Nirenjan’s Space

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but… read for yourself.

Read the original blog post.

Now don’t see http://andydwarrior.blogspot.com/2006/03/sudheshi-must-watch_23.html. Our man has not just done a CCP, right from the title of the post, he’s even left the link to the original blogpost as it is. Now the entire blogosphere is probably aware that Praveen’s hilarious review has been doing it’s rounds in corporate e-mail forwards (and probably elsewhere as well), but this is the height of plagiarism…

I went to my sister’s college day function today as she was receiving some certificate. For some reason, the way the function started reminded me of my school day celebrations. Every year in school, the students would put up a show for the benefit of all the parents. The college day seemed to be no different.

However, it was what came next that brought me back to reality - the long speeches and then the prize distribution ceremony, a feature that was lacking in the school day celebrations. However, I did find that the entire function did have a kind of college enthu that you wouldn’t really find in a school. But then again, it definitely didn’t match up to the kind of screaming that we would have done in our days in the college.

On a side note, once the function was nearing completion, we planned to leave, only to find ourselves locked in. There were two security guards, one on the inside and the other outside, both of them insisting that they didn’t have the key. It took a bit of cajoling and a lot more angry shouting to convince them to open the gate some ten minutes later…

One man is about to do the unthinkable…

Like Sudhish did quite some time back, I’m taking a new vow now.

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What do you do when you find yourself talking to a client and rapidly switching between an Indian and an American accent?

While the world watches the return of Ferrari eagerly, here in Chennai, I am forced to press Ctrl+F5 every minute in espnstar.com…

This book - The Life and times of Prathapa Mudaliar - is the English translation of the first Tamil novel - Prathapa Mudaliar Charithram. I attended the Chennai book release yesterday (and incidentally met up with Ravi after a long time) at Book Point opposite Spencer’s Plaza.

The book was written by Vedanayakam Pillai back in 1857, but till now, no efforts were made to translate it. The translation was done by my aunt, Dr. Meenakshi Tyagarajan and the book was published by Katha. The book was formally released yesterday in Chennai by Shri Ashokamithran (the writer’s writer, as Lazygeek would call him).

The novel, in itself, is a very interesting tale. Pull out a copy, and sit down for an enjoyable evening.

As a big fan of the Matrix trilogy, what better way to entertain myself than write a Matrix Code screensaver for DOS. Yes, for DOS.

Nothing major, the trick is to directly write into the screen buffer. Clutzy, yes, but a good experience.

Download the Matrix Code Screensaver Source Code

Update:
Matrix Code Screensaver v2