Not again

How difficult is it to remember a birthday? Very. 

Yet again I forgot a very important birthday...one I knew was coming up...and then one day...Wham!! Its passed by.

October 6th was the ...damn! October 9th was the..6th birthday for this blog.

That's right, this is probably one of the oldest surviving blog. I know i mentioned this last year too but it does surprise me everytime I realize how long this little hobby has lasted.


And you know how this started? Well... Long long ago (and am talking about Windows 3.1 on a 386DX with 2MB RAM and a 120 MB Hard Drive) I started my journal. It was on Lotus Organizer. And the main reason I started it was because the software looked like a diary and I thought 'How cool would it be if I had a diary in a software which looks like a diary' (now don't give me that look)


And so it started.  I would type in what was going on in my life in the 'pages'. And if I remember right, the 'posts' were conversational and I was narrating incidents to... well...the future me.


Eventually the 'diary' evolved. I had sections where I would jot down ideas. Write about people I knew.. a chapter about each person. And I would constantly update these sections every once in a while.... of course the golden rule being, never delete what you have said. So each update would be...and update..an appendage at the end of the page with the date. And it made such great reading to see how my opinion on people changed as I knew them better, or as was more often seen, they remained steadfast.


I had sections for stories I wrote, ideas I had and so on.


When I travelled, I used to jot down things in a paper and laboriously reconstruct my 'exact thoughts' when I got back to my PC at home. I also had 'online backups' eventually (on Yahoo! briefcase)


Then Windows 95 happened. And I think the software didn't work too well with it.  Also in a freak accident I remember many posts getting deleted. More than 50% of them.



I realized that I just could not continue this way. So one afternoon when I was in VisualSoft I decided to migrate to an online platform.... the cloud.  (Wasn't I quite the visionary?)



 The first post 'Four Fingered Philosophers' was a copy paste from the diary. And now that I root through the old posts i realize that the first 'original' post wasn't until July in the following year. 


Anyways...enough of the history lesson. Basically what I just realized while typing this post is why I started this whole thing. It wasn't because you would read it. You are just incidental (sorry!!). Each post is purely for 'Future Me'.


So future vix, I think you could just smile and think a 'thanks' to the present and past me.

Tweet Me This

You can now see my Tweets right here on vixdom.... move your head ever so slightly to the right..and there you go!

Bluh

I am aware of the golden rule of Rahman music - 'Thou shalt listen at least 7 times before passing judgment'

But just listened to Blue this morning in the car.... and all I can say is as per the Rahman Theorem don't expect much from the movie.


Of course the fact that it has Zayed Khan should have been warning enough.

No big deal

Changed ISPs. And my new ISP gave me a domain name as part of the deal. So what does it mean?

Well, starting today you can type in 'www.vixdom.com' in your browser, to visit.

 Ya...I know. Hence the title.

List Ahoy!

Just thought I owed myself and the world a 'non baby' post since I obviously have metamorphosed into a 'proud parent' who incessantly talks about their kid.

Followers of this blog probably know about the 'other blog', where I keep an annual wishlist of 'Things I wish I could buy right now'. I have always liked looking at last year's list and also coming up with one for the next year. Some things in old lists make you go 'What the hell was I thinking?' , while some elicit a 'How pathetic was I'. But I guess the worst are the ones that keep recurring year after year…after year. And make you want to drown yourself in the toilet bowl for simply failing to buy something that you want and can afford. Case in point, a scanner. This year's list has an 'MFD' and an LCD TV…and take a look at the first list….from 2003.

VixList also hosts wishlists from many of you. So go through your old wish list if you can get to it. And feel free to send across your wishlist for this year. Trust me, it's worth it.

Vixlist can be found at:

http://vixlist.blogspot.com/

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The Rahman Theorem

A few years back, I lost my entire music collection during a 'nerd phase' (I must have been trying to install a pre-alpha version of some Linux based OS or something like that). 


Anyways, I managed to rebuild most of the collection but lost out on a good chunk...a great chunk. One of the things I missed the most was my entire Rahman collection. I have every album of his... I mean every (yes, I had Vandicholai Chinnarasu, Pudhiya Mannargal, Uzhavan, etc etc) album. I was unable to find these songs for the past few years (thru methods both legal and otherwise). But yesterday I struck paydirt. I hit upon a site which had almost all the albums I needed. This coupled with the atrociously fast internet at Microsoft helped me rebuild the Rahman in just under half hour..and we are talking 41 albums here. 


Anyway that's not what I want to talk about... while downloading these albums I realized something, which I will distill in a short simple sentence below (very unlike me, I know). And in order to tie it in to the post title, I call this...


The Rahman Theorem

The quality of music in any A.R. Rahman album for a movie, is either greater than or equal to the quality of the movie itself.

Think about it.

I personally rate the following among his 'worst' ones.... I dare you (I double dare you #$#$# ^*@#) to pick one of these (or any not in the list) where you feel that the movie surpassed the music.


Pudhiya Mannargal
Gangmaster 
Muthu
Ratchagan
Padayappa
Taj Mahal
One 2 Ka 4
Alli Arjuna
Baba
Udhaya
Kisna
Anbe Aruyire
Azhagiya Tamiz Magan
Yuvvraj


See my point????


So in short, if you listen to a Rahman album and it sucks (even after repeated listening), expect the movie to suck like hell.