Flickr
Peoples. Please do check out my Flickr photolog. Have some half decent pictures to some really breathtaking snaps. I have some snaps of my frequent roadtrips and stuff and if you are looking for pictures of Tamil country, the place to go is My Flickr Photos
The Adlova blog
A fellow copywriter Anantha has just begun a blog on Advertising (competition to The Chicken Rules blog, but hey, the market’s big and competition is good) called Ad Lova.
The blog will, going by the posts already on, have some great content soon. Go check out Ad Lova.
Apologies
Rohan Pinto has apologised. Unconditionally.
(Amit Varma has the story)
I guess I need to, too – for calling him names – I pro’lly ought not have – but I did, and hence – I apologise. Unconditionally.
But I would like to make a few points here. We all agree that RP plagiarised posts – and that if nothing – his nsSwitch site was at-least suspicious.
And since we (Amit, Shanti, MadMan and few others) went after him (a joint decision taken over email after about 30+ hours of discussion and debate) get branded as mobsters and our action a witch hunt.
Why? Let’s say that somebody offers you the Gateway of India for sale, but you need to hand over your all your cash first, would you wait around and let him get away? Would going after him, reporting him to the authorities concerned be called a witch hunt?
In what way did we differ?
Well, anyway, I apologise for calling Rohan Pinto names, and like the others, will try to forget the incident and move on. 
How to be the next Instapundit
How do you get to be as popular as Instapundit?
There’s the hard way.
You write well. You analyse well. You get to be credible and truthful on the blog. You watch out for interesting pieces of news. And you have luck favouring you. Basically, it takes years.
There’s the easy way. You just buy Instapundit.com.
Don’t know how – Well, Mr.X will help you. Hand over your credit card number to him, and he will sell you Instapundit.com, Blogspot.com, Slashdot.org – you name it.
Amazing, ain’t it?
[Amit discovered the latest angle to our favourite blogger’s racket.]
Manna from heaven
Thanks Mr. Glenn Reynolds
. This is strike two. I definitely can die a happier, satisifed man.
Blind logic
I was witness to a little drama yesterday, which, if it hadn’t ended a little dangerously, might have been really funny.
On the way from work yesterday, was this guy on an old Bajaj scooter. Madras is famous, as most people will know, for its potholes. There’s even a joke in which a man asks another man “where does this pothole lead to?”
Anyways, coming back to the story, which I swear is absolutely true, our man on the Bajaj scooter had the misfortune to fall into a particularly large pothole. This particular pothole was in the center of the road. After he recovers from the bad jar, he immediately swerves left, cutting me off, in an attempt to give other, future potholes a miss. I don’t know why, but I think his logic must have been something like “There’s one bad big pothole in the center of the road, so there must be more, right in the center”. And therefore, he swerves, as mentioned above.
Immediately after which, he falls into one more. And this one bigger than the previous. This particular one was so bad, he almost fell off his scooter.
The point of this particularly tedious post – logic will always get you into deeper potholes. Especially blind logic.
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Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan is a copywriter, photographer and goofball from Chennai. He is also an archaeologist, historian and a city lover. He is currently a documentary film-maker and desk-monkey for a film production house.
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