Vijay Narayanan on August 31st, 2006

And our news channels still won’t let go of Pluto. A perfect case of yet another non-issue being converted into nonsense of paramount importance. Reminds of an exchange between Dr. Watson and Mr. Holmes, from A Study in Scarlet… “But the Solar System!” I protested. “What the deuce is it to me?” he interrupted impatiently; [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on August 25th, 2006

[Be warned, spoilers in here!] There are two cop movies in Tamil that are really the benchmark for this genre — Kurudhi Punal and Kaakha Kaakha. The first, a remake of Govind Nihalani’s Droh Kaal is a chilling tale of an officer in the anti-terrorism squad in his quest to bust a terror gang. Kamal [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on August 20th, 2006

Recently, ComputerWeekly, which celebrates its fortieth anniversary this year, conducted a poll to find out the most influential companies, people, hardware and software in the computer industry. The list for the Most Influential People contains many household names — Bill G, James Gosling, Linus Torvalds, Steve Jobs, Tim Berners-Lee… I thought they missed out the [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on August 9th, 2006

In order to attend to some personal and professional commitments, I’ll take a break from active blogging for a couple of months. Thank you. Au revoir. P.S.: The oldies posts might continue.

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Vijay Narayanan on August 8th, 2006

Well, not so new; he’s been around for a while. The MLA of Chennai’s Mylapore assembly constituency, actor S.Ve. Shekar, has a blog, http://mylaporemla.blogspot.com/. The blog is run by the neigbourhood newspaper, Mylapore Times. The blog will cover news relating to the MLA and the developmental activities he undertakes. The blog invites residents of the [...]

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