Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Of Conversations

Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
- Kin Hubbard

Cuty Quote. It is an art to begin a Conversation, and it is skill to do it with flair and style.

Why do many of us struggle to begin a conversation. Probably because, we are not sure of the reaction. We are not sure as to where it will end. Directly getting on to a question, requires authorisation. You cant avoid a direct question, if it comes from your boss. But lets say you talk to a new peer, new neighbour, new anybody. How to begin a conversation.


[ctsy - abigails ]

First and Foremost point, if you are trying to initiate a conversation, is to understand the real meaning of conversation. It is a two way talk-snippet of something - Two Way. Most of us fail to leave a listening ear. We need to make our ears modest enough to listen. When we dont have a listening ear, conversations turn into Arguements. So, the first point here, is to start a conversation in a way that the other person would react.

Its the same internet technique.
1. Come down to the wave length.
2. Talk in his language
3. Accept feed, back to you.
4. Listen and Respond (theres a difference between "Talk back" and Respond).
5. Do not clash on view points

Most of you guys would certainly have gone through a GD. But, sadly, as far as i have seen, people do well in GD, where they strain to listen and get marks. But they do not do it, outside. They are not ready for a conversation. But more interested in arguements.

Let us say this is a product promise, you know whats the tag-line.
Start good conversations, you will become a good leader.

Monday, May 30, 2005

Forget your MSN Messengers

My whole life is stuck up with Beta. Almost all the Good Softwares I use for Sophistications are in Beta release. To say, even GMail is still in Beta. Most of Google's softwares, are saturated in Beta. Next up is Yahoo ! Yahoo from time to time has released different versions of messengers. The current Beta is more than all you can imagine.

The look and feel is same as the neat Yahoo Messenger 6.0. But MSN Mesenger 7.0 tempted me with greater Outlook, and good features. Now Yahoo Messenger 7.0 Beta, is breaking all the look and feel needs, and gives more importance to features. Just one of them is more than enough for me. Voice Messages. The mother of all features on a messenger. MSN doesnt even allow you to Offline Message a person (Thats really very poor). But Yahoo now is allowing me to send a Offline Voice message to the person, that get stored.

It gives us Sophisticated clarity of sound, like a conversation on livce phone (or more better). The Voice feature, no longer troubles you with Handsfree button, and so on. A dream answering machine, in actual. I only wished i had more emoticons - nope, not in this release. But guys with real good internet connection, and good SPeakers and Microphones, download the new version of Yahoo Messenger 7 Beta here, and try to Buzz me.

Saturday, May 28, 2005

A very late review


[ctsy - rMadhavan ]

A very nice chat with Iyengar today morning, brought fresh memories of Alaipayuthey.

The discussion was about Shankar's strategy of telling messages through his movies. So far, as i have seen (and not seen), Gentlemen - Indian - Mudhalvan - Anniyan, all of 'em talks only of corruption. And i dont see any message to take home. But on the contrary, Maniratnam gave me a message to take home, even though it was irrelevant to me in Alaipayuthey. Anbe Sivam touched my life, that i adopted a few qualities (or atleast tried to).

Talking of Alaipayuthey, a movie every youngster in Tamilnadu enjoyed, rejoiced and thought they were gifted with Yet another classic Love story. But Alaipayuthey was more to it. It was a complete Love story, I would say, Complete in all its senses. Most of the Love stories end up showing the Happy Lovers rejoining after a Calamity to the Villain. Alaipayuthey starts there.

Karthik and Shakti have got married, even before you realize. They were in Love, and never even tried to understand each other (much like reality). Maniratnam shows an Ad-Hoc Love, and is not stressed to show the purity of Love between them, as is not. Both of them, have the support of their friends/ sister and with that dirty courage they get married, without informing their parents. After incidents, they move to a separate residence, where they begin a Husband-Wife life. Pretty incidents throw Mis-understanding in between them. It is common in a married life, yet, in a Love-marriage mis-understandings are commonly interpreted as Disappointments.

Shakti has tons of disappointments, and Karthik is depressed by the quarrels. What seemed to have been a Beautiful Romantic life, is all of a sudden a Quarrelsome affair. Thats when Mani takes over. "Enough guys, enough seeing a peppy love story, listen to what i have to say about your life. What you need in a married life. ". A state-of-the-art accident scene, and Shakti is in hospital. And Maniratnam sends his messengers into the playground. Arvindswamy and Kushboo.

