Blog Day 2005

It was quite a vision Nir Ofir got when he saw the dates ’3108′ and saw a resemblance to ‘Blog’. He likes to commemorate that day as World Blog Day.

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Kaadhal (Love) Movie – Dialogue

One dialogue which stayed in my mind after watching the movie Kaadhal.
Kadalil muzhugubavan muthu edupaan (One who goes inside sea will get pearl)
Kaadhalil muzhugubavan pichai edupaan (One who falls in love will take to begging)

Technorati tag: Tamizh movies, Indian film industry

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Chandramukhi – Successfull 75 days

Due credits to www.rajinifans.com

Technorati tag: Tamizh movies, Indian film industry

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One of those songs

Deva & Veda had something common between them. They both copied music composition from Bollywood. Deva went a step farther and copied from other languages also. Today morning I happened to listen to this song (Dilbar Dil Se Pyare) from movie Caravan, sung by Lata Mangeshkar & composed by RD Burman.
Our Deva copied this solo song to a duet (Azhagu Azhagu) in the movie Batcha.

Tag: Songs

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Microsoft Outlook 2003

Outlook XP & Outlook 2003 have almost all same features except that 2003 sorts by date and arranges it.

I somehow liked XP more than this, but had to upgrade as always forced by MS.

Tag: Microsoft

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On expected lines

Finally, we need the High Court to do this and they did it. The Chennai High Court quashed the Govt Order cancelling all engineering exams. Read more.

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Fat Boy Slim

Yesterday night I was coming back from Madras to Bangalore in KSRTC Volvo bus. I generally prefer KSRTC to private buses as they are cheaper and almost same comfort in private buses.
There was this guy sitting next to me who comes 2mins before the bus is to start & tries to shove in his two bag’s on packed with clothes & another a laptop on the plank above the seats. So, he must be a s/w engineer as usual without any brains & no common sense.
He cant push it in there since he would be blocking the A/C vent so places the bags under his legs. This moron wants so much comfort in a bus and hes a guy who cannot adjust to situations. I had to wake him up twice since he was falling on me. If he wants that much comfort of almost spreading his whole damn body bloody he should travel in train. This guy is fat also, almost double my size. First time I woke him up & told “en male saayade” (dont fall on me). After some hours he again for lack of space eats up some of space from my seat. This time I get pissed off and tell him “ennaku konjam edam udunga Sir” (Please do give me some space, Sir). This did work & after that he stuck on to his given space only.
He was a typical s/w engineer who without any exercises gets fat & tries to encroach others space. While getting down I wanted to take his photo but just wanted to let him off.
Guys, start doing some exercises & dont bloat up like an elephant or buffalo. And these guys would expect their wives to be slim & beautiful!!

Tag: Fat guys

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Song comparison – II

Back again to comparison of a Hindi & Thamizh song. Both the songs the hero tells his love to the heroine whose name is Julie (Julie, I love you).
The lines in the Hindi song from the movie Julie composed by Rajesh Roshan:
Bool gaya sab kuch
Yaad nahin ad kuch
Ek yehi baat na booli
Julie, I love you.

To listen to the song click here
This song looks like a proposal in sad tune.

The lines of the Thamizh song from the movie Kilinjalgal composed by T.Rajendar:
Vizhigal medayam
Immaigal thiraigalam
Paarvai naadagam
Arangil erallam
Julie, I love you.

To listen to the song click here.
This songs gives an impression that both feel they are out of this world and nothing can stop them.

Tag: Songs

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Lemon rice!!

Yesterday I made lemon rice and below goes it recipe for one person

1) Cut about 6-7 green chillies to small pieces
2) Cut 2-3 red chillies into three pieces
2) Pour about 4-5 teaspoons of oil in vessel and add kadugu (mustard)
3) Once the oil is heated add kadalai parupu (sorry dont know the english equivalent) and green chillies and red chillies and turmeric powder (manja podi)
4) Wait till it gets fried
5) Add this to rice
6) Cut 1 lemon into two equal halves
7) Squeeze the lemon pieces on the rice (filter the seeds)
8) Add about 1 spoon of salt
9) Mix the rice properly

Lemon rice is now ready for consumption.

Tag: Food

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Company names & their origin

I got this as a mail forward . Yahoo!
	The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book Gulliver’s Travels. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.

Xerox
	The Greek root “xer” means dry. The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his product Xerox as it was dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailing wet copying.

Sun Microsystems
	Founded by four Stanford University buddies, Sun is the acronym for Stanford University Network.

Sony
	From the Latin word ‘sonus’ meaning sound, and ‘sonny’ a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.

SAP “Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing”, formed by four ex-IBM employees who used to work in the ‘Systems/Applications/Projects’ group of IBM.
Red Hat
	Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap (with red and white stripes) while at college by his grandfather. He lost it and had to search for it desperately. The manual of the beta version of Red Hat Linux had an appeal to readers to return his Red Hat if found by anyone!

Oracle
	Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such).

Motorola
	Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.

Microsoft
	It was coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the ‘-’ was removed later on.

Lotus
	Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from the lotus position or ‘padmasana.’ Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Intel
	Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company ‘ Moore Noyce’ but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain, so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.

Hewlett-Packard
	Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.

Hotmail Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing email via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in ‘mail’ and finally settled for Hotmail as it included the letters “html” – the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective upper casings.

Google
	The name started as a jockey boast about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named ‘Googol’, a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders – Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to ‘Google

Cisco
	The name is not an acronym but an abbreviation of San Francisco . The company’s logo reflects its San Francisco name heritage. It represents a stylized Golden Gate Bridge .
Apple Computers
	Favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn’t suggest a better name by 5 o’clock .

Apache
	It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA’s httpd daemon. The result was ‘A PAtCHy’ server – thus, the name Apache.

Adobe The name came from the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.

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