Thought Collage...

It has been a long time since I have spent any kind of time on this blog. It has less to do with me not having something to write about, but more because the thoughts I had were too scattered to muster enough content by itself. But I had spent time to write something, this is all the stuff I would have written about. :-)

1. Damn Nakul, porcupine haired baby face from the Shankar movie Boys is the hero of Kadhalil Vizhundhen and Masilamani. What a makeover!
2. Cricket has gotten so boring these days (even the Ashes). Now, am I hearing someone say "I have been saying all along..."
3. Indian Television is getting bolder, just look at Is jungle se mujhe bachao
4. World club football is gonna be all about Real Madrid this year. Ronaldo, Kaka and Benzema alonside legends like Raul, Nistelrooy etc Its gonna be some La Liga 09!
5. Tamil cinema lacks good scripts! Kaunis being remade in tamil, Jab We Met is also being remade in tamil.
6. Swine Flu seems to stick on longer in the desi memory than the mumbai attacks last year. Strange way the desi mind works!!
7. Saw Love Aaj Kal, Sankat City, Palung, Nadodigal, Sarvam, Pasinga, Ghost and Darkness and probably more (I have bad memory :-))
8. Listening to Aadhavan, Whats your Rashee and Eeram. Nothing special, at least, not yet.
9. Fisichella finally gets some points for Force India. Amazing!!

And many more. I should start blogging with some frequency sooner rather than later... ;-)

Loooong Hiatus!

Not a single post in the month of April... I actually achieved it! :-) Though I wasn't gunning for it, I was overwhelmed by work at home, work at office and then some more additional responsibilities at home. :-)

Anywayz... time to get back onto the saddle.

HNY 2009!

All you folks have a great year ahead! I will try to be more regular with posts here than I was last year [for better or worse ;-)].

But I am too lazy to actually make it a new year resolution..... Yet! :-)

IE acting up!

Off late, readers who access this blog using IE would notice that there are sometimes some funny characters or extra paragraphing in blog entries. Firefox users would not see this. I was initially unsure of the source of the problem, but now know that its because of ScribeFire.



I use ScribeFire (formerly called performancing) to post blog entries. It comes as a convenient firefox extension and is hence very handy for online and offline post creation and updates. But looks like IE has an issue with ScribeFire. :-( Anyway, I am looking at alternative blogging tools, until then, IE users, please bear with the mis-formatting. Else, even better option, switch to firefox. :-)

Pacey problems

I am tip-toeing some very icy surface here. I don't want to sound too old but at the same time indicate my struggle to catch up with time. :-)

There is a certain pace at which you live your life. I didn't or rather don't realize this till I travel to some place which alters this pace. For e.g. if I am on a long lazy vacation I feel a kind of frustration creeping in. I feel the need for the hustle-bustle of daily life in the city. When I travel abroad, since the social commitments are down to zero, all I end up doing is work. This leads to a different kind of frustration, one that makes we want to get back to everyday family life.

Why am I writing all this? Actually, I don't know. I just realized that it has been a week since I updated this blog. This by itself is not as strange as that I didn't feel an inclination to update it. Its like travel makes me lose the external perspective, makes me lose context with life, the news, the views... and frankly, this disconnect is so damn frustrating!

Anywayz, since I have now noticed it, and fighting procrastination is one of my new year resolutions, I am gonna do something about it. ;-)

First Birthday!

Its been a whole year since I started this blog and I almost missed its first birthday!

Here is how it all started and must say some of the first few posts look funny to me now. :-)

Thank you all and yipeeeee..... :-)

Copy Cats

Was doing some blog catch-up today and came across an interesting link. A desi blog search engine called byindia is doing more than just helping people search for blog content. They actually copy blogs verbatim and republish them under their blogs section with a different authors name! Plagiarism at work people and its luckily or unluckily going unnoticed. What could they possibly be getting out of this? Maybe proof that some very good bloggers blog with them?? Either way... they have brought down those copied blog links now.

Now, should I be happy that my blog was not copied or miffed that they didn't find my blog worth copying? :-)

p.s: Stop the narcissistic undertones... will ya! ;-)

Bloggers Block

I opened blogger.com to write a post. I knew what I wanted to write about and blogger took so long to come up that when it actually did, I had no clue of what I wanted to blog about!

Damn!! Bloggers Block and pun intended!

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• Timepass
• Blogging

Blogger goes beta

Blogger is going beta again and this time for the better. Google bought Pyra Labs, creator of blogger in 2003 and since then has done precious little to make the life of a blogger any better. Now with very many new blogging platforms, google is fighting back. They have some nice features like labels, live updates and drag and drop item selection.

I for sure am gonna wait a little longer before I take the plunge. Any brave souls?

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• Blogging
• Google
• Tech