Just ran into this over at Techcrunch. This should be real good…

http://mugasha.com/

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http://www.facebook.com/shanker.balan

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The French Open 2009 begins today. /me hopes for a Nadal/Federer final and may the best man win!

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Something to fill up the entertainment room….

Samsung LN46A550P1

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tracklistings.net used to be a very well organized site for BBC Radio1 Essential Mix Series and John Digweed Transitions tracklistings.

Seems to have become a domain squat portal filled with ads now. Sucks!

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After what I would call 2008 a very boring year for television, 2009 is starting to look very promising…

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The other day Shreyas was telling me about how he was part of moving Radioverve and Mundu website over to WordPress. shankerbalan.net was due for an overhaul and I decided to go with Wordpress to replace the goo I had running there currently.

So over the last 2 days, I moved everything over to Wordpress 2.7 + plugins. Imported all my Live Journal entries, had Mark Symonds (my hosting provider) create new subdomains and put in custom 404s, categorized the mediawiki entries… everything is mostly done now.

It took me quite a while to redo the Mediawiki pretty url configuration because I broke it during the move and didnt have a backup of LocalSettings.php and .htaccess. Most of today was spent unbreaking mediawiki and mod_rewrite. Well, its fixed now and multiple backups made for all config files!

The next big item is to unify the theme across coppermine, wordpress and mediawiki.

Homepage Project Plan
MediaWiki And Pretty URLs

(PS: I hope the JournalPress plugin publishes this post to both my LJ accounts)

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Once upon a time, the Mathikera/New BEL road YBS cab was fun and happening. But now, with the more people per route and people moving to other locations, we are not able to catch up outside Yahoo as much as we did before.

Penchal got off his butt and arranged for a lunch over at his place with the yummiest Andhra veggie spread ever...

http://shankerbalan.net/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=37

After 8 long years, I played tennis. Twice in 2 days!!!

Shreyas and I are tennis buddies now. Both of us have taken "tennis only" memberships at the RMV club (Dollars Colony) which is very close to my home. The plan is to practice atleast thrice a week in the evenings. Shreyas works close by so the court location is convenient for him too.

Court movement, strokes and stamina are non existent at this time. I think it would take atleast a 2 weeks full time to get halfway decent with the game.

Looking forward to the weekend now! :)

Went for this and now plan to go to this. I am going to be sober for DeadMau5 cause I cant remember a darn thing about last nights party :)

( Deadmau5 Update )

Apparently, flights on 9/11 to the US is going very cheap and I was lucky enough to get into one of those to travel to Santa Clara, CA. The flight was very turbulant which meant that something exciting kept happening every couple of hours or so which even the Wine could not help me with.

So here I am finaly in Santa Clara for my first Onam out of India. Friday's goal is to find a Mallu place for an Onam Sadhya. Waking up at 2AM in the morning should help me get a head start. :)

Happy onam everybody!!! Wonder whats on TV! :-\

Saw these guys at Fuga last night. Soundz of the Asian Underground. w00t!



Most of the crowed didnt get it but WTF.

Live set at Palace Grounds on 6th Nov 2008. W00t!

http://www.infected.co.il/futureCitySkin/

So I added my number as instructed at http://ndncregistry.gov.in/ndncregistry/index.jsp and promptly received back a "The DND service is already active for your Vodafone mobile number". Ohkay, so I dont recall adding it in the first place.

But this does not seem to be so in real life. What gives?

Perfect weekend news.

http://bitstream.soundandvisionmag.com/blog/2008/07/star-wars-3d.html

Lost reading for the long weekend - http://www.timelooptheory.com/the_timeline.htm

Bjork's videos are always cool. The new one even more so.

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2008/04/bjork_wanderlust_3d_video

Vishu special http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasathanthram on Asianet today. I reached home early to catch this movie. Apparantly, its the biggest hit in malayalam cinema. I dont expect it to be anything like the old Sathyan Anthikad stuff, but should be better than the recent mallu fare.

Saw Katha parayumpol at PVR last evening, pretty Ok stuff from Sreenivasan. He usually does something more satirical.

Knight Rider 2008 anyone?

http://www.newtorrents.info/torrent/36901/Knight.Rider.2008.Pilot.720p.HDTV.X264-DIMENSION.html

Thanks to the brilliant ban on dancing, Bangalore missed out on DJ Tiesto. Suxor.

http://www.submerge.in/bulletin/showthread.php?t=4370