Shyam K’s

I never was a fan of Formula 1. But in recent times my thoughts about this sport changed. I started to watch F1 in the year 1999 when we first had the cable connection in my home. Having heard about Michael Schumacher, I became a fan. Years progressed; the more  I got into the sport the more I started to like Ferrari and favored them to win every race. Michael is something special. If it wasn’t for him, the sport would have been less interesting. Be it the moves that he makes on the track or the controversy surrounding him, he took them in his stride and became a worthy winner. The controversy that he had created sparkled more debates and the news kept spreading. Many liked him and few disliked him for the controversy that he had created. After many years in F1, he’s become a legend. He’s left a space in F1 in recent times. Fernando Alonso was there, nearly there! but is antics at Mclaren in 2007  had the pundits thinking. He’s still far behind in catching the supreme star. Even though the last season (2007) was a thriller and kept everyone anticipating, I miss Michael. Michael’s records speak about a lot about the person he is. Ferrari were sprited by the presence of Michael. The sport feels a bit void at times without the star, but that’s part of life and part of sport. You need to miss your stars for the sport to be remembered. And yes, it’s been remembered. I’ am still following F1.

“Some times people make you remember few things; Sometimes few things make you remember people.”

It’s one of the movies that will make you feel the pain and indulge yourself. I love these kind of movies. It’s practical, meaning, it might have happened to you or may happen to you. I must say, if it wasn’t for Jodie Foster it would have been a movie that we might have pondered about after watching it. Jodie Foster plays Erica Bain who works for a radio company in New York. She looses her husband in a fight with goons. She becomes critically injured and she re-lives again. Even though the movie runs at a slow pace, the commiseration for Erica makes the movie moving forward.  After losing her husband she becomes more vigilant in her activities and she starts to take things in her own hand. Being drawn into a new world, she starts to kill some thugs and even attempts to crack down some of the thugs who killed her husband. Detective Sean Mercer comes to play a important role who starts to find clues about the killing. He becomes more inclined towards her and they get into a sync and thereafter later in the movie he finds her as the culprit behind the killing. How Erica comes free from this is the remaining part of the story.

Jodie’s performance brings more marks to this movie. A movie for patient audience.

The Brave One:

Drama
Rating: R

Neil Jordan (dir.)
Jodie Foster
Terrence Howard
Naveen Andrews
Mary Steenburgen

I was just browsing a website and came across this all in one IM. Quiet surprising! For all those who stay online IM’ing I would say, this would be the best app overhauling Yahoo, MSN and Gtalk messengers. Launched as a private beta version ,Digsby has shed this tag since then. Being a freeware, it has fared much better than Trillian and Pidign. It integrates well with facebook, MySpace and Twitter. The new version includes audio/video chat with the help of Tokbox . The latest update brings the list of supported instant messengers to:

• AOL 
• MSN
• Yahoo!
• Google Talk
• ICQ
• Jabber
• Facebook

You can even add it as a widget to some of the social networking website’s. It also has e-mail notifications that appear neatly at the left hand side of the screen. You can add e-mail accounts such as AOL, MSN, Yahoo! GMail. You can configure Digsby to display a pop up alert every time you receive an email, every time a friend sends a message via Twitter, or every time someone changes their MySpace or Facebook status.The application is available for Windows XP and Vista. It is going be on my watchlist. I really love this Instant messaging application.

Visit: http://www.digsby.com/