Happy New Year folks! Glad you are back. So where do we go this year? With too many friends and acquaintances flouting their new year resolutions, I was under too much peer pressure to come up with a couple of em. But I miserably procrastinated, and lo 2010 is 1 week old and I don’t have any [...]

I guess the most awaited books of the year. Pre-ordered both on Amazon. Michael Crichton was my first favourite author. If Great Train Robbery and Eaters of the dead are any indicators, Crichton does period dramas with elan. Pirate Latitudes was discovered as a complete manuscript in his files after his death in 2008. The Pirate Latitude [...]

Like the leapord, the rest of the city was blanketed inside the heavy showers – sleeping. And I for one found out that Leopards are solitary animals except during mating season. Then again if you sleep for sixteen hours a day, you’ll mostly end up solitary, ha lonely. Visiting Trivandrum Zoo after close to a decade, [...]

I remember the IIT geek who taught us C Programming in third Sem. He would go on and on about debugging in the time of punch cards and about how lucky we were. Little did that poor soul know about a Visual Studio in the making. Ramadorai and early days of TCS profiled in Economist; in [...]

 Vairamuthu’s gem from Mani Ratnam’s Iruvar. Voice Over by Aravind Swamy. Unnoadu naan irundha ovvoru maNi thuLiyum maraNa padukkayilum maRakkaadhu kaNmaNiyae 90 nimidangaL thottaNaitha kaalamdhaan 800 aaNdugaLaai idhayathil ganakkudhadi paarvayile sila nimidam bayathoadu sila nimidam katti aNaithapadi kaNNeeril sila nimidam ilakkaName paaraamal ella idangaLilum muththangaL vidaiththa mogathiL sila nimidam Unnoadu naan irundha ovvoru maNi thuLiyum maraNa padukkayilum maRakkaadhu kaNmaNiyae edhu nyayam edhu paavam iruvarukkum thoandravillai adhu [...]