Grey Matter

Nuff said about the logical glitches in Bollywood films.Nuff said about the lack of original ideas in their stunts(have you seen After the Sunset and MI2,then dont even think of Dhoom 2).I would rather dwell upon the other things.First up..Hrithik Roshan–he has given a good performance.Should mention about the make up men too… they have made good effort.But it is the screen play thats gone way too predictable.It is customary that heroes in indian films will have an scene where they will walk towards the audience in slow motion( either alone or in the middle of the crowd ) with background music, and they will give a glance to the left and then look straight.Here in this film Jr Roshan performs this ritual for some 4 or 5 times.The reuse of the stunt where he jumps of the cliffs and buildings is also a glitch to mention.He jumps of any high altitude place he sees.Abhishek has nothing much to offer in his acting.Well he was given a charchter where he cant do anything special.Its Aishwarya Rai who was a major shock for me.What has she done with herself.She was cast as a sexy, naughty thief in the film but she was never able to do justice to the charachter eventhough we could see that she has tried.Nothing much to say about the other casts.They are their normal selfs.

Screen play and direction are the biggest villains.Every scene was predicatable…the slow motion scenes featuring Hrithik and Miss Rai is nowhere near romantic scenes they are the most irritating part of the film.When have we seen the single bullet put inside the revolver coming out at first shot itself.Its the same old Bollyowood gimmicks through out.Bullets not firing on the hero….Heroes escaping even through a burning chopper…these are just a few.Do watch the movie if you want more of these.
Good Special Effects but ideas arent original(a lot of scenes are flicked as such from After the Sunset and MI 2) and hence they dont have nothing much to offer.The film include lots of stunts which would suit our southern hero Captain Vijayakanth.

BottomLine:Yet Another Bad Sequel.

this is a sequel to detecting IE7 in JavaScript

here is another way to do it..infact you could get the exact version of the browser using this..
NS4 = (document.layers) ? true : false;
IE4 = (navigator.appVersion.indexOf(“MSIE 4.”)==-1)? false : true;
IE5 = (navigator.appVersion.indexOf(“MSIE 5.”)==-1) ? false : true;
IE6 = (navigator.appVersion.indexOf(“MSIE 6.”)==-1) ? false : true;
IE7 = (navigator.appVersion.indexOf(“MSIE 7.”)==-1) ? false : true;
ver4 = (NS4 || IE4plus) ? true : false;
NS6 = (!document.layers) && (navigator.userAgent.indexOf(‘Netscape’)==-1)) ? false : true;

Ruby was one of the languages which i had no clue about.But today i had my first hands on session on ruby with the help of the try ruby website created by whytheluckystiff.Wow is one word suitable for both the site and the language.good work whytheluckystiff(what does it mean?)Its so easy to learn in that site.I would recommend try ruby for ones who needs to try the language for the first time.Should do this first place if you are totally bored in a sunday afternoon and got nothing to do.

if you did fall in love with ruby you could try out the poignant book written by the same person to increase your ruby lust.Its a witty humorous book teaching ruby.

Before the dawn of the bulls it was the horses which ruled the roost.Shaolin,Shogun,and
Samurai– my three favourite bikes where those horses.I may seem like a fanboy.But let me be at least for my fav bikes.

Shaolin was the first five speed bike in India.It gave the Indian bikers first tastes of speed and Adrenalin mobiking.The other speedster in that time was Yamaha RX100 but shaolin was my favourite one.Oh yes this was not the one which the mileage conscious bikers preferred.This was the main reason for its failure–it was launched in a time when the market for speed biking was not so mature…when most of the bikers were still mileage conscious.

Shogun offered the raw power to harness.It was the street bike for the urban bikers.

And Samurai the complete gentleman’s bike was the successful one of the three.Its style was better than the above said two bikes.The only problem was that it had a 2 stroke engine.It had to compete with the four stroke competitors like splendour and had to leave the market.

And then came the bulls in the form of Pulsar,Unicorn and Apache.The horses where out of the world.I have never liked these bulls running around the streets.I am waiting for the return of the horses to buy one..those sleek bikes with raw power to harness.

