http://geekdreams.net Life, Love,Thoughts, Dreams of a Geek Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:12:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 1 hour and 18 mins to go until we bid "aloha a hui hou aku" to Hawaii and get back to the bay area. Picture above shows our plane being prepped for takeoff. Weather today isn't as sunny and warm as it was for most of the last 2 weeks ... http://geekdreams.net/?p=545 Had an awesome time on this trip. Will definitely miss Honolulu, the weather and the wide variety of possible activities once I get back to the Bay area. Also met some great people along the way that I'll be keeping in touch with. Can never have too many good friends ... http://geekdreams.net/?p=526 Been a while since the last entry from Hawaii. Just haven't had the time (and at times access to the net from laptop - could have used phone but I prefer to use a normal keyboard for long entries :)) to write much and been waiting on some pictures that ... http://geekdreams.net/?p=512 Update Jan 6th: Looks like I accidently deleted this entry :( Can't remember most of what I wrote here but part of it was about doing a shark cage tour (pic) below. Think I also wrote about some other stuff I was up to during that same time period....too bad ... http://geekdreams.net/?p=507 Yeah yeah I know..been a while since I've written anything on my blog. First was busy with the new WoW expansion :) and then once I got my mage to lvl 80 and then got super busy with work. Didn't even know if I'd be able to go on my ... http://geekdreams.net/?p=503 Prior to today, Skype was the only IM program that allowed voice+video chat between Mac and PC users (maybe Aim worked, but I don't know anyone who still uses Aim). The Mac version of MSN only supported Mac to PC video chats for enterprises, leaving the rest of us in ... http://geekdreams.net/?p=497 After hearing a lot of good things about Apple's Aperture photo editing software I finally installed it yesterday (thanks TG for the serial) and I gotta say that this beats Adobe's Lightroom by loads in my opinion.  I've had Lightroom installed on my windows desktop for about 3 months now, ... http://geekdreams.net/?p=489 If you've never seen an ice hockey game, you might be surprised by these pictures because I think its the only professional sport that allows fights to break out in the middle of the game and most people outside of the US and Canada may not have seen anything like ... http://geekdreams.net/?p=483 Everyone has their own good luck bringing ritual/item. Could be as simple as listening to a "lucky" song or wearing pair of lucky boxers or something else that's physical or it could be an unusual way of doing some normal activity. I know I have a couple myself :) If ... http://geekdreams.net/?p=473 You may have heard that Microsoft unveiled their successor to Windows Vista last week during the PDC. The new operating system will be called Windows 7, as it's Microsoft's seventh operating system to date. While it's still in pre-beta form, they handled out copies of the upcoming operating system to ... http://geekdreams.net/?p=460 Happy Diwali everyone! http://geekdreams.net/?p=454 Ok I <3 coldplay.  Any friend of mine can tell you that :) There are no other artists on this planet I <3 more then Chris, Will, Guy and Johnny...and they're the only band whose music I purchase legally (well there is one other artist..but won't mention him in this ... http://geekdreams.net/?p=449 This post is a bit overdue..almost 2 months overdue! Well better late then never right?  Hit the middle fork river for some white water rafting this last august a few days before the season ended. Was my 2nd time rafting the middle fork river and the 3rd time going with W.E.T ... http://geekdreams.net/?p=438 I'm lazy...clicking "bookmarks" on firefox, scrolling down the 200 or so links I've bookmarked over the years and then finally clicking on the blog I wanna read takes wayyyy to long. So adding 3 more blogs to my blog roll (on the lower right side of the page) so I ... http://geekdreams.net/?p=436 Took my sister to her first San Jose Sharks game last tuesday and it turned out to be an awesome game! Game was against the Columbus Blues. Sharks were down 1-0 the first period and as soon as they tied it up, the Blues made it 2-1 within 10 seconds. ... http://geekdreams.net/?p=420 Last weekend was fleet week in San Francisco so I took the camera along hoping to take some pics of the blue angels airshow. Didn't