Errol Peter Marks

Something to think about. Always!!

Virat Kohli keeps asking the same question & the critics keep running out of answers. Since 2023, he has scored 2365 runs in 51 IPL innings. He has been dismissed for single digits just 3 times in his last 40 innings (On average, 1 single digit score per season). 13 of his last 15 innings crossed 25, 11 went past 40, 8 cleared 50. While everyone else chased highlights, he built a floor of consistency so high that failure became a stranger. Critics called him an anchor. They said T20 had moved past him, that his method was built for a slower era. So he changed the physics. The bat that used to come down straight & still started moving before the bowler released. Up, down, tap, hover. R Ashwin called it potential energy. Rest of us called it freedom. Then 2025 happened. RCB won their first title in 18 years. Kohli made 657 runs that season, nothing flashy, just a man holding his nerve while the world wobbled. The title did not relax him. It unlocked something. 2026 brought the real transformation. He quit Tests. What remained was just a batter. No format switching, no need to keep one part of his brain defensive while the other attacked. This season he hits a boundary every 4.9 balls. He strikes at 160 in the powerplay, 140 in the middle, 200 in the death. Dale Steyn watched the opener against Sunrisers Hyderabad. Kohli hit 69 not out off 38 balls, 5 sixes, a chase of 202 done in 15.2 overs. Steyn said he was hitting aerial shots time & again. A man who had stopped fearing the fall. The attacking shot percentage tells the story. 40.6 percent in 2021. Almost 75 percent in 2026. He steps down to spin now. He lofts over long on. He was the cover drive man, the wristy flick man. Now he is something messier & more dangerous. Striking at 163 this season. Averaging 54.6, which is technically a dip from his overall average of 56 since 2023. That is the level he has set. No other batter has scored more runs than him in the last 4 IPL seasons. Not Gill, Not Jaiswal, Not Buttler, Not Samson. He has also hit more sixes than all of them since 2023. The man they called slow is out-hitting the generation that was supposed to replace him. He is not surviving T20 anymore. He is still defining it. Critics will find something new. Kohli will hear them, fix what needs fixing & keep asking what is next. The bat is still moving, The red jersey is still his. And somehow, impossibly, he is just getting started.

The Drunk and a priest... On a bus, a priest sat next to a drunk who was struggling to read a newspaper. Suddenly, with a slurred voice, the drunk asked the priest: "Do you know what arthritis is?" The parish priest soon thought of taking the opportunity to lecture the drunk and replied: "It's a disease caused by sinful and unruly life: excess, consumption of alcohol, drugs, marijuana, crack, and certainly lost women, prostitutes, promiscuity, sex, binges and other things I dare not say." The drunk widened his eyes, shut up and continued reading the newspaper. A little later the priest, thinking that he had been too hard on the drunk, tried to soften: "How long have you had arthritis?" "I don't have arthritis! It says here in the paper that the Pope has it."

Omg! The mimicry of the Pakistani accent is just spot on! Biswa Kalyan Rath has nailed it. Never seen an Indian comedian do a better imitation of the Pakistani accent. The mix of Urdu and Punjabi is 😭

