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A busy break from blogging

Between July 17^th and August 22^nd, I saw 57 movies and read 7 books. There were Saturdays when I watched four movies back-to-back. (I tried five. Couldn't stay awake.) Amidst this, I also cooked, cleaned, shopped... and went to office. (Oh yes, I was working 10 hours a day.) And managed to build some interesting sites which I'll release in a while.

But first, let me share the books with you.

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J K Rowling
• How to be Good by Nick Hornby
• The Runaway Jury by John Grisham
• Batman Year One by Frank Miller
• The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller
• Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
• Pro Javascript Techniques by John Resig

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

I wasn't planning to buy it. I figured I'd just wait for the soft copy. On 21st July at 8am, I went shopping to the local Sainsbury's to get groceries for my pre-movie cooking. I didn't know that was the release date. And there it was. In a huge stack. 50% discount. Should I? Shouldn't I? After finishing the rest of my shopping, and having deeply analysed the cost-benefit and ROI, I figured: if I didn't buy it now, someone else might tell me the answers!

Was Snape evil? I couldn't believe that. Not after Dumbledore's implicit trust. Besides, I re-read Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and if Dumbledore was dismissing Harry's explicit warnings about Snape, he had to know something more. Anyway, what was the significance of Dumbledore's last words? "Severus... please..." Please what? Dumbledore begging for death seemed more likely than Dumbledore begging for life. I had to know.

Who dies? Voldemort, of course. But who else? It couldn't be Harry, unless J K Rowling was looking to make herself one of the most hated novelists. Yet, it seems so... possible. Harry dying to take Voldemort out. Naah, can't be. Not Ron or Hermione either. Same reason. One of the other Weasleys? Maybe. Plenty of them anyway. Hopefully Percy. Hargrid? Possible. Lupin? The last of Harry's father's friends?

And all the minor questions: What's the significance of Harry's eyes? What does Wormtail do to help Harry? What's the significance of Voldemort having used Harry's blood to resurrect himself? etc. etc.

So I bought it.

But didn't start reading.

I knew that if I picked it up, I wouldn't put it down. It was time to cook. And watch movies.

By 4:00pm, after three movies, I couldn't stand it any more. So I picked it up. Read until 2:00am. Picked it up again on Sunday at 9:00am, and starved until 11:00am until I finished it.

Whew! What a book. Definitely the raciest of the lot. My earlier favourite in the series was The Prisoner of Azkaban, though The Half-Blood Prince came close. But this one beats them all. Resolves most of the mysteries till date, too. As Stephen King says in his review of Harry Potter, but by the time she penned the final line of Deathly Hallows, she had become one of the finer stylists in her native country.

How to be Good

And then there was Nick Hornby's book. I'd seen a couple of his movies: About a Boy and High Fidelity. They were interesting, and I'd heard the books were good. Figured I'd pick one up.

And it was hilarious!

How to be Good is the funniest book I've read since Five Point Someone and The Inscrutable Americans. Most of my colleagues kept wondering what I was laughing out so loudly about.

This is the story. The author is a doctor and a good wife. "Gooder" than her husband, certainly, and that makes her feel good. Until he has suddently becomes GOOD. Truly good. Saint-like. And then she can't stand him any more. The story is in first person, so you can see her thoughts almost verbatim. (See thoughts verbatim? Well, whatever the phrase is.)

The Runaway Jury

I had just seen the movie Runaway Jury, so I had to re-read it immediately. The movie was surprisingly good, though. Dustin Hoffman, Gene Hackman, John Cusack and Rachel Weisz. Many changes from the book, but didn't detract from the experience.

Batman Year One, The Dark Knight Returns and Understanding Comics

I saw 300. WOW! Brilliant. One of the greatest visual experiences ever. Possibly better than V for Vendetta and certainly better than Sin City -- both of which I thought had incredible visuals. The colours, the texture, the contrast, the surrealism -- whew!

That's when it hit me. Three of the best movies I've seen recently were based on graphic novels (comics). Two by Frank Miller. Maybe I should explore this a little more.

I got myself Batman Year One -- and that's when I realised where Batman Begins got its inspiration from. The graphics were pretty old style, but the story, incredible. Then I picked up The Dark Knight Returns. Now THAT is phenomenal graphics. And what a story! Christopher Nolan's next movie is slated to be The Dark Knight. Really looking forward to that.