anticipate traffic to be as bad as it turned out to be and as a result ended up catching just the tail end of the ... http://geekdreams.net/?p=411 Excerpt from a story from Business week: " A contentious battle between Apple and part of the music industry is set be decided today (Oct. 2), when a panel of judges appointed by Congress is expected to rule whether Apple (APPL) and other online music distributors should pay higher royalty fees to ... http://geekdreams.net/?p=405 Woooohoooo can't wait for the Shark's regular season to get underway next week!! Bought a "Shark Pack" tickets to ten games. Figured it would be cheaper then getting tickets to individual games...especially with ticketmasters "convenience" fee  which can add 10-20% to the price of the tickets....oh plus they charge you ... http://geekdreams.net/?p=396 So I signed up for a few personal training sessions at my gym while changing my gym plan...J.P at the 24 Hour Fittness a block from home signed me up with a prepaid plan and now for the same price I would have paid over a 1 year period with ... http://geekdreams.net/?p=392 (10:31:14 AM) s(name_withheld): why dont u blog about pinky promises (10:31:20 AM) shiva nair: i should! (10:31:30 AM) shiva nair: and i should make my blog pink! (10:31:46 AM) shiva nair: been lazy lately..havent been blogging (10:32:12 AM) s(name_withheld): oh yea (10:32:14 AM) s(name_withheld): turn it pink (10:32:23 AM) s(name_withheld): everyone will think that u are ... http://geekdreams.net/?p=386 Saw a crazy accident today...so this mini van rans a red light..hits a accord... and then the mini van swerves into the opposite lane and then the driver tries to steer it back into the correct lane..and ends up hitting the curb causing two of his wheels to go off the ground ... http://geekdreams.net/?p=380 Which massacare am I refering to? I'm talking about television networks remaking (and murdering) classics. First 90210 and now theres ANOTHER (does anyone remember the "Team Knight Rider" series that ran for a season or two back in 97/98?) remake of Knight Rider and they've completely murdered the classic. 1) Kitt is not ... http://geekdreams.net/?p=373 So I just received a call on my cellphone from a Dell telemarketer. She asked me if I was happy with the dell desktop I purchased last year. Bought it for my mom since her old Compaq laptop was about to die..but now she has a Lenovo Thinkpad t61 from ... http://geekdreams.net/?p=364 The new generation of Ipod nanos were announced at todays "Let's Rock" event in SF around 10:30ish a.m (but you already knew about that because all of us geeks were following live blogs of the event from 10am this morning right?). Changes: - Cosmetics. Has a oval cross section. Went back to ... http://geekdreams.net/?p=352 Microsoft is prepping to insert its own version of the Apple Genius, dubbed Microsoft Gurus, in stores like Best Buy and Circuit City, but unlike the Genuis Bar staff, Microsoft's pros will only help with pre-sale questions, according to Yahoo! Finance. Tom Pilla, Microsoft's general manager of corporate communications, isn't comparing ... http://geekdreams.net/?p=349 I wouldn't touch a xbox 360 with a stick. The PS3 is my next gen gaming console of choice and it doubles as one of the best Blu-ray players on the market. So no thanks Microsoft, that fat markdown you've made on the 360 isn't going to open my wallet ... http://geekdreams.net/?p=346 Exciting week for geeks everywhere. Net is buzzing with rumors of what Apple might be releasing next tuesday. I was hoping it would be a redesigned macbook pro, but looks like it'll be updated ipods. In the midst of all that google announced that it was going to release a ... http://geekdreams.net/?p=336 Back blogging after a brief hiatus..after the olympics finished needed to catch up on sleep that I missed out while trying to stay up late to caught all the events :) Now that the olympics are over theres not much to watch on tv....200+ channels and nothing good is ever ... http://geekdreams.net/?p=316 Just watched the men's and women's BMX event...this was its first year as an Olympic sport..normally I don't care much if a new sport makes it into the Olympics, but this time around I'm furious that BMX is being added as softball was voted OUT of the 2012 Olympics. Read ... http://geekdreams.net/?p=310 on winning 8 gold medals at a single olympic game and going down in history as the best olympic swimmer of all time. http://geekdreams.net/?p=308