The Maverick's Mind-Space

At last, Yahoo msgr has released an IMvironment that actually DOES something, apart from decorating your IM window.

Doodle is the new IMvironment found in 'Yahoo messenger with voice'.(Dunno if its available with the previous versions).

What is unique about Doodle is that it has a MS-paint sort of a window, where you can draw, use different colours and 'write'.

I dont know if I am giving it a lot of hype, but I really loved it when my friend and I, separated by approx. 9000 miles, drew a pongal scenario simultaneously, on doodle. I drew the pot as my friend made the pongal..It was real fun.

In the U.S. this is the only way to make Pongal, the traditional style; because in U.S., Pongavechenna Fire department will come for lunch.!!!

From the heart..

I had posted this story on November 24, 2005. Since then, I've found many people searching for 'tirupur train blast' and ending up at my page. I also received a couple of mails asking me if I knew if it was a true story or fiction..and that if it was fiction, who wrote it?

I got the story as an E-mail forward from a friend. I posted it on my blog and never cared about anything else.. But when I found that hundreds of people are receiving the same forward even today, I felt I needed to find the answers.

These were the details I found out..

1. It is not a true story.

2. Here are some details about the author:
Ramsubramaniam Suraj is currently working as a Project Engineer in the Nortel Optical project Wipro. He loves writing fiction and has written a novel called Revolution and also a book of short stories called S1 - A train journey. Suraj is currently working on his next book called You and Me. Apart from writing, he is also passionate about debating and has won numerous accolades at the school level.


**However, I am not sure about the authencity of these details.

So, all you googlers searching for Shalini + Doctor + Tirupur + Train blast. you can sleep in peace now:)