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I have been a BIG fan of Lost TV Series. I saw the first 2 seasons on DVD and managed to see almost all the episodes of Season 3 on Star Movies. I am not sure what hooks me to this program; its probably got to do with the direction and a little with the unique style in which each characters story is told.

Wikipedia does in better job in describing the unique episode format of Lost

Episodes have a distinct structure: following a recap of events relevant to the upcoming narrative, each show begins with a cold open. Often a close up of a character's eye will follow. At a dramatic juncture, the screen cuts to black

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Its been almost 3 weeks since I have put up any post on my weblog and this 20 day silence also has eclipsed my previous record of 10 days :). And hopefully I wouldn't be setting new records of this kind in the future.

Most of my time in the last 20 days was spent at my workplace (including few weekends) and whatever spare time I had on the day was used for sleeping. I had barely any time to read my feeds or write any useful content :)

The same work also took me to Beijing for a week. Beijing has changed a lot since I visited last in 2005 and this was expected as the

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Orkut's new look is active on my profile. The Google logo is highlighted in the footer and there is also the link to the official Orkut blog.

Even though there is no major change in terms of features, the new look definitely looks fresh and is a welcome change. What is your opinion on the new look of Orkut ? Meanwhile how many of you are still active on Orkut ? Do share your Orkut experience :) 

I haven't written a post in the past 10 days and many of my friends including some readers started pinging me to check on my status :) I am very much alive, only that I was caught up with a little work and also decided to take some time off :D FeedDemon, the RSS reader that I use, was filled up with so many new posts !! I was forced to use the "Mark Folder Read" option for most of RSS folders. However I did a quick check on India Technology Bloggers feed and got myself updated with the latest happenings in the tech world. (Thanks to QOT for staring this network, its really useful) Orkut seems to have got ...

Yesterday I received a cheque from Text Link Ads and I was surprised to see 25$ printed on it. I never realized that somebody has signed up via my TLA referral link. Generally I direct all payments to my PayPal account, however by mistake I had set the payment option to Cheque on TLA and also the minimum amount was set to 25$. I am sure if I drop on to my savings accounts, its going to take at least a month. Also I am not sure about the bank charges for USD Cheque's. I checked with TLA if they could cancel this cheque and send the same to my PayPal; However they replied back ...

I've been tagged by Shankar to write 8 Random facts about me. Here it goes: On my character front, I find it little difficult to handle praises showered on me :). I keep smiling, even for things which I shouldn't. I'm analytical and rarely emotional. I easily get angry and I am/probably finding/will find ways to control it. Over the years many people have labeled me as a "complex character". I've also been appreciated for my character analysis skill as well ! I'm a complete vegetarian. ! I love chocolates and it helped me survive in China ! I love fried food and its high time I did a check on my cholesterol levels ! I love watching movies ! Yes I'm ...

I have been finding my laptop's 15.4" display too small to work on and hence was thinking of buying a Flat Panel LCD monitor. From the past 2 days I have been researching on products from different vendors and I finally ended up in a confused state. At my workplace they have 19 inch Dell monitors (recently widescreen versions also arrived) and these monitors are a treat to work with. So first I went to check on Dell monitors available in India. Paul's review of Dell's 30 inch LCD display was also one of the factors for checking out Dell first :) . 17" and 19" inch ...

Check this picture !

 

Now read this story :)

Some guy went to China and bought it for very cheap. It is supposed be able to store for several GB of memory. But as much as he tried, it didn’t work so he decided to to open it up and that’s what he saw. So please if you go to China or planning to try stuff you buy even though it is very cheap. But anyway I think it’s hard to return stuff there. This is like the extension cord for the USB cut and put inside, how did they even think of doing this?

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Anyone who has visited or stayed in Bangalore would have definitely experienced the horrible traffic while commuting within the city.

Bangalore Traffic Police in association with Mapunity and Airtel have come up with a comprehensive urban traffic information system for Bangalore city know as Bangalore Transport Information System (BTIS)

Mapunity Information Services is a Bangalore-based developer of geographic information systems primarily for government departments, civil society organizations, and development initiatives of commercial ventures.

With BTIS:

You can get real time information about the traffic conditions within the city.

There are

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