Everthing is logic. the rest is Magic.

I have been a regular visitor of IMDB for over three years,and as far as I can remember, Godfather ruled the charts.But there is this new upstart called The Dark Knight,a Batman movie that has made a stellar climb to the top of the chart.Running in theatres for just 4 days it has managed to garner 23 thousand-odd votes and get a whooping score of 9.5! But,as I have pointed out to my friends,I will wait for another 3 weeks and see whether it has maintained that top position.Things including opinions can change.

I wrote something about a funny program yesterday,and the program sent by friend Sriram was nevertheless good,but I would say it lacked efficiency.So I thought of a way the computer would be made to do less calculations and improve the speed;my idea was to reduce the number of iterations by avoiding the procedure of checking each and every four digit number for the condition.Instead the program could check if the second digit was greater than the first,then only move on.Likewise using nested for loops the program's efficiency could be improved.Here's the program I wrote:

#include
#include

void main()
{
int n1,n2,n3,n4,count=0;
clrscr();
for(n1=1;n1<=9;n1++)
for(n2=(n1+1);n2<=9;n2++)
for(n3=0;n3
for(n4=(n3+1);n4<=9;n4++)
{printf("%d%d%d%d\n",n1,n2,n3,n4);count++;}
printf("Count = %d",count);
getch();
}

Ahem!

I have been attending C# classes for a week now..The class hasn't come to the part where the language displays its advancements from its predecessors.Till now we have been learning the C# counterparts of classes,print statements,etc.So you can say it's no too interesting at the moment thought I am sure it will be in another couple of weeks(but there's another reason why I never miss class :-D ) Anyway,I thought of a program while I was in class-a simple one rather,but my point was that the program should be efficiently done as possible.The program should print all four digit numbers whose second digit was greater than the first and third digits;the fourth digit should be greater than the third.My bud Sriram wrote the program.You can check it out here.

I have finally decided to get a new mp3 player;I amreally starting to miss those days when I used to spend time on my terrace whilst listening to songs of all genres in my Transcend.I only know too well how often I wonder about life and its problems and how unwinding on the terrace can help me sort it all out.Coming back to topic,I have opted for the Sandisk Sansa Fuze over the iPod(though nothing personal against the latter).It costs around Rs.4.5k.Check here for a good review.

Look what I did.I hacked into the Microsoft website.Need evidence? Check out the link at the bottom of this post and you can see I left my signature in one of the site's pages.In case you are interested on how I went about the process,I would be quite happy to tell you but only in the case you are a person who is well versed in Pearl and .Net. ;)
Here's the page I hacked into:

Link

Here's a little puzzle I got for you.If you are familiar with lines and shapes you can easily solve this.Geometry has always fascinated ever since it was introduced in my grade 5.This should be a cinch if you are good with geometry,and have some ability to visualise.
Here's the puzzle:
Can you make two Squares and four Right angled triangles using only 8 straight lines ???
Think before you scroll down!!!

Gaylord Nelson

I love to chill out on my terrace and stargaze.Sometimes I sit and wonder how long we have existed.How many aeons have passed since Adam first saw the earth in all its beauty?
Scientists have worked out and found that life on earth has existed for approximately

I watched a movie called Equilibrium last night and thought I would put my two cents in.I remember reading a review on IMDB comparing it with The Matrix.Yes,there were certain similarities that one cannot help noticing,but don't expect the same storyline.I believe the Matrix series used a far more complicated and thus difficult script hence making it hard to understand and therefore love it even more.Equilibrium is set in the future;mankind has devised an ingenious way to avoid war.What is that prompts the very feeling to wage a war with a country?Feeling itself!The urge to destroy,the will to conquer,the greed to plunder-in short,emotion.So men decide that if emotions were to be suppressed(using a drug) all the problems of Pandora's box could be shut off.A group called The Tetragrammaton are appointed to weed out people who refuse to take the drug.John Preston(Christian Bale) who head a special sector of the Tetragrammaton called The Clerics finds himself giving into emotions and ultimately decides that the solution is not in repressing emotion,but rather in controlling them-for the ability to love and feel is indeed God's gift to mankind.
I'd personally give the film an 8 on a scale of ten.

I finished reading Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None today.It took me roughly eight hours to finish and I enjoyed every second of it.Each syllable of the book had Christie's magicial touch;it is one book you would find it hard to put down once you start on it.The story is about ten people(complete strangers to each other) who go to an island on invitation for a holiday-and end up being murdered.Sounds ordinary? It isn't,for the ten are the only people on the island,and every one of them end up being dead.The last one goes by committing suicide.Ah,that's the murderer then,you say?It is certainly not so.
Interesting?I suggest you read this novel.

