Month: February 2005
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Finally lazygeek.com
Bought lazygeek.com, finally, I mean finally, after a long long wait. Intially when I was looking for a domain two years back, lazygeek.com was booked by someone so I had to settle down with kirukkal.com. Then the domain got released but was locked by the registrar. I had to talk with the registrar and bought…
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Blogging, Mark Jen and Termination
With all the hungama swirling around, Mark Jen chose to talk yesterday about his termination from Google. Mark Jen’s termination came from his blog posts relating to Google’s financial information and future products. Though he took them out when he realised it was classified, it was all over. From Mark’s entry on his blog, Ninenty…
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Ashokamitran – 50 years with the pen
[Pic : SALRP] Ashokamitran, the writer’s writer, has a simple elegant style of writing. Be it a social novel, a movie review or a commentary on various contemporary issues, he writes without any pretence or exaggerations. So if you are reading a Ashokamitran article you can be rest assured that there are no play of…
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Anniyan’ji’, Where is Mumbai Xpress ?
Tata Telefilms ties up with Sivaji Films on the Chandramukhi marketing. The similar effort by Pepsi for Rajini’s BABA which costed nearly 25 lakhs(?). 75,000 Sq Ft of hoarding space in Chennai alone. I never heard anything like this. the biggest effort until now was for Kamal Hassan‘s Aalavandan. Pity the Chennai traffic. Did watch…
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Black Movie Review – Bhansali Blacks-out Bollywood !!
The screen dissolves into black. A little androglossian strained voice starts to speak-out, feebly. It narrates a story as a first-person account. A story that is nothing but a state-of-mind. A story that transforms the mind and vision of blackness into white. All this transformation accompanied with a lot of trouble, anguish, agony and zillion…
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