Archive for April, 2006

Best Movie Dialogues - 1

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

After the “resounding” success of the Best One Liners series, it’s time to make it as a best movie dialogue series…

Enna sonne??? Kootam sethavanga ellam jeikka mudiyaathu sonne illai? Unmai thaan! Aana enkitta irukkara kootam… naan setha kootam illai… anbaala thaana sentha kootam. Enthu thani samrajyam… anbu samrajyam… ithu yaaraalayum azhikka mudiyaathu… he ha ha ha ha!

I think guessing the movie would be a sitter… so guess!!!

New Wireless Chip

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006

As a self proclaimed techno-geek, I’m always on the lookout for new and interesting technologies, primarily via Slashdot.

This morning, I found an article to a new chip that promises to drastically cut the power requirements of wireless devices such as cellphones and Wi-Fi laptops.

See the article here

Today’s Fortune

Saturday, April 22nd, 2006

When winter comes heaven will rain success on you

Why not now during summer??? In winter, it will rain water anyway…

Today’s Fortune

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

Thanks to curses, I’ve got some content for this blog. Orkut has the habit of displaying a daily fortune on the user’s home page. So what does this mean?

Today’s Fortune: You never hesitate to tackle the most difficult problems

Does this mean that I get only difficult problems??? What kind of a fortune is this? It’s more like a curse…

(Apologies and thanks to curses…)

Yakkerati

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

The Yakkerati Project is dead…

Mijic

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

I met up with my cousin sometime last week and he introduced me to some new music.

One was Richie Blackmore’s Temple of the King, a slow song on the lines of Hotel California that appeals to your heart. The song features a nice long guitar piece in the middle that I really like.

The second, it’s pretty funny, it’s fusion music at it’s best. Black Eyed Peas’ The Elephunk Theme. This song is a remix of Ilayaraja’s Unakkum Enakkum Aanandham from Sri Raghavendra. To tell the truth, I haven’t heard any of the songs from Sri Raghavendra, but when I heard The Elephunk Theme, the first thing that struck me was the Tamil lyrics in the background. However, this song has a nice beat to which you can tap your foot nicely. On surfing a bit, I stumbled upon this post. Check it out…

Google Earth

Tuesday, April 4th, 2006

I’ve taken to surfing the earth from the skies. Google Earth. Now that they have a fairly detailed aerial photograph of Chennai, I’ve become addicted to locating famous landmarks in the city just by their aerial view.

So far, I’ve identified the airport, Kathipara junction, Ashok Pillar and the two nearby theatres, Gemini flyover, Shastri Bhavan, to mention a few. Unfortunately, the hi-res map is available only for a limited area of Chennai, bounded by Adyar Depot and Music Academy in the east and by Sterling Road junction and CMBT in the north. The map however, extends south a fair distance, and by my reckoning, covers Perungudi, almost upto Shozhinganallur. In the west, it seems to terminate outside the city limits, but I’m not too familiar with that region.

Download the KMZ file

Relief

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

Ever have that feeling of relief when your legs just give way and you want to fall back onto the couch?