Inside Man

My wife & I picked up a great movie on Saturday...

Let me admit - I am a sucker for thrillers.

Four armed men take hostages in a bank in NY. As the police arrives and negotiations start, it seems like the captors are in no rush to escape. As the drama unfolds and the police bust the building - they cannot tell the hostages from the captors. What's more - there is no real robbery and no one can be convicted. Until, of course...

***** Must watch. Denzel & Clive are fantastic. Jodie Foster is amazing as usual...(I am biased towards Jodie Foster, though this is not a career defining role for her)

Click here to see the teaser

At last....

The Nobel Foundation has officially regretted not giving the Nobel Prize to Mahatma Gandhi, saying there was none more "stark omission than this."

Gandhi was nominated 5 times for the prize - the last time was a few days before his assassination.

One of the reasons given is that the father of non-violence was neither a "real politician, nor a humanitarian relief worker" It is amazing that people who followed his non-violence teachings were awarded Nobel Prizes in later years, but the Mahatma himself did not get it.

I am sure Gandhi would have never regretted not getting the award - that is precisely why he's called the "mahatma" - he wasn't in it for the awards, the accolades and the applauses. like you and me. I am reasonably confident that he would have declined any award given to him for what he thought was his "duty" to his motherland.

What surprises me is that it took the Foundation 60 years (after the death of Gandhi) to realise the mistake.

News: Co-op has overtaken Tesco...

On our recent drive on the motorway, we saw something unusual - Co-op overtaking Tesco easily. I thought it was worth letting everyone know....

iPhone

Saturday - we were invited to one of my wife's work colleague's leaving do for lunch. The family (American) was moving back home and were obviously happy. In their various travels to US, the guy had picked up Apple iPhone - which became the star of the party. Once it was out of his pocket - that's it - there was no going back - every person (we were at least 20 of us) wanted to have a go at it.

It's a masterpiece. The touch screen is very intuitive. As can be said for most Apple products - it is far ahead of the competition.

It's getting launched in UK on the 9th of November for £299 and a 18 month contract with O2. As for me, I am saving for my Frogeye.