I dig songs that picturised beautifully and are shot with fine taste.Music videos that have been shot in a foreign country just for the sake of it aren't exactly my cup of tea.The musical score,the feel of the song and the lyrics should go hand in glove with the video,otherwise you merely get a song with a foreign backdrop sans taste or finesse.I was much impressed with the way Mani Ratnam handled the picturisation for the song Pachai Nirame from Alaipayuthey.The whole song has been shot in India,with exquisite places like Kashmir.

1. Ulaga Nayagan (Come Dance With Me)
Singer : Vinith / Lyrics : Vairamuthu

2. Kallai Mattum Kandal
Singer : Hariharan & Chorous / Lyrics : Vaali

3. OH…Ho..Sanam
Singer : Kamal Hassan & Mahalakshmi Iyer / Lyrics : Vairamuthu

4. Mukundha Mukundha
Singer : Sadhana Sargam & Kamal Hassan / Lyrics: Vaali

5. Kaa…Karuppanukkum
Singer : Shalini Singh / Lyrics : Vairamuthu

6. OH…Ho…Sanam (Remix)
Singer : Himesh reshmiyaa & Mahalaksmi Iyer / Lyrics : Vairamuthu

I download and watch at least 4 movies a week.And I usually go by IMDB's rating considering the number of votes each film gets.I went along with this opinion and downloaded Little Miss Sunshine;
and it was after 101 minutes that I decided to change that opinion.The movie certainly doesn't deserve an 8.1!The movie didn't turn out to be the comedy that was bound to make you laugh and at the same time realise the importance of family.I didn't find anything worthwhile in it,but that's just my two cents.

I downloaded a copy of Phonebooth yesterday and watched it this morning.I must say it was rather good,with all the suspense.Collin Farell plays Stu Shepard,the hero in the movie.Stu uses a pay phone to call his mistress (Katie Holmes) and after he hung up the phone rings. He picks it up, of course, and learns that there is a sniper on the other side of the line. When he hangs up the sniper will shoot him, so he is told. Before he entered the booth we saw Stu talking on his cell phone as a PR-man, constantly lying to people. The sniper has observed Stu and thinks he deserves to die.When the sniper demonstrates he is real by shooting a pimp near the booth the police arrives and thinks Stu is the shooter. Capt. Ramey (Forest Whitaker) slowly understands things are not as they seem.Colin Farrell who is in almost every scene is great. First he looks so confident and slowly he becomes more and more desperate. The voice of the sniper (Kiefer Sutherland) is also perfect for the movie. It sounds calm but creepy, like a dangerous man who knows what he is doing.The movie is not very long and here that is a very good thing. Scenes are not dragged to make the movie as long as most movies and therefor it doesn't get boring. It kept me on the edge of my seat. A very good thriller.I gave IMDB a rating of 7/10 for all its worth.

Who needs torrents or rapidshare when there's a site by the name of Google? That's one site that exploits other sites,and we exploit it to get what we want.And what is it that we want most from the net?That's right,downloads for free.Here's a tip on how to get mp3's from FTP's and other sites using Google.
First off,go to google.com.Next,in the search box,type the following text:

intitle:"index of" (mp3) greenday


and hit Enter.You will find a list of FTP's and directories that contain MP3 files for Greenday.The "index of" part means you're searching through the directory of sites.The mp3 within braces indicates that you want to list files that are of type mp3 only.Cool way for some piracy,huh? :)

I restrain myself from downloading A R Rahman albums and buy the CD,but it can be really testing when the distributers f*ck up and the CD's arrive a couple of days after it has been released.In the case of Jodha Akbar, I gave in to Temptation and downloaded it,promising myself to buy the CD when it came out(which I did,so there).I was impressed with Azeem-o-Shah,liked Jash-e-bahara and was carried away by Khwaja.However,In Lamho failed to make any impression;maybe it was because I couldn't understand the lyrics,or it was another of ARR's special slow poisoning numbers.My friend said it was the best in the album;I had to disagree with her.It was after the tamil version of the songs were released that I listened to "Idhayam Idam Mariyathey" in a new light(or rather in a new sound).After listening to the ultra romantic number a few good number of times for good measure(and ergo doing justice to ARR),I messaged my friend saying "In Lamho rocks!"It has been my favorite in the album ever since :)