End of the trauma...

A traumatic finale to a traumatic world cup...right from India, Pakistan's eviction to Bob Woolmer's murder to the insipid performances from England, WestIndies and the likes to today's final, I cannot think about days that were interesting...the only guts displayed were those of Bangladesh (occasional flashes) and Ireland...One should really appreciate for their gutso...their first stint in the world marked the end of Pakistan and they never went down without a fight! Maybe because they had nothing to lose :)...The only matches I can remember this world cup are the ones between SriLanka, Pakistan ; Srilanka, SouthAfrica and England, WestIndies...everything else was s**t..

Today's final marked the end of the worst world cup ever and what a way to do it! A world cup final ends in a rain curtailed match (36 overs) and after setting a very stiff target to Srilanka, Australia had the rain God and the "light" god on their side..Srilanka had to chase a rain curtailed match in dim light and rain!!! And this is a world cup final...can't rant less...Srilanka lost, but it was never a great cup to win!!

I really hate the Australians (not their fault)...

Google acquires again

I know there is a lot of talk about Google buying DoubleClick for $3.1 billion pipping Microsoft who were eyeing the same for around $2 billion. Google did this as the deal will extend it's online advertising reach even further, combining it's ad platform and publisher monetization services with DoubleClick's ad campaign management skills. More importantly, it did this to prevent Microsoft from getting an easy entry into this space. Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon have been left with sour grapes..but was it a wise price to pay?

Well, me thinks so because whenever you see Google make an acquisition, it's stock price shoots up (happened during all the big, publicized acquisitions) and the rise in price more than compensates for the price it buys the companies for :)..Jab bhagwan deta hai, chappal phad kar deta hai (When it rains, it pours :)). The last I saw regarding Google's stock price rise today was 1.7% which is almost equivalent to what it paid and still going up...Sorta like a very fast mail-in rebate?