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October 6, 2004

Evan Williams moves on

Evan Williams, the founder of Blogger leaves Google. Ever since Google had acquired blogger in Feb 2003, Ev was a part of Google. On his blog, he announces that he is leaving Blogger/Google. Without allowing for much speculation, he also answers the probable questions that might crop up on the event of him moving on.

Bloggers will directly/indirectly miss this ‘Evan’gelist but it looks like he has some idea of what to do next and probably will come out with another revolutionary service as Blogger. If you are a blogger, you can see his goodbye note on your Blogger dashboard, in Blogger news section.
October 5, 2004

Tamil Hits (!) – People’s Choice

With SCV Channel going live for most of the day, people call in throughout the day to request songs of their choice.

Some observations from the requests. The great Sirichu Sirichu Vandhaa Seena Thaana song from Vasool Raja seems to be topping the requests. Every hour atleast it’s been asked for nearly 5 times and played thrice. Every hour. Appidi Podu from Gilli ranks second. Reema Sen’s dance number May madham song from Jay Jay is also one of the top requests.

Lessons learnt – Item numbers are people’s choice. Appidi Podu isn’t a item number in the literal sense. The other two are certainly the best examples available. This being a representation of what people ask for, you know why producers and directors are hell bent on having Item numbers on their movies. What you ask for is What you get.

On a related note, a program on Zee Music called Item bomb, seems to bring a tease club into the drawing rooms. Item Bomb is an India wide search for bombshell girls who want to dance Item Numbers in the ‘worthy’ Bollywood movies.

Being called as a reality show, they follows closely the participant girl of the show and bring on-screen their prepartion and the performances during prelim rounds. It looks like show for Peeping Toms. Reality TV is been screwed up, completely. Why wouldn’t we think of rating the TV shows. This one would be rated A++ or RR.
October 3, 2004

DDLJ – Eight Years & still going on

[Pic: hindu.com]

The Hindu spotlights on Aditya Chopra’s Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, which is still running as a single show in a Mumbai theatre Maratha Mandir.

DDLJ could possibly be the movie running so long in the history of cinema but all that I am concerned is about the projection guy in the theatre. It was a speculation that a projection attendant in a theatre where Jackie Shroff‘s Hero crossed a couple of years, went a little abnormal. It was said that looking at the same movie throughout the day, for years, affected his thinking patterns. If that is true(which I am unsure of ), then the similar guy in this theatre should also be shown some concern.

While it’s accepted that DDLJ was superb entertainer and Kajol was a major drool-over then, I am suprised at the longevity of the movie in theatres. What about video piracy here ?
October 2, 2004

This current template of my

This current template of my blog is completely consumed. I feel a need for change. I am contemplating for quite sometime about it. No Idea when it would be implemented.

I have been using this template for more than 2 years. This was actually a template in blogger and when I moved to movable type, I tweaked the css to get that same look and feel. It looks stale now to me. Thats pretty much how things are in life. A philosophy thats well understood by experience than being told.

Meanwhile, I’m still mourning over my camera’s sudden paralysis. This Chennai traffic literally bogs me down to move all the way to Blacker’s road and get the camera fixed.

While my yawning like this lazily, do send any suggestions, comments on the present/new template. Would appreciate.
October 2, 2004

It’s never too late, Madhu

If you’re in Bangalore, please visit Madhu’s new restaurant, Shiok Far-eastern Cuisine that serves good Thai, Malaysian, Indonesian, and Singaporean food. The restaurant is on CMH Road, Indiranagar, Bangalore.

And you all would know who Madhu is. The Unofficial/Official Tech Support for Indian Bloggers.

Evan Williams moves on

Tamil Hits (!) – People’s Choice

DDLJ – Eight Years & still going on

This current template of my

It’s never too late, Madhu