Tim Van Damme came up with this fun little idea and Sam Brown and Pat Dryburgh followed suit. Following the same path…

A simple game: Go to the address bar in your favorite browser, and type one letter. Start with “a”, end with “z”.

Here we go!

• A: adsoftheworld.com
• B: beautifulpixels.com
• C: cotweet.com
• D: digg.com
• E: emberapp.com
• F: flickr.com
• G: google.com
• H: howstuffworks.com
• I: ixyr.com
• J: jquery.com
• K: kottke.org
• L: localhost
• M: mail.google.com
• N: notespark.com
• O: onefusedlife.com
• P: presh.it
• Q: qdb.us
• R: rajasthantourism.gov.in
• S: smokingapples.com
• T: twitter.com
• U: uploadpie.com
• V: valendesigns.com
• W: web.appstorm.net
• X: xtremegaming.in
• Y: yahooanswerfail.com
• Z: zapak.com

I’m a little surprised that Zapak and Howstuffworks make it to the list, considering I have only visited these sites once or maybe twice.

There was one thing living in my society that really fascinated me, everytime I looked at it. It has been living from the time I wasn’t even born and has lived all these years with it’s head held high.

All the children in the society have grown up playing under it’s shadow. Every child in the society has had a special liking for the tree.

We used to play with almost all the parts of the tree. There was that sweet little game called sword fight that we used to play with the flowers. The leaves were fun to put atop fans in the society’s office, so when switched on, they would be showered on everyone. The wood could be used for occasional bon fires. The tree provided excellent shadow to play box-cricket.

However, everything was snatched away from us yesterday. All that it left now, is this.

Good bye, oh great tree.

[Image courtesy: My flickr stream]

… the domain name that is.

When I first began writing for this blog, it originally used to be at http://myblog.preshit.net . The blog has a nice theme with a nice header and there was this nice logo on it. “Accha?” with a weird smile. I even got a T-Shirt printed with the logo on it.

Now, I’ve changed various themes after that… and due to some reason, I let go off that logo.

It has been over a year now and I’m starting to feel like the name “acchablog.com” is not good anymore.

I may move the blog to a new, more interesting name.

I would really like to hear some suggestions about the same.

Thanks.

Barely two months after we renovated and overhauled our house, my mother now wants the kitchen to be changed to some Designer Kitchen concepts.

So far, our kitchen is pretty decent with trolleys, but these were made around 4-5 years back and have now started rattling. My mother spends most of the time in the kitchen in the evenings, preparing food and nashtaas for the folks in the house.

I will be frank, some part of me too would like to see a designer kitchen with a chimney :D.

If this goes through, the only room that’ll be without something fabulous will be mine.

Today’s my last submission day in college. LDMS submission along with SP practicals and viva ( which btw I won’t be able to attend because that B!TC# is being a herself and not letting me and the other new student :(( )

Anyway, I just finished writing my assignments and was bored to go for a bath so thought I’d just fuck up my Windows. I downloaded some files / programs / wallpapers etc and here’s how it looks now.

The Desktop: ( Click thumbnail to view ; 1440 x 900 px )

My FireFox: ( Click thumbnail to view ; 1440 x 900 px )

Stuff that I used:

• Windows Blinds
• Tiger Theme for Windows Blinds
• RKLauncher ( Dock ) by raduking
• Fission Extension for FireFox
• iSafari theme for FireFox
• Apple Logo wallpaper ( 1440 x 900 ) from InterfaceLift

That’s it :)

Recently I found out that the popular lady who teaches finances to the masses, Suze Orman, is actually a big fan of long term care insurance and thinks the mid-fifties are a good time to invest. Suze like LTC so much so that she went ahead and dedicated an entire chapter of her book to the topic. Suze Orman and Long Term Care Insurance are both topics you should learn about, because LTCI – the short name for it – is all about making smart decisions for your future. Suze will be the first to tell you that Genworth Long Term Insurance is one of her favorites. She also hates debt and likes strong companies like Genworth. We highly encourage you to take a look at the linked resources above and feel free to ask us if you hav
e any questions about LTCI – long term care insurance.

Where’s the TataSky – A review [ Part Three ] you might be wondering, na ?

The thing is, I’ve been a lot busy lately with college and other work and not only this, but the renovations underway @ my home have been taking its toll on me. Anyhow, back to the topic.

Today is the 37th day of using TataSky. So far, I’ve had no “major” complaints against them. All the minor complaints that I’ve had, were addressed by their executives within 24 hours of each.

Here’s a summary of TataSky Services:

Thumb’s Up:

• Excellent Program Guide
• Very good remote
• Excellent Picture and Sound quality
• Excellent Customer Service and After-Sales

Thumb’s Down:

• Active Channels – Not really useful. STB becomes unstable sometimes. The channels work as if still in Beta.
• Rains :| – Signal goes dead if you get HEAVY rainfall. ( I emphasize on HEAVY rainfall )

Even though I wanted to write a detailed review, time constraints aren’t letting me. You’ll find other reviews on Google too. I hope this 3-part review has helped you in some-part.

Thanks :)

So here I am, with my Compaq laptop on my lap, wanting to write something for the blog. I’ve been pretty “Subbu-ish” lately, not writing much on the blog but rather boring you with the boring videos shot from my SONY handycam. But well, its not just that, but I’ve been genuinely busy/ill/hung up with things. Oh well… not any more ( I hope )

There’s this tutorial that I’ve decided to write for MTNL customers again, for those who want wi-fi in their houses. Then there was this Motorola ROKR Z6 review too, but I’ll pass on that.

Anyway, coming to the title of this entry, does any one of you talk in your sleep ?

Not necessarily “in” your sleep, but even when someone has just woken you up ? Do you mumble some words ?

Well, have a look at this video.

Here’s the story:
My cousin, Mr. Sandesh ( :P ) works at a major BPO firm where they have a mainframes which have names. Now, one of them had problems a day prior to this video was shot. Now, he was the one to notify everyone that the mainframe was finally up. He was telling everyone, “Vince is up” ( Vince being the name of the mainframe ). Now, here we have him, the NEXT day, just waking up and mumbling “Vince is up” ?

He himself took 2 hours to realize he was mumbling that.

Now, this isn’t the first instance of him mumbling. In the past, he recounts saying “Elephant aaya, elephant aaya” when his wife tries to wake him up ( =)) ).

Not only him, but I’ve seen several other people mumbling right when they get up. My grandfather has at times gotten up saying “Out.. out” ( :-?? )

Now, why exactly does this happen ? Are these the thoughts that stay in the head ? Are we, in our sleep, still living in the past ?

What are your views ?

This is a video of Ganpati, Gauri and the Satya Narayan Pooja that we have each year.

These are the pics while on the way to visarjan.

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