With all this, I ended up reading a bunch of new Superman comics as well (but they were lousy, so I won't mention anything), and in the meanwhile, heard about Scott McCloud's comic book on comics -- Understanding Comics. Like I said, it's a comic book, but non-fiction. It's about the history and art of comics. Very nice reading, and quite insightful too. I think every visual designer should take a look at it.

Pro Javascript Techniques

I'd been reading up a lot of Javascript recently -- learning mostly from Douglas Crockford, Peter Paul-Koch, Dean Edwards, and John Resig. So when I realised John had a book, I had to read it. Douglas Crockford recommends JavaScript: The Definitive Guide (5th Edition) as the least bad among many bad books. I read it. Sorry, but it was quite a bore. Pro Javascript Techniques on the other hand, is gripping. Dives right into modern techniques, writing style, and is filled with practical advice. How wonderful.

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So anyway, that's what my month's been like. Well worth the break from blogging, I think. (And I haven't even told you about the movies or sites yet! Well, soon.)

Science Fiction novels

Now that I'm well on my way to watching the Top 250 movies on IMDb, I'm slowly turned my attention to fiction. My interest is mainly in the Fantasy & Science Fiction area. Unfortunately, I don't know of any list like the IMDb Top 250, but there are a few awards that could take the place of the Oscars for books. That's probably a good place to start.

The most popular awards in Science Fiction are the Hugo award and Nebula award, followed by the Philip K Dick award, John W. Campbell award, Arthur C Clarke award and other awards. I collated a list of all the awards (from LocusMag) into the spreadsheet below

Very few of these books have won multiple awards. None have won more than 3 on this list. Of these, only five have 3 awards:

Over 20 books have won two of these awards.

I haven't read most of these books. The ones I have read are:

1. The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov (which I loved)
2. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (which I loved)
3. Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card (which was OK)
4. Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (which I didn't like)
5. Dune by Frank Herbert (which I didn't like)

That's about a 50% ratio, so I guess this list doesn't quite very well work for me. Or at least, my taste doesn't match the Award critics. But maybe you will find something interesting to read...

Top Tamil songs

Since I like Tamil songs and statistics so much, I did some analysis on the ~1,400 Tamil songs I'd listened to in 2006.

The trends are around the length of a typical film song are interesting. For example:

Songs have gotten longer over time. On average, a song in the 60s was 4 minutes. A song in the 2000s is 5 minutes. Each decade adds about 14 seconds to the length of a song.

But some of the old movies have pretty long songs. Thiruvilaiyadal and Vanjikkottai Vaaliban have among the longest songs on average, for example.

As a corollary, newer music directors make longer songs. While KV Mahadevan's songs lasted 4 minutes, Ilayaraja's songs lasted 4.5 minutes, and AR Rahman's songs last 5 minutes. Today, Ramesh Vinayagam's compositions are 5.5 minutes.

However, Deva seems to make longer songs than usual for a 1990s director (5.5 minutes), while Devi Sri Prasad makes shorter songs for a 200os director (4.3 minutes).

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Since I rated the songs, I could also analyse my preferences. I like older songs a bit more.

My top movies list for instance, has only one movie from the 2000s, 2 from the 90s, 5 from the 80s, 1 from the 60s and 1 from the 50s.

My all-time favourite movie (for songs) is Vaidhegi Kaathirundhaal. I didn't need the analysis to tell me that, though.

My all-time favourite music director is G Ramanathan, thanks to Uthama Puthiran, Ambikapathy, Madurai Veeran, etc. AM Raja follows, and then the great Ilayaraja. It's interesting that AR Rahman falls below Harris Jayaraj and Deva. He also falls below MS Viswanathan, but that's not surprising.

For quite a while, I was convinced I liked shorter songs. But surprisingly, it turns out that my preference is quite independent of the length of the song! Anyway, all time favourites short songs include:

Indhiraiyo	Kaadhalan	1:02
Muthu Mazhaiye	Mazhai	1:21
Yamunai Aatrile	Dhalapathi	1:22
Anbana Thaayai	Mahanadhi	1:34
En Azhagenna (mp3)	Minsara Kanavu	1:47
Manamagale	Devar Magan	2:13
Poojaikkaaga	Payanangal Mudivadhillai	2:18
Suttum Vizhi	Kandukonden Kandukonden	2:18
Brindavanamum	Missiamma	2:48
Theerthakaraiyinile	Varumaiyin Niram Sigappu	2:49

P.S.: It's interesting that three of them have Bharathiyar songs in them.

