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Perfect Masala mix
The video mixes the audio of the tamil movie trailer “Santhosh Subramaniam” (remake of “bommerillu” – telugu) and video of titanic. Perfect!! You’ll definitely enjoy..
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I’ve heard this song from the movie subramanyapuram more than 50 times in the last week (thanks to my friend Mokan who has set single song repeat option in his laptop).. And surprisingly, I’m still not bored.. The song is a perfect blend of nice lyrics, melodious tune and lovely picturisation. Watch it.
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Tags: song, subramanyapuram
Dramatic days @ Yahoo!
As many of you know, the recent days in Yahoo! have been more than exciting (can i say nail biting???)
Microsoft bidding for Yahoo!, Carl Icahn threatening a proxy fight.. uff!!! August 1st was looked up by every stakeholder of Yahoo!, and finally these two big things happened.
Yahoo used its homepage as a weapon against Carl Icahn. Yahoo! proclaimed “Your Yahoo! Your vote!”. Read the article: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/18/fighting-for-its-life-yahoo-uses-its-homepage-to-battle-carl-icahn/
Yesterday, the dust settled. Carl Icahn was happy with three seats in the Yahoo! board of directors. Read article: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/21/icahn-backs-down-from-yahoo-proxy-fight-in-return-for-three-yahoo-board-seats/.
Looks like things have settled, but shouldn’t I be giving it a second thought? After all, Carl Icahn is so close to us now.
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I saw this video which was added as a favorite by a lot of my classmates. Had a look at it and it reminded me of my college life / hostel life.. Sweet memories..
It is shot by my juniors, I guess.. Whoever it is, Great job guys..
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Tags: psgtech
dasavaratham: movie review
Dasavatharam had a huge expectation even before it hit the screens. I saw this movie about three weeks before I wrote this blog, and the movie still has a impact on me. The screenplay is very intelligent, but at times it is too intelligent for just anybody to understand.
The first 15 minutes (12th century) and last 30 minutes (tsunami) of the movie brings you to the edge of seat. The story is about bio war, evil forces trying to take control of the bio chip and tsunami acting as a blessing in disguise to avoid a huge devastation.
Ten roles:
Kamalhaasan has taken the pain to act in ten roles (thats right, pain to act). He has shown difference in every role in terms of makeup, body language and dialog delivery. Just amazing..
But it is a fact that not every role impresses us. Rangarajan nambi in my opinion is the best of the ten. The character is a lord vishnu follower opposing the ruthlessness of the king who is a lord siva follower.
Fletcher is the villain and his role is to chase the hero, Govind. Fletcher is impressive whereas Govind is a usual hero. Balram naidu tries comedy when he is serious, not very impressive. Avatar singh impresses through “Oh sanam!” song and a small senti story built around his character. Kalifulla khan (tall guy), krishnaveni (old lady), shingan (japanese fighter), vincent poovaiaah (dalit fighting against sand robbery) help in passing the ball (sorry the bio chip). George bush, a high profile role.
Of course, all the characters discussed above are enacted by Kamal. And when there are so many kamals, there is hardly any importance to other roles. Asin runs with Govind in the second half. Mallika sherawat runs with Fletcher in the first half.
Story/Screenplay brilliance:
I see the story from multiple perspectives after reading about the movie, hearing the cast speaking and watching. It is about reincarnated souls (Kamal, Asin and her dad too 
) getting together in the current centruy, after being split in 12th century by Lord Vishnu. The same god is responsible for the three getting together in this century.
It could also be seen as possible scientific revolutions which can happen in this century, and how disastrous they can turn out to be. Tsunami, which was considered to be a disastrous event, is a blessing in disguise to avoid a bigger disaster. (Brilliant!!)
On the other side, it could be seen as a story of moolavar (the god in temple who will not be moved for poojas) residing in the sea beds for years before coming back to land to save a huge disaster (this was said by K S Ravikumar, director of the movie).
