Personal Weblog of Deepak Vasudevan

Are you the one who forget the day-to-day chores and routines when you launch the browser and go online? Then this Chrome Extension ( Timer ) is for you. It can start a stopwatch behind the scenes and when the time is up it would give a gentle toaster message near the system clock 'The time is up'.  At least for me it is very useful in the following aspects: Save my food from being over-cooked whilst I do something important online.  Ensure that any one task item in my Todolist does not take too much of resources and time and I give a fair share to all the items which are driven to completion in perfection. A few things that would be desirable in the tool are: More repeatable alarm Optional high audio MP3 support (so that even when I am away from the computer in a different room I am being gently reminded of the timer. Snooze support  

Very interestingly around an year back my Samsung E1410 was traumatized by water. About few months back my Samsung Alias was swept by water and I had to replace with Samsung Gusto. And during my New York trip  this one suffered a little water damage. Verizon Wireless offered to replace the mobile on a priority basis. In the Dwapar yuga the years and span are more and hence it was Asta Vasu was 'Bheeshma'. And now being Kaliyuga we can consider the fourth one (Samsung) being the Bheeshma. Check out this video by rajshri : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNEQONGB2e4&feature=relmfu  

Currently mesmerized with the 'Govinda Hari Govinda' song of Sri Venkatesam Manasa Smarami album. Sri Srinivasa Govinda Sri Venkatesa Govinda Bhaktavatsala Govinda Bhagavatapriya Govinda Nityanirmala Govinda Neelameghasyama Govinda Puranapurusha Govinda Pundarikaksha Govinda Govinda Hari Govinda Gokulanandana Govinda Nandanandana Govinda Navaneeta chora Govinda Pasupalaka Sri Govinda Papavimochana Govinda Dushtasamhara Govinda Durita nivarana Govinda Sishta paripalaka Govinda Kashta nivarana Govinda Govinda Hari Govinda Gokulanandana Govinda Vajramakutadhara Govinda Varahamurtivi Govinda Gopijanalola Govinda Govardhanoddhara Govinda Dasarathanandana Govinda Dasamukha mardhana Govinda Pakshivahana Govinda Pandavapriya Govinda Govinda Hari Govinda Gokulanandana Govinda Matsya Kurma Govinda Madhusudhana Hari Govinda Varaha Narasimha Govinda Vamana Brughurama Govinda Balaramanuja Govinda Bhouddha Kalkidhara Govinda Venuganapriya Govinda Ven...

The Tamil New Year 2011-12 (Kara) year had been a blissful start with a divine pilgrimage to Western Trichinopoly (the state of New York) culminating in the sanctum sanctorum of Sri Ranganatha at Western Srirangam (Pomona NY) on the banks of Western Cauvery (Hudson River). I wouldn't need to go detail about the same in this blog regarding the pilgrimage because that would come under the scope of " LD Voyage ".  Right from Viswaroopa darshan/Suprabhatam (waking up the Lord) till the most beautiful Sayanothsavam around 8 PM when Ranga is put to sleep had been a blissfully beautiful divine experience. The temple comes under august auspices of Sri Ahobila Mutt . The other significant deities in the temple are: Sri Krishna Sri Srinivasa Sri Sathyanarayana Sri Mahalakshmi The Twelve Azhwars Sri Bhagavat Ramanuja Sri Kodhai (aka) Sri Andal Sri Vedanta Desikan Sri Lakshmi Narasimhan Sri Sita-Rama-Lakshmana-Hanuman I know these posts are coming like two days delayed after my retur...

This is my newest addition to my personal music collection. Melodius sanskrit verses bringing Tirumala right to your desktop with my living room just vibrating with the incessantly invigorating chant of Govinda .  It looks there is a rendition of the same from Dr. S. P. Balasubramaniam too. I would suggest you check the same from your local music store and/or Amazon to sweep in positive spiritual vibes to us and our ambience.  Frankly speaking I did nurture a kind of hatred and/or abeyance of devotion to Tirumala and Ranganathan which might be deduced from a few turbulent tremors a couple of years back. My sincere thanks to my guru (Smt. Uma Mohan ), Sri Ranganatha Temple (Pomona NY)  and LBM  to clear the various hurdles and bring back the devotion to the paramatma which is the true bliss compared to the mundane distractions and diversions. Om Namo Venkatesaya!

The most important of the Tamil New Year celebrations is the Panchanga patanam. Please find the Kara Varusha Panchangam year or you can also view it from here .

The Deepak's Travelog being served at http://deepak.blogdrive.com/ is now being migrated and served from http://ldvoyage.wordpress.com/ I am in the process of importing the posts from Blogdrive to Wordpress.  Why is the move? Better and powerful blogging platform @Wordpress.  Whilst blogdrive is no doubt a very good blogging website Wordpress has still powerful features like spam protection and templating. You may have observed that even Windows Live Spaces blog is being now powered by Wordpress. Whilst this move is happening you may find the older posts appropriately cataloged into the newer blog. Spam comments would be dropped whilst importing. If you suspect a spam comment creeping in inadvertently then drop me a note. And similarly if you find a genuine comment that you have seen in the erstwhile blog but that got dropped in LDVoyage, I sincerely apologise for the same. Please let me know of the same and I would import it.  The import/export is being m...

Being a weekend I was just went to a nearby theater which is basically a non-airconditioned old-styled talkie one to watch a Vijaykanth film 'Vallarasu'. Interestingly in the evening the local cable was telecasting 'Roja'. Both the films have national sentiments of campagning against terrorists. Interestingly the prime villain terrorist in both the names is 'Wasim Khan'. I am not sure if there is any hidden meaning in 'Wasim Khan' and why distinct set of Kollywood directors zero in on this name for their villain. And similarly there is another trend in Indian movies. The contemporary civil villains are normally named behind explosives and/or variants of them. A couple of examples in this perspective are: 'Power' in 'Gandhipuram' 'RDX' in 'Aadhi'. Can these nomenclature be brought under censorship radar?

Here is a beautiful website providing comprehensive information about your so-called representatives: http://myneta.info/ And with the state elections in Tamil Nadu quite near, check out  http://myneta.info/tamilnadu2011/ before walking into the polling booth to ensure that you cast your votes on a more right person. At least these days of politics you don't find a good one. I would say even the callous statement " ராமன் ஆண்டால் என்ன ராவணன் ஆண்டால் என்ன" should now change as " ராவணன் ஆண்டால் என்ன துரியோதனன் ஆண்டால் என்ன ". That is the sad plight of the current administration. Even then it is better that you exercise your franchise so that at least a relatively lesser wicked is chosen and if you overlook your rights of franchise a worst demon might sit atop your arse/head. And a quick bite of info. Here is something about Muthuvel Karunananidhi who is currently occupying the chair of the Chief Minister:    

Who is Anna Hazare? A n ex-army man. Fought 1965 Indo-Pak War  What's so special about him?  He built a village Ralegaon Siddhi in Ahamad Nagar district, Maharashtra  So what? T his village is a self-sustained model village. Energy is produced in the village itself from solar power, biofuel and wind mills.  In 1975, it used to be a poverty clad village. Now it is one of the richest village in India. It has become a model for self-sustained, eco-friendly & harmonic village.  This guy, Anna Hazare was awarded Padma Bhushan and is a known figure for his social activities.  Really, what is he fighting for?  He is supporting a cause, the amendment of a law to curb corruption in India.  H ow that can be possible? H e is advocating for a Bil, The Lok Pal Bill (The Citizen Ombudsman Bill), that will form an autonomous authority who will make politicians (ministers), beurocrats (IAS/IPS) accountable for their deeds.  It's an entirely new thi...