Monthly Archives: November 2008

We don’t need Condemnation

Posted by toalakan-web on November 26, 2008 None comments

We Condemned assassination of Rajiv Gandhi 1991
We Condemned demolition of Babri Masjid 1992
We Condemned 1992 Mumbai riots
We Condemned 1993 Mumbai blasts
We Condemned 2001 Indian parliament attack
We Condemned 2002 Godhra train bombing
We Condemned 2003 Mumbai blasts
We Condemned 2006 Mumbai blasts
We Condemned so many blasts this year
We have Condemned Mumbai 2008 blasts as well.

We have Condemned all along and all the perpetrators who causes this incidents are still roaming around freely in this world.
I’m tired of Condemnation and as a Indian I Condemn the government for its inactions.

Ethanai Periya Manithanukku (Aasai Mugam)

Posted by toalakan-web on November 25, 2008 2 comments

A song that I have been murmuring,listening and viewing for the last 7 days.

Is it the lyrics or singer or just the MGR effect?

Tamil Nadu census site

Posted by toalakan-web on November 19, 2008 None comments

As usual I was browsing around and was surprised to find the Tamil Nadu census site online containing the most recent census data from 2001 with all kind of data like male,female,working,literates count etc with district,taluks,blocks based maps and charts.

Good to know Tamil Nadu has a 73.5% literacy rate.

It would be nice if they get some neat charts. I was able to find the Indian Census site but wasn’t able to view data since it requires a login created which is free. So if you got time and curious check it out.

Sabapathy one of a kind

Posted by toalakan-web on November 10, 2008 None comments

There are some movies that you can watch n number times because they are so well made and the plot of the movie still applies today. Sabapathy released in 1941 falls under that category and a precursor to all comedy movies in tamil.

Most of the new comedians mostly take a thread from this movie and repackage to the current trend. One simple example is the repackaging of the master servant switching places story one example I could remember right away is Ullathai alithaa which was big hit in 90′s.

Some other surprising things I noticed are:

  1. People bribed even before India got Independence and it was even shown in movies. So bribe was something that we had it not something we generated after independence. Still we haven’t fixed it thats the sad part. Almost 70 years of promises by politicians.
  2. Tanglish was born and brought up even before the Dravidian parties was formed and it flourished. E.g ‘ivan nusiance thanga mudiyala sir’,'vera enna seilam brother’,'brother ithalam ippadi vaika’. The percentage is still low but Tanglish had it roots long before.
  3. Sabapathy father complains about his son not knowing to right 2 pages in tamil and my dad shares the same feeling. View @ 19.00 Minutes in Video 1.

70 years of time has passed but people haven’t changed.

What ever may be this is one good movie that I can enjoy watching any time any where rather than watching the new ones.

Please watch the movie if you get a chance.

Man of simple words

Posted by toalakan-web on November 10, 2008 None comments

I was watching this movie Iru vallavargal which I watched assuming that the Paradee Kanney song was from this movie. Its a typical 60′s masala tamil movie which is way better than current masala movies.

But I was quite amazed with Kannadasan lyrics for the sad situation. Its just 4 lines and about 25 words but he brings in the whole concept of life in to that. These concepts,ideas and words all have been there for centuries but he some how gets all these in to those 4 lines which can be understood by any one.

Uravu Irunthal Pirivu Irukum Ulaga Neethe
Vaaravu irunthal Selavu irukum Valkai neethe
Pagal Irunthal Iravu irukum Iraivan Neethee
Palakiya Pin vilakuvathey Manitha Jathi.

Here is the translation for the above lyrics..correct me if I’m wrong.

If there is relation then there is separation thats Worlds rule.
If there is earning then there is Expense thats life’s rule.
If there is day then there is night thats gods rule.
same way Alienating after spending time with you is the Human Race.

I couldn’t find this song any where but if you would like to hear it then please go to the video here and move to 7.25 and you can hear Sirkali singing it a much better way.

How to get Exclusive online Indicators

Posted by toalakan-web on November 6, 2008 1 comments

Exclusive online indicators is one of the features that Yahoo messenger power users get which can be used to display those special status images in Web and Messenger. Since Yahoo power user is one of the top 5 search keyword that get users to my site I decided to reveal a simple to get the web Exclusive Online indicator.

The exclusive online indicators are just better images nothing more than that. The online status indicator was their with the old Yahoo profile which got removed with new beta profile and I initially thought they removed it to prevents bots from getting user id. But every ones surprise they just hide this feature under the carpet and re-marketed the same Indicator with new images as a special feature for power users. One good marketing strategy which created the buzz..

Well not to bore you here is the URL that you would have to change to get online status of a user.

http://presence.msg.yahoo.com/online?u=XYZ&m=g&t=14

Just pass the user id to the U query string and t is an integer (0 – 16) and viola you get the beautiful icons. If you have too much time then you can create your own icons and switch the image.

Well here is something people should know about this service. The service will return an online status for an user when

  1. User is online in any of the messenger.
  2. User is invisible to a particular user but visible to other users. Yes the stealth setting are not stealth enough its like covering an elephant head with a paper towel and leaving the other area open.

It returns the offline when users is offline or invisible for every one.

What do you call it..

Posted by toalakan-web on November 4, 2008 None comments

A wonderful tamil song in Veera Thirumagan which I have been looking around for a long time since I didn’t know the movie name.

One more song that I have been looking around for some time because of my poor knowledge in Hindi which basically leads me to search with wrong keywords.

Well Yet another master piece out here..

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