Vijay Narayanan on January 30th, 2009

Have you tried Gmail offline? It is quite good. What I don’t like though is that it downloads attachments automatically to your local drive. I wish they had an option to disable it. Manchester United have been swashbuckling ever since I wrote a draft entitled “WTF is wrong at United?” It is still unpublished, and [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on January 24th, 2009

Did you watch the FA Cup match between Manchester United and Tottenham today? If not, you have missed the start of a possible revolution – the one of many that constantly occur at Old Trafford. Rafael Da Silva, the young Brazilian right-back, has already been one of the finds of the season for United, so [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on January 20th, 2009

… is now the President of the United States of America. A bumper-sticker I saw on the road this morning summed it up succinctly: “2008: End of an Error.“

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Vijay Narayanan on January 13th, 2009

To borrow a phrase from Hillary Clinton, “… and with your support, it’s now full speed onto the Oscars!”

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Vijay Narayanan on January 12th, 2009

There are many memorable songs from the 1944 classic, Haridas. One of my favorites from the movie is the Annaiyum Thanthaiyum Thaane, sung by M.K. Thyagaraja Bhagavatar. I have only listened to the song before, never watched it. But I chanced to find it on Youtube today. Here it is. Did you notice something funny [...]

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