For me, the discovery of the RSS Feed was the single most brave achievement of 2005. The readers gave me an opportunity to compile several chunks of good information from the feeds at one place. I first began by using Newsgator because of it’s online capabilities and I was quite happy with it. Later I switched to Mozilla Thunderbird (yes you heard that right) which is also an excellent RSS reader. it also allows categarization in folders so I can have all my Apple Macintosh related feeds sitting pretty in a folder by the same name. Thunderbird was by far the most loved one but it required installation and wasn’t available online. Not that I travel much but it’s helpful if I can check the same feeds from home as well. But if you are looking for an installable reader, switch to Thunderbird.
Yoohoo! Adit’s Here!
Very rarely do I express my feelings in such a manner but it feels happy/elated to be in the company of my nephew Aditya whose on a 3 week visit to India from Hong Kong after almost a year. He’s here to stay with his Nani (a mom’s mother is known as Nani in India) and me for the longish weekend that we’re having for the Christmas. He’s all of 5 years but more mature then most in his age group and he’s learned to do things on his own which includes taking fine pictures with his dad’s digital camera. I got to see the demo yesterday :-)
That Sinking Feeling Again
Imagine having some kind of a button which could shut my system down for a given period. That would mean shutting my mind off all the bad things of the day and cleansing it forever. Going into some sort of a coma and waking up the next day absolutely unaware of the happenings of the previous day. If only my wishes would come true now I would have used that boon today because it was a BAD BAD day for me.
Merry Christmas Folks
It has been very windy and chilly in Mumbai these days. Very strange. But then after the July 26 aftermath, I am convinced that anything is possible here and we have to be prepared even for snowfall. As a precautionary measure I carry my favourite red pullover in my bag. It came handy today when I started feeling really cold sitting under the A/C vent. Today was also the day when the Maitree group sang christmas carols for us as we gathered at the 11th floor reception. I was never enthusiastic for such a thing because I was deliberately dragged out of a meeting to be present there. They sang Michael Jackson’s ‘Heal the World’ which lightened up my face. It’s my favourite all time song :-)
Tomorrow is the last day of a great week after which we take a 3 day long break for the christmas. Here’s wishing all the visitors of my website a very Merry Christmas.