Walk Alone

I feel

pensive…

I am about to commit

breakaway…

8,002,530

Mozilla has officially made history with a new Guinness world record for the largest number of software downloads in a 24-hour period.

We made it!

Update, 4th July, 2008 - Here’s the page with details. Another thing to note is that this number reflects deliberate downloads. No trick links, bots or scripted attempts. Repeated attempts and incomplete downloads were rejected. Also, upgrades from older browsers as well as the numerous installs on various APT and YUM managed Linux machines were not counted.

The monsoon made a fool out of me yesterday.

When the train started limping from Andheri and halted for a frustrating fifteen minutes just before Bandra, I thought “What the hell!” and returned home. A colleague of mine who was in the same train persisted; and reached office (just 45 minutes late) at 9:45 AM. For that much inconvenience, said colleague (along with those few stubborn individuals who made it to office against all odds) enjoyed a day when few wanted to do any work.

And then, it stopped raining at 10:30 AM and I felt like a fool sitting at home.

Meanwhile, the people who showed up felt good about showing up, had a good time in a fairly vacant office and went home with all the leisure at their command. The roads were empty of traffic and the trains, of commuters.

In other news, the iPhone bubble has burst.

Both Bharti and Vodafone have clarified that they will offer the iPhone at Rs. 21,000 - not 8,000. Their reasoning is simple - AT&T charges 25 cents a minute for talktime, while they charge 2 cents. Against such a disadvantage, they cannot afford to subsidise the iPhone like AT&T.

So if the iPhone goes back to being a status icon and a rich man’s toy, what’s left? The FreeRunner! IDA Systems offers it for Rs. 20,000 all inclusive. It is not Apple. It doesn’t look slim and trendy. But then, if you buy the Neo FreeRunner, its not for status or looks. It is for freedom. For choice.

The FreeRunner or one of its successors is my next phone.

I was going through the WordPress back-end and looked into the comments table. Some statistics…

The top three comment authors are Thite, Varun and Bhise from rank 1 downwards.

I would say there are five regular readers, the rest all are drifters.

I have 23 distinct email IDs (come on people, I don’t spam, so use one ID) in the comment author email IDs list - two users, Bhise and Amey, have used four email IDs each.

There are 32 distinct author names - Amey has used five names!

Thats pretty much all, folks.