Archive for October 29th, 2007

Movies last weekend: Jab We Met and No Smoking

// October 29th, 2007 // No Comments » // General

These days theres not much work for me to do. So all I do is catch up on any of the new movies.
Jab We Met: Perfect bollywood drama. One could not ask for more. One of the best hindi movies I’ve seen in the last few months. Shahid as usual is not that great an actor but Kareena I think atlast did something that we can at last call ‘acting’. And the story more than makes up for Shahids acting prowess. Could not write anything more than the thing that it was a great movie. You’ll not get bored one second.

No Smoking: Do not, I repeat DO NOT watch this movie if you value your sanity. I sat through almost 3 hours of this movie and could not get a single clue about what the whole movie about. I spent a night analyzing the movie(since I’ve got nothing better to do these days), racking my brain until I almost drove myself insane. The theatre was almost empty on a sunday night which was its third day of release. I think that more than accentuates the failure of the movie. The director did a very bad job of porting a Stephen King’s novel for bollywood. At the end of the movie I was checking to see If I was the only one disappointed. People shaking their heads and joking about how bad the movie was reassured me.

Gmail going to be Faster!

// October 29th, 2007 // No Comments » // Tech

I personally feel the Gmail is one of the fastest web mail services around. But one thing that made me happier was the announcement at the Analyst Day event. Google announced that the new version of Gmail that is set to launch soon will be faster than ever.

Some of the new features announced were:

  • Message Prefetching: The future Gmail will have a completely new JavaScript architecture. Gmail will fetch messages in advance so that when you need them they will be visible instantly in a single click.
  • New Contact Manager: Something that I have been waiting for. I feel that the present contact manger is a little clumsy.
  • Integrating Features: Some of the products currently integrated are Google Calendar, Google Docs. They show messages like “Add this event to Calendar” and “Open as a Google Document” simultaneously. Seems like more products are going to be integrated.