This week will be hectic, apologies are in order for people whom I might have missed as this is bit rushed.
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July 10, 2009 • 12:25 pm 0
Movies to watch
Sankat City – simply because of Anurag Kashyap’s push and overall PFC push (it better be good).
The other movie has to be kaminey ! – I have watched and loved all movies from Vishal Bharadwaj – he gets every genre done right. From makdee to maqbool – one of the finest works. Waiting for this one !
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• 12:07 pm 0
Arrogance of lobbyists, graft challenges at local level
Sometimes it does cease to surprise me how oil firms (nationalized – Indian, Chinese, Russian ) or the MNCs engaged/associated with Oil( Chevrons, Shells) behave when they need to cover up. The lobbyists everywhere feel they can wriggle out of the mess they create with penalties and stand up and commit them again. This arrogance comes since the feeling is folks are dependent on them. Can you imagine these kind of statements in this day from regular technology or other kind of firm? Can middle men be removed? Our own bofors scandal is still fresh.
The statement of Lobbyist for chevron - ‘We Can’t Let Little Countries Screw Around With Big Companies’. I am sure the local firm is equally responsible as this could not have gone on without graft at local level. But the lawyers and lobbyists reek of arrogance.
Filed under: Uncategorized , Amazon Chernobyl, Oil firms
June 26, 2009 • 12:29 pm 0
Movies – Mid year check
1. Waltz with Bashir
2. Tell no one
3. Frozen river
4. Paranoid park
5. The bank job(Escapist – ocean’s 15?)
6. In Bruge
7. There will be blood
8. No country for old men( little bit voilent compared to older movies from brothers, but still a notch above anything else)
9. To End all Wars (No movie conveys the utter disdain for war as tool of change – the suffering is this time for POWs )
10. Gone baby gone (Ben Afleck – the director — curiosity killed the …)
11. Michael Clayton ( finally clooney does himself a favor – wonderfully edited movie )
From Constant Tong (via fb connect – thanks buddy) – 25 July 2009
Frost/Nixon,
Defiance,
Curious case of Benjamin Button,
Revolutionary Road,
The Reader
Charlie Wilson’s War (from last year).
Chinese movie, Red Cliff
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June 25, 2009 • 7:45 am 0
Google Page speed on its own page
I had tried earlier YSlow/Firebug combined with other tools (jslint,jsmin-packer) successfully. I was keen to find out what Page Speed has to offer. I was surprised at level of details and new features – page speed activity, a request overview and it also tells you the improvements of implementing the suggested changes.
I then tried Page speed.
Page Speed results on page speed page
Improvement needed on their own website.
Update (08 July 2009) – Myspace has released performance tracker tool for IE.
Filed under: Uncategorized , Firebug, Google Page Speed, jslint, jsmin, yslow
April 26, 2009 • 2:52 pm 0
New crusaders at work ! Don’t disturb
Again – masses under influence of Buddhism are getting enlightened. How lucky they are to be liberated from their slumber and the culture. Centuries ago another religion did it under the influence of sword, other uses the latest techniques to compile the data , do targeted thoughts bombing by implying how they are inferior and not getting the benefits and how changing the garb will get them to the promised land. All the conservatives need not go far to think how people get “sanction” to execute x things based on certain book, it is present right inside their town looking for next target. Only now it is more sophisticated compared to the spanish work of god in americas.
The state machinery in Andhra pradesh is moving ahead to help the ministeries.
On other hand we have pseudo-secularists gunning for Varun. English channels/newspapers/liberal jnu alumni have lost the pulse of people on field. Agreed Varun was pre-pestarous, but how do the politicians apathetic to the bread and butter causes – bypass all that and raise something more raw. It is easier. Look at what Raj Thackrey gets – he was struggling to get candidates to fight from his party. That is how democracy works. If Varun was ignored – he would not have become phenomenon that he has. His 15 mins are more of us vs them (family matter) as he thinks he is the real inheritor of fire-brand father and dictator grand mother. Unfortunately now even Mayavati is afraid of the swing in that whole area.
Look up for your joe plumber guys, shh he does not reside in apartment with swimming pool, backup generator and does not have four wheeler of choice. He is the one who knows black and white, he might have suffered corruption, nepotism but hates the uncertainity of terrorism and cares for safety of family.
Filed under: Religion, Uncategorized , conversion, ministeries, politics, Religion Conversion, Varun Gandhi
April 1, 2009 • 3:02 am 0
Recipe for losing trust
A new online book vendor Pustak.co.in arrived and saved costs even by picking up review 
from Amazon.
It is great to pick up logistics, customer care, marketing and innovative use of IT from amazon, but please do not set an example of straight rip-off (or at the least provide acknowledgement and just become a amazon partner?)
Filed under: Uncategorized , amazon, Books, pustak.co.in
March 17, 2009 • 8:29 am 0
Nearly Trillion $ stimulus in picture
stimulus via washington post
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March 12, 2009 • 7:39 am 4
Important steps for property tax payment – Bangalore
January 20, 2009 • 7:17 am 2
New sounds of Oye Lucky Lucky Oye and Dev.D rock !
With brass band playing in background and singer rendering lyrics like “smoking .. smoking.., tragedy” – Dev. D takes you to land beyond johars/chopras/rahmans-suleiman/Vishal-Shekhar ’s politically correct suff. You know for sure you are in for different experience. Waiting for this one….
Oye Lucky Lucky Oye is step further in its wrapping of some of the original sounds – specially “Rajdulari ” tops the list. It is refreshing to know we are not mercy of sanitized, soul less sounds from Rahman(his slumdog compositions are sad ) and usual Bollywood fare. Kudos to Sneha Khanwalkar and Dibakar Banerjee for taking the risk.
Khan/Kapoor clan wakie! wakie!
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