at about 11.33am IST - Outlook Toaster pops up notifying of an email whose subject read "Michael Crichton passes away”. time froze; the second seemed to last forever. As the toaster begun fading away somehow gathered courage to click on it, Feroz was pointing me to a Wired magazine blog post. disbelief struck ... this has to be a hoax! we were expecting a book this holiday season from him, not this news ... got to be a hoax. Read a few lines from the article... absolute disbelief... these wired guys...