The story behind the rise of USB-A is wild. In 1990, an Intel engineer named Ajay Bhatt couldn't get his wife's printer to work for their daughter's school project. A printer. In his own house. He was a senior architect at the world's biggest chip company, and he couldn't make a printer talk to a PC without rebooting three times and opening the case. He pitched the idea of a universal connector to his managers. They didn't just pass. They told him nobody would want it. Bhatt switched teams, found a manager who said yes, and spent the next four years convincing Compaq, IBM, Microsoft, NEC, and Nortel to sit in the same room and agree on a single plug. Seven companies that competed on everything else agreed to share one connector. The USB 1.0 standard shipped in January 1996. Almost nobody used it. Windows 95 barely supported it. USB was basically dead on arrival. Then Steve Jobs did something nobody expected. He shipped the 1998 iMac as USB-only. No serial port, no parallel port, no floppy drive. Just USB. Apple, the company that fought standards harder than anyone, single-handedly forced an entire industry onto Bhatt's connector. Intel owned the patents. They made the entire thing royalty-free. Any manufacturer on earth could build a USB-A port for pennies. By 2009, 6 billion USB products were in the market, with 2 billion more shipping every year. Making the connector reversible would have doubled the cost, so Bhatt kept it one-sided to keep adoption cheap. "In hindsight, we blew it," he said years later. The most cursed design decision in consumer electronics, and it was a deliberate trade. USB-A killed serial ports, parallel ports, PS/2 connectors, game ports, and eventually the floppy disk. One rectangle replaced an entire generation of cables. The connector is 30 years old and as of 2024, Type-A still accounted for 46% of all USB device shipments. Billions of ports in airplane seatbacks, hotel nightstands, hospital beds, and office walls. The EU mandated USB-C on all new devices in December 2024. The installed base of USB-A will take 20 years to turn over. One guy's printer problem became the most successful connector standard in computing history. And now the rest of us carry a bag of dongles everywhere we go because of it.

Mumbai sunset on clear days. ❤️

Bro thought his life was over 😭

I'm going to keep posting this Alstair Begg clip "The Man on the Middle Cross" (less than four minutes in length) every Holy Week, because its message is true in 2026, it will be true in 2036 and it will be true in 3036. "If i take my eyes off the cross, I can then give only lip service to its efficacy while at the same time living as if my salvation depends upon me. And as soon as you go there it will lead you either to abject despair or a horrible kind of arrogance. And it is only the cross of Christ that deals both with the dreadful depths of despair and the pretentious arrogance of the pride of man that says you know, I can figure this out."

Peak fake PR stunt ❌ Imagine needing the same two people to pretend to be fans twice just to get media footage and make it look like Priyanka Chopra has a huge fan following in Hollywood. Honestly, it just shows how desperate she is for publicity.

Everybody booked “an” Bharath gas cylinder at 11 45 AM. Must be an auspicious moment in this Amrit Kaal era

Chelsea’s Robert Sánchez’s half time battle cry was felt by players & fans; the decibels and intensity was that of an alpha hunter. Not many would’ve messed with him at the moment. (Not so) quietly becoming a leader for the blues. Near faultless this szn

📸 - If football IQ was WiFi, Enzo is 5G and everyone else is searching for signal! This is NOT a debate anymore. Rice? Bruno? Caicedo? Rodri? NO! Enzo has been the best midfielder in the Premier League this season. HE DOES IT ALL. AT THE SAME TIME. EVERY GAME.

The last Press conference by a BJP Prime Minister was this. It was like a roast session of Modi by Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Just look at his face throughout. This is why he decided that he will never ever sit in a Press Conference as PM.

Someone at the event changed fake planks with real ones 😭😭😭😭

@MTPHereToHelp @mybmc massive traffic in Sher E Punjab - Mahakali road because a garbage truck is abandoned in the middle of the road.

Get up--there's work to do

If you need a laugh tonight, this is one of Rob Schneider best jokes 🤣

@Just_Raghvi So considering this is a spontaneous moment... Who is recording the video?

Nothing inspires a child more than the example set at home 🥹😍

🚨 Chelsea Fan Protest against Behdad Eghbali and the Sporting Directorship. ⚽️ Chelsea vs Brentford, 17th January 🏟️ Britannia Gate, Stamford Bridge ⏰ Protest starts at 1pm One club. One voice. Change MUST occur. Read the full statement below. #OurClub #OneVoice

A Michigan sheriff says he witnessed something he had never seen before on Christmas Eve — inmates inside one of the jail’s largest pods voluntarily joining hands to recite the Lord’s Prayer, with no prompting or direction from staff.

@CFC_Dubois If I were in charge.. Tuchel would still be manager

If you were in charge, who would be the next Chelsea manager?