Some use of technology

Yesterday, I really felt good having had a laptop with Centrino technology. I was asked by my manager to write an email, but it slipped my mind. I got a call from him at 10:30 in the night asking me write that one. Since I have no form of Internet at home, I had to drag my feet and go to office, a drive of 5-7 min. But since I was not properly dressed, I did not want to go to my floor.

And then the wireless technology came in handy. I drove to the office and parked in the basement. I turned the laptop on and it instantly caught on to the wireless network of the office. I connected to my main PC and then to the test PC, did all the necessary testing activities, wrote the email, and then closed the lid of the laptop. And I drove out of the basement and then office and went back home. I never got out of my car and did all the necessary work. Pretty neat, ain't it?

Another chapter ends...

Another chapter of my life is coming to a close today. this girl i did not know till exactly 13 months back is spending her last day in office. she is going to the States to join her husband who is working there as an IT consultant.

i came to know her when she joined adobe just a day after i did and we hit from day one. our employee ids are successive and we hail from the same city. we became good friends over a period of time and ended spending hours together. she would keep telling me things that i did not know about my company and the people working there. she would also tell me about the problems she had with the family of her fiance and i would try to suggest ways for her to get over it. she took the plunge in jan this year and is soon going to join her husband. living in US, with your new spouse, away from family and relatives… must be fun, I guess.

i hope to keep in touch with her over email, but i do not have high hopes of that. i have had one such experience a few years ago when another very good lady friend of mine got married. she was more conservative in nature and i haven't heard from her from even before her marriage. i hope she is doing fine; must be a mother by now, hai na :)

What a defeat

The first ODI between India and Pakistan was a great match to see, as India managed a great victory, after loosing early wichets and letting Pakistan go on rampage in the early overs of their innings. Sehvag and Dravid were the only scorers in our innings; both of them scored over 100 and the next highest was a measly 16. No one else really played an innings and we could not cross the 300 mark, something that was very much in our reach.

Anyways, all's well that ends well (the motto of my brother's school). I am looking forward to the Bahrain Grand Prix and Episode 11, Season 2 of The Apprentice that I missed on Friday. I am watching the current series, thanks to the Internet.

GMail doubles up

Google inclreases the disk space quota on its email service GMail to 2 GB, exactly one year after they announced the 1GB free email boxes. The first announcement was too good to be true, and people thought maybe Google was throwing up its first April Fool story. Not this time. And not only are they giving another free Gig, they shall keep adding a little amount every day, as per this article.

I checked mine today and I saw 1145 MB as my quota. I was hoping for 2GB, but sine right now I am using only 260 MB, its fine with me.