We (as in the Jain community in Bangalore) have recently constructed a new temple. Whenever a new temple is constructed, to ordain the “building” as a temple, a series of Poojas have to be performed. These take about 5-6 days and this will happen starting this weekend on the 3rd. In addition to this, there [...]
Entries from May 30th, 2006
Atheism – Pseudo
May 30th, 2006 3 Comments
Tags: atheist · bangalore · jainism · jain_community · new_temple · religion
Blog Redesign
May 28th, 2006 7 Comments
Feeling: content Listening to: My system’s hum Watching: Monaco Formula 1I’ve been working on a redesign, a new theme for my blog for a couple of days now. It’s a nice dark and green theme based on the Foliage Mod by 5thirtyone designs. Though it’s mostly the same as the original, I’ve made a few changes and modifications, a few [...]
Skeletor and Hordak: Partners in Crime
May 20th, 2006 2 Comments
Feeling: detached Listening to: 3 Doors down – Away from the SunThe Skeletor and Hordak community on Livejornal.com has to be one of the funniest nonprofessional (not to be confused with unprofessional)comics I’ve read in quite sometime. Since Skeletor is in the public domain, anyone can create a strip on him and post it there. From the past [...]
Tags: comic · crime · he-man · hordak · LiveJournal · skeletor
Dani California – RHCP
May 19th, 2006 33 Comments
Dani California is the latest single from Red Hot Chilli Peppers and is also a part of their latest album, Stadium Arcadium. The music is typical RHCP but it’s the video which is very different. In this, they have, in their way, paid homage (parodied ?) to the best rock bands from the sixties. I [...]
Tags: band · dani california · Music · rhcp · video
How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a life – A Review
May 15th, 2006 2 Comments
Feeling: sleepy Listening to: Eminem – Big WeenieAnd how Kavya Viswanathan got busted and got dissed (lol could not resist that ) Oh well, when I’d first seen the book, just as it was released, I thought it seemed like a pretty neat book. I mean a good idea, probably well written and a good storyline. But I [...]
Tags: book · indians · Kavya-Viswanathan · Opal-Mehta · plagiarism · Review · scandal
Reparations!
May 15th, 2006 8 Comments
Feeling: thoughtful Listening to: The Doors – Roadhouse Blues Watching: The New GuyReparatios: 1. The act of putting something in working order again 2. Something done or paid in expiation of a wrong
Tags: actions · concern · forgiveness · Friends · reparations
Google Analytics Invite
May 12th, 2006 7 Comments
I have about 2, maybe 3 Google Analytics invite code available. I had signed up with a couple of email id’s since I wanted to try it out desperately at the time. Having got one a few weeks back, I got a few more yesterday which I have no use for. So I can hand [...]
Tags: analytics · google · google-analytics · invitation · invite
Microsoft purchasing part of Yahoo?
May 3rd, 2006 2 Comments
Feeling: pensive Listening to: Creed – HigherCan and is Microsoft planning purchase a part of Yahoo!? Cnn Money seems to think so. Everyone knows that Microsoft is running scared of Google‘s advancement in search and online advertising marketshare and the way it has leaped clear over everyone else. Microsoft’s own search engine, MSN is lagging quite a bit [...]
Tags: decade · gmail · google · hotmail · marketshare · microsoft · msn · online_advertising · partnership · rival · running_scared · search_engine