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I have to say this is quite easy. Now let me see…let me try inserting a pic now…
shit the add photo button is adding 1 photo for a very long time. or am i doing something wrong?
typing this on a nokia E71 from native browser at m.wordpress.com. Not too bad.
Man, I have been waiting for Diablo III for years and year now and I missed the day it was officially announed as on the way? Damn damn and damn it all to hell and back.
From Blizzard.com, the following piece:
Twenty years have passed since the cataclysmic events of Diablo® II. Mephisto, Diablo, and Baal have been defeated, but the Worldstone, which once shielded the world of Sanctuary from the forces of both the High Heavens and the Burning Hells, has been destroyed, and evil once again stirs in Tristram….
Some of the site’s highlights include:
- The cinematic teaser trailer shown at the 2008 Worldwide Invitational
- A 20-minute gameplay demo video
- More than 60 screenshots and pieces of concept art
- Deckard Cain’s journal, narrated by Deckard Cain himself — stay a while and listen!
- And much, much more
Visit the new Diablo III website now to learn more about the game, and make sure to check out the official FAQ and the announcement press release.
So the indiblogger team has assembled in Chennai gearing up for the Chennai blogger meet. Everything looks quite exciting here at Indiblogger HQ. Looking forward to meeting the Chennai bloggers. I have heard a lot about the Chennai bloggers being the most expressive of the lot of Indian bloggers. Hmmm… and I never imagined that Chennai is the blogging capital of India. I always thought it was Bangalore. But then if you have been in Bangalore for quite a long time your whole world revolves around Bangalore. Hehehehehe!
So, the fabled indiblogger meet at Chennai date is finally almost there. The indiblogger team has been looking forward to and planning (er… read drinking) for the meet for (it seems like) years now.
The blogger meet at Chennai was proposed by Lemonade, a blogger from Chennai (DUH!).
I have seen that the first person who says he/she wants to host or start a blogger meeting in his/her city gets to host the indiblogger meeting. This has happened time and time again.
SO IF YOU WANT TO BE A SUPERSTAR INDIBLOGGER MEETING HOST, I SUGGEST YOU START ONE IMMEDIATELY AT INDIBLOGGER.
Yesterday, I was reading a post in Neatorama about an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon who attached a helicopter with arrows. Then I remembered reading a similar article a couple of years back in The Hindu about a similar incident in the Andaman Islands. So I quickly did an online research and yes the incident was almost the same. But this tribe was in India while the newer incident has happened in the Amazon.
I remember reading about this incident and thinking, wow, we are in the 21st century and there are fellow human beings still primitive (by our current standards) living amongst us in this world. And it is extremely hard to believe that they are living as much as the same way they lived for thousands of years. The Sentinelese tribe (the tribe in the Andaman Islands) have supposed to have lived in the same island for about 60000 years. Amazing stuff. And if we believe the Bible we are probably only 2000-4000 years old (our world). Hehehehe.
I have put some links where you can read about the sentinelese and about the attacking helicopter with arrows incident.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/stone-age-tribe-kills-fishermen/2006/02/08/1139379571616.html
http://www.survival-international.org/campaigns/uncontactedtribes/mostisolated
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese
And some excerpts below:
“Yet when a helicopter flew low over the island, a Sentinelese man rushed out on to the beach, aiming his arrow at the pilot in a gesture that clearly said, ‘We don’t want you here’.”
The above incident clearly tells us that the Sentinelese have survived a thousand mishaps including the 2004 Tsunami and survived. Truly mind blowing stuff.
“Perhaps no people on Earth remain more genuinely isolated than the Sentinelese. They are thought to be directly descended from the first human populations to emerge from Africa, and have probably lived in the Andaman Islands for up to 60,000 years. The fact that their language is so different even from other Andaman islanders suggests that they have had little contact with other people for thousands of years.”
“It is the sheer, intractable hostility of the Sentinelese that makes them so appealing to science. Had they been amenable to the advances of the West, they would have been assimilated long ago, and their unique identity drowned in an inundation of foreign genes. Today, their isolation – biological and geographical – makes them invaluable to studying our own species.”
The folks at Mozilla would love to set a Guinness World Record. How? By getting the most number of download for their much awaited Firefox 3 release. An excerpt from their official site below:
“Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours – it’s that easy. We’re not asking you to swallow a sword or to balance 30 spoons on your face, although that would be kind of awesome.
By the way, the official date for the launch of Firefox 3 will be posted here soon – so check back! Join our community and this effort by pledging today.:”
Spread the word through tools available here.
Sandhya has tagged me to do this. It is good to reciprocate I suppose. So, here goes.
10 things I miss in my life right now:
- The time I was 3 years old. Damn. Those days were the best.
- School days (the usual like everybody else)
- The two months after college when I was not working at all and playing diablo all day
Sandhya had 8 and I have only three. Am I much more satisfied in life? Hmmm… unanswerable question? Maybe, it was uneventful? Hmmm… maybe.
10 things I want to achieve within a decade:
- Buy a car
- Buy a house
- Setup a sound proof entertainment room just for myself with surround sound, lights and the works
- Play in a rock band in front of a large crowd
- Visit a nudist camp
- Take a one year sabbatical to backpack across Europe
That’s it. I should actually rename the above to 3 things and 6 things that make 9 things. Er… okay.
Goodnight and I love you all. All who want to be tagged, tag yourself.
Of all the surviving heavy metal icons, none are more authentic or carry more credibility than Motorhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister. For over 40 years, Lemmy has defined the heavy metal lifestyle and music form, adhering to his principles, writing songs gloriously out of step with the times and flipping the bird to all those who who covers their ears. Astonishingly, Kilmister’s music not just been iconoclastic, it’s been hugely influential, laying the foundation for thrash, death metal and hardcore. And whether he’s tearing it up with Motorhead, picking up chicks at the Rainbow or stumbling drunkenly through a dark alley shouting belligerent curses at whoever he steps on, Lemmy remains ever true to himself and his values.
Because of Kilmister’s historical, sociological and comical value, directors/producers Greg Olliver and Wes Orshoski decided to film Lemmy: The Movie, a documentary of their hero that’s scheduled to surface sometime in 2009. The flick is being shot on a combination of HD video and super 16 mm film and will include tribute interviews with Dave Grohl, Alice Cooper, and Steve Vai and wrestler Triple H as well as abundant video footage of Lemmy doing what he does best.
Read more at Headbanger’s Ball blog and watch the video of a classic hotel trashing ritual. Hehehehe.
