Hey, this blog still ain't complete, remember?

Well, this is just to say that I'm working on it (again) after a long break. So you might see some odd stuff going on - try to ignore it ( ) for a while, okay?

And can anyone tell me about this - Abhishek pointed out that both the links to the feed in the sidebar (Atom and RSS) take you to the same place, ie, the Atom feed. If you hover over the link, you'll see atom.xml as the destination in the link to the RSS feed. But if you view the source, the same link says 'rss.xml'. What's on?

Nice Visitors not using IE

I like this! See for the site statistics for this blog, I'm using Google Analytics because I got an invitation from them (I applied for it). Anyway, so here's what I see in the browsers being used by visitors to this site:

Yay! All hail the Firefox users!
Soon, I'd like to see IE as instead of the second largest segment, at 0% .

Download Firefox here (those who're using Internet Explorer).

'Fifteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest and a Bottle of Rum!'

This is the second time I'm typing this whole thing out. Really, it's too much. The electricity has gone for over 3 hours today. It goes each and every time when I have time to do something on the computer. And of course, the UPS can only show it's total lack of being uninterrupted...

Well, okay, if you want to be really technical about it, not quite fifteen men and not quite just a single bottle of rum.

So, finally, after long waiting, I saw the movie. And, to my surprise, I didn't get blown up, what with all the terrorists being around and all. And we were sitting in the very second row from the front - not very nice. I had thought that since the movie's been here for like a month, everyone should have seen it by now - obviously not.

Anyway, so, on the whole, the movie was, I suppose, quite good. The acting, as always, (especially Johnny Depp's) was superb. And, of course, the wisecracks were there, though I don't think they were quite as many as in the first movie.

Besides that, the story was OK - it seemed to be, at some points of time, a mixture of a load of other stories like Treasure Island and all. And the creatures in Davy Jones' army were a tad more grotesque than need be - actually they were quite repulsive and sick-looking. Oh, and, those who didn't like the dirty teeth in the first movie get a load more sets of dirty teeth to not like. And you're better off not thinking much about the euphemisms in the tribal island part.

All in all, not a movie you'd watch while eating your dinner, for more reasons than one . But it was OK, except it ended on a rather abrupt note, and the ending was entirely spoilt by a) Sushant Tandon and b) a newspaper article which mentioned that Geoffrey Rush was part of the cast...whoops! (shouldn't I have mentioned "spoiler warning"?).

Catching that elusive pirate

No, it's just too bad. You know, just a few days after I first saw Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, I got to know that a sequel was being made. And of course, I decided that time only that I must see it.

Then later I came to know that it was being released on July 5, except it came here only 2 weeks late . Well, anyway, ever since then I've been wanting to see it, and somehow or the other, I don't seem to get the chance. Either dad's to busy, or I have to go for a competition, or my sister's got some work, or there's no time...well, you get the gist.

Now, today I'm supposed to be going for it (in precisely half an hour), though with all the bad luck with me and this movie, I won't be surprised if I get blown up half-way through .

The first movie, by the way, was superb. Johnny Depp's acting, the wisecracks, the story and Johnny Depp's acting really made it fun. I liked the wisecracks especially, coz they kept me grinning most of the time.

[Will is caught and Jack soon follows suit]
Will: Jack! Where's Elizabeth?
Jack: Elizabeth's safe and sound, just as I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington, just like she promised; and you're going to have to die for her, just like you promised, so we're all men of our words really...except Elizabeth who is, in fact, a woman.

[Then, Jack and Barbossa are talking]
B: Jack, I never thought you had it in you to do this.
J: You know me, I'm completely dishonest. You can always trust the dishonest people to be dishonest - honestly - it's the honest ones you have to be careful of. You never know when they might do something incredibly stupid.
[Following, which, Jack and Will start fighting B ]

Oh well, I guess it doesnt even sound half as funny as it did then.

This, by the way, is just a temporary sort of desk, till I make a better one .

Never use Flash when you need to make a site in 1 hour

Argh!
Things have really reached an all-time low. Apart from being busy, I'm also getting really bored now. Reduced to make you read such a boring post, without any proper title as this one. You know, when I started this blog, it was basically because I had so many nice ideas about what to post about. Of course, once I did make it, all the ideas simply went on a long holiday.

I don't seem to be getting much time to sit down and write posts either, when it comes to that. Basically, I'm doing this right now coz today was a holiday. My sister(s) came and tied rakhis following which they inisisted on ballooning my mouth with rasgullas .

I also (finally) installed .NET 2.0, due to which I was able to use TuneSleeve, which I must say, works really well, and is really useful.

The other day I went to Montfort for a competition. It was pretty normal (comapared to BVN at any rate). The gaming finals were quite enjoyable. They had this XBOX on which the 2 finalists had to play Pro Evolution Soccer, and man, what graphics! It was almost as good as watching real people play, albeit in real life, you'd never get AC Milan playing against Argentina. Meanwhile, (while we were watching that is) they gave us these manila folders, containing the participation certificates (though we didn't open the folders). After that we had the prize distribution. After we all got our prizes (our school came first overall by the way), we went back to our seats and opened the folders containing the participation certificates, only to find that the certificates for the individual prizes were also in there! I mean, we could have easily seen that we'd come first in web-d and quizzing if we'd just opened that .

Ah well.