Month: July 2004
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Tempters Beware !!
The more I run from it, the more I’m tempted. Yeah, I’m referring to the TCS IPO. When the whole corporate crowd and the media is around that, why would I be looking around without nothing. But stocks are certainly not my area of my interest/passion. A colleague, through email, keeps sending a running commentary…
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Experimenting Google Ads
Follwing the note on Kribs blog, I am also experimenting with Google Ads. Check out Google’s Adsense for more idea on these content based ads that they deliver dynamically to the web pages. Give it a shot if you have a domained blog/website. I’ve adjusted the color of the ad content so that it isn’t…
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Calling Tamil Book Lovers – Uyirmmai Publisher’s Anniversary
Manushya Puthiran‘s Uyirmmai publishers are celebrating their first anniversary hence they are putting up a function in the Book Point Hall, Opp to Spencer Plaza on Saturday(31st July 2004). Uyirmmai publishers were a hit during the Chennai Book Fair 2004 and also during 2003 because of re-releasing Writer Sujatha‘s books like Eppozhuthum Penn, Nila Nizhal,…
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Joy of getting something unexpected…
It’s awesome to get little surprises when you least expect them…listening to an NPR interview with Matt Damon, and watching Catch-22 with the Director’s commentary qualify as two of that kind. A large part of Matt Damon’s interview focussed on the little things behind the Good Will Hunting screenplay (and how he got one of…
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Absolutely Gross and Nothing New
When I took a flying catch of the Ananda Vikatan which the paperwala threw to my balcony, today morning, I flipped through the pages fast to see what Vikatan had to say about S J Surya‘s New. (Un)Fortunately, Vikatan did sport a review of New this week and I am upset about the biased outlook…