Quotes from Gandhi

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"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

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"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

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"I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ."

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"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

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"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

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"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

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"I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ."

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"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

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"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems."

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"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."

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"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."

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"Where there is love there is life."

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"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?"

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"The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles."

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"God has no religion."

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"Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our very being."

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"Even If I am a minority of one, truth is still the truth"

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"To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith."

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"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."

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"My life is my message."

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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

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"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love."

Watch unlimited videos in iPhone

A great feature in iPhone is the Youtube widget. But as with the other functions this too has its limitations. I was not happy to see that the player did not play all the movies in you tube and the search results showed only a small list of 'compatible' videos.

Accidentally I discovered a better way of viewing more videos than just from Youtube.

In the iPhone Safari browser go to video.google.com. Click on 'Advance Video Search'. In the next window look for 'Domain' leave the default 'Only' option as it is, and in the box type 'video.google.com'. This would restrict your searches to the videos from video.google.com domain.

Now enter your search criteria in the 4 boxes on the top as you would normally search. The results are listed. Click on the video that you want to watch. A page loads up but the video does not play yet.

On the right side you would see the 'Download' button. Next to it you would see options - for 'Windows/Mac' in that dropdown choose the other option to download for 'Video iPod/Sony PSP' and click on 'Download' button.

Viola! iPhone opens up the video in Quicktime and plays the video.

Add the link to your browser bookmarks. This way you would have instant access to your favorite videos instantly without having to load them on to your iphone. Saves a lot of memory for your audio songs and other stuff.

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The Sign

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Sivaji Review

Rajini enters meekly compared to other openings he has had in some movies, but it strikes harder than before, well, he looks younger.

Sivaji is a Shankar movie through and through. The Super star’s image and style has fed the grand imagination of Shankar and his team to the fullest.

The story is like any other Shankar story. A social issue, a love interest, a worthy villain and dreamy songs to fill in.

NRI Rajini wants to build educational institutes and hospitals that offer free services. Imagine that. There are unexpected hurdles that make this dream a nightmare. Sivaji passes them one by one compromising on his ‘I-will-sign-a-zillion–papers-if-needed’ vow. But falls to ground when the all-powerful Educationist cum Hospital owner villain hits him hard, leaving Sivaji with just one rupee. Sivaji tosses the coin in the air to determine if he needs to be a good guy or a smart guy, and that also decides how the second half goes.

In the end he becomes modern day Robin hood amidst difficulties, even overcoming death.

If you have seen enough Shankar movies all the sequences are familiar to you. Arjun’s visits to Manisha’s village in Mudhalvan is extended in Sivaji when his family makes visits to Shreya’s house to be ‘Familiarized’. The sequences in Indian about how at each level corruption prevails is presented as it is. As usual the relationship with the villain starts smoothly before getting stormy. And there are more Shankar trademarks to pick from.

If you have forgotten how Rajini used to act, with his innocent reactions, and funny facial expressions, Sivaji would remind you of that. The youthfulness that was missing in the past two movies, in looks and action has come back for the good. Some close ups make you feel sorry for him, but then he is known for his style and not for the looks. So Sivaji is all about style for Rajini. A chewing gum replaces the cigarette, but the style remains. (Chewing gum too causes Cancer Mr. Anbumani)

The movie stands out for one thing, the grand presentation of the songs and some sequences, but for them Sivaji is any other Shankar movie you have seen. The sets are mind blowing to say the least. They are mostly modeled after Las Vegas casinos. And Shankar’s sense for details shines from cobblestones to the colored hair. ‘Athiradik kara machan’ has been shot like no other songs that we have ever seen. Even some Hollywood musicals won’t match up to it.

Shreya looks apt for the roll. Nianthara has slimmed down for the first song. Vivek replaces Vadivelu and makes his debut as all too familiar hero’s aide in Shankar’s movies. He delivers some of the ‘punch dialogues’ for the Superstar. Suman plays excellently as the worthy adversary. The dothy suits him better than the erstwhile bell-bottoms we are used to see him in.

Sivaji is grand. Does Shankar make an impact with his message? No. He might even be trivializing these great social causes by presenting them in a cinematic style. Shankar’s thirst for a societal change is only as real as Rajini’s youthful looks. Spending so much money on presenting a message about poverty makes no big sense.

At the end we have seen yet another Shankar movie with Rajini in it. Could anyone else other than Rajini have handled such grandeur is the question waiting to be answered in the next Shankar movie I guess.

0 Rupee Note to fight corruption

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A NGO called 5th Pillar, founded by the well-known Exnora founder MB. Nirmal, is issuing 0 rupee note with Anti-corruption statements for use when asked for a bribe.

Such people's salaries should be paid with these notes...

Poor Paris! or Not

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Funnytoons

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IT happens!

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Cartoon Strip I created

'Check' this out

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Pencil carvings

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Tech (Please!) Support

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Who killed more people in the Bible?

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Some real number of BAD people in the Bible I guess?

the "faithful" always finds a reason - Tony De Melo

Scrabble +

clipped from tularecounty.com Scrabble+ Almost scary... Dormitory When you rearrange the letters: Dirty Room Evangelist When you rearrange the letters: Evil's Agent Desperation When you rearrange the letters: A Rope Ends It The Morse Code When you rearrange the letters: Here Come Dots Slot Machines When you rearrange the letters: Cash Lost in 'em Animosity When you rearrange the letters: Is No Amity Mother-in-law When you rearrange the letters: Woman Hitler Snooze Alarms When you rearrange the letters: Alas! No More Z's A Decimal Point When you rearrange the letters: I'm a Dot in Place Eleven plus two When you rearrange the letters: Twelve plus one And for the grand finale: PRESIDENT CLINTON OF THE USA It can be rearranged (with no letters left over, and using each letter only once) into: TO COPULATE HE FINDS INTERNS

Mouse Pad couch

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Run like a girl

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Having a Bad day? - 2

clipped from muchmornews.com The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdez Oil spill in Alaska was $80,000.00. At a special ceremony, two of the most expensively saved animals were being released back into the wild amid cheers and applause from onlookers. A minute later, in full view, a killer whale ate them both. Two animal rights defenders were protesting the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn, Germany. Suddenly, all two thousand pigs broke loose and escaped through a broken fence, stampeding madly. The two helpless protesters were trampled to death. Iraqi terrorist Khay Rahnajet didn’t pay enough postage on a letter bomb, so it came back to him with “Return to Sender” stamped on it. Forgetting the envelope contained his own bomb, he opened it …and was blown to bits.

Having a bad day? - 1

clipped from muchmornews.com In a hospital’s Intensive Care Unit, patients always died in the same bed, on Sunday morning, at about 11:00 a.m., regardless of their medical condition. This puzzled the doctors and some even thought it had something to do with the supernatural. No one could solve the mystery as to why the deaths occurred around 11:00 a.m. on; Sunday, so a worldwide team of experts was assembled to investigate the cause of the incidents. The next Sunday morning, a few minutes before 11:00 a.m., all of the doctors and nurses nervously waited outside the ward to see for themselves what the terrible phenomenon was all about. Some were holding wooden crosses, prayer books, and other holy objects to ward off the evil spirits. Just when the clock struck 11:00, Pookie Johnson, the part-time Sunday sweeper, entered the ward and unplugged the life support system so he could use the vacuum cleaner.

Till death do us..

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