Guardian

Maybe its the British influence in India that I developed a bias towards English newspapers and magazines. But, you cannot question the quality of Guardian, BBC & Economist.

Guardian is balanced, mostly, and covers a broad range of topics that interest me. Economist covers my business interests well. BBC gives me the international depth... Now, local news is something I turn to the Net.

Some interesting reads from the Guardian..
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2007/05/happy_birthday_helvetica.html

Chelsea - Double title

2 out of 4 titles wont be bad for most sports organization in any country, any sport.

FA Cup and Carling Cup winners, Chelsea - was just amazingly resilient. Just doing enough to win both these titles. Runner up in EPL and semi-finalist in Champions League is not all that bad either.

What attracted me to Chelsea about a couple of seasons ago was its character. I hated ManU until then, and didnt really care who played against them, I would support the other team. Along comes Chelsea and Roman. Beats ManU in its own game (spend a lot of money and build a winning organization). Now, Chelsea is worth about 3 times as much as it was worth before the Roman era. Business success. 2 EPL titles, 1 Carling cup, 1 FA cup... U name it, they have it... Champions league will come in due course, undoubtedly.

Mourinho is a genius, say what u may about his unconventional, almost irrational bragging. The chosen one, has done not many things wrong... Winning should absolve him from some stupid mind games.

Players I love: Terry, Eissien, Drogba, Lampard, Cech, Carvalho, Ballack, Joe Cole, Ashley Cole, Roben, Makhele... With so many amazing players, its not a wonder they win or atleast lose less:) Now, add one or 2 decent strikers and the goals will pour in...

Go Mourinho... Go Roman... Go Chelsea!

Apple TV & Airport Wireless Basestation

Wow! Very sweet piece of hardware.

Apple TV is the best investment I have made in home-theater. It took about 5 minutes to install, once I got hold of the right monstor cable for my TV. It connected with the Airport Base in a jiffy... And connected to my iTunes running on G4 in a second. I had all my music downloaded smoothly.

I'm yet to see another well packaged, well delivered, well designed hardware! Period. If u think iPod is cool, Apple TV converts ur plain old TV to a the Wifi dream home theater... I love it!

Now, I need multi-box support for my iTunes. That is, iTunes sync between different boxes on their own, so I use my laptop to buy a song and it syncs with my home computer, which syncs with my iPod and iTV. And why cant my iTV take a feed from my TV and record it? Why do I need a TiVO?

And my iPhone can sync addresses, appointments, emails, photos, songs... bye, bye iPod.

And why do I need to buy 2 separate devices? I'm talking about BaseStation and Apple TV. Rack it please... And ofcourse, add a few more things on top of this please. I should be able to hook up my video cam to Apple TV, playback my video on to this, edit the video and save it on to iTV. Which sends it back to my desktop, and I can cut my DVD. Not very far fetched, is that now?

Now, where is my Google free no-bandwidth-limits wireless?

Chelsea fan?

You got to see this if you are a Chelsea FC fan:)

I love English Football (yes, it is THE football). And I love Chelsea, Jose Mourinho, Didier Drogba, Ballack, Terry, Eissien ...

And still I found the Chelsea soap opera this season quite amusing... This Chelsea art gallery is quite funny!

Art Gallery (Guardian)

Oh, btw, Chelsea just won the Carling Cup today! Beating Arsenal 2-1. My second team:) Its so wonderful to not see ManU or Liverpool anywhere in sight! Sweet!

ManU - U got to hate them... they have too much money, and too much talent that they blatantly buy... Yes, Chelsea did the same recently, but it was ManU for years that set the pace in buying players and now, no ManU fan can accept somone kicking their bottom in their own game. Grow up!

Liverpool - I just started not liking them after the Dallas Stars owner (Hicks) co-bought this team. How can u not hate the Dallas Stars (and other franchises that the owner of Stars owns) when you are a San Jose Sharks fan?

Revontulet - the trip that never happened!

Cant wait for the clock to tick and get to middle of Feb. A trip to Finland, during winter, doesnt sound like much fun. With all the layerings of clothing needed to stay warm, it certainly wont be fun packing(shopping) for this trip. But, the mystic of the Borealis and concept of "Finnish Sauna" on a daily basis definitely would change one's outlook about the weather.

If u had asked me which Scan. country I would visit first, Finlandia wouldnt have been answer... sweden would have been my answer. But, then again, its caz I have met more Swedes than Finns... Now, thats about to change.