Monday, August 02, 2004

Got broadband at home. What a rush. WiFi fantasies have now kicked in, full throttle and am plotting and scheming about how to get hold of an Airport Extreme base station before I lose my mind.

Limewire works like a dream but iTunes Radio chokes constantly. No idea why cause I don't choose stations with higher than 64K streams.

Am dreading Worldcall's customer service though. Have heard nothing but bad things - unfortunately, there's no other service provider to give them a run for their money - and corporates only improve when there is competition. I did experience considerable pain during their installation process. It's too tedious to recount but they tried to blame everything on my Mac. Finally, they realized that there was a physical cable fault. Duh! When they figured that out, it took 0.3 seconds to get online.

Sadruddin Hashwani organized a qavvali over the weekend in memory of Munshi Raziuddin. It's been a year since he passed away :-(

The qavvali was awesome except for Piya Ghar Aaya - which was performed well but have always found it too frivolous. Naseeruddin Saami also performed for about 40 minutes. Good!!

RSS rocks! I just LOVE NetNewsWire. Another killer MacOS X application is OmniOutliner. You can just tell how much developers like OmniGroup, Unsanity, and Panic love the Mac and how committed they are to the fundamental principles of interface design.

To date, I have only liked one Windows application - Setup Factory, produced by a company called Indigo Rose. By PC standards, it's revolutionary.

CityFM 89 has been playing some pretty good stuff ... heard Boys of Summer, Def Leppard, INXS, Buddha Bar, Ray Charles, James Brown ...

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