I would reccomend you to watch those scenes. Mani understands when to use technology. He uses Slowmotion Freeze frames, in those climax scenes, unlike using them for showing Fingers of Heroes in their introduction scenes. He does that to impose- super impose his message.

The care and understanding, and most of all Back-support at critical times, is what is important in any relationship. When you Yell or back fire the person for committing a mistake, for which the person is already feeling bad about, the person becomes aloof. He/she doesnt have support when he needs it.

A relationship, in generic terms, should make you feel cozy. Make you feel comfortable. You are never alone. Even when somethings wrong, it gives you courage, that you will face it together. Mutual understanding, care and support are key factors of any relationship. Thats what Karthik and Shakti missed in-between them. And thats precisely the message of the movie, if you did not get it from theatres.

Katz ! If you are still not convinced, let me know.

Friday, May 27, 2005

The Hole Story


[ctsy - BoingBoing ]

What you see above, believe it or not, is a Manhole cover/lid. No, not in Chennai.

Its Japan. This site hosts various artistic Manhole covers used in Japan. Chk them out.

Thursday, May 26, 2005

Jai Hanuman


[ctsy - Sriram (thanks a lot !) ]

The above pictures are from a West Indies Hanuman Temple.

Karya Sidhdhi Hanuman in Trinidad, 85 feet idol of Hanuman, the small Hanuman shrine below the statue, the newly built idol of Dattatreya and Anagha Devi, Raja Rajeshwari, Ganapati and Shiva Linga was Consecrated.

The temple exists since June 2003.

Its marvellous to see helicopters showering Water and Milk as abishekam..

Bolo !! Jai Hanumaan.

So Far So Good

Back to Square One. Number Game.

Avyukta would reach 5000, today.

Whats so good about it. Well, quite some good things happened to me.

This blog has become my very good commitment, everyday mornings.

Freedom of thought, free to express and most of all Very good NEW Friends.

Happy Moments !!

Lets keep it movin... atleast i hope to.

Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Out for Exams


[ctsy - Intekom ]

Im out for exams, and will back tomorrow. I hope i have a happy news to share tomorrow.

Wish me Luck !!!

Monday, May 23, 2005

MS Paint for once too good


[ctsy - BoingBoing ]

Could you believe this picture was drawn on MS Paint. The Artist spent 500 Hours on this picture, and unleashed creativity and skill. These things are the happiest things, according to me. I used to sit and draw for more than 4 hours, on a small piece of paper. And the result will make all the effort feel good. Nice Pic.
New to Crew : Kart Jeevs is up on Avyukta.
He's got a new Canon EOS 300D. Enjoy

Sunday, May 22, 2005

Monday Morning Browsing

One great Site, that caught my attention today morning.

Chennai Customs

This is one site, where the Customs Chennai, gives all the rules and regulations, and the Tariff for the Customs/Excise taxes.

But what makes this site more interesting is the e-Auction. The site hosts a list of articles seized or taken off from the Passengers who couldnt or wouldnt pay the Customs, the tax that was levied upon them. From Diesel engines to Garments, eberything is on auction, and for a cheap price (it seems). Should give it a try.

Why not register, and try it out.

Friday, May 20, 2005

Sucked out of the Stars

My company sponsored a movie night yesterday. And it was the First time in my life (and hopefully the last) that I walk out of the theatre, without watching the Full movie.

You'd be surprised to hear the names.. Theatre: Sathyam (RDX) Movie: Star Wars Episode III


[ctsy - George Lucas]

Main problem was purely because, I havent watched the earlier movies. And I didnt understand a single bit of it. Single Bit. Dont know who is the good guy, and who is bad (Ok ! we can figure that one out..). Yet the special effects were mind-boggling. But i dont like the idea of fighting with that torch like thing. Rajnikanth is better.

May be im not an elite audience to watch Star Wars.

Thursday, May 19, 2005

My Personal Google

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.


[ctsy - Avyukta ]

I dont really know, why this is the Quote of the Day, when you Personalize you Google Home page. Google Labs gives you more. You could even put your GMail on the Home page.

Wednesday, May 18, 2005

The +2 Result Festival

How would your day be, when someone sends a Good Morning Mail, like this.

If you feel like doing some work, Sit Down and Wait until that feeling goes away

Thanks Raghu for sending this. Im seriously considering this.,

Whats news ?? Thursday already..

+2 results are out in Tamilnadu, and boy, oh boy !!.
ChennaiOnline and many others who had hosted the results on their servers were down like hell.

