Oh great! It’s becoming so much easier to get pirated software and cracks over the net, even without P2P. My office does not allow any of those, so I am a laggard when it comes to the kaZaa revolution. But I just randomly searched today for this sequencing software called Fruity Loops, and Lo! Google comes up with crack sites by the dozen. When all I was looking for was the demo version.

Or maybe the software itself is very crack-able. I dunno.

Gallopin Gooseberries after a long time. Used to go there so often two months ago that the manager would personally hold the door open for us. Of course, they still recognise me, but the food doesn’t seem that good anymore.

Bala came over on Sunday and gave me four DivX rips – The Last Temptation of Christ, Trainspotting, Memento, and Taxi Driver. I am not watching the first two until I read the books. Sasi came yesterday, and after a bit of indecision about what to watch, we decided to see The Seven Samurai. Finished the first cd and decided that it was too late for a weeknight to sit and finish two more cds. ( yes, the movie is three cds long)

I have become so good with the Rail-gun (timing, aim and maneuverability) that I think the ‘bots consciously try to keep me from getting to it. ( Conscious Quake 3 bots. What a laugh! ) The world’s an arena, Horatio, and all of us merely bots. Stop that, Willy, you are throwing soil all over me.

There are these two beautiful albums Chandru gave me today. One’s Japanese melodies by Yo-Yo Ma ( on the cello) and a Japanese orchestra. And the other is an album by James Galway, Molly Mason and James Unger, which is mostly Irish music. I never knew Galway played the flute so beautifully. And the guitar sometimes sounds like you are playing a violin with your fingers instead of the bow, which gives a non-echoing plink. It gets better when the Mandolin, fiddle and the flute play together. Brilliant albums, both.