where N810 tablet by Nokia would ever to be used in real life action. Author says:
Without satellite map I would have wasted hours trying to find way out from these dead-end shallows.
Today is Wednesday that means Thai Truck for Lunch in Meguro. This will be the last Thai Truck for the next month, since I will be on a 1 month long paternity leave, yes that means I will be a father!
To day I checked the Download! application in my N97. To my merry amazement there was only 1 application left in Download!: The OVI store application. I do have to say that the download application does seem a bit overkill on the N97 with both the ovi-store working quite well and the presence of the OTA Software Update application working excellent.
The default v12 N97 firmware has ovi-store version 1.00. The download application has v1.05 in offer. Upgrading went like blast. Strange though that the OVI-store update is not shown through the OTA Software Update application. Who would ever check Download! out of anything other than curiosity. So please every one check the Download! application on your N97. Most likely the last time you ever need to check it.
I guess it will be gone with firmware 2.0.
Cheers
This Post is originally posted over here
When good things come, they keep coming! After seeing the Red Bull car at Inorbit mall in Mumbai click here to know more Today I got a chance to see it in action ! :D
David Coulthard, in the cockpit of the very powerful Formula One Car entertained the crowds in Mumbai. He crossed the Bandra – Worli Sealink and then entertained the crowds as he did the ‘donut’ and zoomed past the crowd, with the Red Bull F1 engine’s sound echoing all over!
Here is a video taken by me with my Nokia N95 8GB (it’s not such a good one) as David drove past
And this video (below) taken by my Good Friend Eurisca with her Nokia N95. She had a better positon as she was one of the Marshals at the event! (Thanks Euri!) :)
It’s such amazing feeling to hear the Red Bull V10 engine run! the sound is LOUUUD and more like an airplane on a run-way! :D F1 is an awesome sport!
Thanks to Red Bull, David Coulthard and every other person who was responsible for this event!
Today is one of the best days of my life… I am a BIG BIG fan of Formula One racing, and its my favourite sport! and today I got a chance to see an F1 car at Inorbit Mall Mumbai!
The Red Bull Formula One team has been on a tour in Mumbai since yesterday the 7th October, today the F1 car was showcased at Mumbai’s Inorbit Mall. I was very excited to be so near to a very very powerful car with so much advanced technology!
If you have only seen F1 cars on TV or in photos, the car may feel very small… BUT BUT if you think it is small you are WRONG! the car is BIG and LONG! I was surprised!
Here are some photos I took of the F1 car
David Coulthard, retired Red Bull and Formula One Driver is going to drive the Red Bull f1 on Mumbai’s famous Bandra – Worli Sea Link on Sunday 11th October. for more details click here. So will you be there?
THIS POST IS ALSO ON MY OTHER BLOG CLICK HERE
Today is Wednesday that means Thai Truck for Lunch in Meguro. Yummy! But the 100 Yen vending machine that carries Mountain Dew wasn't taking 100 Yen coins today. They'd fall right through when put in, so I had to use 50 Yen coins to get my Dew, something was wrong with the 100 Yen detection mechanism I guess.
Photos taken with the Nokia N97.
Here are some screenshots of the different styles of desktop arrangement on my laptop:
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This was in January, as you can see I used icons and the gadgets on the sidebar.
As you can see no icons.. The dock at the top of the screen is Dell Dock.
One of my favorite wallpapers :D yea its a bit confusing for some people! you might not notice but at the top of the screen is rocketdock
here you can see rocketdock clearly. The gadgets are on the desktop and not on the sidebar. My favorite gadget is the one you see with the words "Metro Station" thats the Now Playing gadget, it gives you the lyrics to any song that is being played.. cool eh? get it from here
Rocketdock at the bottom of the screen which now looks like the dock the one in Mac
Got these wallpapers from Windows 7. yea I have windows 7 installed on my desktop computer which I use sometimes. Windows 7 got really good wallpapers.
Another favorite :D Kristen Stewart (Bella from twilight) wallpaper. looks good right? :P
Here you can see a blue thingy on the screen. its a Really good looking twitter client named Blu. you can download it here
So which one do you like?
Today is Wednesday that means Thai Truck for Lunch in Meguro. Yummy! Last Wednesday there was no Thai Truck because it was a national holiday in Japan.
Photos taken with the Nokia N97 mini.
Once upon a time, a man died and went up to Heaven, where Saint Peter was waiting for him at the Holy Gates.
“I’m very sorry,” said Saint Pete, “but I can’t let you in.”
The man was shocked and very disappointed. “Why not, Saint Peter?” he asked. “Wasn’t I a good man on Earth?”
“You were a very good man, indeed,” replied Saint Pete.“But here’s what your problem was – you could not stop yourself from telling other people how to lead their lives. If they were making a mistake of some kind, you felt compelled to point it out to them.”
