Maiden Maiden
In more music news, Iron Maiden will be performing live for the first time in Bangalore. That is one of the best pieces of news I have heard in a long time! Sure as hell I am going to be there so that even I can tell my kids and grandkids that I watched Iron Maiden live! :D The concert is on the 17th of March 2007 at the Bangalore palace grounds. Be there or you’ll be sorry!
Audioslave break up
I feel sad. Chris Cornell, the fomer lead vocalist of Soundgarden is now the former lead vocalist of broken up Audioslave! I am disappointed and sad. I think they made some brilliant music and were a great band.
I love the song “Like a Stone” which is one of my favorites!
There are also rumors that the rest of Audioslave who were all part of the now broken Rage Against the Machine(RATM) might team up with RATM frontman Zack de la Rocha for a one off concert later this year. And that might be the precursor to the reformation of the highly successful band.
But I think that does not compensate for Audioslave breaking up :(
Bloody hell
OS on desktop crashed. Deleted wrong partition by mistake! Lost 95% of my comics! Approximately 100+ GB
Pissed like hell. Wish there was someone I could blame this on!
Fuck! I want to break something! Got to get away from the laptop.
Edit: Apparently the OS install somehow managed to wipe out the entire 160 GB Hdd which also had my Dad’s important data. I realised it just before I was about to fall asleep. That managed to drive all sleep away. Thankfully in the morning he told me that he has a backup of his most important stuff. I’m happy to be alive! ::Rueful smile::
Fire over water
The cauvery tribunal has released it’s verdict over the sharing of the water from the Cauvery River between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. This has been one of the most contentious issues between these two states, to the extent of causing extensive riots in Bangalore in 1991 and 1992. The previous order given by the tribunal was under appeal by Karnataka and it’s the tribunal issued it’s verdict today.
In it’s verdict, the tribunal has ordered Karnataka to release 419 TMCft to Tamil Nadu while Karnataka being allowed to keep up 270 TMCft. This is much lower than what Karnataka demanded and it is being said that Karnataka has received a raw deal.
As a result, riots are again expected to break out in Bangalore. Most schools and colleges have closed early and most shops are closed as well. Even we were given an early leave at work with most other IT companies asking their employees to leave early.
More information about the Tribunal’s decision at Cnn IBN.
New Year – New look
I try to update the look of my blog fairly regularly (atleast more than my posting :D ). So with the new year, I decided that I needed a new theme, a new look for my blog AND a new name (the first change in my 4 years of blogging).
I’ve always thought that Red contrasts very well with both White and Black. So this time I was looking for a theme with atleast a splash of red. But what I found exceeded my expectations. Based on the wildly popular Hemingway theme, I now present Dawn. A stunning red and black theme by Milo and some beautiful and original artwork by Milo.
I have modified the theme to suit my needs and to show my Zooomr photos and also to fix a couple of bugs which Milo very patiently went through with me to correct. I am extremely grateful for her help.
And yes, I know that the new year was over a month ago but it was not long ago that I found the theme I really liked enough to switch. So here it is :)
Shahrukh Khan in KBC
Just watched a couple of minutes of the latest version of KBC hosted by Shahrukh Khan. Is it only me who feels that he tries just too hard to emulate and outright copy Amitabh Bachhan. While I am not a fan of KBC I do think that Amitabh changed the landscape of television show hosting with his brilliant and touching hosting of the show!
Now Shahrukh wants to emulate that popularity and in that trial, is literally imitating Amitabh’s style but quite ineffectively
Main public se nahi darta, Main khud public hoon
Watch Guru. It’s brilliant. Period!
Might review but I doubt I can do it justice.
Ps. The title means: “I don’t fear the Public, I am the Public”
Thus speaketh