Shanker Balan's Journal

Date:	2008-04-21 13:10
Subject:	'Wanderlust' in 3-D
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Bjork's videos are always cool. The new one even more so.

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2008/04/bjork_wanderlust_3d_video

Date:	2008-04-14 18:32
Subject:	Happy Vishu
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Vishu special http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasathanthram on Asianet today. I reached home early to catch this movie. Apparantly, its the biggest hit in malayalam cinema. I dont expect it to be anything like the old Sathyan Anthikad stuff, but should be better than the recent mallu fare.

Saw Katha parayumpol at PVR last evening, pretty Ok stuff from Sreenivasan. He usually does something more satirical.

Date:	2008-02-19 14:21
Subject:	Knight Rider returns?
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Music:	John Digweed Essential Mix 2007-10-13

Knight Rider 2008 anyone?

http://www.newtorrents.info/torrent/36901/Knight.Rider.2008.Pilot.720p.HDTV.X264-DIMENSION.html

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Date:	2008-02-17 22:07
Subject:	DJ Tiesto Missed Bangalore
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Music:	Pryda - Ironman

Thanks to the brilliant ban on dancing, Bangalore missed out on DJ Tiesto. Suxor.

http://www.submerge.in/bulletin/showthread.php?t=4370

Date:	2008-02-13 16:01
Subject:	Consolidating IM contact lists
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My IM group called "Ex-$employer" just grew 10x today.

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Date:	2008-01-22 19:37
Subject:	Daily Mallu Movies on Kiran TV
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Kiran TV seems to be running Malayalam movies everyday at around 1930 IST. Whee! :)

Date:	2008-01-11 21:15
Subject:	Getting burnt quick...
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Lately, I have been getting completely burnt out after my oncall shifts. Oncall is for a week where for 8 hours I am the primary contact for everything that goes wrong at work. There have been periods when I have for weeks been doing this sort of thing without feeling pooped out. But not lately.

I have had two red bulls today and am still feeling tired. Lack of Oxygen maybe? Hmm...

Date:	2008-01-09 21:03
Subject:	Doctor Who
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Once in a while a fun sci-fi series comes this way... this time its a very old cult classic called Doctor Who. BBC Entertainment, 2030 IST.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who

Date:	2008-01-05 13:43
Subject:	Saw II
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Saw II played on Star Movies last night, not anywhere as gripping as the first one. For once I slept off by 2230 just by watching the Telly.

Date:	2008-01-05 13:40
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Nice little new year's eve live mix from The Crystal Method from Ruby Skye, San Francisco . Went there twice when I visited Snv earlier this year - fantastic sound.

http://www.newmixes.com/crystal_method-live_at_ruby_skye_nye-sat-01-01-2008.html

Date:	2007-12-26 16:43
Subject:	We are going to Ibiza^W... Err Goa!!!
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Toothbrush... check
Shorts and Ts... check
Flight Tickets... check
Sunburn Tickets... check
Cap... check
Camera... check
Sunblock... todo

Will be in Goa from the 27th to the 1st. 28th/29th at Sunburn and the rest TBD. W00t!

Date:	2007-11-28 01:54
Subject:	From Weird to Bizarre!!!
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If Twin Peaks wasn't not enough, do watch Eraserhead. Do all of David Lynch's movies need a guide book to understand??? Mulholland Drive, Twin Peaks and now this flick. I have taken vacation leave till the end of next week to work on foss.in/2007, so ample time to watch more bizarre stuff this week.

Date:	2007-11-24 22:30
Subject:	Twin Peaks!
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Twin Peaks!!! What the heck is the movie about???

Date:	2007-11-19 13:55
Subject:	MIDIval Punditz live sets
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Where art thou?

http://www.sixdegreesrecords.com/artists.php?artist=MIDIval_PunditZ

Date:	2007-11-17 20:30
Subject:	Above And Beyond In Goa!!!
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So it was really true. I booked my Tickets for Above And Beyond... Woohoo!

http://www.sunburn-festival.com/profiles/

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Date:	2007-01-21 22:30
Subject:	Take The Tata Sky Survey
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The students of PGSEM at IIMB are conducting a survey on TataSky - Its marketing, service quality etc. Head to http://www.advancedsurvey.com/default.asp

When you arrive at the Advanced Survey homepage, Type in survey number 48002 in the "Take A Survey" box.

Date:	2007-01-15 16:03
Subject:	BSD is dying!!!
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Music:	Jody Wisternoff - Late December 2006 Way Out There (2006-12-28)

My $100 donation courtesy my employer just went to the FreeBSD foundation.

http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/

Date:	2007-01-02 16:16
Subject:	Tata Sky Outage?
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Music:	Trentemoller - Essential Mix 2006-10-15

Apparently Tata Sky is down right now.

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Date:	2006-12-29 18:23
Subject:	The Top 10 Tourist Spots In India
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For once I can say been there done that! Haridwar/Rishikesh was the only place that I enjoyed being during my trip to the north early December. The white water rafting from Shivpuri to Rishikesh is so good that I did it twice.

http://specials.rediff.com/yearend/2006/dec/22yrsl8.htm