CherryPal - Cheap Cloud Computing

http://gizmodo.com/5027136/cherrypal-pc-offers-subscription+free-cloud-computing-that-runs-off-two-watts-of-power

Now that's what I'm talking about. Is this the future of computing? I wouldn't be surprised if Sun raises it's hands and says, Hey! We figured this out years and years ago, when we said, famously, The Network Is The Computer.

In fact it is awe inspiring how ahead of time Sun's vision was! Too bad they're not good at capitalizing on their ideas.

Bizarre statement by VMWare exec - end of Windows!

http://blogs.computerworld.com/vmware_exec_says_windows_days_are_numbered

Does anyone buy this? I know Google sells 'Search Appliances'. But what would VMWare build as an appliance?

iPhone 3G - costlier than your kidney in India

Just read this (http://www.lbhat.com/?p=432). This is a nice blog BTW even if you're not an Apply Fan(atic). This guy is head of an ad agency where a friend of mine works. So loads of cool ads from all around the world, in pictures and videos. If you are wondering how to look busy this afternoon while actually doing absolutely nothing to enhance your company's bottomline, go and check the site out.

Anyways, the meat of the matter is, that the iPhone will be helluva lot more expensive than people think and so besides sons of babus, CM's and other bade-baap-ke-bigde-aulaad, movie stars and glitterazzi, there will be barely any normal people using this device in India.

Hope all these rich people know it's a touchscreen device and don't send their PA's to return the phone for not having any buttons. Sad state of affairs awaiting us this Diwali :(

Sarkar Raj

After that Mahabharat of a post on Dark Knight, I doubt if anyone will dare come here again. But I shall babel on.

I saw Sarkar Raj (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0490210/) this afternoon.

Couldn't resist commenting on it, now that I have a barrel to stand on and sermonize.

Well, I have to say, barring very few movies, I thought Sarkar was one of the best movies ever to come out of Bollywood. It was almost perfect. So this sequel was always going to be tough to pull off.

But why fear when Big B is here! That's probably what Ramu thought. And he thought right! There are (if I remember correctly) two monologues where Amitabh Bachchan takes over three minutes with face occupying the entire screen. With any other actor, these would be agonizing minutes that they would want to get through quickly. With any other director, these minutes would have been edited out of the movie. Not so here.

Amitabh Bachchan occupies those minutes and savours them. This is some pattern I'm beginning to pick, of great actors taking time.

So anyway, film's greatest let down was its villains. No Vishram Sawant, Raashid, no Selvar Mani, and no Babaji. Hussain Qazi is not menacing enough. Kanga is downright buffoonish. Vora is merely amusing. Rao Sa'ab is OK. With not so great villains, there's not much to do for our achha log. The plot is sub-prime.

And really, the third part has a very real chance of trumping Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag as the Mariana's Trench of Ramu's film career :) I mean Aish as the Sarkar-ki-Beti or Lady Sarkar? Come on! If Ramu can pull this off, it will mean this will trump Sarkar as his best film.

I would actually bet the third part will be a prequel. How hard is it to make Big B look 50 and show how Subhash Nagre became Sarkar?

Dark Knight Review @ Wired

The fine folks @ Wired have written up a review of Dark Knight.
I was glad to see that they too thought the movie dragged on for 15 minutes too many!

See here: http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/07/joker-jousts-mi.html