Whatever be the motto of the story, the screenplay is brilliant. They call it the chaotic theory (ex: butterfly effect). It means two incidents which look unrelated might actually have a relation. A butterfly tapping its wings might have a role in a hurricane in US. The screenplay is tied around this principle (When we actually think a little, we’ll realize every movie/life might be sited sample for this theory). These terms, in the first minute of the movie is a kind of turn off. I started feeling I’ll not understand this movie 
.
As I said earlier, the story and screenplay are done in an intelligent manner, but at times in a too intelligent manner that no one understands. One has to be open minded to enjoy the parts of movie he understands.
Songs:
The lyrics of the songs, kallai mattum kandal, mukuntha and oh sanam are excellent. I’ve ordered the songs in the order i liked them.
“Kallai mattum kandaal” – Excellent song and the picturisation of the song is great.
“Mukuntha mukuntha” – Melody, classic.
“Oh! sanam” – Nice song, dance is good, jayapradha dance is worth mentioning here.
“Ulaga naayagan” – Closing title song, good.
“Kaa karupanukum” – Fails to impress when compared to the others.
Overall, The movie is technically brilliant but it fails to impress the mass. And I might watch it second time in theatres very soon.
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Tags: dasavatharam, tamil
Following the openness initiative and the searchmonkey announcement, Yahoo! is taking the next big step in openness and search.
Yahoo! BOSS (Build your own search service) is the big leap that Yahoo! has announced. Through BOSS, Yahoo! gives access to its investments in crawling and indexing, ranking and relevancy algorithms, and powerful infrastructure to third party developers and organizations. The third-parties are allowed to add their own assets and make a huge business from this opportunity.
More details are available here.
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This is one of the rarest moments. I had windows, linux and mac systems in my desk today. It was neither for testing nor for cross browser testing. I was just fortunate for a couple of days to have such a rich cube.
I got a mac laptop yesterday. Am getting too excited about this. The user experience is amazing, especially when you’ve moved from a RHEL laptop.
The sad part is my linux laptop (the one in center) will part me tomorrow. For all good things you get, u lose something. 
Anyways, I’ve installed a RHEL parallel image to continue my work in Linux. The windows machine you see there is our team box and the 24 inch screen is also in my desk.
By the way, this is my first post from my mac lappy.
Update: I returned my linux lappy and final moments with my linux lappy are captured here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rvenkat/tags/lastfewminwithlinux/
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Tags: linux, mac, windows, yahoo!
Coimbatore – Sweet memories
We had been to cbe for a friend’s marriage last week. We managed to snap the pictures of our favorite spots. I’ve spent four long years in Coimbatore and these places have been so close to the heart.
Do not mind the quality of the pictures, it was just meant to capture the emotions.
Cbe bus (actually aimed at NM Bakery)
Caramel
Boomerang
Tech bridge (It was constructed after we left)
Central Bank of India
See all the photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rvenkat/tags/sweetmemoriescbe/.
I’ll probably add more/betters photos to this list when I visit CBE next time.
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Tags: coimbatore, psgtech
2 years in Yahoo!
June 26th marked the beginning of my third year in Y! as an employee. Its been a mental metamorphosis. Looking back at what I’ve learnt and what I’ve accomplished, I’m 80% satisfied. In the industry, I guess this is just a great number .
The things I’ve enjoyed the most here:
1. Fresher’s party – that was fun. We guys got together after two years for a quick chat. It was great and touching.
2. Work – It has been great. I’ve worked on a wide range of technologies. The amount of discussions (and fight at times) shows the intensity of the work and the passion of my colleagues.
3. Team – It is pure luck I’ve landed in this team. It has grown from 4 to 14 in a couple of years. Proud to have played a role in the expansion (rather, a explosion). These guys are real techies, fun loving and very dynamic.
4. Hack days – The culture of hack days is very catchy. We get 24 hrs off our work every quarter to develop our idea to working product/prototype and demo it to the company. The energy level during this day is electrifying!! It happened this thurs/friday and 3 of us had a 36 continous non-sleep hours (and a lot of other Yahoo!s too).
5. Pride – the pride of working in Yahoo! is always thr
6. Of course, the number of t-shirts they give
And out of context, photograph of my workplace:
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Right to Emergency care
Got this thru a forward. Not sure about the authenticity. But it is good to know about the right.
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