THE AUTHORITIES switched the Bangalore airports yesterday so at midnight tonight I will be wending my merry way to the new BIA airport, with the taxi fare estimated at Rs 1,500 and the journey time perhaps two hours or more, who knows…
That is not the end of it. Talked to a charming lady at BA Delhi who told me that I have to pay a “user development tax” for the privilege of using an airport without a high speed rail link or adequate roads.
This “user development tax” costs a cool Rs 1,070, so goodness knows what you do if you’re a traveller somewhat strapped for cash. Presumably you don’t fly.
I will let you know what this transport of delight is like after I’ve experienced its wonders. The PR engine at the Siemens-Zurich joint venture is already in full swing. The local newspapers are gushing about how wonderful it is, what with its extensive “shopping opportunities” at 3AM in the morning and the rest.
Some are still pushing to keep the old HAL airport going – at least for domestic frights. Many businessmen are switching to the trains instead of facing a drive of three hours to the airport, a two hour check in, followed by a 45 minute fright to, say, Chennai. ♦
when will we have decent frigging mb? oh thats right server stuff lags behind gaming revolutions. 8 core mega ram raid beast pls- hackintosh compat would be good. thankgoodness things seem to be changing a bit faster now. i for one have a sense of how uninformed i am am thus cautious- i am waiting on report for bw of nehalem full boat edition, that and a pair of the new cards, possible 8 port hw card for array and you got something. i am going to run a via c7 or two probably as well- what the hell right? – if you are gonna go why not go big?the ‘year of’ stories aplenty out there
does it play crysis? worn out – what is the next surprise player? the year of 64 bit…the year of linux on handhelds but esp phones and all in wonder devices (hacked or not) the year of the open source pvr, the year of quantum computers for real? how about ramback and clustering, the intranet looks nice until you realize it is virtual or thin clients and that there is actually a cluster that is cranking running underneath…spidering/crawling and then indexing. gestalt composition is hard to communicate but sum of the parts is more than what looks to be there. it is the way to go, run concurrent snapshots and make an iso you can roll back to if you screw it up.
Rusty Kuntz batting, fielding and … All-Star