Once again, the man was shocked by Saint Peter’s words. “But I don’t understand, Saint Peter. Why was this a bad thing? I was just trying to help them. Isn’t that what we’re supposed to do on Earth - help people?”
“Not in this instance,” replied Saint Peter sternly. “You never learned to mind your own business. And for that reason, I’m afraid you’ll have to go to Hell.”
The man pleaded with Saint Pete. “Please, Saint Peter, I didn’t mean any harm. I was just trying to help, that’s all. I didn’t know I was doing a bad thing. Please, please, give me another chance?”
Saint Peter looked at the man and could see that he honestly hadn’t meant any harm. Because that was so, he thought that perhaps he might bend the rules…just this once. However, before he did, he would test the man’s sincerity. Unbeknownst to the man, of course.
“All right,” decided Saint Pete. “I’ll go to the Higher Ups and see what I can do. In the meantime, you wait in that room over there. Just go in, and close the door behind you.”
The room to which the man had been directed was large and empty, save for a bench. As directed, he closed the door as he went in, and sat on the bench, waiting for his verdict. And as he sat, he noticed there was a narrow, open archway which led to an anteroom at the far side, opposite to where he was sitting.
As he was pondering what might be in the anteroom, the door he’d closed opened, and an angel came in. He was carrying a very tall ladder.
“Hello,” said the angel. “I hope I’m not disturbing you. Do you mind if I come through? I’ve just got to take this ladder and leave it in that anteroom over there.”
“Please, go right ahead,” said the man. “You don’t need my permission.”
And then, an odd thing happened. The man watched as the angel walked across the room towards the anteroom, turned his ladder horizontally in his arms, and attempted to walk through the narrow archway with it. Naturally, he was unable to get through, as the ladder held horizontally was now much too wide.
The man observed with incredulity as the angel made attempt after attempt to get through the archway while holding the ladder thusly. Each time, the ends of the ladder banged against the wall on either side of the opening, propelling the angel backwards, and making quite a mess of the walls it kept hitting, in the process.
Naturally, after about fifteen minutes of this, the angel was winded and perspiring.
“Whew!” he exclaimed. “I didn’t realize this was going to be so difficult.”
The man couldn’t believe what he was hearing. “Are you serious?” he blurted. “If you want to get through, hold the damn ladder vertically!”
The angel shook his head and looked at the man regretfully. “My friend," he said, “this ladder’s not damned, but you are.”
And the next thing the man knew, he was in Hell.
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I can’t remember how old I was when my father told
me the story above, but I was still young enough that
my questions were only just starting to become
annoying to him. Those questions were on every
subject from “Why do you support the war in Vietnam?”
to “Why don’t you ever do anything to stop all the
terrible things going on in this house?”
Since he couldn’t seem to come up with any reasonable
answers for me, the parable above was an attempt to
stave off the inevitable, which was that my
questioning of him would eventually go
from annoying to unbearable… for both of us.
Even my response to this story was not what he’d
hoped. He thought I’d feel forewarned that my quixotic
nature was taking me closer to Hades every day. But
ironically, all it prompted was another litany of
questions: “What kind of angel is stupid enough to
behave like a human?” and “What kind of God would
send a man to Hell for questioning human stupidity?”
It wasn’t until many, many years later that I recognized
that my father had a point, though perhaps not in the
way he’d believed. Anyone at all, with an average
human intelligence, understands very well which
way one needs to hold a ladder in order to get it
through a narrow archway. But pretending that he
doesn’t, he accomplishes one thing – he can tell himself
he tried to get through with everything he had and
just couldn’t succeed.
The fact is, he doesn’t want to succeed. He says
he has to get through a door and deposit a ladder in
an anteroom, but he doesn’t truly want to.
He just wants to pretend to himself and everyone
else, that he really, really tried.
And because this is actually what he wants – that
illusion of the attempt of a completion of a 'task', which is
another word for a ‘change’ – rather than the actual
change – he doesn’t want anyone to point out to him
that his ‘attempt’ is in actuality no attempt at all.
He doesn’t need anyone getting in the way of
his self-deception. Like my father, it will more
than irritate him, because by pointing it out, making him aware that you are aware that he’s lying to himself, you will make him hate himself and, as a result, (especially if your own attempts at change are real, and your desire to help him is motivated out of genuine caring, rather than smug superiority) – he will hate you, too.
A fast way to hell, indeed.
Remember that the next time you
(metaphorically) observe an intelligent adult holding a ladder horizontally, trying to get through an archway.
Say nothing. Wish him “good luck,” and get out of his way.
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Today is Wednesday that mean Thai Truck for Lunch in Meguro. Yummy!
Photos taken with the Nokia N97.
