Ah yes, October 23rd was my birthday. Thanks to all of you who wished me (and to those that didn't - better take note!). Birthdays are nice and awful at the same. Nice because you get to feel "oh so special" and get presents. And awful because its a reminder that you are a year older now and "youth" is slipping away rapidly.
Anyways, my birthday was peaceful and incidentally 23rd was also "Vijayadasami" day. This is part of the "Navratri" celebrations in India. Have a look at this description of the "Navratri" festival.
I am suddenly seized with the notion of becoming more "productive". Maybe its a birthday thing. So I'm scouring the Internet for productivity related software and sites. I'll post some links here soon.
Saturday, October 23, 2004
Friday, October 15, 2004
I'm Skyped
What can I say... Having tried several VoIP services like Net2phone, Dialpad, Yahoo/MSN to Vonage - I rediscovered Skype today (for which I am thankful to Nikolai). The Skype website says "Free Internet Telephony that just works" and it does!
It is absolutely amazing how clear the VoIP conversation was (I spent over 45 minutes talking) on the poor quality Internet bandwidth that we "less fortunate mortals" in India have come to loath and accept - no breaks in audio and no wierd sounds except for when I tried to balance my laptop on one hand and move to another room and ended up accidentally pulling out the mike and generating noise that sounded "like I had my mike near the wheels of a car" (I didn't quite get that expression properly, Nikolai could you please post that comment here, it was hilarious!).
The final verdict - Skype gets a 9 out of 10 from me. I wish they would do a Trillian, so I could use Skype for VoIP as well as to connect to Yahoo/MSN/AIM.
It just works so got get it - Skype
It is absolutely amazing how clear the VoIP conversation was (I spent over 45 minutes talking) on the poor quality Internet bandwidth that we "less fortunate mortals" in India have come to loath and accept - no breaks in audio and no wierd sounds except for when I tried to balance my laptop on one hand and move to another room and ended up accidentally pulling out the mike and generating noise that sounded "like I had my mike near the wheels of a car" (I didn't quite get that expression properly, Nikolai could you please post that comment here, it was hilarious!).
The final verdict - Skype gets a 9 out of 10 from me. I wish they would do a Trillian, so I could use Skype for VoIP as well as to connect to Yahoo/MSN/AIM.
It just works so got get it - Skype
Monday, October 04, 2004
My new Sony Vaio V505 laptop with the incumbent desktop monitor and the Creative Zen Xtra in the background. My desktop PC should soon be at the disposable of my parents who are looking forward to having a full-time PC on their hands. I guess this photo does not do full justice to the Vaio. Check out www.vaio.net
Blog Search Engine
Here's a blog search engine that I found today: Blog Search Engine. It is sort of like a Yahoo for blogs.
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