April 2007 Archives

Apr 30, 2007

Song Review – New York Nagaram (Jillendru Oru Kadhal)

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Movies, Music 4 comments

This song from the movie Jillendru Oru Kadhal is one of the best songs Rehman has sung. This song for some reason reminds me of the MJ hit “Stranger in Moscow” . Notice the use of sirens in the background which is typical of NY city. Rehman has used the humming piece very effectively and the [...]

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Apr 30, 2007

Introduction to AJAX

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Programming Concepts, Technical Articles No comments

What is AJAX?
Ajax is a technology that complements Web 2.0 and the integration of many web services
The diagram sums up what Ajax does. Content1 and content2 are treated as separate entities. The user will be able to update content2 without modifying the state of content1 and vice versa. The aggregation of data is another key [...]

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Apr 30, 2007

Javascript redirect

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Technical Articles No comments

This simple code snippet will redirect users from the current location to the new window location. The index.php file that i hosted crashed for some reason so I created this new file index.html to redirect to my blog so the users will not see a error page.
window.location=”http://anandhansubbiah.com/blog“;
You have to include this within the head tag.

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Apr 29, 2007

Song Review – Munbae Vaa En Anbae (Jillendru Oru Kadhal)

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Movies, Music No comments

A.R Rehaman is at his vintage best in this song from the movie Jillendru Oru Kadhal. Shreya Ghosal and Naresh Iyer provide the vocals.  Naresh Iyer is very gentle and Shreya’s voice just flows with the music like they are inseperable. I am not sure if Shreya really understands every word she has uttered for [...]

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Apr 27, 2007

The Pursuit of Happyness – Movie Review

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Deep into My Mind, Movies 2 comments

This is a simple but powerful movie about a simple man who overcame all odds to succeed in life.Based on a true story Chris Gardner (Will Smith) is a hard working man who has to sell scanners to better his family’s life . It is not your typical Hollywood movie as things don’t [...]

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Apr 26, 2007

Circuses – The real truth.

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Animal Cruelty No comments

Cruel Training
For animals in circuses, there is no such thing as “positive reinforcement”—only varying degrees of punishment and deprivation. Animals do not voluntarily ride bicycles, stand on their heads, or jump through rings of fire. They don’t perform these and other difficult tricks because they want to; they perform because they’re afraid not to. For [...]

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Apr 26, 2007

Save Darfur

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Events and News 2 comments

 
SaveDarfur.org has a post called “Background” that’s worth checking out…
DOWNLOAD: Policy Talking Points (Updated 3/30/07)Darfur has been embroiled in a deadly conflict for over three years. At least 400,000 people…

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Apr 26, 2007

Song Review – Viligalin Aruganil(Alagiya Theyae)

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Music 1 comment

I have lot of respect for Ramesh Vinaygam. I really think he is one of those music directors with a lot of talent but never managed to make it to the top. This is a terrific song with excellent violin arrangements .Ramesh Vinaygam has sung the song himself ans he has enjoyed every bit of [...]

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Apr 25, 2007

Comcast – Second best place to work in the Bay Area , CA.

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Events and News 2 comments

Comcast has been voted as the second best place to work in the Bay Area , CA . It was a known fact that comcast is one of the best places to work in Philadelphia but this report solidifies comcast as one of the best places to work in the United States.
Please visit http://finance.breitbart.com/breitbart?Page=NewsRead&ID=4007478 to view the [...]

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Apr 24, 2007

Mobile Technology – How important is it ?

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Technical Articles No comments

I used to work in the Mobile Communication Labs in HP a few years back . I remember how excited we all were developing applications for Mobile Phones. The projects were really diverse in nature ranging from providing billing solutions to developing a mobile portal. There was also a group focussing in aggregating web services [...]

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