End of an Era?

Naa...it was just Australia losing a test match to England.Not really the end of an era, but I did enjoy watching England close out the match keeping the pumped up Bret lee and Share Warne at bay. Was expecting Flintoff to close out the match but Giles turned out to be the unlikely hero.

Why do we always root for the underdogs? Has it got to with me being a middle class south Indian, who is always taught that being arrogant is sinful, pride comes before fall etc.? or is it a more universal feeling? readers answer please...

Watched yet another rerun of Lagaan on Sony TV. By now, I probably know each scene, but still found the movie interesting.the feel good factor in the movie coming from the underdogs winning and on top of that packing off the British...

On an unrelated note, watched Bride and Prejudice - a nice enjoyable movie - maybe because of the gorgeous Aishwarya Rai and Peeya Rai Choudhuri (I was a bit cross with the director for wasting the wonderful Indira Varma in a totally insignificant role). Not sure if all the Punjabi moms out there are like Mrs.Bakshi ("I will end up living in that rotten house, full of spinsters with no grandchildren."). I am surprised that none of the progressive women's liberation groups protested against the movie - Resident Indian women are depicted in the movie as human beings just waiting to get married or be romanced off their feet - no career aspirations, no further thoughts.

Posting this from the comfort of home - have become one satisfied customer of BSNL Dataone. when these guys say its a 256 kbps connection, it is a 256 kbps connection - I effortlessly get download speed of 30KBps, which when compared to my earlier Hathway cable internet service, is just too good. There was a small hitch in configuring the connection though - the crux of the matter being that, to connect to Dataone, you need to create a PPPoE connection, over your existing LAN connection (which in win XP would say that,it is having limited or no connectivity). Initally, I tried to connect after disabling the LAN connection and the PPPoE connection errored saying 'The computer at the other end is not responding'. Tried calling up customer support, who say that I would have to click THE icon on my desktop which reads BSNL Dataone, and after putting in my username and password, would connect me to their excellent broadband service. This is one aspect, which would need serious improvement, for dataone to become the Internet service it expects to grow into. Finally, after a reboot and various combinations later, I lucked out and got connected. and before I forget, one more thing, when you use the connection for reasonable amounts of time, the modem becomes seriously hot(I mean the temperature, I haven't become such a nerd yet), so better to have some air circulation going around (my ceiling fan works admirably well in keeping the modem cool); have heard from my friends that the modem might stop working if its too hot.

That's it for now. Ciao....<Yaaaawn>