Peek-a-boo!

July 11th, 2007 by Anil | Posted in General | No Comments »

It’s been a long 5 months since I’ve done anything with my site. I’m not going to get into all the stuff that’s gone on in the last 5 months except to say that I’ve never had to go through a more challenging time in my life.

I feel good that I’m back on track with my projects now. I feel I have a renewed focus and drive to do what I want to do. I guess in the face of tragedy, you begin to think about how precious time really is and want to make the most of it.

I’ve got so much to do and so little time, anyone found a few hours in the day that are for sale on eBay? I would bid on that in a heartbeat. :)

UCS Star Wars Millenium Falcon!!!!

February 10th, 2007 by Anil | Posted in LEGO®, LEGO® Links | No Comments »

One of my good friends at VisVires, Larry, emailed me earlier today informing me about a new set being sold at LEGO® S@H

Surprised doesn’t do justice to how I felt when I saw what was being sold!

They now have a limited edition UCS Star Wars Millenium Falcon. This thing is nuts. It has 5,195 pieces! It’s 33″ long, 22″ Wide, and 8″ Tall.

I’ve also heard that they are being limited in the U.S. to 10,000 units (take that with a grain of salt because I didn’t read that for a fact, heard from a friend).

In any case, I have mine on pre-order and can’t wait to get my hands on it!

Bay’s got the power!

January 26th, 2007 by Anil | Posted in Movies | No Comments »

If you’re a Transformers fan and you’ve been following the sighs and rants of your fellow Transformer fans around the world at the production of the new Transformers movie, this little parody will make you laugh.

Would you like fries with that?

January 11th, 2007 by Anil | Posted in General | No Comments »

I couldn’t believe this when I read it. How true it is I do not know. It is still worth the laugh.

Why you should look out for Amir Saffar if he sends you his resume or an email. This isn’t anything racial. Hell I’m indian myself. This is actually a mocking of someone, supposedly by the name Amir Saffar, and his so called “perception” of himself and what he expects from others.

The only thing that this guy has left for his career is fulfilling orders for burgers (and fries if he’s lucky). :)

Enjoy, it’s well worth it!

Color Theme Web Application - “kuler”

December 11th, 2006 by Anil | Posted in Developer && Designer | No Comments »

I saw this a little over a week ago but didn’t get a chance to post it up and just got reminded of it again when I went through my bookmarks.

A web application called “kuler” was added to Adobe Labs. You can be use it to develop your own color themes or go through the list of pre-defined themes and find one you like.

http://kuler.adobe.com/

The making of a LEGO® brick

November 29th, 2006 by Anil | Posted in LEGO® | No Comments »

Just heard of a short and sweet article on BusinessWeek.com from an online buddy that talks about the process of making of LEGO® bricks.

This has to be the ONLY thing about LEGO® that isn’t child’s play.

Here’s the article:

http://images.businessweek.com/

??? NO ??? NO ??? NO!!!

November 27th, 2006 by Anil | Posted in General | No Comments »

Have you ever met someone or know someone that doesn’t take “no” for an answer? And after replying with a simple “No thanks”, you are asked the same question which you’ve already answered. So you repeat your answer again, and are met with the same question yet again except this time starting with “Are you sure…” As if my first two replies weren’t enough that it warranted another reason to ask. And with each round of question and answers the questioner becomes even more insistent that you should be saying yes to their offer.

Why is it that some people just don’t understand the concept of “no”? Do they believe they happen to know more about the person and their feelings that they should continually insist on asking a question about something the person obviously has no interest in? Perhaps it’s a deeper reflection of the person asking the question. Maybe it is a better indication of what type of person they are. A forceful person? Perhaps. A thick-headed person? Perhaps. Or maybe it’s as simple as they feel they know what’s right regardless of what other’s feelings are because they aren’t mindful of other’s. Perhaps. Heck, I can think of plenty of situations where it’s all of the above.

I’ve run into a lot of people that just don’t take “no” for an answer and with every round of throwing questions and no’s I tend to get irritated at the person more and more not just in that situation but anytime I have a run in with them. I understand sometimes saying “no” may hurt their feelings especially if they poured their heart into doing something and I’m not about to ruin their mood. However, what do you do all the other times?

Perhaps I myself am a bad person for feeling ill of someone that may just be an overly insistent goodie two shoes. Even still, being good isn’t an excuse for being rude.

I only have one thing to say about the PlayStation 3…

November 17th, 2006 by Anil | Posted in General | No Comments »

It’s a f’in toy!

I’ve already spent so much time ranting about how people are lining up for it, fighting over it, getting shot over it, pushing people into light poles over it. It’s a friggin’ toy people. It’s not like it’s the only vile containing the cure for cancer.

Get a life people, there WILL BE MORE.

And for those that stood in line for days. Many stores said specifically how many they were going to have. Best Buy for instance in their ads stated they would have 3 of the 20GB version and 20 of the 60GB version. So technically if you’re the 24th person in line, go phreakin home! You ain’t getting one!

