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Archive for May, 2007

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Sivaji - The first trailer

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Funny update: Guess who has the “exclusive” trailer, five days after it was posted on this blog, among other places? Rediff, that’s who! Too much, only.
CNN-IBN has got what it says is an exclusive trailer for Sivaji. It is the same trailer that is on Galatta.com too. The mpeg file seems to be freely available as well. So I don’t how exclusive this is.


YouTube link

The first impression - Thalaivar rocks. A desi co-worker who walked into my cube exclaimed - Is that Rajinikant? He looks 30 maan! ‘Nuff said……

Friday, May 18th, 2007

Google Analytics glitch?

(Updates at the bottom of the post)

I am not a rabid hit-counter. But I have received close to 25K visits (and more than 50K pageviews) in the last 10 months since I moved to my own domain. So when the built-in reports from the WP Google Analytics plugin informed me that no one had come to my blog on the 16th of May, I was certainly taken aback. And now I see that apparently there were just 3 hits on my blog yesterday (the 17th of May). That is certainly not a cause of alarm, for sometimes even I wonder why I get the hits I get usually. But having having said that, like any other self respecting blogger, I do care for incoming links. (more…)

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

Tintin in digital 3-D!

Finally something credible comes out about the often rumored Tintin franchise. Variety magazine quotes Steven Speilberg and Peter Jackson on their plans for a Tintin trilogy. Jackson and Speilberg will each direct one movie while the third director has still not been decided on. (more…)

Monday, May 14th, 2007

Spidey…. saaman nikaalo!

Oh, Yuvan! You Spidey fanboy, you! You had to use it, didn’t you? But, I don’t have any complaints because it does sound good. The rest of you (if you are still wondering what I am talking about) check out the interlude between 1:14 and 1:32 of this song below.

Thanks Karthik, for the mention on itwofs.

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

Way to go, Oz!

Oz, the crazy brain responsible for PFC, is now a published author. This was his first work of fiction and was first published online on his blog. The book is available for download in electronic format.

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Way to go Oz bhai! Looking forward to seeing more of your work on print.

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

The new NY-NJ Quiz Club-updates

We roughly have 10 interested people so far in the proposed NY-NJ Quiz club. We are hoping to meet for the first time this coming weekend. Venue is T.B.A at the moment. If you wish to be a part too, please use the comments or the contact form here to get in touch with me. And even if you are not interested, please pass the message on to anyone who you think would be interested.