MIT Computer Science Building

Here are more than a couple of pictures of the MIT CS building taken when Abi visited Boston....Any comments about the building???

The Great Arch

This picture was taken at the Arches National Park in Utah. For all of you National Park Lovers --I highly recommend a trip to both the Arches National Park and the Canyonlands in Utah. They are both gorgeous and stunning. Biking is the preferred way to explore these parks.

On another note---I took a series of pictures around the Arches landscape to create a panoramic view, but never got around to creating the panorama. I will try to create the panorma sometime this weekend. No promises though.

And By the Way

and heres the catch...The money making minds of the World Cup had strategically decided that the format of the world cup should be such that the super 8 stage games are all predictable so that the better followed games get the bigger grounds and weekend games at that... Specifically the India Pak match was nice scheduled for a weekend...supposed to be the biggest money earning game of this world cup..But look at what happened. Neither Pakistan nor India went to the Super eights. Well done Bangladesh and Ireland :)

The World Cup

Well...what do I say about the spineless, character less, completely shameful early exit from the world cup. If theres one single reason why we lost, it was that the players didnt feel like they deserved to get to the next stage. Did u guys even watch the games against Bangladesh and Srilanka... We batted like we never believed we could score more than 200 and we didnt. There was no devil in the wicket, no devil in the bowling....The only devils were those imagined by the batsmen and they fell victim to their own vivid imagination.

That said, Bangladesh batted like a strong and worthy Test playing nation. They did not bat or even bowl like they were minnows. They believed they belonged in the big stage and belong they did. Especially their batting...It never cracked under the pressure of WORLD CUP or under the feeling that they were batting against a reasonably strong bowling attack...Kudos to Bangladesh and I have a feeling this is that moment when Bangladesh come out of the shadows and join the Big league. Its a good time to join the big league too...Cricket just lost one comptetitive team...Can u imagine that the bunch of mediocre and even less than mediocre cricketers in the Zimbabwe team are actually replacing a really strong team which once boasted the likes of Heath Streak, Andy Flower, Grant Flower, Campbell and the rest....Out of which Andy flower looked like he would match Ricky Ponting for the top batsman slot...The political turmoil in Zimbabwe has led to this sad and outright ridiculous state of the Zimbabwe team.

As for Ireland...Of course they played well. But I think they had a lucky day on the field. Pakistan is way better than Ireland but then again, its all in a days work :)

Irony of the world Cup Qualifiers

http://in.rediff.com/wc2007/2007/mar/05icc.htm

Testimony to the fact that more is not necessarily merrier .