So long competition. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Or, have them join you. Adobe 1, Macromedia Zilch. That's right. The newscasters aren't lying to you. I heard this from Jason Kottke first. Adobe is buying Macromedia for $3.4 billion. Hey, it's just money. But I am curious what this means to image makers and Flash content producers, among many other products Macromedia has up its sleeve. Will they work independently or will Adobe assume all titles and Flash will be called Adobe Flash and Dreamweaver, Adobe Dreamweaver. It will take some getting used to, I bet. But in the end if we win, who cares right? For more info click here, though the last few tries have been futile. I suspect Adobe's site is down thanks to the barrage of hits it is getting just about now.

For a bit of a desi angle on this story – Shantanu Narayen “will remain President and Chief Operating Officer of Adobe.” You go boy!

I am getting smothered with Trackback SPAM – that's unwanted pings back to this website. All of it is porn in content. Not sure what to do. Any solutions other than dumping TypePad and going to WordPress or Manish‘s RocketPost? I received a record 110 trackback pings. I know I can copy and paste the offending IP addresses and “ban” them. But these folks seem pretty determined. Sigh!

Come take a look; I have made some changes on this site. They may appear minor, but after dragging my feet for so long [everyone was asking me what ‘tiffinbox' is and who was behind this blog] I have decided to, well, open up a bit. It's a pretty bold move, but I do hope it is one that will prove mutually valuable.

Time to swap the book out of Tiffinbooks. Thanks to Pooja Makhijani for allowing me to post her book on this site from March 15 to today.

For the next month, I'll feature Suketu Mehta's book, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found. It has received rave reviews and has been short-listed for several illustrious prizes, including the Pulitzer. Mehta recently won the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize for this book.

I do hope you will buy, read and enjoy the book. If Suketu's break-neck schedule has eased up, I am going to do my best to invite him for an online interview. I'll keep you posted on any developments on this.