Mario’s World

Looks like google’s urls are growing too big for their browser

81 blog & news subscriptions are quite a bit to keep track of. I’ve been using Google Reader for a while now and I like the “trends” menu they have.

On a daily basis, looks like the bulk of posts popup between 4pm-8pm.

On a weekly basis, Tuesday seems to be very popular.

Looks like I need to check my subscriptions just before peak times. That way I won’t have to skip some of them if the list grows too long.

Jazeera Airways has recently announced a new Business Class.

“All of the firm’s A320 planes have the first 3 rows dedicated to Business Class - each middle seat having been converted into extra work space and offering additional privacy.”

I’m not sure what is new about this. It seems to be a new higher fare but on the same seats!

Where are you supposed to park your car when you go to the Indian Embassy? There used to be a lot in front of it but thats converted to some kind of a military compound for the Embassies Protection Dept.! And the entire street leading to the embassy is a no-parking area!

Maybe this is some kind of initiative by the Embassy to force all us obese Indians to get a 2 mile workout from the nearest parking lot!

After all the hype with Best Electronics, Ro and I decided to drop in and check it out. I must say I was very disappointed. The only interesting section was a tiny display with solar powered cell phones and a netbook with a built-in touch screen track pad. Both were display-only items and not for sale!

I was not at all impressed with their selection or pricing of laptops. Their cell phone “corner” had a handful of phones and most of them were out of stock.

There are 3 floors and no proper directions on where to find what! The floor upstairs was dedicated for TV’s and most of the people who came up on the escalator with us, took one look around and went back down.

Overall, not what I anticipated and even the staff were not very helpful. At the entrance itself 2-3 of the staff looked at me funny… like they wanted to karate my ass out of there!

Can anyone guess what I was trying to carve with my tea spoon?

Time to update my resume again. Seems my contract is at its end and I’m up for grabs again.

This means a new list of demands too. These seem very reasonable.

• Big monthly salary (5 digits are nice, 4 will do)
• Work timings from 10am to 2pm
• Work days from Mon-Wed (half the companies in Kuwait are off on Thu, the other half on Sat and all foreign contacts are off on Sun)
• Company car (Ferrari?)
• Company accommodation (a suite in any of these nice 5 star hotels would be nice)
• A dedicated 10mpbs line at my desk
• 2 Weeks RnR every 3 months

Got any suggestions?

Looks like an awfully long way to the next rest stop

This video for some reason reminded me of Borat!

Although the bulk of the world would consider two guys holding hands a “gay thing”,  its surprisingly common in the middle east for straight guys!

Ignorance is bliss

There has been some talk at the office about applying for software patents for one of the applications I developed a while back. Seems its a one of a kind application and the competition is getting curious.

I did some digging around on the net. A very interesting site on the evils of patents is http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com

What do you think? Are they evil or a necessity?