I was washed away by what I saw today @ Mozilla Hacks, http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/08/firefox4-beta3/

A complete HTML 5 based controlling of multi-touch events by using plain, vanilla CSS 3.

Its for sure the next thing that I've got to learn!

Google has come out with the 'baap' of Low level page rendering development tool, Speed Tracer. It will display all reflows, CSS calculations, etc. Find more about Speed Tracer

Spain, World Cup Winners.

A scrappy and a 'yellow' game, marred with 15 yellow cards. Eventually Spain won 1-0, thanks to Andres Iniesta.

Finished reading "Siddartha" by Hermann Hesse. It seems to be translation from Sanskrit script. However it does give a lovely open hearted, blossoming experience while reading.

The last book that gave me this feeling was 'The monk who sold his ferrari'. Siddartha too is one of the motivating books, I feel. It opens up, or atleast for me, tries to clear the grime and dirt filled in our brains, flushing it with clean open thoughts.

Somehow it feels that the protagonist's thoughts of trying to find peace amidst endless thoughts is similar to mine. No wonder I liked it.

Google follows Bing's wallpaper changing Homepage.

Finished the super-fast paced book by Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol. Similar to The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons, this book too is wrapped in a single day story line. Robert Langdon, the protagonist from the other above mentioned books as well deals with America's Masonic past and the present.

Rating: 4/5

The work-machine, Francesca Schiavone toiled hard against the harder fighting Australian, Samantha Stosur. But in the end won comfortably, with the second set going to the tie break. She won 6-4 7-6 (7-2).

Inter won the UEFA Champions league, Diego Milito kicking 2 against Bayern Munich.

Inter win the UEFA Champions league

Google introduced the Pacman game in their logo on PacMan's 30th B'day

Google plays Pacman

Excerpts of my chat with my Engg. college friend, Kapil. Kapil u are a hero to be named on a PageRank: 3 website.

(06:55:55 IST) Ruturaj Vartak: i'm reading a new book
(06:56:03 IST) Ruturaj Vartak: The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
(06:56:04 IST) kapil: boooooooooooooooooooooooook?
(06:56:09 IST) kapil: r u certain
(06:56:19 IST) Ruturaj Vartak: abe book bolaa bhoot nahi?
(06:56:30 IST) kapil: is about coding?
(06:56:35 IST) Ruturaj Vartak: ! kaan ke saath aankh bhi check karvaale
(06:56:43 IST) kapil: C: AND D:
(06:56:50 IST) kapil: go to end
(06:56:54 IST) kapil: else f1
(06:57:02 IST) Ruturaj Vartak: haan haan
(06:57:08 IST) Ruturaj Vartak: samjhaa how much u enjoy coding
(06:57:16 IST) kapil: i know wait
(06:57:34 IST) kapil: ftp: protocol: query
(06:57:36 IST) kapil: go to end
(06:57:38 IST) kapil: start
(06:57:46 IST) kapil: yes if no
(06:57:50 IST) kapil: back to loop 1
(06:57:53 IST) kapil: woooow
(06:57:56 IST) kapil: how was that