In defence of ICL

.. well that title is motivated by Richard Hartley’s defence of the 8-point algorithm for fundamental matrix estimation. This post has nothing to do with it, however. I had been wondering why brilliant players like A T Rayudu never got the recognition that they deserved so much. Two days back the entire middle order of Hyderabad jumped on the ICL bandwagon and I then started digging in to this matter. This exposes the ugly nepotism in Hyderabad state cricket board (this is even more funny) which led to so many players getting frustrated to the extent that they took such big risk. Earlier I looked at ICL as commercially motivated move (although I was willing to support any move that stung BCCI). If not for anything else parallel leagues like ICL are necessary for providing  fair opportunities to the victims of a rotten system. All I hope is that meritocracy will prevail in the new league. Hopefully BCCI will open its eyes soon and let ICL contribute to cricket whatever it can rather than using brute-force to crush it.

Another addictive online game

The first one that really made me spend hours was this (It was inspired warcrafts’ tower defense adaptation). But what made me spend even more hours was gravitypods. The graphics are simple but very kewl (particularly the black black and the persistent trajectory lines that give a real galaxy like feel ) . I rate as the best I have seen so far going by the real simple controls, the amount of fun generated and for the option of having ‘retry level’. I reached 38 so far and still going strong. For most levels a simple binary search would do. So enjoi.