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Pablo Villa’s post on noted film critic Roger Ebert’s journal seems straight from the heart.If you haven’t read that yet, here it is – Is that all you can do when somebody dies? Tweet? Considering a lot more people have carried similar…
This episode of Seinfeld (called The Pitch) was broadcast on September 16, 1992. Yes, as a Seinfeld fanatic, I sometimes remember such trivial details about my favorite episodes. I could find only the initial conversation between Jerry Seinfeld and George Costanza at…
Update: After posting this on Twitter, I have been asked a few things repeatedly. So, let me take the opportunity to share my thoughts on the most asked question – why this Kola…sorry, got carried away. The question was, why this cynicism?…
When Kolaveri went mega-viral, it was obvious that it would be followed by 2 or 3 more such ‘making-of’ videos shot in the studio with the hero and composer jamming ‘seemingly’ naturally. I was expecting it in Tamil, but it looks like…
Sometime back, venture capitalist Fred Wilson wrote a blog post (first this and then later, this one) on ‘The logged out user’. He goes on to explain the number of people who are logged out Twitter users and uses the famous ratio…
A few weeks back, I had to travel to Chennai for a day along with the family. Considering the fact that it takes more time from my home to airport, in Bangalore, than from Bangalore to Chennai (1.5 hours vs. 45 minutes!)…
Update (December 18, 2011): If you go by this report on Mid-Day, I suppose Sachin Gothi has some serious explanation to offer. ‘Accident’ tweet sends cops on wild goose chase. Original post: On November 12th night (or 13th early morning, to be…