A very cool holiday season...

It's been a pretty cool holiday season so far. It all started a few days before Christmas, when I lost my cell phone. Luckily, it turned out that it had fallen out of my pocket in the cab. The cabbie drove back to my office and returned the phone to me, and refused to charge me for the extra trip. A nice feel good holiday season gesture.

Then I tried to make last minute plans for Xmas week. After a small amount of searching, we found a fantastic dog-friendly B&B in Napa. Not only did we get welcomed with cookies, mulled wine, dog biscuits and open arms, we had a very relaxing few days there. They went out of their way to accommodate requests, Mocha had an enclosed yard to play in, they made restaurant recommendations and reservations for us (dog-friendly places all, I may add) and in general let us relax. On the day after Christmas, full of good wine, good food and good cheer we sadly left Beazley House. But not before making plans to go back there soon :)

And to top it all off, I have just discovered Librarything. Just what my Monica gene has been craving, ever since I started trying to catalog my books last summer. This weekend, I will be happily cataloging my books and buying a life membership. Many thanks to Sashi D for leading me to Librarything.

Cheers all, and wish you a wonderful 2007!

Another little snippet

I've blogged about life's little surrealities before. Well, here's another one for you. Why would a company's firewall block access to the BBC, but not CNN or Al Jazeera?

Indian names

A funny Indian recently said "...is the name I was registered under as birth, which got corrected to its current form through successive but fortunate clerical accidents. Indian names, in addition to being complicated, also have the tendency to get changed at will by random disinterested parties, without an explicit audit trail."

Just wanted to share it with you all, and direct your attention to this very funny piece about South Indian names. Here.