Google Chrome

I have installed Google Chrome on one of my laptops. It seems to be a good browser. Like all other Google products it's designed to spare the user of the pain of being bombarded by pop-ups, flash and other attention-sucking bombardments.

There is one issue I have observed. When you press Esc key while watching videos in full-screen mode on youtube, Chrome hangs. However, you can recover from that, and it doesn't get stuck so badly that you have to kill it.

Sense & Sensibility

On Friday, Poornima & I saw Sense & Sensibility on a DVD. It was nice movie. Poornima was releived to finally watch a movie with a happy ending. Last three movies before Sense & Sensibility were Muqaddar ka Sikandar, Braveheart and Gone with the Wind - all of which had tragic endings.

Last year I had read Jane Austen's Sense & Sensibility. It enjoyed the movie more than the book, because the movie was more fast-paced than the book. Emma Thompson has played Elinor well and so has Alan Rickman (who played Prof. Snape in Harry Potter) played the role of Col. Brandon. Kate Winslet and High Grant have done a fair job of Marianne and Edward Ferrars respectively.

It rained!

It rained here this weekend. The sky was overcast for most of the two days, with sun peeking in through the clouds a few times on Sunday afternoon. This rainy weekend marks then end of the short summer and marks the begining of long depressing cold and wet season that will last till June next year! :-(

Reading

What am I reading these days - John Grisham's Playing for Pizza....
though I better be reading Rita Mulcahy's PMP Prep Guide!

Loose English

People often confuse between similar sounding words while talking or writing. We often see people incorrectly using ‘there’ in place of ‘their’ or ‘your’ in place of ‘you are’, etc. However, I haven’t seen any other word used incorrectly, more frequently than the word ‘loose’. I have seen people using the word ‘loose’ in place of ‘lose’ in personal emails, official emails, word documents; and today I saw it incorrectly used in Oracle User Guide.