Time to flog the old Horse.

Lord, its been quite while since I have been here. The reason for the delay? Trivial. I forgot my password.. then I reset it.. then guess what? I forgot it again and then again. Then came Google. They decided to take over this place.. (I hate expansionists). What next?? The Google Coffee Maker? I am sure they're planning to take over Barista as well.. all Barista cofee mugs will show your currently online Gtalk friends who are also in an erstwhile Barista outlet.


wOOt!!

It's been over an year since I last posted. This might sound a tad similar to one of my first posts here.. much water has passed under the bridge. Let me summarize on what kept me busy over the past year.


1. Whiz gets himself a laptop.. (Old news.. especially since the lappy is already outdated)
2. Whiz finds the love of his life.. (That's a lil' secret)
3. Whiz works for Dell.
4. Whiz is still trying to figure out all the buttons on the WK 3700.

5. Casio launched the WK 8800!! !@#$%^&*.
6. Iphone launched and I hated it I used it and I hated it even more.
7. Upgraded to Symbian OS 9.1 (If that was greek for you, you don't deserve to be here)
8. Whiz starts going to the Gym!! (Wannabe Ronnie Coleman)
9. Whiz bids adieu to his moustache.
10.Whiz is on the verge of buying a home theatre for him.

Consider this an introductory post.. I ain't removing the old ones just because those were my initial attempts at blogging.. I am thinking of taking this up seriously and since they have this mobile blogging thing.. will be keeping this regularly updated. (I'd like to see a fan following. Who doesn't???)

I think.. I am all done.. will start tech articles and stuff now. Thats my domain!!

Take care all!

Nokias new foray into the Music World

Albeit being a Nokia user for quite some time now, I have never liked the design of phones churned out by the Worlds largest mobile phone maker!

Nokia seems to be in a mood to "etch" these sentiments in my mind forever by their latest gimmick.. Nokia today announced the launch of three "Music Oriented" phones - the 5300 XpressMusic, Nokia 3250 XpressMusic and Nokia 5200 XpressMusic.. The Xpress lingo obviously derived from the "funky" removable snap on cover thingy...

The 5300 and 5200 are series 40 devices..5300 being the flagship model. This time interestingly, Nokia has chosen to opt for the micro SD platform for memory expandability instead of the usual RS-MMC, although we have seen Micro SD implementation in a few S60 devices in the past..

The 5300 supports up to 2GB of memory and has dedicated music buttons. (Which music phones doesn't have those??) According to Nokia, this is good enough for 1500 of your tracks rotting away in your pc to be transferred! lol. Nokia has also provided a 3.5 mm jack (Thank God!) this time.

The other model launched was a spiced up 3250.... will talk about that phone in my future posts... gotta hit the sack right now!

Peeping tom!

Hello folks!

Back in here after quite a while.

I have now decided that this blog of mine will be regularly updated. (Once a week).
I currently have a very hectic schedule.

My day begins at 4:35 a.m in the morning. Have to leave by the 5:40 a.m train to Mumbai to make it to the 8:00 a.m shift.

I should ideally leave office by 5:00 -5:15, which would have been nice...but unfortunately it doesnt happen most of the time. Meetings and deadlines ensure that my stay at the office is lengthened by a couple of hours...

I usually leave office by 6:15..6:30 to reach home by around 9:30....only 7 hours to go before my next day begins...

Lifes busy...

Its been quite a while since the last post here...

Some changes in my work profile can be blamed for this! Was shifted to another department at office which asked for another shift. This shif t makes sure that i cannot commute back home to palghar where m pc is...

Only able to use my pc on weekends these days...

Lots of things to say...
Lets start with the keyboard...the Casio!

The thing is working perfectly fine but again, no time thses days!

I will be here tomorrow (Sunday

Right mow cant think of anything worth writing here!

The WK-3700

I am buying a brand new keyboard this week most probably!
After lots of research and going through lots of reviews, I finally zeroed in on the Casio WK-3700

Almost all pro musicians despise casio, But one session with the WK-3700, you forget its a casio!
I was keen on a Yamaha/Roland board but saw that the WK offered much more for the money spent.
As i'm just into keyboards, a pro keyboard isn't necessary.
This keyboard is HUGE...
Has 76 keys (thats better than the standard 61 keys) and has both Smartmedia card and a floppy bay for storage purposes.
Some recording ability and line-out functions just in case you have a live concert!

I had my eyes on the Yamaha DGX series before having a look at this board.
The DGX are great machines, but are somewhat limited by their lack of line out functions.

The price?
The current price is around 32000 buks (thats a lot of money!)
But I am 99% sure of getting this one by next week!

Wish me luck folks.