Toaster

I eat toast at breakfast 360 days a year. The look of toast is important to me. How soon it is buttered after popping is critical. I look at toasters in show with the same excitement as mobile phones.
When my last Phillips Toaster died (for the 2nd time) I took it apart. This revealed that it had a IC behind the control knob. I thought all along that it was a simple electro mechanical thing. Perhaps this explains why consecutive toasts in a session were so consistent in color.
Right now I am using a cheap basic toaster. The uneven toast color irritates me, but I plan to do a mod and have some fun.
Yesterday at the mall I had a chance to examine a Murphy Richards toaster. Unusual wide body and integrated slot cover. Soft touch buttons. They claim it is thier fastest toaster ever. This is an aspect I had never explored. Somewhere there are people benchmarking toaster speeds. I assume they would be from England.
Someone at office who shares my excitement told me about a toaster available similar to what they have at Subway. Apparently this uses a blast of hot air to only brown the outer layer of bread really fast without drying out the entire slice.
I shall research the Murphy Richards today. I did look at a Siemens four slice toaster, but the Porche design seems to have driven the price too high for my liking.

Go ahead and pirate music

I wanted to buy original music CDs, but can't get the titles I want here in India.
Buying through Amazon is fine except it takes a while to arrive. Amazon now has MP3s available starting at $5 an album. Its not as good as a lossless file that I would have preferred, but I thought I would give it a try. They made me download a lil piece of software to download the MP3s and then it says sorry you cant buy it outside the United States.
It should say sorry, please go ahead and pirate it outside of the USA since we are too stupid to let you buy it.
I wonder what purpose this serves? Its not like the MP3 format is a state secret.
Now I feel like never paying for music again.

Flavoured Tea

Tried Tata's flavoured tea this morning as my regular was over. When you put the leaves in water your nose tells you theres something odd. Its like toothpaste with tea. Taste is nice but odd. Sure does freshen one up.

Disconnect

I have rented a place for two months while I get my appartment painted. This means I will be without broadband for a while. Considering I consume an average of 14 Gb a month, this will be quite a stressfull time.

Big Cleanup

I realised my Gmail account is filthy. Filled with mails I have either not read or read on mobile and never deleted the original. Cleaning this is taking a long time.

AMD Reversal?

Last year I attended an event hosted by AMD. On of the AMD guys told my that after ATI they were planning to buy Nvidia. I wondered when that would happen. Today I read that Nvidia may buy AMD.
I do not see this as a particularly bad thing.

How nerdy are you?