Song for the Day, Aug 28, 2006

Song: But it rained ... (listen)
Artist: Parikrama

Well does life get any better
more yesterday than today
How I thought the sun would shine tommorow
But it rained...

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Career women and Marriage

This is the article I was talking about

Link

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How to make a guitar sing ...

Well, Mark Knopfler knows how to do it ...

came across a couple of amazing videos of mark knopfler's distinctive plectrumless guitaring ...

Song: Local Hero - Wild Theme (listen/see)
Album: Sultans of Swing

Song: Sultans of Swing - live (listen/See)

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Ultimate PJs

.. found these on the net .. unfortunately I did not create them ...

Question: You are in a boat in the middle of the ocean. You have 2 cigarettes and nothing else on the boat. You want to light one of the cigarettes -- how would you do it??

Answer:
Throw one of the cigarettes into the ocean. The boat becomes LIGHTER. So use it to light the cigarette!

... want another one ...

Question: My neighbour has three children. His second child's name is Chintu. What are the names of his other children ?

.. brace yourself ..

Answer: Chinone and Chinthree ...

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Song of the Day, Aug 26, 2006

I had meant to post this song a long while back .. never got around to do that ..

Song: Bandeh (listen)
Artist: Indian Ocean
Album: Black Friday

... िकसे कािफ़र कहेगा

िकसे कायर कहेगा

तेरी कब तक चलेगी हो…

Amazing piece by an amazing band!

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Song of the Day, Aug 25, 2006

Friday night ... a brainless song !

Song: Dil Se Dil Mile (listen)
Singer: Pritam, KK
Movie: Naksha
Composer: Pritam

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Software that makes kids turn into comedians

What do you get when you cross a car with a sandwich?

Ans: Traffic Jam.

http://www.hindu.com/2006/08/25/stories/2006082518691100.htm

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You and Your Research

Richard Hamming is an extremely well known reseacher in EE - he has done phenomenal work in Signal Processing (Hamming Windows) and Coding Theory (Hamming Codes).

Twenty years ago, he gave this talk at Bell Labs about doing great research, scientific attitude, "brains" and hard work, commitment and sub-consious and many more things.

Very Inspiring Read....has some parallels with the article posted earlier in the blog and this poem too.

A long talk (~45 mins) but worth every second.

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My B'day Party

 

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Song of the Day- August 21st 2006

Song: Raag Brindaban Sarang
Artist: Ustad Bismillah Khan (Shehnai)

Ustad Bismillah Khan's demise is a loss to the Indian music world. Here's a beautiful piece for us in his memory!

http://www.musicindiaonline.com/l/5/s/album.5081/artist.280/

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Song of the Day, Aug 19, 2006

Be it music or movies the Bhatt production houses seem to be ruling ...

Gangster is one of the best hindi movies in a while ... 'Woh Lamhe' - starring Kangna and Shiny - is promising to be as good. It is purported to be a 'quasi'-biography on the relationship between Mahesh Bhatt and Parveen Babi ...

The trailer looks very impressive ...

Song: Kya Mujhe Pyaar Hai (listen)
Singer: Kay Kay
Composer: Pritam
Movie: Woh Lamhe

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Song of the Day, Aug 18, 2006

Remember I had cribbed about songs being copied without acknowledgement ... Pritam is turning out to be a new Anu Malik!

In any case listen to this very good song from Gangster, and the original by a kuwait based band who call themselves Guitara ...

Original:
Song: Ya Ghali (listen/see)
Artists: Guitara

Bollywood:
Song: Ya Ali (listen)
Singer: Zubeed
Movie: Gangster

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Picnic snaps- finally!

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Song of the Day, Aug 17, 2006

What happens when two brilliant dancers work together? Well, this is what you get...

Song: Main Aisa Kyon Hoon(listen/see)
Album: Lakshya
Choreographer: Prabhu Deva
Music Director: Shankar Ehsaan Loy

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Song of the Day, Aug 16, 2006

Warning: the video is a bit creepy

Song: Welcome ... to the Machine (listen/see)
Artist: Pink FLoyd
Album: Wish You Were Here

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HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!

Song: Desh Mere (listen)
Album: Legend of Bhagat Singh
Singer: A.R.Rahman, Sukhwinder Singh
Composer: A.R.Rahman

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What do people search for ....

Remember the AOL search log leak ... Well, there is a website www.somethingawful.com which has extracted some "snippets" from the search logs ... (many of the snippets in the site are explicit)

Here is an example of what people "search" for ...

"The Sad Story of 711391 -- a family drama" (click the read more ... )




(for the full version (explicit warning) of "The Sad Story ..." click here and input 711391)

will post more later ...

WOW !!

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Song of the Day, Aug 11, 2006

Song: Mitwa (listen)
Singer: Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan
Composer: Shankar Ehsaan Loy
Movie: Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna

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Song of the Day, Aug 10, 2006

Song: Unnai Kandane (listen)
Singer: Haricharan, Shruthi
Composer: Dharan
Movie: Parijatham

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Song of the Day, Aug 9, 2006

Song: Jhulan Baahon Mein (listen)
Singer: Sadhna Sargam, Srinivas
Composer: A R Rahman
Movie: Doli Saja Ke Rakhna

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Song of the Day, Aug 5, 2006

Bas Ek Pal sounds like an interesting movie ...

It's Atif Aslam again, singing beautifully ... the song has a very "tere bin nahin lagda" feel to it ...

Song: Tere Bin (listen)
Singer: Atif Aslam

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How RAMantic!!!

Electroverts and Common geekdom redefine realms of romance..

...via indiauncut...

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(from slashdot) Smugness on Security ...

MACs are insecure ! So are the new and "improved" US passports ...

It seems the the wireless cards on MACs can be hijacked so that anyone can remotely get complete control over a system if the wireless card is enabled and set to connect to any wireless network.

As for the new US passports, they have RFIDs (a small chip which stores data that can be remotely read using an RFID reader) to supposedly enhance security. However, the RFIDs seem to have many vulnerabilities -- they can be cloned (though not yet forged) and as shown in the above video used to launch targeted terrorist attacks!

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Wheel of Life

As our friends graduate one by one, and our proximate coexistence slowly dismantles,

The Wheel of Life, some spokes are gone,
Yetserday 'twas her, Tomorrow it's him
The wheel staggers, yet, it must move on,
Carrying but the memories on its rim,
Of smooth and rugged paths we tread together,
And forged a bond that shall stay forever.

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Song of the Day, Aug. 2, 2006

Song: Vellai Pookkal (listen)
Movie Name : Kannathil Muthamittal
Singer : Rahman A R
Music Director : Rahman AR

In the movie, amidst intense fighting in Srilanka and thousands of fleeing people, Rahman and Vairamuthu combine to present their dream of Utopia.

Today, we can but hope and pray that this dream become a reality..

(See comment for translation)

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Song of the Day, Aug 1, 2006

Song: Pyaar Humen Kis Mod Pe Le Aaya (listen)
Artist: R D Burman, Gulshan Bawra, Kishore da, Sapan Chakravarthy
Movie: Satte Pe Satta

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