With respect to the world like the diamond of the sky I how think certain ones so high in doubt glitter of glitter a little the star

——–confused? lol

this is what i got when i translated the twinkle twinkle little star rhyme from English to Japanese and then back to English using Babelfish

so here is a formula for making instant comedy..use babelfish to translate something to foreign language and then back to English

Recently Hyundai gave away 100 Accent CRDi cars to Tamil Nadu police.Its the aftereffects that are causing the head aches to the people.You could see policemen use these cars with as much enthusiasm as how a 5 year old kid would use his brand new car toy. The sirens ringing loud enough to make people deaf has become part of the ever increasing list of noise pollution causers in Chennai.The first few days after receiving the car the police men where driving around the city with the siren ON unnecessarily.I saw quite a number of them.And i also saw quite a number of people thumping their forehead and commenting ‘ivanungalukku vera velaye illa’ .

Today i saw a policeman use this vehicle to transport some of his family members…which is fine as far as i am concerned but what provoked me is that he was using the siren as horn for his vehicle,switching it on and off(again unnecessarily) for the entire drive.

Doesn’t these learned police men know that siren is for important occasion only.

Mr. Java’s Loooong Journey.

Every Day Mr.Java and Mr.V comes to office by route A.On this eventful day Mr.Java made a plan of trying out a different route B.That was to go to Tambaram and come to office by bus.So they both started in the quest of exploring various options before choosing the best possible way to come to office.They had seldom been to the ‘Tambaram city’ and were never aware of the crowd that existed there.They asked someone inside the train about direction to go in order to catch the bus to office.He replied ‘leftla ponomba’ which translates into ‘go left’.But the problem with directions is whats left for one guy will be right for the other if they both are facing each other.The train finally stopped in the ‘Tambaram City’ station.The duo started walking towards the overhead bridge.But fate had to play its role.They both got separated in the chaos that normally existed in the Tambaram City during office hours.poor guys they weren’t prepared for this.

Mr.V being a little bit smart asked an middle aged man the direction again to reconfirm.The fellow said ‘rightla popa’ which means turn right.He did not have a phone so was not able to communicate this to Mr.Java.He assumed that Mr.Java also will ask some middle aged uncle and come to the right direction.He waited for some time in the bus stand.Since Mr.Java was seen no where near he caught a bus and came to office.

But it was different story for Mr.Java…he happily believed the train passenger’s direction and went left.He went to the wrong side of the station.He asked some one out there which bus goes to karapakkam.He said the bus number.He boarded the bus.He got the ticket asking for karapakkam.He saw nice greeneries all through the journey.He made up in his mind that this is the best route. we could happily see such greenery while coming to office.

He saw Vandalur coming…he was thinking why should Vandalur come on route to office.But due to his Proficiency in Tamil he never minded to ask anybody.(Sarcasm is just one more service we offer.)The bus was going ,going and going but karapakkam never came.The bus finally stopped. he expected karapakkam but it was kelambakkam. Everyone he asked for karapakkam has heard it as k<something>pakkam due to his proficiency in Tamil.They assumed it to be kelambakkam and has given the direction.He needed to go more some 10 Km to reach office.He asked an Auto rickshaw..he charged rs 150.He thought Man thats too costly i will have to pay less than that from my house to office.

He again caught a bus to come to office. That took another light year to reach the destination.And finally he reached the office by 11.30(compare this with his normal arrival time of 8.30).Sure its the best route to come when you have enough time to spare.

He saw Mr.V happily sitting in office not even caring to call .(but poor Mr.V he never remembered any numbers,and it never struck him that others will have it.But what can he do..he thought Mr.Java might be as smart as him in finding out the way.)

This incident happened much before the first story, but i got time today only to post it…

This was a lucky day for us.For when we were bugged up of having to sit idle till 7.00 in office,God showered His blessing on us by cutting the power at 6.30.So did we escape-me,Mr.V and Mr.Java.Normally we catch a train at thiruvanmiyur at 8.10 but today we had small hope of catching the 7.15 train.Thats a whole lot of saving,almost 1hr more we could spend at home.So did we start our race against time by running to the bus stand.The MTC did not play the spoil sport at least today.A relatively empty bus came to carry us towards our destination.The race had started…time ticking…the bus was roaring at top speed…(well not so ‘top speed’ but we cant expect more than that from MTC).Then the villain-the great SRP signal traffic.The bus was moving slower now.We saw the time it was 7.10 still 5 minutes to go.Mr.Java by this time had planned is ‘plan B’.The plan B was to go in this bus itself to saidapet and catch a train from there.(for the sake of people who dont understand this let me put it simple-plan b was more time consuming than catching the train at 7.15 but its better when compared to waiting in the station for 50 min if we miss the train)

