longest break from blogging

24th Feb, seems to be a date which has no major relevance, in my life on this earth. but for whatever reason this seem to be the date on which i had last blogged.

i am getting back online after a long time, never realised that i was off for such a long time. so what have i been upto all these days?

i have been trying to get an o2 atom running wm 5.0 to connect to a firewall, still stuck. other than that, guess just plain hectic work schedule.

last week: i have been trying to audition some audio equipment, looking at upgrading the home audio setup.(currently surviving on a sony minicomp system), also lurking on various audio/hi-fi forums getting a crash course on hi-fi equipment.

what am i looking at? a pure 2 channel stereo amp and a set of speakers. the number of options available is huge, and the cost seem to look huge.

what i have evaluated so far:
- a yamaha ax-496 amp with yamaha speakers and pioneer floor standing speakers(both speakers rejected)
- denon amp with marantz cd player, with wharfedale diamond 9.5, kef iq5, polkaudio monitor50.
- a yamaha ax-496 with bookshelf speakers from jpw ( at a friends place) -no model number- along with custom made cubes and subwoofer.

to be auditioned this week, marantz pm7001 with the wharfedale diamond 9.5 or a kef 1q5.

wharfedale 9.5 were the most impressive.

but the low cost jpw seems to be packing a major punch. guess finally this will be build of my first hi-fi setup(marantz ...hang on will get to you soon!!) yamaha amp with a couple of jpw's and maybe a sony/pioneer cd player this should come to less than INR 20k. not bad for a first hi-fi setup.

other than that...

i have finally got the google analytics invite, the google page invite,(have got a under construction page up already in the 15/20 minutes i spent on this) need to beef it up soon.

will be one year older tomorrow.