Skype and Grandma

You know a software has hit the mainstream when your eighty year old grandmom in India complains when it does not work. I knew skype has become like electricity where people just expect it to be on. So it is no wonder that the skype outage has been on top of techmeme for a while. She obviously was not interested in the following reason.

Normally Skype’s peer-to-peer network has an inbuilt ability to self-heal, however, this event revealed a previously unseen software bug within the network resource allocation algorithm which prevented the self-healing function from working quickly.

She's just relieved and happy that she can enjoy the goo-goo's of her grandchildren all over again.

Worlds best hotel

I was reading an article a long time back about how one of the hoteliers used to check the softness of the bath tissues in his hotel. The hotelier was none other than M.S.Oberoi. No wonder that his hotel has two entries in the top 10 in what is considered as the Oscar among hotel rankings. Quite an impressive acheivement. Here are the full rankings