Saturday, 29 November 2008

Dance... Dance... Dance...

I went to a Christmas party yesterday with my colleagues.  This party was hosted by the Ministry's IT team.  It started with a welcome drink.  It is a tradition in Colombia to mix Jaggery dissolved in water, aguardiente(another traditional drink of colombia) and Lime. After a few minutes I could see everybody was dancing. 

It was really good to see people dancing to music.  To my surprise everybody was dancing well (may be according to my standards!!)  I feel that dancing is a national sport in Colombia. 

I too was invited by a couple of ladies for dancing and one of them was nice enough to teach me dancing.. he he he!!  But I was really bad at dancing.

Tuesday, 25 November 2008

Car Themes

Two days back, I just visited Gmail and they have introduced themes.  The themes change themselves depending on the geography you are in and the time of the day. 

Themes and skins bring in a kind of harmony, they are spontaneously visible and they bring out the taste and mood of the person choosing it.  The software world has adopted it long time ago.

But how nice it will be to have themes in cars?  How about having a forest theme?  As soon as you fire the engine, you will see the dashboard having a background picture of a forest with the mellifluously flowing brook, when you apply the brake you hear elephants trumpeting, when you open the door you hear birds chirping and when you shift gears you hear frogs croaking and when you honk you hear lions roaring.

The dashboard, the steering, the music, the honking everything should look and sound in line with the theme. 

Then there should be themes that could be downloaded from the internet and uploaded into the theme gallery in the car with the help of the CD / DVD drive in the A/V playback systems in the car.  Or perhaps the mobile devices like the PDA, smart phones can be used to just apply themes in your car using bluetooth or any other similar technology.

I can see that day is not too far or perhaps somebody is already working on it!