The SArangapANi Temple at Kumbakonam (Thiru Kudanthai) ranks high in the hierarchy of Srivaishnava temples. It is one of the Pancharanga kshetrams - the five Ranganatha temples along the banks of the Kaveri river.
The temple complex is imposing from the outside, and unique with regards to its innermost prakaaram - the sanctum sanctorum, which is [...]
If you are a Java developer looking for a powerful IDE that can get you started in no time, you should look no further than NetBeans.
Why?
NetBeans is free and open-source. A lot of people list preference with open-source software just because it is free. But beyond just the cost, there is a lot more to [...]
A few months ago, I had posted the links to Suryan FM’s live stream.
A few readers have commented that the stream no longer works. This is true. I checked Suriyan FM’s website, and I see that their live online stream is “under process“. So it is possible that the folks at Sun Network are working [...]
Finally, the Alaska Governor does appear on Saturday Night Live. Here’s the video.
… is America’s Sasikala.
George W. Bush said in an interview once that Nigeria was a continent. And we all had a good laugh. Now Sarah Palin, hell-bent on proving that Dubya is an intellectual, says that New Hampshire is in the Northwest!
(from DailyKos)
(Warning: Lotsa brackets, like this one.)
Back in 2001-02 (ah, the good ol’ days), when the stock markets recoiled after the dotcom bust and thousands of people found themselves out of a job in Silicon Valley, thousands of miles across the face of the earth, the impact was felt in Chennai. The great Indian IT boom [...]
John McCain reminds me of our actor Ajith Kumar. And Vijay too. In a rally today, McCain, who is down by between 5 and 11 points in national polls, said that he might be down, but he was going to fight. He said that Senator Obama might me measuring the drapes to the White House. [...]
Paul Krugman, who writes a bi-weekly column in The Hindu The New York Times, has won the Nobel Prize for Economics. Mr. Krugman is a Professor of Economics at Princeton University.
Mr. Krugman received the award for his work on international trade and economic geography. In particular, the prize committee lauded his work for “having shown [...]
MSNBC has footage of clip that contains the recording of the call Erin McLean made to 9-1-1 right after her husband, Eric, allegedly shot her lover, Sean Powell, dead.
I don’t want to embed the video here, but if you are interested, here is a link to the same. Erin claims that her husband threatened to [...]
Senator John McCain does one right thing finally, telling a woman in one of his town halls / rallies that Barack Obama is not an Arab.
Somewhere in the backdrop, McCain doesn’t like the campaign that he is running. It is against his nature, and he recognizes it. This moment captures that in all earnest.
Yesterday, a friend commented that the economic troubles that the United States is faced with is largely because of the deregulated market in which the Government has very little control. He then went on to claim that China’s economic model, an object of criticism over the past so many years, has proved to be superior [...]
One of the rules of competitive strategy is that if you own a successful platform, the benefits that you can derive from it can be incredible.
One can see that Google is exploiting this successfully with the Chrome browser. Here’s how. In Internet Explorer or Firefox, if you navigate to a page, but the server is [...]
If you use Gmail and Firefox, you should give the Better Gmail Firefox plugin a try. It is amazing!
If Sarah Palin were to debate herself, what would you call it?
Crammer v/s Crammer.
… would Sarah-ppalling would tell him, “Look here, Mr. Putin, I don’t need to answer ya! And stop bothering me when I’m spewing bromides on TV”?
Sarah Palin is an energy expert.
Like John McCain invented the Blackberry.
The crisis on Wall Street is symptomatic of a larger problem in the United States, argues Prof Youngjin Yoo, in an article titled Wall Street 2.0, where he also proposes ways in which Wall Street can redefine itself given the changing dynamics of the global economy.
A fabulous read.
Will the McCain campaign stop telling America that Sarah-ppalling is “just like you”?
Please! I mean, we don’t want someone who is just like us. “Just like you” does not mean that the “you” is some exalted person. It means that the person who is touted as “just like you” is just average. So so. Nothing [...]
Does someone know Katie Couric’s email address? Or her contact information?
Nothing serious, but I was hoping to find out if Sarah-ppalling had gotten back to Katie as the former had promised during last week’s CBS interview - “I’ll try to find you some and I’ll bring them to you” - when asked about John McCain’s [...]
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