finding a program that can be scripted.

Hey all, I just got this new program called MacJournal. It lets me maintain a journal on my iBook and post entries to blogger too. Nothing much in the way of updates, we had a relatively quiet weekend - spent friday night in San Francisco, got rid of my CD changer and had Karthik and KB over last night in our place. I really should be working on the iFrame...

The end of summer

Hello everyone! The end of summer is just around the corner. Its already starting to get a little chill in the mornings. We are off to Vegas this weekend to drop off the Civic, I will be flying back on Monday morning and App should be back 10 days later.

Good progress has been made with the iFrame project (pics soon) and I hope to have it finished by the time App is back.

There is a new Apple Store opening in Pleasanton this weekend, looking forward to checking out the iMac G5 there. It would be nice to get one of the T-shirts being given out to the first 1000 visitors!

Just getting started with my work day, have a good one!

iMac G5 is here!

Well, I'm reporting this a day late but the iMac G5 is here. I didn't like it a whole lot at first look but its kinda grown on me over the last day. I think Apple has done a great job. The best feature - it can be wall mounted like the Cinema Displays with a VESA mount kit!! Woohoo!! This will be the next mac that I buy for sure - probably after Tiger (Mac OS X.4) is out next year. At $1299, the new iMac is a steal, its got most of the features of the PowerMac G5 with a 17" widescreen flat panel included. Check out the iMac G5 Introduction Video which I thought was pretty slick! There is a good chance that appealing to iPod users will draw new Mac-converts.