This culture of viewing results on the Net and Cellphones, was just evolving when my results came out. My result was known only in the evening, and only i know what sort of emotional imbalance went on in my house after knowing the results.

The +2 guy, who just got his result would have now known about his chances of getting inside Infosys.
Obviously the fella is going to study B.E in some college, any Discipline (for the sake of doing B.E) and then forget all his Mechanics, Electronics, GeoInformatics and every single thing he studied, and blindly join Infosys or some Software company and start C++ training.

Im sorry, if i were wrong in your case. But thats true in most of the B.E students i have seen.
Whats your opinion. I have a big thought burst now.. but then read the first line.....

Ill do it this weekend.

Google's next Beta - Google Desktop Enterprise.
Exactly what you were thinking (atleast what i was wanting).

It searches Lotus Notes too.. and whats more, it searches on LAN and not just the Desktop.
Im trying it tomorrow in office, and will Post on it.

Take a look at this - http://desktop.google.com/plugins.html
Amazing collection of softwares.

Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Blog India

You cant run out of news, when you visit Kiruba. This time it was from the comment section, and thanks to Mohankrishnan.

Indian Government has plans to recognize the Bloggers of India,
who could shape opinions. Many bloggers so far have been appearing on lots of magazines, and due recognition has been achieved. People have made marks, already. And this will help in a better way.

"We are framing the rules for giving accreditation to dotcom journalists, including bloggers. We want an inclusive policy and we want to complete the process as early as possible" Principle Information Officer Shakuntala Mahawal said.

"The idea is to sequester the genuine from the fraud and acknowledge those who really want to make a difference. They will be given facilities and better access through accreditation."

Thats impressive, huh !!!

Read the Full Article here.

So start your blog today, and find out how much difference you can make.

Monday, May 16, 2005

1857 - The Rising

Ever since I had Mrs. Proto Fernando for Social Studies, i have always shown my complete interest on History. No one teaches Social as she does. The first Contemporary teacher who shaped my life. When many people did not like History, i enjoyed it, just because of the way the subject was taken. And during my 8th to 10th standards, I had dates of History on fingertips.

And if someone wanted to hear my History talent, here's where i normally start. The Sepoy Mutiny. Mangal Pandey 1857. I start the story like a movie, where at the introduction scene a warrior is hanged. Then the struggle goes on till 15 August 1947.

Aamir Khan should have had the same impact on history. Or did he think another pre-1947 movie, will win him names.. dont really know. Whatever, "THE RISING" is up and coming.


[ctsy - RisingTheMovie ]

The story is about Mangal Pandey being a soldier in British Army, during the fight in Afghanistan, and he saves his General's life after which they become great friends. Now there will be a few girls (One English and One Rani Mukharjee). They sing, romance and what not. Then comes the good part, the wierdest part of Indian History. Soldiers are given controversial weapons, which they have to bite and spit before firing. This exact thing they are biting was supposed to be Beef.

The British were now were hurting the Religious feelings. Thats when Mangal Pandey starts revolting, and exactly at that point, India got Independance. I personally admire the hair style of Aamir Khan for The Rising. Reminds me of Kamal Haasan before Hey Ram.

Sunday, May 15, 2005

Hot Post !

Normally the Dialogue is, "Sweat and work for 5 days, and enjoy the cool Saturday and Sunday". But i was working cool for the five days, and taking resting with all possible sweat.

Saturday and Sunday in Chennai was burning. My foot got burnt at Perumal Koil. Never ever felt heat like this in my life. Hope it ends before this weekend.

Still it couldn't stop me from watching these movies.
  • Colleteral
  • Day After Tomorrow
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Dumb and Dumber
  • Oceans Eleven
Ive seen few of them earlier, yet whiling away my time.

Whats More. Air Conditioner's Sale like never before in Chennai.
The sales should have topped last years by minimum 200% growth. TNagar Rathna Stores seems to be drowned in the flood of Air Conditioner buyers.

But, after all, im the one whos fussing about the heat in chennai. The guy at the corner of the road, sits on the burning sun, and keeps stitcing the old worn out shoe.

Strike the Difference


[ctsy - Obviously Indiaglitz ]

Looks similar, huh ! Very probably the stories are different. But both the pictures look very similar and Both are injured in their hands.

I remember those old days of picking up the kumudam and spot the Six differences page.

I see one small difference and feel triumphant on spotting the difference. But now Im insanely matured to see Two Different pictures, and declare they are the same. Blame it on my education.

