Wi-Fi Thieves?

Okay. I’ll admit it. I have used my neighbour’s wi-fi. I just opened my browser without really checking whose wi-fi it was running on. I used it for nearly an hour after which I felt it to be a little slow. That’s when I checked and realised that is was my neighbour’s internet.

I did it unintentionally, but there are loads of people who do it all the time. In fact it has become some kind of an addiction with a lot of people I know. And their excuse for doing this: “I wasn’t really doing anything illegal, just a bit of net surfing. It’s not like I was using his/her internet to do stuff like downloading child porn or anything…”

Excuses are many, they range from person to person. but the bottomline is the same. Isn’t this as bad as stealing something. Generally Wi-Fi networks are those unlimited connections where you have to pay a certain amount every year irrespective of usage. This as transformed into another excuse. The other guy will have to pay that particular amount, it doesn’t really matter if other people use his connection too.

And can you really blame these ‘thieves’? If the other person really cared about his wi-fi, i.e. protecting his connection from such users, he could put up a password. But how many people do you know who’ve actually password protected their connections? I haven’t (Though I know I should). If the person paying the bill doesn’t really care about such things, what is the harm in using that guy’s net?

It’s like either you lock your room or you keep it open because you don’t really care if anything is stolen.

If you feel insecure about your connection, using a password is really easy. But if you choose not to protect it, don’t grumble if you are caught one fine day for downloading illegal stuff.

I am the last person to say this, but I’ll put it forward. I feel there’s no harm in using your neighbour’s connection once in a while if your’s is not working. (The other person will not really come to know unless you start downloading some real huge stuff and he happens to be online at the same time or if he knows some mean tricks.)

With all this about problems of a wi-fi network, I’m really looking forward to WiMAX where entire cities are under one single network, and you pay the bills just like your water or road tax bill. Wouldn’t that be the perfect future?

Paris Hilton Quotes

1. “Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.”

2. “The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday”

3. “The only rule is don’t be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.”

4. “No matter what a woman looks like, if she’s confident, she’s sexy.”

5. “Thank you, officer. We love the police.”

6. “I think it’s important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and … everybody’s hot.”

7. “Wal-mart… do they like make walls there?”

8. “King me, baby … it’s oh-so fashionable.”

9. “A true heiress is never mean to anyone – except a girl who steals your boyfriend”

10. “I don’t really think, I just walk.”

11. “I don’t want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.”

12. “I’m not, like, that smart.” – cited in Time Magazine.

13. “I am not a whore” “Okay, I am a whore”

14. “Eww Tinkerbell stop pooping on the bus!”

15. “It’s better to be one rose in a bed of roses than, like, one rose in a bed of weeds.”

16. “Paris? Is that a place? Like New York?

17. “Paris is in London. right?”

Disclaimer: This was just copy and paste. I’m not taking credit for writing this. And where the copyright is concerned, it’s all yours Paris darling.

Sound Of Music

Years go by, the generation changes, but love for music remains pretty much the same.

Till now, my parents thought I listened to ‘crap’ like Justin Timberlake, ‘She really is against the music ‘Britney Spears’, ‘cute guy’ Enrique Iglesias, James Blunt (“Is that a woman singing?”), the Cranberries (“Zombie? Zombie?!?”) and a variety of other artists I shall not name because the list does go on.
Yesterday was a unique day. I was sitting in front of my computer checking my mail with John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ playing in the background. Sure it is from a different era altogether, but I love that track. After this came the Eric Clapton track ‘Wonderful Tonight’. This was when my mom exclaimed, “You listen to Eric Clapton?” Now, I must confess I don’t really listen to a lot of singers from that era…specially the Beatles. They r famous, lots of people like them, but they aren’t really my type. But yeah, Lennon, Harrison, Phil Collins, the Eagles, Queen, Wham! etc. do feature in my list of favourites.

My dad, a huge Beatles fan (He met them all and considers their autographs as one of his prized possessions.) was slightly disappointed to know about my take on the Beatles. But this discussion did pave the way for us to take an interest in each others’ favourite music.

Now my parents also listen to Backstreet Boys, Linkin Park, Westlife, Blue, Celine Dion, Shakira, Beyonce, Bryan Adams, Ronan Keating, Green Day and loads of other artists too. And where I am concerned, yes, Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett rock.

Nadal wins the Battle

The King of Clay ruled in this oddest of matches between the two best players in tennis.

Rafael Nadal beat Roger Federer 7-5 4-6 7-6 (10) in an exhibition on Wednesday on a half-grass, half-clay court when the top-ranked Swiss failed to reach a forehand that took a funny bounce across the green side.

“We’re used to playing long, hard games with a lot of tension involved,” Federer said. “So it’s fun to play on this half-grass, half-clay surface.”

Nadal came into the match with a record 72 straight wins on clay. Federer hasn’t lost on grass in four years – a 48-match run that includes four straight Wimbledon titles.

“It was a long match, with many changes of pace and with little time to adapt,” Nadal said. “My feet are suffering as a price of having to adapt to the grass.”

Federer was leading 4-1 in the tiebreaker before Nadal rallied. After the Spaniard double-faulted while ahead 6-5 the players traded match points. Nadal then hit three of the final four winners from the clay side before a sellout crowd of about 7,000.

The grass caused some tricky bounces, especially as the match progressed. But both players showed little difficulty in switching surfaces, as they changed shoes at changeovers.

Source: Hindustan Times

Darn it! Let me cry in peace!

Battle of the Surfaces

Date: May 2, 2007

Venue: Palma Arena

Occasion: Tennis match of the millennium!!!

OK, it’s just an exhibition match, a 1.2 million euro exhibition match. But what’s really great about it is that this match will be played on a dual-surface court.
The God of Grass, Roger Federer, and the King of Clay, Rafael Nadal will

play a best-of-three-sets match against each other on their own surfaces and on the others’.

At each change of ends they will have to change their shoes and possibly

even their rackets as one side of the court is grass and the other clay.

Who will win this one?  No one can really tell.

Nadal is the undisputed King of Clay having won his 72nd  straight match on the dirt on Sunday in Barcelona. He also defeated Federer in the Monte Carlo final a week earlier as well as in the French open final last year.

On grass, Federer holds the upper hand, having beaten the

Spaniard in the last Wimbledon final for a fourth straight win on the surface.

Now, who do I support? Federer all the way! He has even

got a stamp issued after him. He has those wonderful points

which will ensure he stays at his #1 position. He definitely is the

superior player.

GO ROGER!