Month: September 2004
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Fighting Comment Spam in Blogs
Online Journalism Review has an interesting write up on the how Bloggers fight comment spam. The article, Bloggers Declare War on Comment Spam, but Can They Win?, talks about the chronology of events leading to this war and few rules of thumb to fight comment spammers. Incidentially, I had more than 500+ spammed comments flooding…
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Recipe for Writing : First, Get a washing machine
This column of GV Krishnan in Zine5 is noteworthy. Starting from rounded pencils, washing machine sounds to heavy metal music, the strange habbits of writers required while writing, truly amuses. I remember, Writer Sujatha mentioning in one of his columns that there are such oddities in a writer’s life and the only thing he always…
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Is Chennayil Oru Mazhai Kaalam a rare Phenomenon ?
Sify reports that the second coming together of Gautam & Surya may not happen. Looks like their Chennayil Oru Mazhai Kaalam is dropped. Gautam gets to direct Kamalhassan on his next venture and Surya gets to act in a Bala’s production. The teaser pics of Chennayil Oru Mazhai Kaalam looked near perferct with Surya –…
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Rajaavin Ramanamaalai – A surprise superhit ?
This Illayaraja album on Ramana Maharishi was one of my favorites. Simply because of the maestro’s devastating divine voice and it’s metaphysical lyrics that goes beyond ones grasp. One song called Bhikshai Paathiram Yendhi Vandhen is the highlight, atleast for me. We had this tape in our house and it was a part of my…
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Kudaikkul Mazhai – Creativity Floods Over
Kudaikkul Mazhai isn’t science fiction but can be classified as one. The recent post of science fiction has nothing to do with this. After the movie, while I was biking down, this was the first thing I realized. While the concept of Schizophrenic delusion is relatively an infant in Tamil films, we have had quite…
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