Archive for February, 2009

Google’s Gmail is down now atleast for some people – me included

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Gmail does not load, nor do the email part of Google partnerpages which use gmail.

Hope Google fixes this soon. A similar thing has happened earlier too and Google apologized for it.
We feel your pain, and we’re sorry
Monday, August 11, 2008 6:05 PM
Posted by Todd Jackson, Gmail Product Manager
The current situation with gmail.com has been reported [...]

Slumdog Millionaire wins 8 Oscars (source:time)

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

(source:time)
India has clearly been the flavor of this Oscar season. While Slumdog Millionaire predictably won eight of the 10 golden statuettes it was in the running for — including the Best Picture — even the low-profile Smile Pinki, a documentary about a girl from a village in India with a cleft lip, surprised with its [...]

Slumdog Oscars now at 4- Best Video Editing

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Soon after Malayali Rasul Pookutty won the Oscar for sound mixing in the Danny Boyle movie “Slumdog Millionaire”, i started the previous post.
Before i could even hit Publish, the next Oscar for the same movie was announced.
On a winning spree here, this movie.
Video editing. Sorry, i don’t recall the name.
Oscar count 4 and counting.

Mallu Resul Pookutty wins Oscar for sound mixing, Malayalis celebrate !

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Mallu Resul Pookutty wins Oscar for sound mixing.
Malayalis rejoice !
Oscar count for Slumdog Millionaire now at 3.
No, wait !!! One more for Video Editing !
4 Oscars until now. It’s a sweep guys.

Simon Beaufoy wins Oscar for best Slumdog Millionaire

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Simon Beaufoy won Oscar for best adapted screenplay in the Danny Boyle directed movie Slumdog Millionaire.
It is about a young Indian slum kid’s life story from rags to winning in a “who wants to be a millionaire” gameshow.
India’s well known music director A R Rahman gets his first chance of winning the Oscar here after [...]