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Protecting original content online

Pri — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:01:19 +0000

After doing quite some research online today, I’ve settled on myows.com to get certification for original content (poetry, articles etc.). In addition I will follow some tips from the following articles:

How To Protect Your Blog From Content Thieves

Catching Copycats: Protecting Your Online Content

I hope this info is useful for Pi and Kitts in protecting their short stories and photography respectively. GG, have you been writing any poetry that you’d like to publish online? I’m going to create a section for that on this blog. I’ve finally decided to come out of my shell and publish some.

Alaska Trip – Denali National Park, Seward

Pri — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:14:12 +0000

July 1, 2009 – July 7, 2009

Landed in Anchorage on July 1, ~11:35pm. We booked our tickets using Northwest miles and got first class on the forward journey. The first class lounge experience was ordinary; they didn’t have a vegetarian meal for us (the ticket said
“NONE” for meal service or we’d have specified our choice in advance). We just had salad, drank a lot a lot of diet cola and ate some chips. It was good to get their DigEPlayer though I have to say the screen is pretty small and unclear. We both watched “Quantum of Solace” on our individual DigEs. It’s not better than a laptop but the advantage was not having to worry about battery power or carrying DVDs. I also watched an episode of Bones once that was through. R watched best of 2008 Ads or something. I sat in the aisle seat because of my current claustrophobia issues. R enjoyed the window seat…great views of Portland and then Alaska itself. The other advantage was that it never got dark since we were traveling north at this time of year.

Michael Jackson

Pri — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:53:03 +0000

Well, I thought this at least deserved a blog entry. Kind of sad, eh? 50 is quite young to die. Also makes you think how fragile life is. If they can’t revive someone like that, there’s little hope for the … Continue reading →

Happy B’day Pi

Pri — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:42:01 +0000

Happy Birthday to Pi. Here’s the best gift I could come up with in 10 minutes

There once was a girl named Payal
whose iPhone refused to dial
she tried and she tried
but her calls were denied
because Apple ended her free trial

Tiny relics of the past.

Pri — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:33:00 +0000

I was just going through some stuff and came across this:

This is the first toolkit (if I can call it that) that I bought. Coming back from Mayo, it was purchased at Midway circa 1990. Imagine how long it has been with me. What other things do people have that they are carrying around? Probably went to their drawer when leaving home and those little things are still tucked away in a drawer somewhere?

-AJ

Happy Diwali

Pri — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:26:00 +0000

So proud that Yahoo! is celebrating Diwali on their home page:

No wishes from google though. Why doesn’t Diwali make their list? Next time they mark an occasion I will be sure to compare its significance to Diwali

Harriet Who ?

Pri — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:51:00 +0000

So.. I was watching this movie Atonement. (A good movie), and I went to IMDB to look into something and there was this name: Harriet Walter. Immediately, some bulb went off in my head, and I remembered Harriet Vane – Harriet Walter. Here is a link to do the same to your memories : http://www.geocities.com/gregorym101/bbcwimsey_tv_peth.html

Enjoy your trip down memory lane.

The Romani connection

Pri — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:54:01 +0000

Another movie we watched recently was “Time of the Gypsies”. This one’s a Yugoslavian movie based on the gypsies or romanis as they are also called. What amazed me was how much some of their words sounded like Hindi. It was hard to identify most of the words within the sentences but every now and then there’d be a distinct one between long enough pauses and the subtitle confirmed the meaning to be the same as my mind expected. For example, their counting went yek, dui, trin, something, pansh…and then their was a time where a girl said something very similar to “aank, muh, naak, sab” and the subtitle read “eyes, mouth, nose, everything”. There were also other words that I no longer remember.

At first, I thought the connection might be through Urdu. But my interest was piqued, so I searched and learned of their connection to the Indian people; relearned actually, since I now remember having discovered this earlier in relation to some genealogy reading I was doing at the time when I participated in the National Geographic Genographic project. Only this time it made more of an impression on me because I just wasn’t expecting a Hindi connection in a Yugoslavian movie. And Romani didn’t sound anything like a Latin derivative which we’ve long known to have connections with Sanskrit.

Here’s an interesting link about the language connection: http://www.journeyfolki.org.uk/HistoryCulture/HistoryLanguage/tabid/681/Default.aspx?PageContentMode=1 and another about the genealogical one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people

Movies and music

Pri — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:45:00 +0000

You knew this was coming if you saw my facebook status. I mean, if something can move me enough to make it worthy of a facebook update, I owe it at least a blog entry. Here’s the background—Da and I are taking this evening course on International Films, where we are learning about Cinematic Storytelling techniques (based on a book of the same name by Jennifer Van Sijll). Interesting course and you’ll soon see a couple of our movie analyses up on this site.

These movies obviously have excellent soundtracks and one such movie we saw was “All About My Mother” (Originally Todo sobre mi madre) by Pedro Almod?var. You know, one of those, where the music constantly gives you goosebumps then continues to play in your head a couple days later.

So, I finally looked up the soundtrack for the movie and discovered the music of, appararently, a very famous African musician, Ismael Lo. Yea, a few months from now I might wonder how he was so obscure to me. Have a listen to one of the songs from the movie and see if it casts a spell on you too: http://www.last.fm/music/Ismael+Lo/_/Tajabone?autostart.

Happy 30th

Pri — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:00:00 +0000

Yo dude, here’s an attempt at summarizing your last 30 years…at least pi should enjoy it

Nickname progression: bhai, tai, taklu, takku, kattu, kittu, cat, kitty

The Toddler:
A cute li’l boy with a big grin and enthusiasm for life

Hobbies: keyboard, reading, cartoons (Tom and Jerry of course), jokes

favorite jokes:

child: mummy doodh peena hai
mom: beta doodh to fat gaya
child: to sil do

Dronacharya ne eklavya se manga tha ek angootha,
Maang lete do pair, saath do chappal milti, aha, saath do joote milte.

Bharat mein jo bhi marein sabhi swarg ko jaayein,
jaane ye nark kyon vidhi ne diya banaye, wahan kya bhains bandehgi aha, wahan kya bhains bandhegi?

Poetry dedicated to him: “door se dekha to tinka pada tha, paas jake dekha to bhai khada tha” and the likes

Poetry (written): To be added

The Teenager:
The cuteness fades and out comes a boy with mayhem on his mind

Crush: Aishwarya Rai (I roll my eyes as I type)

Hobbies: keyboard, cars, music – A. R. Rehman genre

The Tweenie:

Little is known about the early to mid years of this phase. A more troubled and troublesome soul I haven’t met!

GTG…people, add your comments and I’ll compile them into the entry.