Archive for September, 2005

Adoor Gopalakrishnan gets Dadasaheb Phalke

Of course, Adoor Gopalakrishnan deserves Dadasaheb Phalke award and the award also deserves him. Congrats to him!

I have seen only one of his nine movies, Nizhal Kuthu (Shadow Kill) and I was thoroughly impressed, to say the least.

Want to impress girls? Get worthless gifts

Isn’t it always a mystery to understand girls and to know what really attracts them? Now there is some trace of light in the path. New Scientist reports that worthless gifts attract girls a lot and scientists have proved it using mathematical modelling.

So to attract girls, don’t try to gift something “useful”. Make sure its useless.

Vint Cerf in Google!

If you are in networking field, you obiously must know about Vint Cerf - the father of Internet who developed the TCP/IP protocol suite with Bob Kahn (recollect Kahn’s algorithm?)

Google is lucky these days with a lot of great guys jumping in. The news now is that Vint Cerf has joined Google as Chief Internet Evangelist! Thats indeed a curious title for him :-)