Packing up and playing with the blog

Packing up from my India trip. Looking forward to it. Its going to be a long flight from Atlanta - Newark - Paris - Bangalore. But I loaded up my Treo with a few movies (American Gangsta, Juno) plus I picked up a book The Bogleheads Guide to Investing so I should be good to go.

Speaking of investing and bogleheads (Vanguard fans - low cost indexing), thats a whole another topic I need to post about soon. Its just surprising that even with all the knowledge and wealth of information, so many people are into these high cost funds and/or paying a financial advisor 1-2% of asset fees who are in the same funds. I realize everyone situation is different but I think for the most part slow & steady wins the race. In investing, one of the things that you as investor can control are the costs and you should strive to keep that at a minimum. I was a victim of 'financial pornography' :) (i read that quote in some book i read) getting into these high cost actively managed mutual funds, trading stock based on magazine articles trying to beat the market. No wonder the asset management, investment advisor industry is booming. I guess anytime you see any of these golf shows on TV (Master etc) and see the amount of commercials about asset management etc, i guess its a lucrative industry. Funnily enough, I have had a few FA's call me and even met a few but once I start talking about indexing, low cost they quickly run away cause am the worst kind of client. Their ideal client is someone who signs them a check and they can just collect the 1-2% fees every year.. This was meant for another post but since I was on a roll figure why stop :)

kannamochi - one of my fav songs

One of my fav songs when Aishwarya actually looked good

Test to see if blogger can accept video via email

Shot this from my phone and want to if possible to upload this to blogger via email.

Updated the blog

Allright. So have updated the blog with links to my other web presence (twitter, friendfeed etc).. Also, learnt how to post a song to blogger. I was pretty surprised that blogger lets you post photos, videos but no mp3 directly. so kinda have to do a hack to get a mp3 file. but figured it out.
just thought it'll be built into blogger.

Headed to India in a couple of days so not sure how much updates this blog will see but will try my best..

dolla dolla bill

Grand Canyon video

A family trip to Grand Canyon. Sep 2007. Me, Sushmi, Ashok & uncle (Sushmi's dad)

Beers & barbequing at paras and @snafilter juggling away

Chilling out having some beers and chicken at pmoney's spot.