I love the fact that people are going on eBay and purposely destroying the auctions of those that are trying to profit from it by submitting outlandish bids to prevent the seller from profiting from their greed.

And for those that think I’m ranting because I don’t have a PS3, think again. Hell, I still don’t own a 360, and don’t plan on it yet unless A) a really good deal comes that you couldn’t pass up or B) I need it because the arrival date of Halo 3 comes up.

Halo 3 release date announced! November 1, 2007

November 7th, 2006 by Anil | Posted in General | No Comments »

Well it appears Amazon shot themselves in the foot. Refer to my previous post about Halo 3.

Looks like the Halo 3 release date will be November 1st of 2007! Presales including detailed information of the different sets have become available on GameSpot.com and other retailers. Now I wonder if Amazon simply performed this distasteful act just to get customers to sign up knowing it was due out at sometime in the future anyway? In addition, as of today, November 7, 2006, looking at the Halo 3 listing on Amazon, they updated their listing to state:

Game developer Bungie announced that Halo 3 will be released for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 sometime in 2007

Which is now old news since other retailers are already forecasting the correct arrival date. Will Amazon ever get it right? Eventually…

YAY! IE7 is here! (please note the sarcasm)

October 19th, 2006 by Anil | Posted in Developer && Designer, General | No Comments »

Well it’s finally here, Internet Explorer 7. Yet another browser to add to the long list that developers must test when launching websites.

Did the world really need another browser? Where Microsoft left off, Firefox came along with a strong approach at not only making a browser that is just as stable if not more stable than IE, but also make it expandable and developer friendly. Oh wait, it’s also OPEN SOURCE!!!!

And what happened when Firefox came along, Microsoft’s monopolistic hold on the browser market began to deflate. They couldn’t let that happen so back to the drawing board they went. Let’s be innovative and add tabbed browsing they said (Firefox already had that). Let’s add a search field that let’s the user pick where they are searching from they said (Firefox already had that too). Let’s be more innovative and add an RSS reader they said (Thunderbird already had that too).

I won’t deny it, they took the standard feature set of an already user-friendly browser, Firefox, and added extra candy to the jar to make it seem better than Firefox. What Firefox may not have in it’s root install, it has in the multitude of extensions that are out there. And the fact that FF 2.0 isn’t too far away, and 3.0 is already being branstormed should be enough to show the goons at Microsoft that no matter if they continue with an IE8, 9, X, or whatever, Firefox will still be pioneering while they are imitating.

They do say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Firefox wins again!

Update:

24 hrs haven’t even passed and a vulnerability has already been discovered in IE7. So much for new and improved.

Click here to learn about the vulnerability.

Amazon announces Halo 3 release date?!?!?

October 9th, 2006 by Anil | Posted in General | No Comments »

My brother-in-law came by to visit this past weekend and mentioned that he had seen an online merchant (I don’t recall which one) taking pre-orders for Halo 3. So I went on Amazon and Game Stop and both list the game’s release date to be Saturday, March 31, 2007.

This is exciting news because it has been one of the long awaited games since the release of the XBOX 360.

The strange thing about this is that Bungie doesn’t seem to (or perhaps I haven’t found it) make any call to this specific date on the Halo 3 site. In fact, in the FAQ of Halo 3 on Bungie.net as of October 9, 2006, they state the following about the release of Halo 3, “Halo 3 will be released at an as-yet to be announced date in 2007. The final release date will be revealed at a future time.”

Only time will tell.

Singapore Airlines takes flight with LEGO®

September 28th, 2006 by Anil | Posted in LEGO®, LEGO® Links | No Comments »

I just found this really cool model of the new Airbus A380 for Singapore Airlines. Singapore Airlines will be the first to fly the new airplane.

It took 600 hours to put the 75,000 pieces consisting of 8 different colors together. The plane is 1:25 scale and weighs in at 125 kg, 100 kg of which are LEGO® bricks.

It is 2.9 m long, has a 3.2 m wingspan, and is 1 m tall!

How Superman should have ended…

September 9th, 2006 by Anil | Posted in General | No Comments »

For those of you disappointed with how the Superman movie ended this past summer here is your fix…

Flash is 10!!!

August 8th, 2006 by Anil | Posted in Developer && Designer, Flash | No Comments »

Flash this and Flash that. I’m not talking about Mardi Gras. I’m talking about Adobe Flash people!

And today it’s celebrating it’s 10th birthday!

I’ve been using Flash since 1998. You see it everywhere on the web these days. However, many people don’t realize it’s used in a lot of places that you wouldn’t expect it like telephones, media center controllers, navigation systems, digital camera interfaces and the list is growing.

To see how far Flash has come along since its birth, visit:

Flash Tenth Anniversary

Flash Turns 10

Have peaceful day.

August 4th, 2006 by Anil | Posted in General, Links | 2 Comments »

You like art?

You like Japanese culture.

You like this then.

Origami Boulder Company

Go and have peaceful day.