Today is the last day of 2009, and looking back I can’t help but think about what a roller coaster of a year it has been. I can’t help but smile at some of the memories I have of the year, while others are bittersweet – evoking joy and sadness in equal measure. Here is a quick rundown of the year that was: (more…)
It’s been over a month with the Sony Reader. Here are my impressions of the device:
In summary, very happy with the device. It’s probably the best investment I made this year 
Barnes & Noble’s new Nook e-reader, which released yesterday, filled me with jaw dropping awe. It looked extremely sleek, with page turn buttons just where I wanted them and a cool LCD touchscreen panel. It also featured Android as the operating system and allowed you to lend books, play MP3’s, buy books using Wi-Fi and 3G . And it cost just $259.
I almost suffered a giant case of buyer’s remorse over my recently purchased Sony PRS-300. Then after a little while, reality set in and the rose tinted glasses dropped from my eyes. Looking at the features a bit objectively, I noticed the following:
So all in all, I’m still all for my humble Sony PRS-300. As they say the best camera is the one you have with you when the action happens, similarly the best reader is the one you have currently. For me, I’m better off reading on the Sony Reader now than waiting till next year to get my hands on the Nook.
Just picked up my e-book reader from Primus yesterday. After much thought, I finally went for the Sony Reader Pocket Edition (PRS-300) over the Astak EzReader PocketPro, mainly because the PocketPro wasn’t widely available. The entire package, Sony Reader and charger (yes the device does not ship with a charger, default option is USB charging), cost me about Rs. 12000 (inclusive of taxes).
So far haven’t played around with it much, but will start soon. My first impressions:
I will post a detailed review a couple of days later, as well as post pictures of it. So keep watching this blog.
PS: Primus, thanks a lot for this buddy !!
I’ve just upgraded this blog to the latest version of Wordpress. I’ve also created a nice new theme for the blog. There are still some unresolved issues that cropped up during the upgrade, but they should be cleared in a few hours. Hopefully I’ll be back to blogging as usual soon .
Was browsing through Photos at The Big picture from the Hubble telescope (like the one above from the site), reading through the descriptions that went with the photos. I noticed an odd thing , most of these photos are of celestial bodies thousands if not millions of light years away. (The Antennae Galaxies shown here are 55 million light-years away). Now if my understanding of light years is correct, the light that we see today left that galaxy (say the antennae galaxy) approximately 55 million years ago. That is to say that 55 million years have elapsed since the light radiated and reached us, and needless to say a lot might have transpired since then. Now the width of the known universe is estimated to be 156 billion light years across, and the age of the earth about 4.5 billion years. So to put things in perspective light from that end of the universe would take say a few more billion years to even reach us (if at all). So that brings us to the question, what if the universe already started “dying”, would we be dead and long gone along with it before we could ever see any sign of it ?
Had a weird experience yesterday. The auto rickshaw that I took to get back home yesterday drove itself into a pothole and got stuck. It finally came free, but not before I got partly drenched pushing the vehicle out of the hole in the pouring rain. Getting stuck in a pothole – possibly the last thing I expected….just goes to show Mumbai is full of surprises.
As we know, these are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things that we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don’t know we don’t know.
Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense, 12 February 2002 Department of Defense News Briefing.
Life’s increasingly becoming like this Rumsfeld quote
I'm Elroy Serrao, a technologist, photographer, and part time blogger from India.
I love to design web sites, program in php and rails in my free time and of course go trekking and clicking pictures in the great outdoors.
I'm from Mumbai, and am an alumnus of Mumbai University and NMIMS.
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