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As I mentioned earlier, I am going to be guest blogging the cricket World Cup ‘07, exclusively on ÃœberDesi.com. Here are the first few posts.

• Confessional first post…
• The carnival begins…
• The carnival begins - part deux
• Cricket’s most momentous day - The St. Patrick’s Day massacre
• India vs Srilanka and the group of death… (*new*)

Last week, this blogger commented on the “mother of all deals” - the one that the Mumbai police “signed” with Google and went to town about how it is going to stamp out Internet hate.

Google spokeswoman Victoria Grand issued a statement today in relation to this (text via Boing Boing) (more…)

Looks like the mother of all deals has been signed. No, Microsoft and Apple are not merging. Neither are Toyota and Honda. Rather, it is Google and the Mumbai police that have come together. So if you are a member of the “I hate Salman Khan’s hairless chest” community on Orkut and have in the past went off on a rant there that you want to throw acid on Salman for uttering lines like “Hey, I know you.. you are the tellaphone man!”, it is time for you to leave Orkut now, when you can. (more…)

Minutes after I posted my first post on ÃœberDesi, my GTalk popped up announcing a message from X. Regular readers might know X from here.

12:23 AM

X: wats this uberdesi?

some nri focussed blog?

(more…)

With the upcoming World Cup in mind, the uber cool chaps over at ÃœberDesi.com have invited me to blog about cricket as their first ever guest blogger. As if just that invite was not enough, they promised a killer intro too. So, like the attention loving egotist that I am, I jumped at the chance and agreed.

So I shall run off now and get my first post up before they change their mind! Hope to see you guys around there. And as usual, do leave your comments.

Prem Panicker’s Rediff piece on the World Cup super 8 scheduling seems to have touched a nerve (going by the comments on the article). Apart from the fact that if it’s true leading to the assumption, then the ICC does not expect any upset victories (unlike the previous editions), the only thing that worries me is the prospect of India not playing enough weekend games.

Yesterday I noticed (via the schedule on my Willow.tv subscription) that if India beat Sri Lanka (and) West Indies beat Pakistan (and) there are upsets involving these teams, then India would finish B1 and Pakistan would finish D2 and their much awaited clash will be on a weekend (on April 1). (more…)