Saturday, May 14, 2005

My Local God


[ctsy - Panasonic ]

With Sun frying up every inch of traffic, I rushed home and imprisoned my self.

Complete surrender to my saviour. Im forgetting all my plans for the weekend.

All those people, out of Chennai. Here's news : Chennai is Burning like Hell

Friday, May 13, 2005

Bitty Browser - Cuty !


Take a look. This is not a Picture. Would you be impressed, if this was a Browser. Its a small Browser within your browser window.

Just Click on Open URL, and give any Web or RSS URL. And your page opens up within this browser. How good is that ??


[ctsy - Bitty Browser ]


Thursday, May 12, 2005

Today is Friday the 13th. What a deadly combination.

The President of India

I did this strange thing today morning. I started visiting the NIC sites. Browsing through Various Government Departments, this is where i landed in.



I never thought a site so beautiful and informative was even there. Tons of information, loads of photos, audio and video about the Rashtrapathi Bhavan, and the Rashtrapathi himself. With History on due and the Vision Documents on hand, the Site is completely balanced, in giving you information what you look for. You could even mail the President through a form in the site.

Its a JSP Page, and yet works best with Internet Explorer. Take a Peek here.


[All Picture Ctsy - PresidentsOfIndia ]

Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam is our Presidents full name. He got 30 Doctorates from different Universities.

My, My, My ! Thats why he is a President, and im just another guy.
Firefox has released a Critical Update. Ensure you have Firefox 1.0.4

Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Yahoo ! has created a news set of eMoticons. They are ABSOLUTELTY COOL.
Check it out ! I like the "Hold On, Im on a Call" emoticon.

Next Level Gaming

The Gaming industry has been on Nitro Boost. PS2 and XBoxes have been sold even in chennai. There are a few PS2 rental play stations in chennai too. I was only wondering the growth.

Take a look at this, new level gaming. Introducing the Real Virtual Car.


[ctsy - BoingBoing ]

You see a person driving a car in a stadium (probably a F1 race track). But only the Stadium part is wrong. The car is Standing still, but the LCD Screen shows animations of the Game. So, he is virtually in a race track, but physically in a car like this.


[ctsy - BoingBoing ]

Virtual Reality, Gentlemen. Beautiful gaming experience.
I wish i play NFS Underground in this car.

Tuesday, May 10, 2005

PCs for 10,000

**Google is Blogrolling, mates**. And it reads quite some sites, and most of all it reads Yahoo! Search Blog.
Check it out ! www.Google.com/googleblog is now changed to googleblog.blogspot.com, just like everyone else hold their blog on Blogger.

More News. Blogger was down today morning. So all our Blogspot sites were not reached. Dont really know what happened.

Hot News : PCs for Rs. 10,000/-. An ultra-compact desktop computer priced at Rs 10,000 was unveiled by Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal, at New Delhi. Whats more, it is mobile, free to use anywhere desktop. Mobilis, sporting a 7.4 inch VGA LCD screen and several innovative features, including a six-hour battery life, is a state-of-the-art product for users who demand the freedom to work anywhere, anytime.

Read it more on "The Hindu", here

I dont really know, if it is a good sign of bringing down the prices of PCs. Actually, there's nothing like bringin down the prices of PCs.

Have you ever wondered, when in 7 years Hamam's Price has gone up from Rs. 7 to Rs. 11. Thats a growth of about 150 %. But the PC that was costing 45,000 is 19,000. Thats approximately a DOWNFALL of 250 %.

That clearly shows you Two very important things.
1)
Iam really weak in Maths.
2)
The Price reduction did not come down because of increasing Consumption.

It is only that, even if PCs prices come down (if thats what you call it), there is always a PC costing 45,000. And very clearly thats got more better feature.

The Arguement may be, it is enough to have necessary features. But is that really enough ??
Human minds are ready to accept what is enough, Only they dont know the boundary of enough, so they keep expecting. (I have already warned you, im becoming a philosopher !!).

Whats your stand on this ? Do you really see PCs prices going down, or do you see Lower end PCs getting cheaper, becaus of the introduction of High End PCs (It may sound as if both mean the same..but trust me they dont).

Monday, May 09, 2005

"என் இனிய தமிழ் ப்ளாகர்கேள"
thanks to Adengappa for this new Tamil Unicode tool that allows us to Publish Tamil on Blogs.

