At the time of writing this post, popular services like Twitter, Foursquare or even Google buzz don’t have native clients for the S60 Nokia platform. You get apps for iPhone, Android and even Blackberry; but not Nokia.

I don’t understand this phenomenon. Nokia has the largest market share, why aren’t apps available? Other people have similar frustrations.

I happen to be a recent buyer of Nokia E75. I love the phone mainly for its features, though I’m disappointed with the lack of apps

Hope things improve.

“Eyes don’t obey but your mind says no way.
You remain confused while the work stays at bay

You need that magic potion,
something like the Gaul’s ration.
The doctors say this ain’t the time
Darn! it’s difficult to resist the temptation.

Out of milk and out of sugar,
it won’t be that spectacular.
But it wasn’t ever about the taste,
the black one’s anyways more popular.

You have a sip of that black,
a bit bitter but you get the knack.

Eyes don’t complain no more,
and you get back on track! “

I liked his acceptance speech:

All my life I had the choice between hate and love. I choose love and here I am.

I ultimately end up relying on my morning tea to wake up me fully.

However, the best part is my drive to work. It’s like playing a video game where you got to manoeuvre your car through myriads of obstacles. Every day is a new challenge, a new way to beat the traffic and reach office in time. That wakes me up! May be I’ll write about Bangalore traffic jams some other day. They are quite notorious if you didn’t know about them already.

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It’s been a long time indeed since these blog’s got updated. I’m not sure if you guys are still tuned in. Whoever is, let me ask you this. “How have you been doing?”

Dell happens to be the number 1 PC maker in the US. It won’t be wrong to assume that other PC manufacturers would mimic Dell’s strategy.

And guess what, now Lenovo has this to say in its blog:

… One of our competitors has done so and it seems to be working out for them. (I won’t say who, because every time I mention a competitor by name, you should see the five-alarm fire that erupts over here. You all know who I’m talking about though.)

It also mentions:

… we’re spending way too much time on the enterprise market and not enough on the enthusiast market. Enterprises have been, and will continue to be, slow to adopt Linux for some of the reasons I outlined, but there are nonetheless a LOT of people running Linux out there, especially on their ThinkPads.

Lenovo has started a poll asking users to vote for their favorite distros which they want to see officially supported for their Thinkpads. Go ahead vote for your distros!

All thanks to Vista! Thank you Microsoft, you’re finally going to help us get rid of Bug #1.

At this juncture I’d also like to share an excerpt from Wayne Liquorman’s (aka Ram Tzu) poem:

Go back to your church, your temple,
Your therapist, your drug dealer, your ashram.
There you may find a moments peace.
You found it there once.
Here is only emptiness for you.
You’ll find no food for your ego here.
What if your precious sense of self
Were to shrivel up and die?
Where would you be then?
What would happen?
Best not to risk it.

I had come across this poem at school. It’s been one of the most cherished ones till date; not only because it was amazingly detailed, but also because I grew up in the company of cats

But why am I writing a post on cats? It’s not caturday is it? No, what really triggered this post is this song I accidentally discovered on Youtube:

Both Harold’s poem and this video exude some kind of timelessness, which I find hard to pin point. May be it’s as simple as “love for cats.”

What if Harold Monro were to be alive in today’s times? He’d probably come up with something like the “Mean kitty” song No?

Nepal’s state-run airline has confirmed that it sacrificed two goats to appease a Hindu god, following technical problems with one of its aircraft.

BBC NEWS

I don’t know who really is the sacrificial lamb; the goat or the passengers? If you happen to use Nepal Airlines for your travels, you better decide

An Air Force B-52 bomber flew across the central United States last week with six cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads that were mistakenly attached to the airplane’s wing, defense officials said yesterday.

The Stratofortress bomber, based at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota, was transporting a dozen Advanced Cruise Missiles to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana on Aug. 30. But crews inadvertently loaded half of them with nuclear warheads attached.
(emphasis mine) Washington Post

Also read the story here.

Geosci blog has some reactions.

Having the worlds largest stockpile of nuclear weapons, the mistake is no doubt embarrassing for the nuclear messiah.

But, at least they made it public.