Month: October 2004
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A lovely, lively sunday morning
Always sunday mornings are either spent with a Hindu and filter coffee or they are shared along with sunday morning television. Today was a little different. A friend’s marriage in the early hours at Porur and a meet with Prabhu later at Barista. Prabhu had come down from Bangalore and suggested we would meet. For…
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Happy Skidding on the festival weekend
On the roads of Chennai, if you get to travel on this Aayudha Pooja festival weekend, here’s wishing you happy skidding. Many of us who commute using a two wheelers and even three wheeling auto rickshaws get a chance to slew/skid because of those pulpy pumpkins broken on the middle of the roads. Breaking pumpkins,…
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Kiss Kisski Kismat
Mallika Sherawat, the controversial Khwaish girl, is running around publicizing her latest film Kis Kiski Kismat. Didn’t know if it was because of the movie name or something, the trailer was just filled with Kiss Kiss and Kiss. Hero’s Kismat. BTW, on her Rediff chat, she sensationalises the movie Myth, in which she pairs with…
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Data and Metadata
David Weinberger writes about Data and Meta data in the Third Age of Order. Something that I found very profound. There used to be a difference between data and metadata. Data was the suitcase and metadata was the name tag on it. Data was the folder and metadata was its label. Data was the contents…
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Questioning Sujatha on Science Fiction
A science fiction short story called Mudhivu[The End] by Writer Sujatha was published on Desikan’s blog. Interestingly, it has raised a wave of questions on how do we define science fiction. Mudhivu was a short story which was left out in the Sujatha’s science fiction collection, Vingnana Chirukathaigal. The story by itself is a series…
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