You bet its convenient!!!

Well to be frank, its not convenient .... its DAMN WELL AWESOME!!! Just awesome. I can do it anywhere, its always available, as soon as I step inside the door its all there connected and waiting for me, its at my beck and call 24/7 and the price is fixed once and for all - no negotiations ....its my WLAN connection which I finally was able to configure and get online today. It is for my 32mbps unlimited download / upload internet connection :D :D :D
I was successful at my 2nd attempt after blowing up one cable modem and being without telephone and internet for sometime. I tell you it was worth it. Previously I have been advised to have a good internet connection and get a WLAN router but I was just fine with my dial up but today I am much better than fine! I am very very fine! Yes I am a late entrant into the wired home concept but u bet I am gonna make up on lost time with a vengeance!
Media center or Airport?

Where is peace?

Sitting outside home I look at the news of tragedies and blasts in India with a different perspective. Somehow being faced with these kind of incidents everyday had made me immune to them. Now that I am detached and can only read about these incidents on online newspaper reports, these incidents touch me in a different way.
Since July this year almost every week or 10 days there have been incidents of serial blasts. Initially we used to associate terrorism with Punjab or Kashmir with sporadic incidents in the rest of the country but off late no part of the nation seems to safe or peaceful. We are being attacked with impunity anytime, anywhere.
This time we have a homegrown group to blame for these acts and no foreign powers. What despairs me is the absolute helplessness we are faced with with respect to these acts. The government seems absolute powerless in ensuring security and peace.
On the International Non Violence Day we are forced to accept that we are inherently a violent race.

Bunker crashing a golf course

Yep, you read it right. I bunker crashed a golf course today - crashed through a bush and right onto the biggest golf course in this part of the world - how and why is another story but what was surprising was that the course was empty, carts were empty, the club house was empty; everything was so dead and forelorn. Then it stuck me - the world economy is on the precipice.
It took its time coming but the storm has finally hit us big time. I mean I just do not understand how could bad debts be doled out to the tune which we are talking about - actually nobody seems to know the extent of the problem. The US Congress is squabbling over 700 billion dollars Wall Street bailout deal but what the "learned" congressmen do not understand is that it is not a Wall Street bailout package but a world economy support package. Not surprising when probably a chunk of them do not even know where Iraq is. However coming back to the problem at hand I am dumb founded to believe that the highly paid investment bankers of the world gave loans to people without any collateral or knowing that the person taking the loan would not be able to repay them. Ok, I can understand one or two such loans but the magnitude that it not just bankrupts an individual but threatens the whole world economy is beyond comprehension.
World is flat and this crisis proves that. Probably it also proves that lot more insights are required than pure capitalism to run a good business.