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Cars were to be cheaper this budget... and they are. Small Cars less than 4000 mm and 1200 cc petrol engines and 1500 cc diesel engines, But not the ones I was looking at. Honda City, Ford Fiesta. The Honda city misses the cut, in both the length and engine capacity. The Fiesta misses it by 282 mm. Tragic. Here is an opportunity for Ford to bring in a Diesel Hatch at dirt cheap prices... I hope they move fast... Before Skoda brings in the Fabia hatch to India sometime early next year.

Landing Page for Yahoo Mail beta Logging in Screen for Yahoo Mail beta Right Click menu on the Yahoo mail Beta window RSS Integration in Yahoo Mail beta

Yahoo Mail Beta Compose Window Yahoo Mail, Folder Right Click Forward Window Yahoo Mail! Inbox View

This is the invitation being sent from the admin panel... This is the invite for the migration to Windows Live Mail for Windows Custom Domains This is after I accept the Invitation. Still waiting...

This is the admin window for Windows Live Domains. I was cribbing about access to more storage. Apparently my wish just got granted (or maybe it was always there, and I was blind). 40 invites for custom domains are now available... Apparently, one can't just migrate to Windows Live Mail. After the invite has been accepted (screen shots follow). One may have to wait for some time before one gets access to the same. Again, I skipped over the User Agreement, So i don't know if the Screenshot above is legit use... 

I got an invite to try the Hosted service for Hotmail. It is branded as Windows Live Domains. What you see is a screen grab of the inbox with the domain. You'll notice the address at the top left. I have been using it for quite a few days... No complaints, it works as advertised. Though there is a bit of a glitch in the sign up, one gets a 2 mb box initially as the default country is set to No option. The official work around is to reset the country to the US and delete the account and re-login. :D There is a provision for 60 addresses with a 250 meg box each. (250 MB box limited to US, but we all know the solution to that). Though my box, says 25 megs, I'm told that it will climb to 250 meg at the end of the month. As usual, I skipped over the user agreement, so putting this screen shot up may be in contravention to that. The admin interface is quite spartan. More screen shots on the way I also got an invite to Google's Hosted seervice. unfortunately I have been unable t...

I have some Invites free for Windows Live Messenger Beta . Going away to those who ask for it first. Update... Three left...

My Alma Mater, The Times School of Marketing is advertising to select students for the next batch. Check out the website

I rode the Ford Fiesta last week. It turns out to be a very nice car. No engine noise (for a diesel engine this cheap, that is almost incredible), unlike the Hyundai Accent CRDI. There is a lot of road noise inside the car. Especially on the unsurfaced roads. It reduced once we got onto the highway. Plastics were a trademark Ford, cheap, cheap very cheap. And the Diesel version has been stripped of the eltctrical niceties like Electric Mirror control etc. (which are present on the top end petrol, priced the same) This car (Diesel and Petrol variants) makes my shortlist of cars along with the Honda City ZX VTEC & ZX GXi

I finally picked up The Complete Peanuts 1950-1954 & The Complete Peanuts 1955-1958 Amazon due date for recieving the books are 30th March... (ugh...). But actually it lands up much earlier than that... So I should have them anytime in this month. I just can't believe that they are going to take naother 11 years to publish all of peanuts... While I've got the first few years, in 5 years will we still buying books? These are collectors editions, but still...