Just yesterday, I watched Ajay Devgan’s first directorial venture, U Me Aur Hum. Unlike many favourable media reports and the box office collections (”Average”), I was mighty disappointed. The first five minutes usually tell me if i would like the movie or pan it. This one didn’t tickle me at any point in its two-and-a-half-hour [...]
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Posted in General, tagged bakra, betting, Bollywood, cricket, Hollywood, jannat, match fixing, movies, satta on May 18, 2008 | No Comments »
True, the newly-released film Jannat, which has its premise on match fixing, could have been better. But then, it’s a love story with match fixing just as a backdrop. And as it is, the film is engaging enough. However, its Engage Quotient could have been several notches higher if it had uncovered several intricacies involving [...]
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Posted in General, tagged american sea lion, arjuna's penance, Chennai, crocodile park, dolphin city, dravidians, mahabalipuram, mamallapuram, monoliths, pallava rulers, pancha rathas, rathas, rock-cut temples, sculpture, seal, snake park, south india, temples on May 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Visiting Mahabalipuram is like entering a time warp. It’s like hopping into a time machine and going back to the glorious regime of the 17th century Pallava rulers. A place where art and culture thrived. An oasis where sculptors had the freedom to be. An era when art was venerated. An Utopia where time [...]
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Posted in General, tagged aurobindo ashram, auroville, beaches, french territory, India, matrimandir, paramount airways, paraside island, pondicherry, puducherry, site seeing, south india, tourism, UNESCO on May 11, 2008 | No Comments »
The united colours of Pondicherry. Where foreigners and Indians live in harmony. Where French architecture is as appealing as Indian. Where nothing appears to stress a tourist, the least being the weather. Even if it rains without warning, you don’t mind because of the humidity and the beach next door. It’s a place where you [...]
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Posted in General on May 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Here’s one joke that i found particularly interesting.
An old man gets into an accident and is rendered blind. When a doctor at his own specialist eye clinic offers to help, he readily agrees but on one condition. That he pay him Rs 1 lakh. The old man agrees but on one condition: he will pay [...]
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Posted in General, tagged banking scams, freeware, junk email, online scams, paypal, porn sites, shareware, trojan horse, warez software, wireless security on May 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Hackers love people who surf the Internet without realising the pitfalls that go with it. This is particularly true of those who are ready to click on any unlicenced software or unsolicited email, so long as they are getting some information or application for free. Before long, their computer could come under attack from hackers [...]
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There’s more to digital photography than the megapixels of your camera. Many of us go around clicking pictures without realizing that there are different file formats to suit different needs. Most SLR and DLSR cameras offer three file formats—JPEG, TIFF and RAW. Let’s take a look at the relative advantages and disadvantages of each.
JPEG
JPEG (Joint [...]
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