A big thanks to my friend Sowmya for getting me a Nintendo Wii from the EA store. If you are still looking for one just ask your friendly neighborhood EA employee to pick one up from their company store – they apparently get 5-10 units every day.
Unfortunately I haven’t yet played with it yet because after I hooked it up to the TV I couldn’t find the damn TV remote 
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The following is a post I wrote for the YRB blog. My readers get the bonus YouTube footage directly embedded on the page 🙂
A few weeks ago when the research community was looking at CHI, Formula 1 racing fans were looking at Germany to watch a very different event. Nick Heidfeld was driving a F1 car around the famed Nürburgring-Nordschleife circuit in Germany. “The Green Hell” as it is popularly known is one of the toughest race tracks on the planet and last hosted an F1 race back in 1976 when Niki Lauda’ near fatal crash put an end to F1 at the track.… Read the rest
Of the 500+ photos I have tagged Lotus – this is the first photo without any wheels in it 🙂… Read the rest
Doug just put up a video of Jared and his trip across the US in their Elises. They drove 8000+ miles in 25 days and met many other Lotus owners across the country, I met them for dinner when they stopped of in the Bay area. The camaraderie within the Lotus community is amazing, I cant think of another marque that has such a welcoming network of enthusiasts around the world – the legendary Lotus unreliability and the Travelers assistance network definitely helped create it :-).
I am planning on driving to Vancouver and back in June, I hope I have as much fun – just need to convince Nithya that I need a ChaseCam to record the trip :-D.… Read the rest
Update: The Internet Video Call application described in this post has been discontinued by Nokia and does not work any more. To do a video chat on the N800 please read my new tutorial on how to video chat using the Gizmo Project.
I recently attended Mobile Mashup 2007 and was thrilled to find that all attendees were being given an N800 Internet Tablet. I have been following the hype on the N800 for a while and while most people have been raving about it being the ultimate rss reader and the perfect coffee table web browser, I have intrigued by the video chat possibilities.… Read the rest