Only one in each please

That's the look on people's faces as I absent-mindedly entered the same compartment of the revolving door as the person ahead of me.

There was a noise and door jam and multiples of sorries tumbled out of my mouth.

Slightly embarrassing but much more fun :D

Don't try...
OK try but keep saying sorry as you do it.

Next time I am going to try going the wrong way and fight with the people going the right way :D

Suddenly Spammed!!

I don't know what happened. I had a lovely weekend. Came back yesterday and checked office mail. And what do I see? SPAM?? On my Office address. I have only ever submitted that address for a couple of trial downloads of commercial software!!

This was one. Few more people in that Venn Diagram :D

Another guy has randomly mailed people his resume. I looked him up on linked in and he seems like a genuine guy. I don't know if that's called spam these days. I call it spam though.

Then this company who published "latest business directories" or something like that.

And then, two comments on my Business Analysis blog. These guys have actually registered with blogspot (Google) to spam comments.

I hope there's no more. The saving grace is that I see a definite improvement in the quality of spam here... :D

Sony Ericsson's new PC suite

I was on the brink of getting "bored" of my Sony P1i and switching back to Nokia. A good opportunity presented itself as my wife's handset got damaged. I thought I'd convince her to use my P1i and get myself another phone. Problem was, I didn't really know what I was missing.

I am not a music-on-the-go kind of person so am quite happy with the multimedia capabilities on my cellphone.

I hate cameras on mobile phones because they are frankly rubbish. I leave "taking pictures" to my (awesome) 450D

I do care for email and calendar synchronization and that's where the problem was.

When I got the phone a year back, the PC suite that came with it couldn't sync with Lotus Notes. But the new PC suite does connect to Lotus Notes and does it rather well actually :)

The only downside seems to be the fact that there are enough unfortunate people in the world who use Lotus Notes to induce SE into integrating with it.

Mail :-)

Does your day begin alright but as soon as you reach office and check mail you get really frustrated?

Are you actively contemplating switching your job because your organization's mail system?

Are you a victim of Lotus Notes?

Are you using 6.5?

Amazing as it may sound I have found the solution. Use Notes 8 client and replicate. It worked for me maaaayyyybe it'll work for you too :)

Canon 100mm f2.8 macro!!!

Got this amazing lens yesterday. Haven't been able to do much with it yet but I can tell you that it's sturdy ( and heavy) lens. I took a few random shots on my way back from the store and I think it'll do good as a street portrait lens as well. Specially since it gives you some distance.

I'll put down my review on my photography blog around next weekend I guess.

BTW Kata bags are really nice for carrying your photo equipment and your laptop around. Lowpro are way over-priced.

Locked out of WoW

It's been a while. I have been busy with a QuickStart I am doing for a client here in Chicago. I have always had to ask friends in the US pick up WoW / BC for me. But I got here on 10th and the latest expansion came out on 13th so I had to get this one.

I tried to track down the stores near by, but the biggies like GameStop, BestBuy, etc are all pretty far off from where I stay. In my haste I ended up ordering the WOTLK Strategy Guide from amazon instead of the real game. It's going to take a while to ship anyway so I didn't buy the game on amazon.

At last I asked a guy at a nearby RadioShack if I could get PC games close by and he pointed me to FYE, a 3 min walk from my place.

So I finally got the game!!! Tried to install only to find out that I didn't have enough disk space :(
This means I'll have to get rid of my beloved linux... but the next project requires windows anyway so I am going to go ahead and do it this weekend.

So why am I writing this post instead of playing my existing version of WoW?? Well in my excitement I went and upgraded my account to WOTLK. Now when I log in it says I need a WOTLK client :(

The problem solved...

Thanks to this thread, I realized that the problem was my graphics card temperature. And I should've guess coz my fingers burned when I played WoW. The card was hitting 100-105C !!

For now I play in 1280x800 windowed mode with a game CD box to elevate the screen end of the laptop. I take the CD ROM out for more airflow. Thanks Dell for this facility.

So I got to get the card cooled properly and I am done.