The holy coverage
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Post summers, almost a month off, already notified that one is outta the PPO race, what does one do if one is in Mumbai and never been away from North India? Well i delayed my flight and set out to cover Mumbhai, the Mom and bro city (don’t beat me in case u can’t get the joke or rather the PJ)
What happened post that delay is a hot script for Mr. Beans episode, but then Atkinson doesn’t make any more, so am forced to spill the 'beans' on the virtual space.
Oks tell me, how many of u consider that u are forgetful? Let’s compete! I forgot my food bills with a xerox guy, couple of SIM cards in couple of states and UTs (i believe in burka ideology, when u HAVE to cover it, cover it all ;) ), my luggage in my office, my friend's GF in a mall, my library card in a freezer and my Sony digi-camera worth 27K in a taxi at 1am in city like Mumbai !! For the last one, i was lucky; a day post i lost it, started a saga hunt for the Taxi. Now what are the chances of finding a taxi back in this city, esp after all the kisse and kahanis one has heard since i lost my milk tooth in an arm of a kid i was biting then? Saying remote is 100% optimism. But after a 2 day hunt, i was a proud dumbo with my camera back, all ready to capture Haji Ali in it.
Just a day before, ie a day after i lost it, we went to
Next day it was Haji Ali. Shimmering in the dusk, it was an experience to visit the mosque just before the tide got ready to swallow the pathway. Yes, during high tide the connecting pathway of 500 yards is submerged in water giving the impression that the mosque and tomb are floating out at sea in splendid isolation. Behind the sculpted entrance, a marble courtyard contains the central shrine. Hundreds of worshippers stoop to press their forehead against the richly brocaded red and green chaddar covering the tomb, lying in an exquisite silver frame supported by marble pillars and is decorated with artful mirror work: blue, green, yellow chips of glass arranged in kaleidoscopic patterns interspersed with Arabic patterns which spell the ninety-nine names of Allah. Legend is that Haji Ali, a local Mohammedan businessman, died while on his pilgrimage to
As the darkness ate into the vastness of space,
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Yahoo and MSN IMs to communicate !!
Thursday, June 15, 2006
How many people are there who either prefer only MSN or Yahoo! IM (Instant Messenger) ?? Well it has been ages since i used anything remotely associated with MSN, just that Yahoo completed all my needs... as simple as that!! But then there were some friends of mine who chat only through MSN. What do u do then? Very Simple - u crib why these two cant inter communicate!
Now what if I tell u that they are gonna pretty soon? According to Leah, member - WLM (Windows Live Messenger) team it has been done succesfully and there have also been reports about the limit being 600 Y! contacts now (earlier it was 100). As quoted by Leah, "It’s been a long time since we announced the deal which would allow Windows Live Messenger people and Yahoo! Messenger peope to IM one another. The project was so top secret that many of us (myself included) found out the same day you did."
To read the blog entry of Leah Click Here
So is MS learning the earthly manners now? Is there an anti Google alliance in making? Lets see what time has in store in its womb
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