Views, News and Cheers!
Watching Shahrukh during the Filmfare awards show last night was both a pleasure and surprise. Good to see him saying that Amithabh is the undoubted Baadshah of Bollywood and Hrithik is the one who has the potential to be the best. He surprised me (and many I guess) to acknowledge the potential of two of his biggest competers. He handled the show very well.
Quoting Scott from this article:
He routinely cites the tech giant’s origins as a startup formed by a group of Stanford and University of California-Berkeley students who early on had to decide what to call their company.
“The big decision was to call it Stanford University Network or Berkeley University Network, and ‘Sun’ won over ‘Bun,’?” he quipped. “We’ve always been looking to pay back, share back, if you will.”
That means, I could have been working for a company called Bun Microsystems!
Telugu Cinema Vajrotsavalu, the 75 year celebrations of Telugu Movie Industry, might have ended on a sour note, but I liked a couple of programs very well. Here they are, on YouTube.
Note: Unless you know Telugu well and you are a telugu film frequenter, you may find them boring.
Yesterday, while boarding my train to Bangalore, saw The Hyderabad Mirror, a telugu afternoon daily. Has all the ingredients needed for an afternoon news paper: Flash News, local movies, hotel info, yada, yada. DeviPriya, who had pivotal roles in other telugu news papers in the past, is the editor-founder of this paper. I liked the content of yesterday’s paper. Hope they continue the same quality going forward.
Note: Google couldn’t find their website, means they don’t have one yet.
The changing ways of News Gathering and Entertainment in the network and participation age: Read more about it from Sun’s Big MashUp news release. How is it relavant to our daily life?
Contrary to the word-of-mouth publicity during my college days, my Telugu movie choices are now influenced heavily by online reviews on sites like IdleBrain.
In the last week or so, India’s well known movie producing house, Rajsri, has introduced an online entertainment portal which promises simultaneous web release of future movies along with the theatrical releases. People can view movies that are in Free, Paid and OnDemad categories.
I was preparing a preso on Solaris Kernel Slab allocator at 11.00pm in the night, and my cell phone buzzed. Its Kalyan Moharla, calling to inform that he received a parcel of Haleem from Pista House, Hyderabad, delivered at his door steps in Bangalore. He invited me for sharing the dish and I was more than happy to drive to his place to get the taste of this great dish. The dish costed him 140 Rupees and the delivery charges are 160 Rupees! But the good thing is, he got it delivered all the way from Hyderabad, which is about 700 kilometers away! Looks like the dish gets transported to Bangalore by the 7.00pm flight from Hyderabad.
After a serving of Haleem and a large glass of accompanying Thums-Up, it is good time to come back to work and blog about it!