750words.com – Stream your consciousness

750words.com - stats for the day
750words.com - stats for the day

For past couple of months I have been undergoing a writing crisis of sorts. Reviving this journal was a part of the plan to over come the writers block. The plan did work for a while and then I slipped up again. I don’t really know if the thing I call a ‘block’ is real or just part laziness and part twitter effect, but I would like to put the blame squarely on twitter because I do manage to write about 3000 words during the week in tweets. However I still struggle to come up with a decent blog post about anything. As I tweeted Twitter killed the blogging star! but thanks to twitter I came across 750words.com! Continue reading 750words.com – Stream your consciousness

Sony Walkman W202 Review

Sony Walkman W202
Sony Walkman W202

The reason I had stopped listening to music while at work was

  • My work area is in an open place
  • I hate the tangle of wires associated with most MP3 player headsets

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Alfred Hitchcock Collection – A review

Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock

I picked up the box of Alfred Hitchcock Collection because

  • It had one of my favorite movie – Rebecca
  • It was less than INR500/- for six movies from the master of suspense, thus an undeniable ‘Steal’

Well actually the box, marketed by moserbaer in India, is priced INR549/- but if you have good contacts with your neighborhood video store you get upto 10% discount on almost every thing. Of the six movies at least four appear to have been digitally remastered / cleaned up and an absolute treat to watch.

If you don’t know anything about Rebbeca here is a small something to whet your appetite Continue reading Alfred Hitchcock Collection – A review

Taking screenshots on E71

My current home screen
My current home screen

Since I decided that I want to be able to write reviews of software on my E71 phone (yeah, that will kind of make this journal bloggy 😉 ) the first thing which I wanted to do was ability to take screenshots.

A bit of Googling brought me to Antony Pranata’s website and his freeware application very intuitively named Screenshot for Symbian OS. Great! Continue reading Taking screenshots on E71