It’s been a while
Posted by Jeu George on July 13th, 2006
Almost a month since my last post. Lots of interesting things have happened since.
Gaurav and Ashish were here in Seattle just before the long weekend. It was great catching up with things, talking about old stories.
A bunch of us went down to Yellowstone on the long weekend for 4 days. It was a lot of fun. Took Gigs of pictures. I am still in the process of sorting and touching the pictures but I have uploaded a few of them on my MSN Space. I realized that sharing pictures is still a pain, and a lot of work needs to be done in this area. Almost all photo sharing services comprimise on quality. While its still OK with today’s technology, this is one area that needs a lot of improvement, especially with 7 MP camera phones lurking in the market for over an year now and the median MegaPixel ranges for digital cameras are already in the 5-8 MP range.
The Soccer World Cup, the biggest sporting event of the year just got over. Argentina was my pick, though I felt they were a bit unlucky to lose the Quarter’s. Italy took their fourth, and they are now second, only to Brazil on all time World Cup Final Victories. It wasn’t a fitting finish to the Grand Finale, with things going down to Penalty Shootouts. I wonder why they didnt have the Golden Goal rule this time. Perhaps the should be do it the basketball way and have repetitive 15 minute overtimes until it gets over.
Our summer cricket league is also underway this weekend. We will be starting our pratice sessions today and looking for an unprecedented three-in-a-row Championship wins.