Vaaranam aayiram and Ghajini

Two hit movies of Actor Surya. Two totally different characterisations of the lead character. Two different contexts.   But I find one thing common in both. Heroine who goes dead in the first half of the movie. And what the protagonist does in response to this death forms the rest of the story. 

I hope Surya doesnt get typecast into similar plots. 

Templates

Blogger templates are getting more and more addictive by the day. Going to try out few more very soon. Do check back to enjoy the new look(s).

Favicon! Yippee!!

Wheeeeee!!!!! I successfully managed to add a favicon to my blog!!! I did it! I did it! I did it! I am very happy and excited too.

So the next time anyone opens my blog in firefox(works in chrome too, i guess), you can see a small green car next to my blog's url in the address bar. Yeah thats my favicon, its green(my fav color) and its a Volkwagon mini (one of my fav cars), and I call it "Herbie"!! :D

And I want to share that excitement with you!!

New Look :)

I have successfully explored and changed the look of my blog!! Hurrah!

I am impressed with myself.

Professor Lewin

People who have gone through four wonderful years studying under the Anna University, particularly in the self financing colleges will be familiar with the feeling of latent irritation that one goes through when one attends a class hour.  

But all teachers are not as bad or irritating.  Professor Walter Lewin used to teach physics at MIT,USA(I'm not 100 percent sure if he does even now).  His classes will first seem crazy, but at the end of the session, you can actually walk out of class and say "I did grasp something today".  

I have not attended any of these classes in person, but THANKS to MIT's open courseware and youtube, I have been able to view recorded videos of his sessions. 

Here is a video you must watch... These girls here are singing a song for their professor(Prof Lewin) pleading him to pass them in a test.

Watch and enjoy....

Keeping tab on too many things!!!

I have been working on a small project for over a month now and that has led me to browse the internet more than ever. Consequence: Numerous tabs running on a browser window, with all of them seeming to be important...

And today has been the crowning glory!! Right now I have some 29 tabs open over four browser windows!!!

Crazy me!

Virtual Tutors

I was stuck at one point today in my work, and I had lost all hopes of finishing that part of the code today. And that was when I found this person Mr. Peter Lavin on the internet who had put up this one line in his article

eval('$newarray = ' . var_export($array, true) . ';');

This one line really opened up things for me, and if all goes well I can finish all that I have set myself to do!!! Yippee!!
Here is the link to that page, for those of you looking for help:
http://hades.phparch.com/ceres/public/article/index.php/art::php5::magic_set_state_method

And hats off to all those people who make it a point to share their working knowledge by way of tutorials!!!!