So I just visited portland and seattle over the long weekend. It was a pretty much chilled out vacation, basically relaxed and hanged out with my whole jingband of friends. We visited Multinoa falls in Portland, 2 Indian restaurants in Seattle( Cedars was one of them) and Trinity Club. The best part about this trip was there was absolutely no rain (Saturday was actually a nice sunny day). It was …

I recently switched to Cingular because i wanted a GSM based phone. For some unknown random reasons, GSM phones are less crippled and have more “basic” features than CDMA phones. They also have a SIM card, which can simply be put in a different phone. Most of the new GSM phones that are coming out are either tri-band or quad-band. Cingular runs on 2 bands, 850 MHz and 1900 MHz. However, the new …

So I have been in the market for a new phone since a really long time now. After giving a shot to the Sprint PM6800 PDA Phone, which was a really bad experience in all the terms (Windows PocketPC+Mac interoperability, Sprint Customer Support and others), I decided that it was the time to move away from CDMA to the more “open” GSM phones. After checking out all the phones, there were not many …

LOGO2.0_2 Originally uploaded by Stabilo Boss. Found this on flickr, has logos of all the great Web 2.0 companies. (No, yahoo, ebay, google etc. are not on it and yes, YouTube is there in the list.). In case you are wondering where these compnies are.. someone has done a great job using google maps. http://www.fourio.com/web20map/ Comments alprazolam online (March 12, 2007): We are the …

I am very happy with my life. Everything is great. However, there are still a lot of moments of “unhappiness”. So on thinking the reasons for that, I realized that a lot of this is directly connected to satisfaction. If you are satisfied, you will be happy. Ok, there are some contradictions to this, like if you are satisfied with the life then you will never grow and stuff like that, but thats not …

My first attempt towards song-writing…. You think you like it, just because its always there You think you know it, just because its always fair But now you are thinking, what has it ever given to you All this time, and nothing that you ever do Staring at the TV, with the laptop in my hands websites scroll and the episodes go by, but my heart dont give a damn and my eyes say go read something, but …

As we all know, life is full of challenges. Challenge to get into a good school, good college, good job, good position, everything. Some of them are long term, and are generally resolved as time passes. Some of them are short term, and need immediate attention, for example, to finish a very important assignment at school, or to get a job after graduation. Short term challenges create a sense of …

I have been an avid video-game player since childhood, and used to spend entire days playing games like mario, tennis, pro-am, etc. Then came the computer, and it immediately replaced the gaming consoles for me. I started with the old DOS games like cat, para-trooper, bricks on a good old hercules “soft white” monitor. They were replaced with more graphic games like gpcga, indy, prince of persia, …

America is all about capitalism. Its about the big corporations. There are various good and bad things about capitalism, which is not a part of this blog. However, what I want to write is what Starbucks has done to people who start their day with these beverages. Starbucks has bought a whole lot of smaller/better/competetor (Seattle’s Best, Torrefazione Italia, etc.) coffee chains and replaced …

I recently made a very simple observation that seems to be the basis of failure of people to commit in a relationship. Basically, a person knowingly (or unknowingly) sets a certain level of expectation from their partner. If the partner exceeds these expectations, then the person will be willing to commit. The same holds true for the partner. Now, in real life, people always tend to go out with …