Archive for June, 2006

FIFA World cup 2006

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

The first round of the FIFA world cup 2006 football championships is over. Living in this football crazy nation (which is more than Indian’s obsession with Cricket, if that is possible), one could hardly ignore the greatest sporting spectacle, even if one wanted to. The pretenders have been shown the door and most of the fancied teams have [...]

Chennai Video

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

I uploaded my first Video in Youtube, what else but Chennai. A brief auto ride thru Greams Road

Weekend Movie marathon

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

After several weekends of travel, I spent this weekend mostly as a couch potato. Three movies and some football didnt make Jack a dull boy.
Parijatham (Tamil, directed by Bagyaraj): The master of screenplay is back, not quite with a bang but a little bit more than a whimper. Introducing his daughter Saranya as the heroine, [...]

HTML, CSS, PHP

Friday, June 16th, 2006

On a sudden whim and enticed by the ‘Categories’, I installed and moved my blog to Wordpress. Trying to edit the WP themes to fit in with rest of the website got me interested in style sheets (CSS). Subsequently, the whole web-site itself underwent a grand-redesign!! using CSS based styling and PHP (without much coding).
While I [...]

Google Earth

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

From the very first moment I saw, I was besotted. It was truly a ‘love at first sight’ story. I knew I will be addicted and prevention was the only cure. It is to the credit of my strong will power (???), that I could limit myself to just a few hours a month. The fact [...]

French Open 2006

Monday, June 12th, 2006

In all the hoopla about the biggest sporting spectacle on the planet, French Open 2006 seems to have been a little lost. As expected ,the two top clay court specialists won, Justine Henin a tad easier than Nadal.
Nadal, who would have had a fabulous Indian following if he had been able to make it to [...]