Mr.V’s optimism did not let him to embrace the ‘plan B’ so he stuck to our little hope. We crossed SRP signal.It was 7.13.We never knew whether we would make it on time.By this time Mr.Java being not a risk taker,stuck to his plan B.So Mr.V and me went to the foot board of the bus waiting to plunge down the road.We saw the NIFT building,looked out for some pretty faces but no luck,no one was there tonight.Saw the time it was 7.14 or was it 7.15..i was not able to make out in my analog watch..shit I should have wore a digital watch.

Just then two of them where speaking over in the foot board.They were also very anxious to catch the train at 7.15.One of them spoke over the phone “machan where are you,oh you have reached the station.We are still in bus.will come da.Give me a missed call before the train leaves.”

how will it help these guys.And how come the other person over the phone is supposed to know when to give missed call.He can only give a missed call after the train has left.may be he spoke to the driver

The bus slowed down in the turning we had to jump out and run.I got down first and started walking Mr.V got down next and yelled “ye a****** run da,fast” and started running..i followed him.So here were four of us running towards the station-Mr.V,me and the two fellow foot boarders.Mr V was definitely faster of the four.He was running like Jesse Owens in 100 meter dash.The trouble with life is that there is no background music.I assumed the James Bond theme music to be playing and tried to run fast.The two fellow foot boarders stopped in the entrance of the train itself searching for ticket counter.I was in a dilemma whether to help them find the ticket counter or run behind already meters ahead Mr.V.I looked back to them it was late they already took the wrong route going up some where. Poor chaps you are going to miss the train-hey i was thinking as if i was going to catch one!!.

In half way to the ticket counter did it strike to me that Mr.V has a seasons pass.Its only me who has to take the ticket.I tried to run faster but my heart started beating fast and it was as though it may come out any moment.I stopped.Gave up the race against time.I was seeing Mr.V-he was quite a distant away from me now.He will catch the train but i cant. But Mr.V was running further down the station.i was thinking now what is he doing,he must have gone up the stairs to catch the train.Then did i see Mr.V going towards the ticket counter-he was having the common sense to figure out that i will not be able to make out if i had to buy the ticket myself and the courtesy to buy it for me risking his chance of catching the train.It normally takes quite a effort to get the ticket from the lazy guy in the ticket counter.Mr.V managed to get the ticket from him relatively quick.Now i had to run-i started running towards the stairs to the train above.Mr.V started running towards the escalator near the ticket counter.I was running in the first floor then did the hooter go out.Oh my God-is all these fast action for missing the train.But i kept on running.The last thing you want after all this action is to see the trains back.

I came to the platform.The second hooter went on.The train had started moving.Now where is Mr.V has he got into the train.

Just then Mr.V emerged from the escalator..the escalator has not worked.He had to run in the big steps of escalator.Boy this guy has great stamina.

So did both of us jump into the train,which was now moving faster,simultaneously.The trouble with life,again, is there is no background music or applauses. Mr.V deserved a round of applause from every one in the coach for his smart work.We did not move for a minute trying to slow down the flow of adrenalin.It was a happy moment achieving something that you doubted you will achieve,and left hopes in the middle.

This is was how Thiruvanmiyur station got its first historical run chase in its historical history.

The story is not complete if i did not say a much more happier moment…thats when i messaged Mr.Java that we were inside the train while he was still in the crowded bus.

I faced a problem while creating a XML editor and a contextual popup menu for it, using the templates in the Eclipse.The xml editor was getting displayed, but the pop up was not coming.After struggling for hours together i found out the small mistake in ‘plugin.xml’ file.

the default value for the name filter in the object contribution will be set as ‘plugin.xml’ we need to change it as ‘*.xml’

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<extension point = “org.eclipse.ui.popupMenus”> <objectContribution id=”org.eclipse.ui.examples.readmetool” objectClass=”org.eclipse.core.resources.IFile” nameFilter=”*.xml”>

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