World Cup Final deja vu

nothing seemed to have changed at all ... it was almost exactly like the world cup final of 2003 (india v/s australia). the aussies batting first and posting a very good score, and india crumbling under the pressure (even , except this time it was the final of the women's edition. led by some excellent batting up front by vice captain karen rolton, the aussie women beat the indians by 98 runs to claim their fifth world cup final victory. one of the interesting facts was that the second highest scorer for the aussies was Lisa Carprini Sthalekar - born in Pune(!) and now plays for New South Wales.

QUIZ UPDATE: The quiz questions for this week have been added - check here for the questions. The topic for this week is Indian Literature.

Gmail is still increasing the mail quota !

SAY NO TO MUSHARRAF

Indian bloggers: Join the protest against the villain of Kargil watching a game of cricket in India. It would be quite an insult to the memory of the soldiers who died on the heights of Kashmir in 1999, to those like Saurabh Kalia who were made the victims of terrible torture in violation of international norms on treatment of captured enemy soldiers. Yesterday's attack on the Tourist Reception Center in Srinagar can ultimately be blamed on Musharraf's continuing support of terrorist activities. Hopefully better sense will prevail in the INdian government and will refuse him permission to 'enjoy' the game on April 17.

THe above image will be displayed in protest of Musharraf's visit to India. Feel free to copy the image and paste it on your blog/website too. Here is a list of other participating blogs.

Google's April fool ....

Its been exactly one year since Google launched its Gmail service. Launching an email service offering 1Gb of disk space on Fool's day had everyone convinced that it was the best April Fool's day stunt in recent history. Hardly anyone bought it ... and Google was running around telling everyone who was willing to listen that it was for real. And the BBC said, that Timing made Google the April Fool!

A year down the road, here is what Google is saying. They are offering another gigabyte of disk space - again, being Fool's day its hard to believe. Visit the gmail website and you will realize that the disk space they are offering is continuously being increased every instant. Right now, my gmail accounts have reached 1389 MB - certainly higher than the 1GB. Google has set this crazy thing in motion, and every Fool's day will now be one to look forward to as Gmail takes another step in a direction completely unforeseen, and which we wont know for sure if its true until April 2!!

[Its been a few minutes since the original post, and now my account quota has gone upto 1397 MB.] Here is what the gmail front page looks like today:

A quizzing blog

I have been sending out a weekly quiz on a variety of topics to a bunch of my friends for the past few weeks, and on the suggestion of one of them, I decided to put the weekly quiz on the web. I thought it was a swell idea, and no better way to do it than through a blog. I have been using blogger for several months now, and am quite familiar with the interface, so it was a piece of cake. Besides it allows me to add some more spice to the quiz such as visual questions.

I have started by posting all previous quizzes. This week's quiz is on Chemistry, while previous quizzes were on Academy Awards, Cricket and Bollywood. In case you are interested in sending in your answers, you can email me. Ofcourse, a honor system is in place, and it is hoped that you did not use the web or other sources to get the answers.

Generally, I send out the questions every Monday, and you have till the following Sunday to send in the answers. I will post the answers in the following week.

So, without much ado, here is the link to Quizzeria

Happy Quizzing ....!!