Siddhu strikes again !!

A funny x-rated poster from my talented nephew :





and turning the poster upside-down:

Torrent !

Finally, I gingerly put my toe into the world of torrenting.

We upgraded our internet connection recently to unlimited download, and I used the opportunity to download Prison Break from off the net. So far, I've downloaded 4 episodes of the current series (they killed off Sarah!! the damned despicable lowlifes. The series producers I mean). It works quite well, though I'm pessimistically expecting a stern call from my ISP -- "Dear Sir, please do not misuse your unlimited connection or else .." -- or nasty extra charges from some fine print or something.

The downgrades work through a protocol called Torrent (or BitTorrent) which I know very little about. I just downloaded it and tried a bit and it worked. The downloads for PB are 300+MB each BTW. This torrent thingy seems like a cool, complex app. The big deal with it is that once you download something, it allows other people to download it from your computer !! That's pretty discomfiting I found. Its all very nice to gain from someone else's goodness after they take the trouble to tape the stuff and upload it, but when it comes to allowing other people to download stuff off my computer -- ummm..

I can trace it to a couple of things -- just an uncomfortable feeling about someone using my comp. without my permission, and the abovementioned fear that my ISP will rap me on the knuckles.

Stumble Upon

After a long time, I discovered a web tool/site that I got truly excited about -- "StumbleUpon". http://www.stumbleupon.com . It lets you rate cool sites and sites that get rated well by enough people 'bubble up' to the top. Then you can pick topics that you are interested in and just wander through a randomly selected pathway through all the stumbledupon sites of the world. The range and quality of the sites is amazing. Give it a shot. You'll need to download the Stumbleupon toolbar, sign up, and select your topics of interest and you're on your way,

http://www.chaosmatrix.org/library/humor/reject.html : Very funny. I've written the standard polite rejection letter hundreds of times ..

http://www.numberspiral.com : The first page is fantastic intellectual eye-candy but the next page onwards descends (or ascends) into too difficult (for me) maths

PS: I'm wondering if the first two comments on this post are by people associated with stumbleupon. From running India Water Portal, I know this kind of thing happens..