tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72217650530048584702011-04-22T08:33:27.878+05:30For everyone to read and feel they can write betterAnandnoreply@blogger.comBlogger241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221765053004858470.post-34734321882467032902007-04-18T00:49:00.000+05:302007-04-18T01:15:46.083+05:30

Few days back, there was a thought that flashed across. The thought was along the lines of randomness and probability of the events that we expect to happen and are likely to take our decisions upon and the thinking we apply before taking such decisions and the returns we get from such decisions. The thought came across my mind when I boarded an Air Deccan flight which has free-seating, i.e.,

Anandnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221765053004858470.post-32473325503241785262007-04-17T19:45:00.000+05:302007-04-17T20:11:49.411+05:30

Before watching Paruthiveeran, I was warned about the climax. However, after watching the movie, it is not the climax which made the most impact in me, but the realistic manner in which the movie is picturised. From a long era of typical thaali sentiments, village pannayar stories, larger-than-life heroes, group dances, etc, we are starting to notice a transformation, although minimal, to

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For fans like me, Superstar's movie is a source of great excitement. Every bit of gossip and news about the movie is followed closely, every progress tracked. And for Sivaji, the excitement is unprecedented and growing as the d-day approaches. Last week, the audio of the film released. Even though there were leaks in the internet world before the actual release, the excitement was not hampered.

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221765053004858470.post-58785981737842039562007-04-09T23:56:00.000+05:302007-04-10T00:41:08.023+05:30

I just finished reading this book - Gandhi, the man - The Story of His Transformation, by Eknath Easwaran. Usually I read non-fiction with more attention than I read fiction with. This gives me a feeling of sinking in the material. And the material of the book should be interesting enough to carry me through the pages. Else, I just drop the book midway. This book has given me enough material for

Anandnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221765053004858470.post-23317390457117989592007-03-10T20:40:00.000+05:302007-04-10T00:44:22.128+05:30

Recently, there were many news articles floating around regarding Indian money. The Forbes list of richest people around the world had 36 Indians. In another news, the income tax authorities have unearthed, what can be easily called as the biggest case of tax evasion. It is really huge, because the money involved in the scam is to the tune of Rs.35,000 crores. And there are some complaints from

Anandnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221765053004858470.post-1716127831364020002007-03-08T15:04:00.000+05:302007-04-10T00:46:18.650+05:30

This video shows how much technology will be of help for things so common, in ways we wouldn't have thought of. This is real impressive stuff. Although the GPS based personal travel assistants are commonplace in countries like US and maps applications have existed for so long now, the impressive part is about the integration. Rocking!!

Anandnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221765053004858470.post-69725840831527014252007-03-08T12:23:00.000+05:302007-04-10T00:44:22.129+05:30

I mean, what's the fuss about. Just take a look at these two links - International Women's Day and International Men's Day. So less content on the second page. From what I understood from the page, this day hasn't received much support, and worse, there are so many days on which men celebrate - one for each country where it is celebrated. Men's day looks like something that has been fixed to

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With the live telecast of the warm up match between India and The Netherlands played today, the world cup fever has set in. Over the next two months, more than fifty matches are to be played in the West Indies, which lies roughly diametrically opposite to the Indian subcontinent. What this also means is that all matches start at 7 pm IST and go on till 3 am in the morning. The cricket loving fans

Anandnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221765053004858470.post-58372708221951490682007-03-05T16:36:00.000+05:302007-04-10T00:45:45.721+05:30

I am curious to understand what is really happening with the Tamil cine industry, affectionately called as Kollywood. For some time now, violence is not only depicted and sometimes glorified in many movies, but the violence butter is spread all over the movie bread. What made me write this post is a song from the recently released movie, Pokkiri. The song starts with a loud bang of drums, which

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My attempt at stories...It was a warm Friday afternoon. I started to the airport two hours in advance. The traffic on the busy roads was contributing to the grayish smoke and dust. I must had set out on an auspicious time that afternoon, as the signals turned green as my auto rickshaw approached them, like waiters at the door steps of costly restaurants. As the airport approached, the traffic

Anandnoreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221765053004858470.post-52161791077856624292007-02-27T19:50:00.000+05:302007-04-10T00:45:08.229+05:30

Come on Yahoo!, you can do much better. These were the words that crossed my mind when I was looking at the Cricket World Cup 2007 site by Yahoo! India. To start with, I doubt why Yahoo! has at least two different sites for cricket - one for UK and one for India. And why is a site on World cup cricket should be set in an Indian context.Talking about the site itself, the first thing that slashes

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221765053004858470.post-50341357053302870682007-02-27T00:09:00.000+05:302007-04-10T00:45:31.629+05:30

I do not remember when was the last time a particular movie created so much expectation. It has created hype for the right reasons - the superstar alone is enough for all the hype, but masters of their trade like Shankar and Rahman coming together with the superstar has added fuel. For me, it is the same rush that I get when I step on the gas on a free highway. If websites are anything to go by,

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221765053004858470.post-22721326200034119692007-02-23T14:13:00.000+05:302007-04-10T00:46:18.674+05:30