Give it a try here

Tomato Sauce and Tony Blair

The following is an article on the link provided by BoingBoing.

"A NEW chilli sauce goes on sale today that is so hot it could KILL.

Ultra-concentrated “16 Million Reserve” is the hottest science can make. The sauce is 30 times hotter than the spiciest pepper and 8,000 times more fiery than Tabasco. Diners must sign a disclaimer recommending “protective gloves and eye wear” — but even sweating testers in safety gear were blinded by tears for 30 minutes.

Just 999 bottles of it are on sale at £105 each.

Medical experts fear it could kill asthmatics or hospitalise a user who touches a sensitive part of the body afterwards. Creator Blair Lazar, 35, specialises in “extreme food” in New Jersey, US.
After trying it, he said: “It’s like having your tongue hit with a hammer. Man, it hurt.” The sauce is named after its score on the chilli heat measure, the Scoville Unit. "

Off-beat, Avyukta hits 4000 today. The last 1000 came on really fast.

Tony Blair becomes the Prime Minister of The Great Britain for the Third Time in a row. Dont you think it is something wonderful. Bush did not come to Presidentship for the second time with Grace... but Tony Blair has. What sort of belief would the country have for the man, that it trusts its Governance to him for the third time in a row.

Hats-off to Tony Blair. The Silent Worker.

www.keerthivasan.com launched
its got nothing interesting yet, except a good flash layout.

Sunday, May 08, 2005

Manathil Urudhi Vendum

The most respected man in my mental territory - Mahakavi Barathiyar.

Starting monday with his poem, nothing is much better as this.
I have highlighted, the lines I take for myself. These three lines, and i can succeed.


[ctsy - Barathiyar Kavithaigal]

Have a nice week ahead of you.

Gods Own Machine

The All new Mercedes Benz M-Class. Wanna Test ride ?


[ctsy - MB - USA ]

Its not as impressive as Honda Activa, so ill stick to it. (oh my Gawd !)

Friday, May 06, 2005

Perspective Vision

I am a regular browser of cartoon sites, and few of them amuse me with beautiful thoughts. take a look at this one.


[ctsy - CartoonStock - KES series by Kevin Smith ]

Thursday, May 05, 2005

Picophone - Good Try

Ironies are the part of life (im becoming a philosopher, day by day, phew !). I only remember Anbe Sivam's conversation between Kamal and r.Madhavan.

r. Madhavan - "even if we are ready to pay, we dont get facilities. Thats India for you !!!"
kamal - "as long as you people think, that you can pay whatever, and get whatever, THAT WILL BE INDIA FOR YOU ".

Good one, huh ! The point is, we have high speed connections, and yet we dont have a very satisfying software to have Voice Chat. Many times i think "Voice Chat is an equivalently costly to Telephone calls, only it makes us think its cheap". Reason, in voice chat - we assume it is cheaper, so we talk for a very long time, even though we do not have anything to talk about. And that virtually brings the cost closer to brief telephone calls.

But last week, me and my uncle discovered a better way of communication. PICOPHONE.


[ctsy - Vitez ]

It is a Amazingly Small application, that helps you dial an IP and talk to remote, in a much much Clear way. The audio would be Crystal Clear. Main reason being, there is no Audio Server in between. Picophone existed long back, but then, only now i got Broadband.

Get more information and Downloads here

BTW, did you know, my mom started a Blog.. she said if you could blog, then any one could
Check it out, here

Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Indian Technology goes proud

Read the Business article on the
Thiagarajan's trail-blazing invention!

[ctsy - Rediff In ]

makes us proud.

Speed Up the Web

Minds are always greedy. Arent they. Even though you have High speed Internet connection, you would prefer web pages getting downloaded even faster. To say, you want other pages getting downloaded at the speed of Google returning the search results. Have you ever imagined that way ?

Well, even if you have not, please accept Googles next beta product - Google Web Accelerator - GWA.

This gets installed on your browser (IE and Firefox 1.0+, nice to see more on Firefox) and chaches the pages you see, and later on refering pages, gives you chached + current information on the page. Also sometimes does the Pre-fetch of pages, so that the moment you type the URL, the desired page zaps up at hilarious speed.


[ctsy - Google Labs ]

Unfortunately, im not able to experience that, as even after installing this one, i dont seem to find any significant difference. I guess this would be a product with quite some bugs, as some of them already showed up. Let me wait and see the results.

We need to give some time for every good thing to happen.

