Fun weekend

I had a nice time last weekend. Went out to Seattle to visit my friends. It's a beautiful place ( the only downside being that it's cold ). I skied for the first time in life ( and i actually learnt it ... it's so much fun). Then we had a game of Poker, watched the last cricket match of the India-Pakistan series ( we won the series 4-1 ... yay! ), went around the city for a whole day and had a game of Monopoly.

I had a lot of fun ... just the kind of break needed for unwinding and relaxing.

Cricket update

We did win the 2nd and 3rd ODIs!!! yay! We're 2-1 up in the 5 match series and i m hoping we shut them out by winning tomorrow's game. With his performance in these 3 matches, Sachin Tendulkar ( the greatest ODI player ever & one of all time best cricket player and my idol ) has effectively made all those stupid critics shut up & stuff it. He's been unnecessarily hounded by the idiosyncratic & totally worthless Indian media despite performing consistently and outstandingly over his career of 16 years.

As to that section on cricket ... i need some time before i do that. But i'll definitely do that ... i owe that much atleast to the game i m crazy about.

Miscellaneous stuff

I haven't posted anything in a long time. So here's just some random stuff:

1. I checked out Yahoo 360 degrees today. It's a good idea which integrates your photos, blogs, music, lists, etc in one place. It was interesting to search for people interested in "jive" dancing or Enya's music. That's the lists feature for you. And to top it off, the black theme it had looks amazingly radiant & cool. Check out my Yahoo 360. Oh and btw, it allows you to integrate feeds from your other blogs as well. So my blogger blogs also get displayed on that page.

2. I also tried out Google Desktop today. And it's a fabulous piece of software in itself. Two very good applications in one day is quite rare. I especially like the scratchpad, todo list and the itunes plugin (which allows me to play my music from inside Google Desktop). If you feel like giving it a shot, go here

3. The 2nd India-Pak ODI is gonna be tonight. I am excited about it ... i am sure we'll beat the Pakis this time.

4. My todo wishlist now includes:
a. Learning more AJAX ( google maps, gmail are the most well known websites that use this technology ... notice how much more smoother/interactive these sites feel)
b. Practicing more for my upcoming dance competition.
c. Make a truly amazing personal website.
d. A special cricket section (or a separate website at that) aimed at people who know nothing about cricket. Will try to highlight cricket's most interesting aspects there.
e. Read more of Modern C++ Design (I've read half of it multiple times) and get totally familiar with it.
f. Do my topsecret AJAX app (which would probably be plugin for Google Desktop).