For a variety of reasons, after about 8 years, I have an iPhone as my primary phone. When I got my first iPhone in 2010, from the initial setup, the screen resolution to the smoothness, the iPhone was love at first sight. My love for android took its own sweet time though. I hated my […]

Was watching Dharala Prabhu. Complicated topic and lot of cinematization, average movie. But the only take away I have is the trauma the little girl, Nidhi, would have gone through when she was “taken back” to where she was being cared for before the adoption. Still bothers me. That little girl doesn’t deserve this. Things […]

While my engineering specialization was Information Technology, we had courses from all branches of engineering the first year. Mechanical engineering was one of them. Due to scheduling, availability or whatever issues, the professor responsible for that course for our class was ever changing. We probably had at least 5 different processors, some covering a couple […]

Remember the day when you discovered Firefox? How you could have multiple tabs? Add-ons? AdBlock? Firebug? When you discovered an add-on called IE tab and you could pretend as if IE6 never existed? And then the day when you discovered Chrome? How a browser could be lightning fast? How adding multiple tabs did not seem […]

Generally I don’t mind the effects of having my (limited) personal info on social media. If you are my friend on Facebook, you can know my phone number and email. And my birthday and anniversary. I don’t see this as a problem. I use Google Now. I have let it scan my email and calendar. […]

ஒரு சின்ன கிராமத்தில் பிறந்து, சின்ன ஸ்கூல்ல படிச்சு, வாரத்துக்கு ஒரு முறை நாலு தெரு தள்ளி இருக்கற பெரியம்மா வீட்டுக்கு போறது தான் “வெளிய போறது” அப்படிங்கற சுழல்ல 10வது வரை படிச்ச ஒரு சின்ன பையன்ன ஒரு பெரிய ஊர்ல இருக்கற பாலிடெக்னிக்ல சேத்த  கதை. பையன் நல்ல பையன் தான். அனா அவன் அந்த பெரிய ஊர்ல இருக்கற சூழலுக்கு இன்னும் தயார் ஆகல. போர போக்க பாத்தா ஆகவே மாட்டான். அது அவன் தப்பு இல்ல. பெங்களூறும் அப்படி […]

Now and Then by Sans-Sri on May 21, 2010 This post is from my old website, slightly edited and formatted. T51 was not very crowded. The few advantages of taking the T51 from TCS RTSC is that many people would get down at Sozhinganallur . If you know the route enough you would try to stay at the […]