save the sharks

Watched a great documentary this weekend called Sharkwater. It is the story of sharks and how their populations are being decimated across the oceans due to demand for shark fins – some species have declined up to 90% in the past years. After having spent so much time underwater this past holiday searching for sharks, […]

amazon kindle for the iphone app video

Showing off the Amazon Kindle for the iPhone / iTouch. For those of you unawares of what this app is here is a brief explanation.  If you already own a Kindle, then your archive of books will auto-magically appear.  If you don’t own a Kindle, then you can still install this app and buy Kindle […]

a good example of how not to email your customers

Skype recently launched a feature called “contact alert emails”.  This enables people who want to contact you on Skype to send an email with a link to add them.   I’m not entirely clear if this works only when you are offline or what the hell is going on and why I am receiving it. […]

LASIK recap aka I can see clearly now (almost)

After all these years of frustration and blindness, I finally decided to take a step to eliminate all this frustration.  I decided to do LASIK eye surgery and correct my less than perfect vision. I have toyed wtih the idea for several years and even gone to see a few clinics to get more information. […]

girls who wear glasses

At the ripe old age of 9 I was already batting on the side of being class nerd.  I was enrolled in GATE classes, played the violin and flute in the All City Honor Band, got all A’s and was voted Student of the Month on more than a regular basis.  The addition of glasses to my […]

thailand smiles again!

We got back this weekend from the most amazing holiday in Thailand. It is pretty obvious that I spend a lot of time travelling, so when it comes to holidays I am a very tough person to please. To start out with, I hate flying economy (in long haul flights). I hate flying economy more […]

stalker alert

I’ve been having a little bit of fun with Google Latitude. At 3GSM, I got to track Greg’s whereabouts. As for my whereabouts, it is pretty accurate. In fact, so accurate that I need to be very selective about whom I give access! Try it out on your mobile. And if you are one of […]

kindle 2 – ordered and waiting

Since I have been floating about the Andaman sea for the past week, I obviously missed the announcement on Tuesday about the new Kindle 2 that is coming out.  But I have been expecting this for a while anyways, so not a total shocker.  After reviewing the new spec and looking at the photos of the new […]

foggy day schedules

When I was growing up as a little country bumpkin, the days that we loved so much were when we had “foggy day schedules”.  This essentially meant that a blanket of fog so thick that it was a veritable pea soup would cover the country floors and render it very dangerous for the driver of […]