I spent some time yesterday in Mumbai. It’d been ages since I’d been to Mumbai for shopping, and since Diwali’s coming up, we decided we’d go out and explore. But the best part of the whole experience wasn’t the shopping. That was very mundane, time consuming, and given the fact that I am more of a point-and-shoot kind of shopper, the extended, exploratory shopping style just gets me bored! The thing that really got me excited very early in the day was simply the fact that it was raining cats and dogs en-route and it was steady throughout the time I was in Mumbai.

Over the last couple of years, there’s been a lot of talk about the viability of ODIs (One Day Internationals, 50 overs per side games) due to the growing popularity of T20 (20 overs per side games) cricket. Ever since the first T20 World Cup in South Africa, there have been two points of views about this issue:

• The Business View
• The Fan’s View

Let’s discuss what each of those perspectives are about…

I came across this video a few months back, but lost it’s URL. Finally, I’ve found it again. Here it is, and I hope you will think about what this video is conveying!

India and Pakistan had a cracker of a match last night. I watched it till the end, and although I’m disappointed that India lost, it was a great game nonetheless!

I appreciated the tenacity displayed by Mohammed Yousuf and Shoaib Malik in taking the Pakistani score from 3/65 in 14.4 overs to a massive score of 302.

I really enjoyed the fight that Gautam Gambhir and Suresh Raina exhibited which gave India lots of hope and belief that they could pull off an awesome win!

But, after all was said and done, I think that Pakistan were the deserving winners of that match. Their spinners out-bowled India. Their batsmen batted a lot more responsibly. In the final equation, they were a better team on the day. So why is the media crying and creating such a fuss about Dhoni not bowling Tendulkar??

A little personal history

A few days back, I downloaded the latest update for the Zune software. I presently own two Zunes:

• The first one was a brown 30GB 1st Gen (1G) Zune bought for $99 on a sale.
• The second Zune was a more extravagant 120GB Black 2G Zune with custom Artist Design on the back.

I’ve had my fair share of experience with PMPs, most notably with Apple’s iPods (iPod Mini, iPod Video, iPod Touch) and Microsoft’s Zunes. I think it’s fair to say that I’ve played around with both the Zune Software and iTunes extensively, and I can present a fair, non-biased opinion about the two.