Online Observations

Nothing funnier that kiddy-speak

One of the most interesting sites on the Internet is one that was put up by Scott Hanselman (as a way to record the words of wisdom of his kids). He opened it up so that others could make submissions as well. The site is called overheard@home. Here are some classic examples from the website:

3 yr old, watching the second hand…

"It’s 7 o’clock….now it’s 8 o’clock…now it’s NINE o’clock!!!"

And this one:

Watching the Pixar movie "WALL-E"

7 year old - "ha ha, WALL-E thinks the booby trap is a pair of sunglasses!"

Me - "Erm, that’s not called a booby trap, its called a bra."

What about this one:

3.5 year old girl to her mother: “Mama, who hatched me?”

Mother: “I GAVE BIRTH to you, honey.”

Daughter: “And Max too?”

Mother: “And Max.”

Daughter: "So you had TWO children!?"

Mother: "Yes."

Daughter: "And what did daddy do?"

There are so many gems on that website that you can go on and on. And it is updated regularly as well. I have it in my bookmarks.

Painting Twitter’s history

 

Twitter is the hottest thing on the Internet right now, and rightly so. I blog less and tweet more. Its just so much easier to do it. TechCrunch found a picture describing Twitter’s history. Here’s what it looks like:

 

 

Not too many words are needed for this post (a picture is worth… ). Also click on the image to go to the TechCrunch article.

Speeding up Windows Vista

Even though Windows 7 is on the horizon, many of us will be stuck with Windows Vista for a long time to come. And since Vista was born with a performance handicap, we will suffer from that as well, unless we do something about it. There are many ways to tweak Windows Vista’s performance, and the easiest is to get expensive high performance hardware. However, even within your limited hardware there are tweaks that can be applied to ensure better performance.

Now, you can go around the Internet searching for these “tweaks” and applying them one by one – or you can take help. And we all know that good help is never free, but it doesn’t have to be expensive as well. Well, here’s a sales pitch that has to stop you and make you think – this might be worthwhile – follow the instructions for 30 seconds worth, and make your computer 500% faster – or get your money back (the money in question is 5 cents short of $13.00).

So, if you need your computer running Windows Vista to be a bit snappier than usual do click on that computer link. Come back here to let us know how it turned out.

This is how we roll in India

This video has been doing the rounds, and since it was shot about 10 kilometers from where I live, I thought it would be appropriate to share it:

This is How We Roll in India - The funniest bloopers are right here

Honesty, the best policy?

One of my favorite cartoonists recently reminded us that honesty is the best policy… or is it? You decide:

If you are a football fan, Direct TV is your best friend

All 32 teams of the NFL are about to hit camp next month so that they are ready for the pre-season in August. If you are a football fan, you don’t want to miss any action this year. You want to watch every game, of every team, complete with player tracking. What can you do? The best thing you can do for yourself is to shake hands with Direct TV. Direct TV is the only provider which can bring you action from every team and every game.

The Direct TV NFL Sunday Ticket gives you access to 200 NFL games (14 of them every Sunday), player tracking, and also access to the NFL network. Like I said, if you are a football fan Direct TV is your best friend. Their package is made custom for football lovers. For instance, the player tracker allows you to choose your favorite 18 players, and will send updates to your screen whenever one of these players makes a big play.

The NFL Network access grants you 24 hour information – news, information shows game previews, coaches, players, press conferences, pre-season live games, and much more.The interactive receiver allows you to get detailed player statistics, real-time score feeds, and live updates from other games while you are watching your current game.

Of course, as always there is a benefit for being the early bird (you are getting a discount if you subscribe now). So, what are you waiting for?