Zemanta blog assistant

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This is first blog using Zemanta. Wanted to checkout the features provided by this chrome plugin. The video tutorial was short and straight forward. So thought it would be nice to try a new tool after a long time.

As a sample i tried adding this image the tool provides a media gallery adjacent to the compose textbox and one can an image with just one click.  Yet to look at how to add media images to the gallery though.

Type a popular word like Michael Jackson
and it automatically searches for references in wikipedia and other sites and links it from the blog. Though it takes sometime for the links to appear this is an interesting feature which allows one to add links to reference pages without any hassle :-)

Another piece of feature is it picks words from the blog and provides suggestions for tags.

Its a neat plugin, interesting way of thinking hope they come up with more new features like this in the future.

Ayirathil oruvan

With lot of expectation we set foot in to the movie theatre for the movie premiere Ayirathil Oruvan by Selva Raghavan. It was a brave move by the director to experiment recreation of our history but the screenplay and graphics miserably let down the effort to making it a good movie. Not to mention the story line which started out as a good entertainer initially had lot of loose ends during the second half. 


War-crime, archaeology, sea voyage is all something new about the movie. The movie tries to blend the lives of historical chola dynasty lineage who have been secretly hiding in mystery land which cannot be reached without passing by 7 obstacles and contemporary pandia lineage who hold access to all the modern technology, weapons. The narration was poor that one cant make out the direction as to where the characters in the movie was leading to. 


During the second half when the chola dynasty was located after the entry of Parthiban all of them converse in old tamil script which was hard to follow. The background score in the movie was good but in order to affright there is sudden blare of sound after mute scenes. This was repeated many times in the movie and at times it created more annoyance than anxiety. The first remix song is what i liked it fits the cheerful start of the voyage, rest of the songs though good to hear were added just for the heck of it and doesnt gel well with the movie. 


The movie has an open ending leaving us wonder if there would be an second part. Though the movie didnt meet my expectation it would be a guiding light for more movies to come in the same genre. With all the gory scenes its definitely not for the weak hearted & kids.


With a disappointing pongal releases am looking forward for Ajith's flick Asal, Venkat Prabhu's Goa..

Getting back to routine

Its been a while since i got back to my routine things have been adhoc for a while lot of last minute tasks sprung up and i missed few of my routine tasks. Few of them were,

1) Reading books

2) Gym

3) Playing TT/Swimming

4) Movies

5) Long drive

Oflate i have been falling sick 'cos of irregular weather pattern its cold and dusty outside. And i have been looking forward to moving out of my current project. This is my first time am moving out of an ongoing project. Normally i work in a project till its end but this project been a different experience. I joined this project as a design/code reviewer and had to extend my responsibilities as developer, mentor, tester, release engineer, interviewer, hr, architect, reviewer am really thankful that to the project that i was able to play multi-faceted role in this project. 

With the confidence i gained in this project am looking forward to play a larger role. So looking for a new project. My new project might use Websphere which is something new for me. So am gearing up myself to use this product. Hope its conceptually same as Weblogic. But the help docs are really hard to find when compared to the latter.

Planning to get back to schedule from tomorrow to start with am planning to 

1) Wake up by 8:30 am

2) Go to office 10:00am

3) Gym - 6:30 pm

4) Go to bed by 11:30 pm.

Hope all goes well :-)