Google Movie Theatre Search

I was searching for a movie called Son of The Mask on Google and I was led to this page...

Wish I could post a screen shot from office...

Portal Player hiring in India

Portal Player is hiring in India... For those who don't know Portal Player makes the chipsets that power the iPod

Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything is yet another fabulous book...

Electric Universe : The Shocking True Story of Electricity

Electric Universe : The Shocking True Story of Electricity is another fab book. Who would have thought that Edison stole someones idea...

Nirantar

Nirantar is a blog(zine) in hindi and uses the devnagiri font as well. THe authoir also claims that this is the first of it's kind...

I think larger fonts need to be used tho...

Nice...

PSP price update in Delhi

I was at Pallika bazaar yesterday and just happened to enquire about the price of Playstation Portable. adn the price has dropped to Rs. 16,500 which also includes a game of ones choice (out of the 9 available).

THe unit is the Japanese Value pack. With Case, remote and a 32 meg memory card. the dealer is tossing in a game at the price...




Among the games that were available were Ridge Racer and Spiderman. Individual Games are priced at around 3K each.

I was almost tempted to buy when I calculated the cost in $. it comes out to be about 375 USD. Way expensive. Worthwhile to ask someone to carry it from the US...

Nokia 8800

Never wanted to buy a Nokia until Nokia 8800





woo hoo what a phone... reportedly will cost around 700 USD... I can get a PSP and a mess of games for that...

Y!Q

What is Y!Q???

`Victorian Internet

The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers is another fab book...

Happy Birthday to me...

8 wishes so far...
2 calls, 2 sms', 3 egreetings, one in person...

Ego Surfing

I go ego surfing once ina while and Google Search: chirag puts me at 82 at my current url which is http://chiragpatnaik.blogspot.com/. It puts me at number 9 at my old url... grrrr...

The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time

Seize the Daylight : The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time is a wow read...

Google Mozilla Foundation Spoof...

Someone did a fake press release of google acquiring Mozilla Foundation

April Fools Pranks...

I read a lot of April Fools pranks on the web...

here are some of them...

Apple to Enter PDA Market

Google's Infinity+1

Google to acquire Mozilla Foundation

let me look for a few more... stay tooned.

Google Infinity +1 Storage

Before the world forgets about the spoof. i took a screen shot of the same.... I'd forgotten to do so yesterday. Ironically enough Google's Cache had it...

Hah! even my Google Desktop cache had it...

500GB HDD

Toshiba creates a monster 500GB 5 Platter Hard Disk. This hard drive is said to be the last of it's kind as newer HDD technologies will start to come in by the end of this year...

World's Smallest 4 GB Drive

Toshiba is all set to produce the World's Smallest 4 GB Drive

Intelliseek's BlogPulse

Intelliseek's BlogPulse is search engine for Blogs

MSN Search Spoof

MSN Search Spoof is even more hilarious. It generates fake MSN search results after you enter a victims name and his lifestyle quirks...

YaGoohoo!gle

YaGoohoo!gle seemed to be one of those April Fool things... It presents two screens with results from both engines...

Google wants 'dark fiber'

Google wants 'dark fiber' is a story on ZDNet which speculates as ti the reason why Google is planning to buy Fiber optic cable across America (and maybe the world)...

Cable I think will be the future of media. people owning the pipes into the home swill be the big winners of the media wars of tomorrow...