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I Want my City...

After procrastinating about a car for many years I'm finally going in for a Honda City CVT. at nearly 7.7 lakhs (choke...) it is perhaps the best mid-size car to drive in India and with the CVT, it is a dream on the chaotic streets of Delhi. Didn't like the Getz too much and the swift was a plain disappointment...

Maruti Swift: First Impressions

As first impressions go, I came away with a mixed feeling about the Swift. It looks fabulous and drives really well. The power steering gave pin-point control (and this is inspite of the fact that I'm a very ocassional driver). Power delivery seemed to be bit lacking, but I can't be sure, if this is because of the car or because I was tentative and needed to be careful in the Delhi traffic. What really turned me off is the shockingly poor quality of the interiors. Cheap plastic and upholstery just gave a tacky feeling. The inside door handle (molded into the interior of the door) when used to pull the rear door shut gives a feeling that the whole assembly would come off. Similar tacky materials, if you saw the lining near the hatch door. The facia for the music system is a far cry from the Swift one sees in Europe. Leave alone integrated CD player and steering controls, one sees a gaping hole where the Casette Player needs to go in. Surprisingly enough, the outside finish ...

Google Webaccelerator for those who can't get it...

I only read about Google weba ccelerator today and it seems that only North American and European users can get access to it. Now that pissed me off ocmpletely. so I decided to look for it no matter what. So I did a google search . nothing, nada, zip... not to be deterred, I decided to have a look at Yahoo search. So the query google webaccelerator setup .exe throws back the first result as the winner... Drumrolls... the url is... http://webaccelerator.google.com/GoogleWebAcceleratorSetup.msi Ha Ha Ha...

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...

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...

Google Mozilla Foundation Spoof...

Someone did a fake press release of google acquiring Mozilla Foundation

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...