Munnabhai B.tech ..anyone?

3 Idiots is arguably the most awaited movie of the year. Ever since it was announced that Rajkumar Hirani and Aamir Khan were going to get together to make a movie on the education system,  the interest of every movie lover (including the author) was piqued. To start with, 3 Idiots is probably the most entertaining movie of the year. And that is saying something, specially in a year which has had a bunch of high profile duds. At the time of writing, according to some reports, the movie has already garnered close to 93 cr in the opening weekend itself. This is an all time high record for any Indian movie. Not that anyone had any doubts on whether the movie was going to recover money or make profits.

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Rock ON!

My engineering college had a rich tradition of cultural festivals and Rock music. ‘Horizons’ was our annual fest for which the entire college longed for and started working for from the around the middle of the year. Committees were formed, leaders elected, budgets drawn and plans drawn to organize an event which was grander than the previous year. Students worked feverishly as the days got closer, classes were bunked royally and studying became optional.

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Lalu’s solution for drought: Eat less – WTF!!

Finally we have a WTF statement from one of India’s finest comedians, Shri Lalu Prasad Yadav, former chief minister of Bihar, former husband of chief minister of Bihar ….oops..I’m sorry…husband of former chief minister of Bihar and former union railways minister. He has come up with this unique solution to avoid the impending food crisis due to a bad monsoon.

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Blogging tips from Amit Verma

Now Amit is one of the preeminent Indian bloggers with a loyal readership. He recently had his first novel published as well. The tips are many and one would have read them somewhere, but I thought it was a nice compilation of points to keep in your mind while writing.

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How To Split A Huge CSV Excel Workbook Into Separate Files

Linked from Makeuseof.com

How To Split A Huge CSV Excel Workbook Into Separate Files:
I recently started working with a company that does HUGE mailing lists. I deal with a lot of records everyday but this really is a lot of data.
They have an opt-in mailing list that they blast to once or twice a month. When I say huge I am talking about between 7 and 8 million email addresses.

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Excel Tips

This is kind of a ready reckoner for myself and hopefully useful to anyone who visits this blog. There are so many tips and tricks to achieve some not so easy tasks in excel. Over a period of time one gains sufficient experience and learns how to get some stuff done.

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MonaLisa in MS Paint

I’m sure many of you must have already seen these video, but this is the first time I saw it and was stunned beyond words. As if creating something so brilliant with a mouse itself is not amazing enough(though I have a feeling the artist used a tablet), the whole thing was done using Microsoft’s much maligned and abused MS Paint.

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Google fusion tables: is it from Gapminder?

Quite some time back, I had come across this talk by Hans Rosling at ted.com. Ted is one site, which I frequently visit to listen to great speakers, tech leaders and futuristic ideas. Hans is a Swedish professor, who built a tool to present data in a visual format using multiple dimensions rather than the usual 2 dimensional graphs.

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How to make $37mn: the #squarespace way

If you saw your twitter account today, you might have noticed a bunch of posts with ‘#squarespaces’ tag in them. Some of the tweets were totally irrelevant, while others at least bothered to enlightened you to squarespace.com which is giving out free Iphone 3GS it seems.

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Iphone 3GS: What is the fuss all about?

Apple launched the new Iphone 3gs at the WWDC today. Rumors had been circulating around the tech world over what are the features that the new Iphone will carry. Some of the rumors and leaked pics actually turned out to be true. As was expected, the new iphone carries a new 3.0 mp camera, with VGA shooting video support.

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3 Reasons why Bing won’t become another Cuil

So Microsoft has launched Bing after months of secrecy and hype. Is it just another over hyped Cuil? In case you forgot, Cuil was supposed to be the big Google killer created by ex-googlers themselves. My belief is that Microsoft has played a good hand and Bing is here to stay. Here are my reasons:

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Microsoft opens Bing travel: looks Kayakish

Bing.com’s long promised travel search launched today over here. At first sight it looks a lot like Kayak’s interface. But that is not to say that it isn’t good. Copying isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Bing has put into use the Farecast feature as well which lets you know if the price is expected to go up or not with a tip similar to stock buying. Maybe someone could start an Ebay.com for flight tickets and start options trading on them. Ideas… Ideas…

Technorati Tags: Bing.com,Microsoft,kayak,farecast

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All about profile pics.... Enough said!!

Didn't I just say! "All about profile pics.... Enough said!!". Its just awesome, covers all the possible combinations. Hilarious

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Naan Kadavul!! Disturbing

Caught Naan Kadavul yesterday finally after a long long wait. Bala has always been known to explore the fringe elements and potray the stark reality in them. Naan Kadavul is no different. Its hard hitting to say the least. But there were a few flaws. A detailed review will come soon

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Got a new phone: nokia 5800

I finally managed to order a nokia 5800 after days of pondering whether to buy it or not. I suffer from compulsive buyer’s remorse disorder. This manifests itself in the way that I keep searching and analyzing before buying anything. For eg. when I decided that I had to get a smartphone, the process became one long time wasting avenue.

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Appam C Proves he's an Idiot!

Appam Chuthiya(name made famous by Fakeiplplayer) hurled a few abuses to Hayden after the latter smashed him for 3 sixes in one over. Appam wanted to let him know that he had the last laugh. But the whole of India was laughing at him. Hayden didn't bother though, neither did Dhoni on the other side. Chennai won the match eventually by 12 runs. Maybe if Appam had given 2 less sixes away, his side might have won.

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IPL matches live

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My First Comic Strip

Check out this site : stripgenerator.com
You can create your own comic strips for fun and its easy to embed them in your blog as well. I created a sample strip in 10 minutes. Check it out

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Grand Canyon Panaromic

This is a video I took at the Grand Canyon. I did some editing on Win Movie maker. Suddenly the director in me has got awake and wants to script a full fledged movie. Ok! That might more difficult than any of my other daydreams. But here's what I could do: write a script with all the weirdo characters in my mind and then put it out. A script is after all half the movie. So I at least can claim to be half a movie maker. In the meanwhile, will keep playing with the camera to make small fun videos(no porn!).



Grand Canyon Panoramic from Vinod Iyengar on Vimeo.

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Maqbool Fida Husain ... take 2...eh?

Weekend saw me bring out my painting skills. I first got a painting booklet and some tubes and brushes from walmart to start with my new vanity hobby. I couldn't find a palette at walmart so had to use a makeshift one using a polished wooden board. With all the equipments set up I started on the mission to create my Mona Lisa. So how did it turn out ?

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Boosting your willpower

Check out this article on NY times. What is basically involves is doing routine things in a different manner. For eg. brushing your teeth with the wrong hand, stirring your coffee with wrong hand and in reverse direction and so on. Good fun to keep oneself motivated. As long as they don't hurt :)

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