Saturday, March 31, 2007

Double mirrors - McLaren


The McLaren car this season had two sets of mirrors on each sides, this was an interesting aspect in terms of giving the drivers all round visibility. Check it out.

Monday, March 19, 2007

Books - mid March 2007

I have ready the following books till now this year.

* Beware falling coconuts - Adam Clapham
* The Goenka Letters - TJ George
* Lee Iacocca - An Autobiography - Lee Iacocca

Beware falling coconuts is ex BBC producer Adam Clapham's version of life in India. It's humorous, satirical and at times historically interesting. There's a full chapter devoted to Sir Mark Tully.

The Goenka Letters is a compilation of letters written by Ramnath Goenka to various people during his time and vice versa. This book describes the history of the Indian express and Ramnath Goenka's friendships - political, business and personal. A lengthy letter written to the Shah Commission about the emergency is worth a read.

Lee Iacocca, An Autobiography is a very positive book which traces the business life of Lee Iacocca who worked his way up to become the President of Ford Motors only to be sacked. He then took up a challenging assignment to resurrect Chrysler which was going through a bad time and reached the top of this organization too. An uplifting book which certainly is interesting to read.

Sunday, March 18, 2007

An update on March

It's been a hectic Feb and March. Feb was throwing health problems in the family and March appears to be ready to win the award for the most hectic month already. Despite having a couple of tracks ready for the 'After The End' section and some other articles, I am simply not able to pull myself together to sit down and write stuff for this blog. I am not on a sabbatical, I am just running too fast. There have been two very interesting trips to God's own country, my birthday and some other reasonably good things to post on a blog which I hope to do soon. The Formula 1 race yesterday was a good start to the 2007 Formula 1 calendar. Sepang on Easter Sunday should be a good one given the heat and high track temperatures in Malaysia. Don't give up on me as yet.