How naive we were. We thought Anil Ambani’s Big Cinemas’ Movie City theater on Oak Tree Road in Edison, NJ would improve after the renovation. Shows how little we know. The theater is still a dump and richly deserves the MovieShitty curse. Here’s what we’ve seen at MovieShitty, post-renovation: * Pee all over the toilet […]
Firefox has been our preferred browser for quite some time now on all our computers. So it was a no-brainer that we’d look at Firefox 3.5 (a key update to the browser released yesterday) sooner rather than later. Here are some of the enhancements in Firefox 3.5: improved JavaScript performance, a new Private Browsing mode, […]
If history disturbs you, and you long to forget, don’t backup your data and sooner or later you’ll be free of it. – Virginia Heffernan in The New York Times Magazine, p.24, June 14, 2009. All hard-drives fail. Some hard-drives fail earlier than the others. Most of us have precious and priceless memories on our […]
As curses go, no one has received so many or deserved as much as manufacturers of laptops/notebook computers. Because laptops are a pain to lug around. Horribly heavy, most notebook PCs give you a pain in the shoulder before you even reach your destination. Worse, the batteries run out before your work is done. Acer […]
The European Commission has slapped a massive $1.45 billion fine on chip giant Intel for engaging in anti-competitive practices that harm consumers. Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said Wednesday: Intel has harmed millions of European consumers by deliberately acting to keep competitors out of the market for computer chips for many years. Such a serious and […]
The only organized thieves worse than the Indian chor are the Chinese thieves. On the grand organized thievery scale, the Indian thieves are way down the ladder compared to the Chinese. Our desi organized thieves still churn out fake low-cost items like Bollywood and Hollywood music, videos, software, video games et al. The Chinese on the […]