Vijay Narayanan on July 28th, 2006

Ruud van Nistelrooy leaves Man United, as Michael Carrick walks in. Real Madrid have confirmed that Manchester United’s Ruud van Nistelrooy has passed a medical, and would be formally unveiled as a Real Madrid player. The Dutchman becomes the second high-profile player to move from Old Trafford to the Bernabeu in the last three years. [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on July 28th, 2006

Google Talk is my favourite IM. Despite being not as feature-rich as its counterparts from Yahoo! and MSN are, Google Talk trumps because it exploits fully its USP — it is simple. It has the look-and-feel of an app that you and I would have developed to practise basic networking in Java. But Google has [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on July 26th, 2006

Just saw a clipping from Imsai Arasan 23-m Pulikesi. A very interesting dialogue. Nasser comes to meet Vadivelu. The dialogue runs something like this… Nasser: Maatrangal pala irukkindranave (There is so much change since I was last here) Vadivelu: Maatram ondru dhaane, mama, ulagil maaramal iruppadhu (But, Uncle, isn’t change the only quantity that doesn’t [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on July 24th, 2006

One of the few things that everyone in my house shares a passion for is songs from old Tamil movies. Yes, there are new songs and we all listen to them too. But old songs have a charm of their own. Simple, and with music that is non-obstructive and (hence?) pleasing to the ear, these [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on July 22nd, 2006

Marionette: a man-made puppet manipulated by strings Martinet: a woman who pulls the strings on men

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