Take a hard, critical look at it and you will see that ODI cricket has slowly but surely helped rid the game of pace, swing, spin, and harmed the techniques of batsmen and bowlers, and negatively affected the basic cricketing skills that made the game worth watching.
Finally some cricket pundits are taking note of what I blogged about right after India won the last world cup. Get rid of the ODI
Sanjay Manjrekar: Is it time to bury the ODI? | Opinion | Cricinfo Magazine | ESPN Cricinfo
A great history of Winamp, the rise and fall of Llama ass whipping.
Winamp’s woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself | Ars Technica
When it dies, the primary causes of Nokia’s demise will be well known. It will be the same force that killed RIM, the same force that’s ravaging Sony. It’s the all-powerful software platform.
Farhad Manjoo’s excellent take on the decline of Nokia. It’s not about the device, it’s about the platform. Only if Sony had realised that 10 years ago, my favourite electronics company would’ve perhaps been in a better place.
Here’s why I stick with Three UK. Between this and the unlimited data in the UK, I see no reason to switch.
Three UK launches unlimited roaming data in Europe for £5 per day | The Verge
A revolving imperfect sphere floating in space, being reshaped by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and being dragged around by gravitational forces makes rotation somewhat irregular. An extra second is being added to the end of June to bring UTC back in alignment with solar time. This will only be the 25th leap second ever.
“…what is really happening is a government effort at Internet “behavior modification” through a process akin to an experiment involving caged monkeys, bananas, and ice water. Put four monkeys in a cage and hang a bunch of bananas on the ceiling. Every time one of them climbs up to reach the bananas, you drench all of them with ice water. Soon enough, the monkeys will start policing themselves — attacking anybody who tries to reach the bananas, making it unnecessary for their masters to deploy the ice water. “This is why the government is being so aggressive so early on, with only 10 percent of India’s population online,” says Abraham. “If you start the drenching early on, by the time you get to 50 percent [Internet penetration], every one will be well-behaved monkeys.”
Agreed. Most Indians are monkeys.
The War for India’s Internet – By Rebecca MacKinnon | Foreign Policy
This judge is brilliant. Apple lawyers are seriously batty for insinuating that a tap is a 0-length swipe. The faster the American patent system is flushed down a poop-filled toilet, the better.
Famous judge spikes Apple-Google case, calls patent system “dysfunctional” — Mobile Technology News
A market driven system creates an investor class and a poorer working class. There’s no “trickle down”. What a surprise.
Any recommendation published by any government agency should always be taken with a pinch of ‘salt’
While not technically a pub, the Real Ale Train certainly qualifies for a blog post within the 100 pubs mission. I went on this wonderful train ride last September, so the blog post is long overdue, but I just found the pictures on an old cellphone. 
The Real Ale Train is a service offered by the Mid Hants Railways several times a year for £14 pounds and £2 a pint of ale once onboard. The train is about 4-5 carriages long pulled by an old steam locomotive. The carriages themselves are old / restored, with gas lamps.
The experience of sticking my head out a restored steam train on a cool September evening, while sipping local real ales is pretty special. I tried 4 or 5 different ales. Some were better than others, but at £2 a pint, who cares? There was some greasy food on board as well to ensure one can stand an entire night of drinking while being thrown around on a train. I can’t say much else about the beers themselves as it was so long ago, but here are a few of the beers they had on board.
Krishna Srinivasan 