YouTube had taken the videos offline, but now they are back online. Mass murderers doing PR. This is just way too sick.

And without further ado, here’s the trailer of One Crazy Ride -

If you hate YouTube for it’s horrible quality, here’s a direct download link to the trailer in its full glory.

How long before Bangalore loses its blue skies forever?

So I searched for a good solution on the Mac platform and came across Things. Though still in beta, it is rock solid and absolutely stunning. Cultured Code, the developers, have an amazing eye for detail and it shows in the application. I?ve tried other task management systems, both native and web based. but nothing comes close to Things.

The bonus is that they even have an iPhone app, which I promptly plonked down $9.99 for. Now I can manage my tasks even on the go.

I highly recommend a GTD solution / application. It allows one to focus on the things that really matter and ensures that things are not forgotten.

Thanks to Nikhil, the best part was the off-road excursion off the Vajreshwari route. Some 2 kms into the road, there is a right turn towards the Balyogi ashram that?s all dirt track. The climb was mildly challenging, nothing like Arunachal, but dirttracking is what we really love anytime.

The best part by far was one of the most amazing views I?ve ever seen, right from the summit of the mountain we rode up. The panorama was mind-blowing, covering almost 180 degrees of my view. I could see hills down below which had seemed really high from the highway. From up there, I could even see the other side of those hills. It was easily over 2000 feet high. We could see the layer of smog over the whole region. On a clear day, the view would have been even better. Great place to build a house. The ashram people were laying down a new surface over the dirt track. Maybe they were planning to tar it as well. Such dirttracks don?t last forever.

We met another couple of bikers on the way up from the other side - one of them was an uncle riding a Bullet. He was totally frustrated with the track - but his face dropped further when I told him that the other side of the track is much worse. The other guy was panting as he was pushing his Avenger over the bad road.

Contrast to these dirt tracks, highways are so boring and monotonous. City car drivers drive on the highway exactly like they do in the city, cutting off people. switching lanes fast and what not. They are easily the worst on the highway because they?ve not been on highways long enough to absorb the unwritten code.

But along with this frustration came a revelation. I just discovered the missing link in Darwin’s evolutionary chain. And they are alive today (unless they have committed suicide in shame) and are located somewhere in Redmond. These are the people that designed the Windows Mobile OS.

I have never seen such monumental stupidity in any software ever. Pathetic. I wish I could take a hammer to the HTC Touch I’m trying to configure unsuccessfully to connect to my home WiFi network. If it was mine, I would have first taken a hammer to my head for buying such a thing.

What do I like? The best part by far is the App Store. Since my iPhone doesn’t support GPS, the location features don’t work, but that’s ok. There are some great free apps in the App Store and lots more are expected. In fact, I wrote the last blog post from the Wordpress app on the phone.

The iPhone is most definitely my best gadget ever.

What am I talking about? What the whole interweb is abuzz about, of course. Google’s shiny new browser named Chrome.

The comic book is sheer genius, and it makes a fine attempt at reaching out to the non-geeks. How much it succeeds, I don’t know.

But for me, Chrome totally rocks. It might even pull me away from my current browser of choice, Safari. The user interface is very well thought of and it really shines at getting “out of the way” and of course, raw speed.

As with Firefox, it’s the plugins that will determine the popularity of Chrome. Let’s see where things go with that. But what is clear is that this is a polished product that has been sweetly developed. And what I’m most excited about is how this is going to be the platform on which the interweb of tomorrow is going to run.

In short : An exciting new way to interact with the web - in turbo mode.

Watch the introductory video for more -

Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.