Mario’s World

This Friday evening was great. I attended the first ever Gospel Concert in Kuwait at Salmiya. The numbers from Sister Act made it very entertaining and so was the amazing Acapella session. There was a projector too with the words so we could all join in. It was a great effort by the youth groups.

Seems google lively will shut down end of the year. Too bad! [Link]

There is a juicy discussion on the Apple Forums [Link].

Wife catches husband cheating on the iPhone I wonder if its for real!!!

I noticed the colors change in Gmail yesterday evening while checking email. Today morning there was a big graphic at the top. Seems Gmail has introduced themes. Very interesting. Hope they come out with more of these themes.

Preparations are in full swing for the 39th International Film Festival of India scheduled from 22nd November to 2nd December in Panaji.

Found this on Seth’s blog.

If you think that’s a friend of yours on twitter, don’t be so sure.
If you wonder why your boss sent such an insane email to you, don’t be so sure.
If you get a chance to invest online, think twice.
Don’t buy anything from an inbound phone call.
That email you sent in confidence… probably won’t be read that way. And that photo, yes, it’s going to show up in the digital world where you least want to see it…

In your little village, where you see your neighbor every day for ten years and the person in the next car might be the local constable, the rules are very simple and obeyed by all. In an electronic world, it’s trivial to impersonate, hack and otherwise annoy.

Online, rely on direct, personal interactions to be sure you’re seeing what you think you’re seeing. Trust, but verify.

With the increase in traffic here in Kuwait this might be a good idea to implement.

Of course it also tracks your speed, so a lotta people here in Kuwait might not sign up!

This is real cool. American Airlines has just introduced this service where you can choose to email your boarding pass to your cell phone. Its a 2-D code of sorts which you show at the gate. Very nice!!! I think all airlines should have this option.

Just heard today that the Indian Navy sunk a Somalian pirate ship and foiled their plans. Go India!!!

Seems the Somalian pirates were attacking an Indian vessel, the MV Jag Arnav, but our chaps got there in time for some good old fashion action, not swords or cannons, but some new age machine gun fire. They also went to the rescue of another Saudi ship.

Its amazing that in this age of hi-tech security and stuff, a bunch of rowdies in little rib boats managed to hijack the Saudi supertanker loaded with $100 million in oil. I was under the impression that the US Navy was mainly in the region to protect these oil assets and the shipping route. Maybe the Saudi’s and others should hire the Indian Navy.

I guess the movie “Pirates of Somalia” will release soon.

MSDN is planning to go social on their site. They’ve got a survey on. [Link]