Beginnings: Brothy and Browsery

[update [9pm CET]: It is available now!!]

First things first: Last night, finally, I was able to make my first curry in France! I _had_ tried earlier to make it, and had chopped up all the potatoes, tomatoes, garlic and chilli I needed on Sunday, only to realize that I had no cooking oil :). Well, I bought some last evening, and finally made some alu-tamatar [potatoes in a tomato sauce]. And yes, it did come out pretty well :).

Moving on to other new-beginnings, ToI told me today about Google's new browser, Chrome. Of course, being the crappy journalists they are, there were no links to any other useful info [not even attribution to where they got their images from]. To find out more, I went to slashdot, and found this post, rife with interesting comments.

Finally, I went to this post on the google blog, which gives more details.

My suggestions to you:
1. Read this comic explaining what this is all about.
2. Visit this page in one day, to download a copy and run it for yourself :).


Of course, there are a lot of blog posts about what this means, but I am surely looking forward to it. My personal view is that they had this in mind, but the release of IE8 [with its "porn mode"] surely boosted the speed with which they had to release it.

Should MicroSoft worry -- well, if the $200 Techcrunch Open Source Tablet comes with Chrome installed, then it will run all sorts of web apps super fast, and people might just reduce their Windows Vista Laptop purchases. [BTW, they have a prototype already booted up] [ref: /.]

Here's to a brighter browser future, and to the left-over curry I will have for dinner tonight :).