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Monthly Archives October 2006

DON Movie the review : Shahrukh as DON!

“Don ko pakadna mushkil hii naahhi, naa mumkin hai “.
People make movies for two reasons. I’m not gonna tell you either of them because it doesn’t matter. This movie was not made for any reason. And thats why it should not have been made in the first place! It wasn’t made for the people, not [...]

Posted 20 October 2006 † Sasidhar § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (11) °

Going for DON Premier

Great news ! Google has booked tickets to the DON movie (new one, Sharukh as DON). The movie is releasing this Friday, which is tomorrow, but we get to watch the Premier on Thursday evening itself.
Now, does anyone not know that Google rocks !
Rocks huh? Jealous already ??
Update: Watched the premier of the [...]

Posted 19 October 2006 † Sasidhar § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (2) °

Hyderabad FM RADIO channels: Radio City, Radio Mirchi, Radio Rainbow and now BIG FM launch

Finally I’m very pleased at the thought of switching on my radio, and knowing that there are atleast 5 options to choose from. And this, considering Hyderbad did not have any private Radio FM channels untill late last year. AIR Rainbow, owned by the All India Radio was the only channel to tune into, while [...]

Posted 16 October 2006 † Sasidhar § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (419) °

10 Tips for Backing up your Data Center

Here are 10 simple tips to make sure that your Data Center is backed up and can be reverted back, incase of emergency.
Good stuff, and very logical too.read more | digg story

Posted 14 October 2006 † Sasidhar § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) °

Slashdot Disallows MSN and Yahoo but allows Google to crawl their site?

Did you know Slashdot does not allow MSN and Yahoo News Crawler or Slurp(Yahoo/Inktomi bot) into their site. Take a look at the robots.txt file of slashdot.org at http://slashdot.org/robots.txt
User-agent: Slurp
Crawl-delay: 100
Disallow:
User-agent: Yahoo-NewsCrawler
Disallow:
User-Agent: msnbot
Crawl-delay: 100
Disallow:
You will see three bots; Slurp, Yahoo News Crawler and msnbot being disallowed from crawling all parts of their website. Slurp [...]

Posted 14 October 2006 † Sasidhar § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (3) °

Engineers jokes

Part of engineering life. And the law is: ” If you can’t convince them, confuse them. ”
There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand
binary, and those who don’t.
Pessimist: The glass is half-empty.
Optimist: The glass is half-full.
Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
Why do engineers confuse [...]

Posted 11 October 2006 † Sasidhar § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (1) °

Rene Descartes joke

Rene Descartes walks into a bar.
The bartender asks him, “Are you drunk?”
Descartes replies, “I think not.”
And then he vanishes!
(Rene Descartes was known for his statement meaning “I think, therefore I am.”)
(“Cogito ergo sum” translates to “I think, therefore I am.”)
PS. Turns out he was the one who discovered Analytical Geometry !

Posted 11 October 2006 † Sasidhar § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (2) °

Air Deccan Tickets at Lowest Prices !

If you have a vacation planned, its the best time to go to www.airdeccan.net and book tickets for your travel. If you haven’t planned one as yet, maybe it time for that well deserved break that you’ve been waiting for !

Air Deccan is offering tickets at double the price they were before, which is Rs. [...]

Posted 10 October 2006 † Sasidhar § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (12) °

Titanic Part 2 (Titanic the Sequel !!)

At first, I thought this a joke ! But turns out its for real. They decided to make Titanic Part 2 …….
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“As one journey ends, an other begins” ….it says. Jack is back and alive. And he hasn’t aged. This is soo funny. The movie is going to be a disaster. I cannot believe how [...]

Posted 09 October 2006 † Sasidhar § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (7) °

Pulp fiction, the play

One of the things I did in Delhi, where I was on my vacation (apart from the Rishikesh white water rafting thing), was go watch this play caled Pulp Fiction.

Click on the image for a bigger picture.
This play was an adaptation of the 1994 movie by the Tarantino which won the Oscar for Best Screenplay [...]

Posted 08 October 2006 † Sasidhar § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) °