Sportskeeda: A sports website venture by a friend of mine

Writing this post to draw the attention of a few people who drop by this blog by mistake :) to have a look at the website www.sportskeeda.com

This is a sports website (as is evident by the name) venture started by my friend with stress on many non conventional sports which do not draw such big headlines in sports pages of our dailies.  Hope this blog entry makes atleast a person to be redirected to that website :)

How not to go to GOA!!!!

I should have posted this 2 weeks back when I cut my trip short to GOA before it even started and got back to Pune from Mumbai without catching my connecting train to Madgaon from there, but still as these blogspace is used just by me its better to make an entry into the pensieve atleast now.

And these points I make are not only for the trip to GOA which I did not go through but for trips in future to other places as well....

To make it short entering into a bulleted format.
=>Do not wait until the last moment to confirm your trip. It may be fun sometimes but not always.

=>Do not expect other people to join you at the last moment.

=>Even if the trip can not be confirmed for some reasons atleast book a ticket in advance because it is almost impossible to match an itinerary to match your pocket, comfort and timings at the last moment.

=>After getting a booking even though of your disliking do not try to change it again and again confusing others as well as yourself.

=>Office work will always be there. Do not change your plans at last moment because of that unless and until it creates any dire consequences for the business. (And at the moment the position I am in it will not)

=>When you know you will have to travel alone for a considerable amount of time and you can not sleep it off, either get a flight ticket or be ready for the journey. (Remember during college you have always made a journey of 40 hrs in sleeper class almost every semester and at that point of time it never felt tiresome or boring)

=>Brace yourself up for other options if the train/flight/bus is late and if you feel time is important be ready to spend. (You are earning money to spend and enjoy)

These are the major points I wanted to cover and even though this post did not come out as I wanted to write it but I think it is done.

May be will extend it later on with the actual events that transpired and why I think in the hindersight that it was better I did not go.

But adieu for now!!!!!!!!!

Finally Laptopmore :D

Finally got a new laptop (ACER 5738G) on 04-07-2009 and also inspired my brother in law to get exactly the same one a week after :)

The config is awesome and the price was good too. The specification for the laptop are:
Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 2.0 GHz Processor
4 GB DDR3 RAM
512 MB NVidia dedicated Graphics Card
320 GB HDD
15.6" screen
Good battery backup (Easily gives me a running time of 3 hours on battery even while watching a movie on good brightness and using laptop speakers)

As many people may be searching for the review of this laptop my experience so far about the laptop is extremely good. Its been 2 weeks since I have been using this laptop and I have had no problems at all. Have installed Ubuntu 9.04 as well and apart from minor bugs reported there are no major problems with Ubuntu as well.

Have not tested the graphics capability of the laptop as I have not been able to lay my hand on any decent graphics PC game but I am very much satisfied with its overall performance. The booting time to vista is less than 15 secs and that says a lot about its performance I guess.

So final verdict from my side is that I would recommend this laptop to everybody who is looking for a good value for money on their purchase and this comes with a very good performance.

Adieu for now.

P.S. Will revive this dead blog soon....