Yahoo! has just opened up free YUI hosting from Yahoo! network (announcement). This means I can use YUI's JS and CSS files hosted on Yahoo!'s edge network. The transfer speeds, reliability, good cache headers, etc. are the advantages. Congratulations to the YUI team on completing its first year and surprising YUI users with a gift. And if you are wondering why I need YUI files, please click on

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I am from Tamil Nadu, India. I watch Tamil channels. I am right now put up at Bangalore, Karnataka. Recently, there was an issue over water sharing from Cauvery river which flows through both these states - Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. What happened then is an example of the stronghold that regional fanaticism has over the people of these two states, and India, in general. There was a bandh in

Anandnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221765053004858470.post-77607344819152606832007-02-21T13:02:00.000+05:302007-04-10T00:47:17.496+05:30

When I started to write blogs, just a month back, the primary idea behind was to learn writing. Writing is such a difficult task for me, not because I do not have anything to say at all for most of the times. It is because there are so many things hidden underneath the words that we write. There is so much about choice of words, flow of the passage, etc. that it is difficult to come up with a

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221765053004858470.post-73543454287049713522007-02-21T12:18:00.000+05:302007-04-10T00:46:18.675+05:30

Often, many of us find ourselves in a situation where we need access to a message forum or a download link. But to do that, many of these websites would require a registration. As part of the registration process, we would be asked to provide an email id. In most of the cases, an activation link or a password will be sent to this email address, and thus cornered, we end up giving our email

Anandnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221765053004858470.post-42702954813875326882007-02-17T00:30:00.000+05:302007-04-10T00:46:18.676+05:30

So, here you are, at blog.anandc.comLast two weeks were hectic. Work and other things kept me too busy to write a post or to even care about my domain. Today, the blogger with a domain-attitude came out from within all of a sudden. With the help of blogger.com's instructions and godaddy.com's control panel, I was able to set this domain up.BTW, some of the cool things that I happened to stumble

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221765053004858470.post-40582129918009220862007-02-03T00:25:00.000+05:302007-04-10T00:47:17.496+05:30

http://www.google.com/a/Long long ago, (not so long ago), a not-so-web-savvy guy wished that he could have a domain by his name. He was not too curious about it except that he just wished for it. And one fine day, he was given the above mentioned URL (by a God-of-the-web-that's-me dude) and there he goes! He was able to create a domain with his name on it, which he calls an inscription on the

Anandnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221765053004858470.post-52684027551075526832007-02-01T01:00:00.000+05:302007-04-10T00:46:18.677+05:30

Frankly, I am a bit confused (like him). The first question is how do I get it. There are two options that I have. Plan one, get it here in Bangalore. Plan two, get it through a friend from the US. Plan one does not look like an affordable option right now, at least, going by the speculation. I think of plan two because the laptop that I purchased very recently, Dell Inspiron 640M, has an

Anandnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221765053004858470.post-60144953635285550982007-01-31T17:19:00.000+05:302007-04-10T00:46:53.471+05:30

His novels that I have read are of the mirchi-masala type which can be easily tailored to make a movie in either Holly or Bollywood. Though some of my friends, who are at the upper strata of the novel reading community don't give much literary respect to his works, I consider him to be an entertainer. I don't remember much of the story part of his novels that I read. Although I remember vaguely,

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221765053004858470.post-57094474384575992972007-01-30T11:10:00.000+05:302007-04-10T00:45:08.230+05:30

As expected, we now have companies who take India seriously when it comes to the web audience. Here are two new sites that are launched with that seriousness - http://www.tolmolbol.com/ and http://in.ourcity.yahoo.com/ . And there is some reason for me to rejoice as the first one is by BITSians and second one comes out from Yahoo!. I am not getting into comparing these two sites right now, but

Anandnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221765053004858470.post-46613689345642322942007-01-30T09:27:00.000+05:302007-04-10T00:47:17.497+05:30

What more can I say? The looks say it all. Initially, I was too hesitant getting this one. And finally, when I got my hands on it, it felt great. For a moderate biker like me, who restrains from high speeds, this was a transformation.One of my friends commented that I would never use it to its fullest. He is right, at least, for the time being. I cannot push me to take it beyond 80 kmph for the

Anandnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221765053004858470.post-30293796728022837602007-01-30T00:15:00.000+05:302007-04-10T00:45:31.630+05:30

Yesterday, I watched Blood Diamond with my friends at PVR, Bangalore. It was like any other Hollywood movie. Swift camera movements, crisp editing and some good performances. But what was new? Isn't like any other hollywood movie that deal with similar kind of subjects? It is indeed like that. But just like any of these movies, it had a couple of instances where the viewer is taken deep into the

Anandnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221765053004858470.post-3932495104256297132007-01-28T11:42:00.000+05:302007-04-10T00:47:17.498+05:30

This is the first post to test the template I shall be using for my blog. I am not so passionate about writing. This means two things. One, the posts will be small in size - writing about 150-200 words is a big enough task for me. Two, the frequency of new posts will be in line with eclipses. Given these two points, its quite natural that a question arises in my mind and as well as yours, if

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