Guys for now just enjoy the video, i have a story to tell but i guess that will have to wait....too many incomplete posts......but what can i say......am a bit busy :)
Friday, December 29, 2006
Sunday, December 17, 2006
One Woman Short - am I?
I am not much of a reader but when you are single and that too in a retirement town in US where ther average age of a woman would be somewhere between 35-45 you havent got many options. So I read books at times, i try to keep it to the minimum coz once you get into bad habits its difficult to get away from them. So every once in a while i pick up a book that has a catchy title or cover page artwork. I was visinting the county library to drop a couple of movies that i had picked up a week earlier, which if I wouldnt could have costed me $1 fine per extra day. While i was at it just strolled into the book section of the public library, coz i was looking for Smita, she was riding with me and so was Priyank. I dont know she picked up a couple of books and on our way out i spotted a colourful bookcover with the title "One Woman Short" and for some reason decided to pick it up. The back cover read that it was a fiction work by George Nealson about a guy revisiting his past to find the girl that he should have married. Sounded interesting so i picked it up.
This is a work in progress...(i will continue this post later) as of now i am busy looking at 3D images - where the image looks like a random splat of colors but when you look into it you can see a 3D image/scene inside the picture.
This is a work in progress...(i will continue this post later) as of now i am busy looking at 3D images - where the image looks like a random splat of colors but when you look into it you can see a 3D image/scene inside the picture.
Barnes and Noble - Going WiFi
As this post's title reads this is just about my experience at B&N using their WiFi connection or rather AT&T's connection. I always use to thing that these places which boast about their Wifi connectivity should be running into losses coz if they provide free access to the net then why the heck would you want to pay to get a connection at home.
This is how it all started, i have always been facinated by the idea of sitting in a place like B&N or Starbucks for that matter and just get online and do timepass. So finally today i got the chance to get out and actually try it out. My first attemp was Starbucks in Yardley, the simple reason being that its close to my place and they serve good coffee....yeah i know you are probably wonder that since when did i get into drinking tea or coffee....but trust me if you are not much of a coffee lover try out the starbucks "White chocolate Mocha" its great - Shailesh thanks for the tip on this one. So i ended up at the outlet and i compeletely forgot that there was one more reason as to why i chose it, good crowd. As this place was already full (as you would say in bombay english - jam packed) i had to look for another option. But cmon i couldnt leave Starbucks without getting myself a Tall (their way of saying small) coffee.
Now that Starbucks was otta the picture i had only one another option that i knew of and that was B&N. But i enjoyed the coffee on my drive to B&N. So after the usual parking the car routine i was hunting for a good spot to sit and get online and write this post about my first experience with using Wifi at one of these locations. I have been to B&N once in the past and i was really amazed as to howmany people hang out at this place. So getting a decent spot to sit back and open my Alienware was a bit of a fight.
The feeling of starting my laptop here was one of its kind. I dont know why but i was excited like a kid on his first trip to a big mall or something. Then i had to figure out which one of the wireless networks to connect to get online. Now most of the networks were secured, but that wouldnt stop me now would it? So i started attempting to get on each one of them with my own guesses of passwords (which was - BarnesandNobles) but cmon if only life was that simple. So after a couple of tries....i found a wireless network that was unsecure. I connect to it and type www.google.com to test if the connection actually works. Now every story has a villian and this one did too. It took me to a website which was AT&T's Wifi authentication site. Thats when i understood the entire business model of this Wifi business, you gotta pay to get connected to the net....man that makes sense......what was i thinking....there are no free dinners...not even at B&N.
But now if i am writing this blog i had to be online, so i paid a fee of $4 using my creditcard to get online. Guess what i just got a better seat, a love seat which is much more comfortable than the wooden chair that i was sitting on. Ok sorry for that, lets get back to the post. If you think of it isnt this great...you come in spend some dollars for the connection and sitback for a while and enjoy the ambience while you online. This is way better than sitting at home and surfing the net. They get the bucks and you get the experience. Its a win-win situation.
As i was typing this post i got thinking that if i am gonna pay for the net then i better make the best out of it. I would be typing this post for most of the time and wouldnt be using he bandwidth that i am paying for. Pardon my Gujju genes, but i cannot let my fellow gujju's down but now vasooling all that i have invested. So whats the best way to do that. Ofcouse watching video would be the best option but then if i were to watch video i couldnt have posted the blog. So the next best thing was listening music online. So here i am typing these keys and listening to "Tere bin" from Bas ek pal, its one of my favourites from the latest ones.
So while i sit back and enjoy the music..you guys can wait for me to post the rest of it later after i walk out of here...if at all i post it...
This is how it all started, i have always been facinated by the idea of sitting in a place like B&N or Starbucks for that matter and just get online and do timepass. So finally today i got the chance to get out and actually try it out. My first attemp was Starbucks in Yardley, the simple reason being that its close to my place and they serve good coffee....yeah i know you are probably wonder that since when did i get into drinking tea or coffee....but trust me if you are not much of a coffee lover try out the starbucks "White chocolate Mocha" its great - Shailesh thanks for the tip on this one. So i ended up at the outlet and i compeletely forgot that there was one more reason as to why i chose it, good crowd. As this place was already full (as you would say in bombay english - jam packed) i had to look for another option. But cmon i couldnt leave Starbucks without getting myself a Tall (their way of saying small) coffee.
Now that Starbucks was otta the picture i had only one another option that i knew of and that was B&N. But i enjoyed the coffee on my drive to B&N. So after the usual parking the car routine i was hunting for a good spot to sit and get online and write this post about my first experience with using Wifi at one of these locations. I have been to B&N once in the past and i was really amazed as to howmany people hang out at this place. So getting a decent spot to sit back and open my Alienware was a bit of a fight.
The feeling of starting my laptop here was one of its kind. I dont know why but i was excited like a kid on his first trip to a big mall or something. Then i had to figure out which one of the wireless networks to connect to get online. Now most of the networks were secured, but that wouldnt stop me now would it? So i started attempting to get on each one of them with my own guesses of passwords (which was - BarnesandNobles) but cmon if only life was that simple. So after a couple of tries....i found a wireless network that was unsecure. I connect to it and type www.google.com to test if the connection actually works. Now every story has a villian and this one did too. It took me to a website which was AT&T's Wifi authentication site. Thats when i understood the entire business model of this Wifi business, you gotta pay to get connected to the net....man that makes sense......what was i thinking....there are no free dinners...not even at B&N.
But now if i am writing this blog i had to be online, so i paid a fee of $4 using my creditcard to get online. Guess what i just got a better seat, a love seat which is much more comfortable than the wooden chair that i was sitting on. Ok sorry for that, lets get back to the post. If you think of it isnt this great...you come in spend some dollars for the connection and sitback for a while and enjoy the ambience while you online. This is way better than sitting at home and surfing the net. They get the bucks and you get the experience. Its a win-win situation.
As i was typing this post i got thinking that if i am gonna pay for the net then i better make the best out of it. I would be typing this post for most of the time and wouldnt be using he bandwidth that i am paying for. Pardon my Gujju genes, but i cannot let my fellow gujju's down but now vasooling all that i have invested. So whats the best way to do that. Ofcouse watching video would be the best option but then if i were to watch video i couldnt have posted the blog. So the next best thing was listening music online. So here i am typing these keys and listening to "Tere bin" from Bas ek pal, its one of my favourites from the latest ones.
So while i sit back and enjoy the music..you guys can wait for me to post the rest of it later after i walk out of here...if at all i post it...
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