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 It is still unpublished, and I [...]

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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 much [...]

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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 in [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on January 10th, 2009

The story behind Google’s new favicon.

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Vijay Narayanan on January 8th, 2009

Guess what, I received a surprise New Year gift today. All the way from Praha in the Czech Republic. A limited edition NetBeans 10th Anniversary T-shirt from Sun Microsystems!
NetBeans turned 10 this past year, and to commemorate this, the folks had conducted the NetBeans Decathlon, in which yours truly was one of the winners. (I must [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on January 7th, 2009

Steve Ballmer announced today that “techies” could download and test the beta version of Windows 7, the latest OS from Microsoft, starting Friday. I don’t have a spare computer to try that. But even if I did, I won’t have the guts to do so. Having endured Vista over the past couple of years, I [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on January 7th, 2009

The Hindu’s website has a dossier of evidence on the Mumbai terror attacks as put together by the investigating agencies. I guess this is the same dossier that has been handed over to Pakistan, which the latter rubbished even before reading. One thing is clear from a preliminary reading of the dossier. It is that the [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on January 7th, 2009

While I was shocked at the goings-on at Satyam Computers as reported in the media over the past few weeks, today’s news that the founder and Chairman B. Ramalinga Raju has admitted to grossly inflating the books comes a thunderbolt. As a shareholder in Satyam Computers, I am appalled at the moral bankruptcy of this [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on January 6th, 2009

From the Onion News Network. Hilarious!

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

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Vijay Narayanan on January 5th, 2009

Interesting video.

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