Tuesday, May 03, 2005

Hitachi DZ-MV730A Camcorder (aka) Wow !

Hitachi DZ-MV730A DVD Handycam Camcorder - you know why its a wow. It burns DVD, what you see via viewfinder. It records directly onto a DVD-R.

Thats approximately $870. (hold on, im counting....).

(ok, im done.. I cant buy it,.).


[ctsy - Hitachi dvdcam ]

I have wondered if buying a Handycam would be wiser than buying a Digicam (Still). Im more amused by Still images, than boring and wierd home videos asking people to smile and "Say Something" talks. I admit, it would be of gerat use, and a treasure rather at some occassions. But for most of them, i guess a Digicam would do.

BTW, people who want this DVD Cam, here is the specification.
  • Recording format: DVD-RAM / DVD-R
  • Imaging device: 680K Pixel CCD
  • Recording mode: 16:9 widescreen recording for both DVD-RAM and DVD-R discs
  • Zoom: 16x optical / 240x digital zoom
  • LCD: 2.5 inch LCD monitor can operate as a light
  • Analog conversion: External AV input for recording analog sources to DVD
  • Video recording: DVD-RAM: approximately 40-120 minutes of MPEG-2. DVD-R: approximately 20-60 minutes of MPEG video
  • Digital Still Photos: DVD-RAM: records nearly 2,000 JPEG 640 x 480 resolution. DVD-R: approximately 220 JPEG images 640 x 480 resolutions
  • Image stabilization: Yes, electronic image stabilizer for video
  • Low light shooting: 0.3 lux in low light mode
  • Focus: Auto and manual focus
  • White balance: Auto and manual white balance
  • Exposure: Auto and manual exposure
  • Viewfinder: .2 inch color viewfinder
  • Dimensions (H x W x D): 3 3/8 x 2 x 4 13/16 inches
  • Weight with battery: Approximately 1 pound 2 ounces
  • Supplied accessories: 700ML 1hr battery, AC adapter / charger, special S-video and composite AV cable, shoulder strap, lens cap
Tell me if you buy one !

Monday, May 02, 2005

Mile sur mera tumhara

Forget A. R. Rahman's Vande Mataram. Forget Lata Mangeshkar's Vande Mataram. "Mile Sur Mera Tumhara... To Sur Bane Hamara" composed by the great Bhimshen Joshi, a masterpiece lost in time, is perhaps the best of songs in national integration genre. I would say this was the best footage ever aired by our good old Doordharshan. I wonder what's stopping them from airing it nowadays. I stumbled upon this link on the web. Some cool desi grads from MIT have composed their own version of this national integration song. Well, this was sung in every official language of India. Now, thats true national integration- A. R. Rahman's Vande Mataram has only a few components to it... Song was shot in Rajasthan and Kerala, and composer and technical team were from Tamil Nadu. Well, this beautiful version is shot all over India with all Indian languages!

Doordharshan could do a revival of national integration theme by airing this song again. I don't think the original version is available anywhere on the net. However, the cool MIT Indian grads have composed their own version for Deepavali celebrations. Just check this out...
http://web.mit.edu/anoop/www/msur/msurscreen.mpg

A low end version of the same is available on this page:
http://www.mit.edu/~kapoor/mile_sur_small.wmv

If anyone has any contacts with DD, I would request them to make efforts to air the original song again! DD could pull off some popularity ratings with the current political scenario, heh, heh, heh...

Sunday, May 01, 2005

The DaVinci Key

The world is waiting for Dan Brown's next-up. "The Solomon Key" is almost a sequel of The DaVinci Code (shortly called TDVC). Brown says that the cover Illustration of TDVC is the key for his next book - The Solomon Key. The book again features "Robert Langdon" a professor from the Harvard University. The Langdon charater is the trump card for Dan Brown, as he does this act of overriding emotions on the user, using the thoughts of Langdon.

What I mean is, superimposing the thoughts of Robert Langdon in a way that it becomes our thought, and the story moves fast. Thats been Dan Browns key, all the way to success. The Solomon Key is expected to release February 2006. This book is on the Freemasons, that means a lot of American leaders are in trouble. Well, Conspiracy is my favourite topic. I wish Dan Brown was in Chennai and wrote stories about DMK and ADMK. I also wish Dan Brown wrote about Netaji and Nehru.



[ctsy - Amazon ]

There's already a book on the speculations of the "Solomon Key". It is called the Davinci in America, by Greg Taylor. Will give it a read and let you know whats it all about.