Archive for September, 2006

Calvin and Hobbes

September 30, 2006

Earlier I posted about a site that contained daily updated comic strips. This site though revolves around Calvin and Hobbes and has a nice collection of comics, quotes and wallpapers.
Link: Calvin & Hobbes Wonderland

Top Gear’s Richard Hammond in Crash

September 29, 2006

Apparently Hammond was trying to break the British land speed record in the Thule Vampire, a Rolls-Royce jet-powered dragster made in Sweden capable of reaching 272 mph in six seconds. The crash took place at over 280 mph.
There are also reports that the BBC could face prosecution over the crash from the [...]

Bollywood comes to Chelsea

September 28, 2006

Wow! I never imagined this could happen but it seems Bollywood is going to make a movie entitled ‘Jhoom Barabar Jhoom’ revolving around a loyal chelsea fan.

Abhishek Bachan, Priety Zinta, Aishwarya Rai and Lara Dutta, all visited Stamford Bridge recently to attend matches against Charlton and Liverpool.
Hope the movie will have some quality to [...]

Windows XP tips and tricks

September 28, 2006

This site gives some nice tips on how to do tweaks changes in Windows XP, like :

Removing the short-cut arrow form icons,
Renaming Drives / Recycle Bin,
Restarting Windows without Restarting the computer and more…

Warning: Some tweaks involve changing or modifying Registry Keys, so make sure you do it correctly.

Link: PAKhardware

Goggles Flight Simulator

September 27, 2006

This is a pretty cool game that takes advantage of Google maps. Its a mini flight simulator where your given a super F18 Jet (okay, okay its just a normal aeroplane) and allowed to fly over the top cities in the world.
Broadband connection is recomended.
Link: Goggles Flight Sim

Kudos

September 24, 2006

Feel like telling someone a compliment or just want to brighten someone’s day?. Well, here is a site that generates nice little one-line compliments and affirms based of various topics such as Administration, Friends, Parents etc.
Link: Auto-affirmer 

To Satisfy the Soul

September 20, 2006

Here’s a note in a book, called Sadhu Sundar Singh, i’m reading now.
In comparison with this big world, the human heart is only a small thing. Though the world is so large, it is utterly unable to satisfy this tiny heart. man’s evergrowing soul and its capacities can only be satisfied in [...]

Chelsea closes gap

September 19, 2006

The results of last sunday’s matches were to my liking. Chelsea beat Liverpool 1 – 0 courtesy of a astonishing goal by Drogba, even Tiger Woods approved! and (I can’t believe I am saying this…) I was also glad that Arsenal beat Manchest Utd, thus closing the gap between Chelsea and Man U
Last [...]

Grand Slam Sunday!

September 17, 2006

This Sunday will see two key fixtures in the English Premier League:

Chelsea vs. Liverpool (1230BST) and Manchester Utd. vs. Arsenal (1500BST)
I would like to see both Chelsea and Arsenal win their matches because that would mean that Chelsea would have cut United’s 3 point lead over them
However, they’ll be tough matches [...]

Netscape.com vs. Digg

September 14, 2006

I visited the Netscape website after a really really long time and well I got to say I was surprised. Gone was the portal that I once esteemed and in was the digg-like user driven content.
Now this is not new, Netscape changed its look way back in July but I checked it [...]