AR Rahman, the Legend

Music director A.R. Rahman has won a Golden Globe award in the Best Original Score category for his music in British director Danny Boyle’s uplifting underdog tale, Slumdog Millionaire!

Satyam Saga

Ramalinga Raju is the Founder and Chairman of Satyam Computer Services Ltd. Satyam Computer Services was incorporated in 1987. It went public in 1992 and has since grown to become one of India's preeminent IT companies with a global presence, serving over 144 Fortune 500 and over 390 multinational corporations. Raju has an MBA from Ohio University. He is also an alumnus of the Harvard Business School. Raju has won several awards and global accolades, which include Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for Services in 1999, Dataquest IT Man of the Year in 2000, and CNBC’s Asian Business Leader - Corporate Citizen of the Year award in 2002.

Its a pity, he could have not done that :( Even the Sensex lost around 1000 points.

Let 2009 be a Bull Market

Hope this year be good for us and the share market. While we cant expect a V-shape rally though, but it can make sustainable gains.

Happy New Year 2009

Image from ICICI Lombards' Ad for Paperless INSURANCE renewal.

George Bush Shoe Jokes

Last week George Bush was shoe attacked. Lot of Jokes started Flushing in...

George Bush Shoe Attacked

Clicking the below image opens a new page - which loads the Shoe-ing as a movie.

 [BBC :  Bush shoe-ing worst Arab insult]

Ten Reasons the George Bush Shoe Attack Was Completely Awesome

 1. Because before the shoe was even thrown by Iraqi reporter Muntadar al-Zaidi, George Bush went in for a straight-on fraternity-style handshake with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki.
2. Because shoe-throwing (along with calling someone a dog, which al-Zaidi also did) is one of the most offensive insults an Iraqi Arab can hurl. After the fall of Baghdad, the United States government made much ado about those seemingly trumped-up videos of children throwing shoes at the fallen statue of Saddam Hussein. It's not awesome to see our president attacked, but it does neatly complete the circle, doesn't it?
3. Because al-Maliki totally tried to deflect the second shoe.
4. But he didn't try that hard.
5. Because George Bush was kind of laughing throughout the whole thing.
6. Because the other Iraqi reporters immediately jumped in to stop the shoe attacks.
7. But the Secret Service took their sweet, sweet time to take the guy down.
8. And let's be honest, the reporters around al-Zaidi who reacted the quickest were mostly just taking pictures.
9. Because nothing politically funny ever happens over the weekend now that the election is over (we're looking at you, Saturday Night Live).
10. Because whatever you think of George Bush, he ducked those shoes like a frigging Japanese game-show contestant. No other world leader could have dealt with that situation with the same humor and quick reflexes. We're legitimately impressed.

Flash based game :

Movies in your City from Google

After Vasanth, its my time to get amused by Google.
Searched for Movies in Madras, it just showed me. Even for Tiruppur, Salem, Madurai... the list goes on.

Ramp Up your skills

Ramp up your skills.

Ramp Up is a free, online, community-based learning program, with a number of different tracks that will help you build your portfolio of professional development skills. Ramp Up has a solid foundation of premium technical content from subject-matter gurus, and provides easy-to-access content in a variety of forms that guide you in learning the important skills. Join Ramp Up (it's free!) and help advance your career - click on a track now to start!

Microsoft / MSDN Team has come up with this great initiative. Even though there are lot of tools and training materials available, this look different, as it shows what to learn first, how to start. Yes, Sharepoint is also...available.....

Also there is something new for the beginners.... Microsoft Startup Zone... 

Thanks to Mr Soma and team.

Obama ki Jai

Barak Obama wins the US Presidential election 2008. As promised, hope he wont spend much on Nuclear / Arms!!

Update : Obama collection.

Subprime Mortgage Crisis

Reason for the current financial crunch

As many of us know the reason, still lot more people didn't understand why exactly this financial crunch the so called "Subprime Mortgage Crisis" happened. Also, we can take it like, every decade something will come to affect the market.

Found a good article and something more in the Wikipedia.

Also I got a forwarded mail from my friend Gunasekaran who runs a website called Thamizh Studio. Forward is a PDF document in Tamil which explains the financial crunch in a funny colloquial language. But its too hard in supporting communism and offending the current Indian governments' financial policies which I don't support.