I will no longer blog here. Blogger and Google has pissed me enough. I am moving to LJ. Those who subscribe to the RSS can now listen to this.

Bye Blogger. So long.

I was facing this error for the last couple of days ... It seems to be fixed now. Hence the post. The people at blogger should get their act together. Ah! BTW, the article by Geerk lovink that I wanted to share is here.

My apologies for polluting your RSS feed. It is entierly google's fault. honest. I just associated my blogger account to the google account and it published the entire RSS feed as new. Idiots. I guess it's time I moved to LJ.

So, I wanted to watch this Spanish movie. I only had a .avi file and after looking for days I found the English subtitles in a .srt

I used this command to encode the subtitles on the avi.

mencoder -noodml -o new_video.avi -oac copy -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=970:max_bframes=2 -vf-add harddup -sub Pan.srt -subpos 97 -subwidth 80 -subcp latin1 -ffactor 1 -subfont-autoscale 1 -subfont-text-scale 4 -subfont-blur 8 -sub-bg-color 1 -sub-bg-alpha 22 orignal.avi

I have to ask this. I see that many people have added that MyblogLog thingy. Personally, I just find those things like a surveillance camera on the street. Everytime I see one I show it the finger.

I was a little surprised when Yahoo! bought them out. I see that Jeremy has put one on his blog. Now, he's working with them and all so it seems like eat your own dog food.

My question is not to the MyBlogLog people. They might add anonymous browsing features and I guess they already have ability to add websites to your block list. But, to the people who register and use it.

Seriously. Do you guys feel OK littering "I was here" signs all around the web?

The other problem I have with it is that from the outside it looks like an ego inflating exercise. It resembles a lot with the numerous Orkut Communities. There are hoards and hoards of people joining them. I have never seen a single member ever engaging in a debate about the subject or having anything remotely interesting to say. The reason is, these guys have nothing interesting to say. They join a "Foucault" community as if to state, I know who Foucault was and that makes my dick bigger. Thats why I think that the whole Orkut community is pompous.

What is the point of stickying your face on someone else's blog or some website? If you find it interested. Comment, Engage Why post a "I Read this" sign?

Last weekend I had the misfortune to go to Pondicherry. Where can I start? Lets start from the good parts:

There was a kingfisher party which started at 11:40 PM and got shut down at 1 and the organizer got arrested. The party consisted mainly of White kids and no one asked for any refunds.

Other than that Pondicherry sucks. The food sucked. None of the restaurants could make a bowl of bolognese. French architecture? French architecture my ass -- The place is a giant village.



The waiters at Pondicherry seem to have taken the phrase "give time a break" (which, unfortunately is Pondicherry's official slogan) literally. Hours go by while you wait for something as simple as fried eggs to appear.

There was a place called Daily breads, they refused to give me breakfast because it was past noon -- when I arrived the next day at 11:30 they said they didn't have bread. By this time we knew it was time to leave this god forsaken place. We packed and left.

Pondicherry sucks. Don't go there.

Mahabalipuram is two hours drive from Pondicherry on the picturesque East Coast Road (ECR). The drive is a wonderful experience.

  

Once in Mahabalipuram, be prepared to be involved in a skirmish with beggars, guides, white backpacker kids and so on. It is part of the charm of Mahabalipuram and not to be frowned at. Thats what gives the otherwise dull place some life.

We found a place to stay without much trouble, two bedrooms with kitchen and a bathroom with hot water for around 600 bucks a night -- no wonder the white kids never leave. Food was generally OK. Nothing exceptional. Sea food prices were on a higher side and all they had to offer was squid and tuna. There is a nice cheap breakfast place called "The new cafe.", they also serve beer and play awful jazz and is crowded by regulars.

The beach, walking distance from our place was much cleaner than anything in Pondicherry. We decided to buck office on Monday and stayed an extra day. Mahabalipuram is by far a better place to visit than Pondicherry.

The drive back via NH7 Kanchipuram -> Vellore -> Krishnagiri -> Bangalore is a much better one.

Pictures.

In the year 2001 -- well! the less said about that part of my life, the better. A thoroughly undisciplined man, I was angry at myself and at everybody else. I spent most of my waking hours drinking, and, smoking pot. Needless to say the "experimentation" seeped into music as well.

What would prove to be the biggest mistake of the 20th century, I gave some trance to Oldmonk, a 40 year old narcissist, who thought one could trip on bohemian rhapsody. Coming months would see "Oldmonk the enlightened" leech the galaxy dry of psytrance.

Here we are half a decade later and he's still tripping to it, and, wants you to do the same. Oldmonk and cray3 come together to give you Radio Schizoid, give it a spin.