Vijay Narayanan on July 31st, 2005

[Even if you consider me a prude, I'll excuse you.] A couple of days ago, while returning home from work (in the company bus), I happened to speak to a like-minded friend. Mostly my conversations with him tend to be on worlds other than ours. He is certainly more devout than I am, and so [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on July 29th, 2005

A week ago, India’s only other superstar, Rajnikanth’s latest movie Chandramukhi crossed 100 days in theatres. Given that it has been three years since we’ve had a movie from him (and five since his last hit), there was so much anticipation. If you don’t care about logic and don’t belong to the finicky types (of [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on July 28th, 2005

Microsoft has rolled out Beta 1 of its next operating system Windows VISTA (formerly codenamed “Longhorn”. Most of the initial reviews that I’ve perused are positive – okeh, at least they aren’t negative!I found Paul Thurrott’s review quite detailed and incisive. Click here to read it. Here are some of the features / enchancements that [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on July 27th, 2005

Chennai is one of those few wonderful Indian cities where it never rains at all. Least of all in July. But in the past week, we had two blasts of rain worth the name. Some depression off the coast to alleviate the depression of those on it. Therefore the news that Mumbai was being lashed [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on July 24th, 2005

[Of the dozens of forwarded mails I get, this is something which made sense] It seems that the story of an inspired young man was floating around cyberspace. Because the story gave away the name of that person in the closing lines, someone decided to mail him directly to find out if it was indeed [...]

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