Just back from a concert featuring Jal and the Aryans ..
Thankfully missed the Aryans, and got there when Jal was performing
Those guys are really good. Just posting some pics and a clip (via my n6630, very low quality) from the concert.


Get the Video Clip here (plays in quicktime)
Life can hit you below the belt and get away with it .. too easily.
Picture this.You’re 2500 kms away from home. You’re 22. You’re busy in the office, scandalized over multi-dimensional excel sheet. You’re experiencing short sightedness as well as far sightedness at the same time. Your phone rings, and an old friend whose been the subject of more than a billion heartburns calls and tells you she’s getting married. She asks you for one last time to consider a future together. WTF !!
What are you supposed to say ?
Me coming home to be with you forever and ever and ever ?
Its the ideal “I’ll be sick for a week and I need that more than I deserve it” case here.
Life goes on my friend. And it will take a U-turn to come back and hit you once again. Everytime.

I’m experiencing one of those “goose-bumps all over the body” moments right now !!
Casually wading through my wordpress admin area looking for user level options, I noticed the “import” tab on the top menu. Next, I see options to import my posts AND comments from blogger, textpattern, movable type or EVEN AN RSS FEED !!!!!!!!!!!!
Next:
- I click on Blogger
- Asks for my username/pass for blogger account. I fill up. Enter
- Presents with my blogs under my blogger account, and I click on the one I want to import.
- In less than 60 SECONDS !!!!, all my entries and posts are now archived in this blog as regular posts/comments.
- THATS IT !
Now thats WOW Web Portability !
No glitches anywhere, all data seamlessly imported and working like magic !
Not on this wordpress blog, not on my blogger blog (2player.blogspot.com)
Think of the possibilities.
Now I have a backup of all the data on my blogger blog !
I can merge any number of blogs here under one blog !
This is how you win loyalty ! Go wordpress GO !!!
Just downloaded the FireFox 1.5.0.1 update. And just to express my “not-so-happy” state right now, I’m posting this from Opera :P.
When I downloaded FireFox 1.5 , I was surprised to see the increased system resources that FF was eating up, not to mention the untimely crashes and also wierd rendering of css on a few sites. But just like an ardent fan would, I gave it time and waited for the next update.
Well, the css is still not rendering any better.
The system resources are still being gulped, no crashes so far though.
And BOLLOCKS, my favourite extension AARDVARK has been disabled !
Right now I’ve got FireFox 1.5.0.1, Opera 8.5 and Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2096 on my system.
IE is there just for testing purposes, but I’m beginning to like Opera the more I use it.
Things I like about Opera:
- Integrated feed reader
- Doesnt take up too much of system resources
- Hasn’t crashed on me yet
- Love the UI elements
- Tabbed browsing
- Integrated download manager
- The Notes feature (truly amazing)
- Overall usability is very convenient
I wouldnt say the integrated Mail Client really lures me. I feel thats better kept as a seperate appplication.
But the features that make me LOVE FireFox are:
- Latest standard support (especially for css), so the sites show up exactly the way they are meant to be. Just like this WordPress 2.0 DHTML menu on the right.

- Extensions such as Aardvark, WebDeveloper Toolbar and ColorZilla make developing sites a pleasure !
- I’m not going to even start with tabbed browsing etc etc etc…
To me these features of FireFox are irreplaceable. The only thing on my FireFox plugin wishlist would be a Pop-Up reminder for the Sage plugin to announce new feeds.
Right now, I guess FireFox would remain my primary browser.This may sound totally biased, but the fact remains that you go online to browse websites. If you cant see them the way they are meant to be seen, it defeats the whole purpose. Only if Opera could go ahead and extend its support for the latest standards, or maybe if Opera becomes more popular and people start making sites keeping in mind the standards support by Opera 