As the entire world discusses Google Chrome, I close this week on a rather happy note. I am traveling to Delhi for a meeting and obviously any travel to Delhi is fun. Home. Friends. How-ever short the duration may be, distances are something that I strive to reduce as much as I can. Physical or emotional. Time for another Friday Update. Most of the week has been busy with work.

Hits

  • Google Chrome. After the initial excitement over Chrome, people have started looking at it more seriously. Ars Technica reported an ambiguous EULA, others reported bugs and almost everyone compared Chrome with Mozilla and how Chrome does not support plug-ins etc.. But I remain excited about the possibilities offered by Chrome and cloud computing. (Here is my post on Chrome)
  • Wall-E. One of the best movies I have ever seen in a long long time. The quality of animation, the story, the concept, I loved every bit of it. If you haven’t seen it, please go ahead and do so. Its worth every penny you will spend on it.
  • Leader Paes wins US Open. Leader Paes won the mixed-doubles title at US Open 08 (Rediff reports). This is his 8th grand slam. Only one eluding him right now is French Open. Lets see if he can do it. He is already 35 and still as strong and fit as players half his age. BTW, he later today has his Men’s Double title match too. Lets hope it becomes his 9th.

Misses

  • Tata Nano. Tata has pulled out of Singur. I am not qualified enough to comment on the plight of farmers, political parties and Tata Nano but I know one thing for sure. Tata pulling out of West Bengal is a huge dent for the development of the state and the region. No Indian company (leave alone the foreign companies) would now want to risk their money and time in West Bengal. Hope I could teach people and politicians there a lesson or two in evolution and development.

Random Musings

  • Recently discovered that I love remote controlled cars. A colleague in office got a car one day and it was awesome fun. I think I will buy one very soon.
  • Had an awesome Wednesday holiday. As reported on twitter, I managed Cricket, Wall-E, Dinner, Shopping, Travel, Photography, Reading all in one mid-week holiday. Only thing I missed was thinking.
  • Is this blog slowly becoming a personal blog? I was thinking that my last few posts have talked about me more than anything else. Is The New New Thing going the War of Words way? Probably will ponder more on this and see what all changes I need to make so that New New Thing remains New.

All in all, yet again a very non-exciting week. Need to get hold of life soon.