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All of this analysis was possible because I recently dumped WinAmp and moved to MediaMonkey, which lets you write your own scripts.

Try this: search for a song and listen online.

Most popular movies on IMDb

Here are the top 1000 most popular movies on the Internet Movie database, along with their ratings and number of votes. I've also marked whether I've seen them or not, as of today.

This list, incidentally, is part of my source for the post on popular lousy movies.

Here is the Excel list of Top 1000 movies on IMDb.

Popular lousy movies

If you plot all movies by their number-of-votes on IMDb and their rating on IMDb, you get the chart below. Movies with more votes usually have a higher rating.

I was interested two things:

1. Which are the unpopular, but good (highly-rated), movies?
2. Which are the popular, but lousy, movies?

The answer to the first question is: there are no unpopular good movies. The cluster of dots on the top-left (in red) are not movies -- they're TV shows (Band of Brothers, Pride and Prejudice, Arrested Development).

The answer to the second is: there are 9 really popular lousy movies.

• Titanic
• Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
• Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
• Independence Day
• Armageddon
• Pearl Harbor
• Batman & Robin
• Godzilla
• Wild Wild West

It's interesting that every single one of these had a huge budget. (Perhaps this is understandable: more people would see a big-budget film and vote on it.)

Software for my new laptop

And so, thanks to Infosys Consulting being spun off as a separate legal entity in the UK, I got my new laptop. (Because our old laptops were legally the assets of Infosys Technologies Ltd, and not Infosys Consulting Inc. Weirder things have happened, but who's complaining?)

My old Toshiba Portege A200 has been replaced by a Dell Latitude D420 (which I was dreaming for, after having just read Jeff's post on big laptops).

Firstly, it's light. I thought my Toshiba was light compared to the Dell monsters others had, but this weighs 1.4 kgs! Secondly, it's thin. It's thinner than some of the paper notebooks I used to carry.

There were only two (minor) problems I saw with it. It didn't have an S-Video port -- so I can't watch movies on TV. And it had a fairly small (12") screen. Being a wide screen, I get a lot less height than I used to. I'm still having some trouble getting used to that, especially when browsing tall pages.

My weekend was like a kid in a candy store. Here's what I did.

Uninstalled useless software: The laptop came with Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 Basic and PowerDVD 5.1. I got rid of them.

Copied all my files: I had about 25GB of data (15GB of music, 5 GB of books, 2 GB of video, 3GB of work). This was a bit tricky: some of my data was in SVN repositories, and I had to migrate them.

Configured the new system by literally running through each entry in the control panel, and ensuring that it's the same as my old machine. Most of my changes are spartan (aimed at less eye-candy, usually). For example,

• Display: I switch to Windows Classic and a black background. I used to do this because it takes less memory, but with 1GB of RAM, that's no longer a consideration. I just got used to this. I also turn off all special effects, and remove everything except the Recycle Bin from my desktop. But the really useful thing is to turn on ClearType.
• Taskbar and Start Menu: I switch to the Classic Start Menu, and turn off everything. Here's what mine looks like now.

  

• Toolbars: I like my toolbars to fit on one line. So I do some heavy customisation with the Internet Explorer toolbar to shrink it to a line. Similarly on the desktop toolbars.

Installed software. This is the fun part. I've made a number of changes to my software inventory.

• ActivePerl: Perl is the only language I still know.
• ActivePython: I'm learning Python. I'm not impressed, but the Python Image Library makes jigsaw quizzes easier than in Perl.
• Apache HTTP server: To test this web page locally.
• Audacity: To record and convert sounds. I've ditched Goldwave.
• Camstudio: To capture screen sessions.
• Crimson Editor: I'm still trying to pick a good text editor. (I need block operations, filtering, regular expressions and syntax highlighting. No editor seems to offer all of these. Filtering is especially rare.)
• Cygwin: Just for the basic tools (head, tail, less). UnixUtils would do just fine, actually.
• DX-Ball 2: The only game I play other than Solitaire, Minesweeper and Age of Kings.
• Google Desktop: I can't live without it any more.
• Google Earth: I find Google Maps faster and better (because of the street maps).
• Google Toolbar for IE: It practically replaces my address bar.
• ImgBurn: I'm trying it instead of Nero. Except for multi-session support, it's great.
• Microsoft Reader: I have a lot of books in the .LIT format
• Mozilla Firefox: Mainly for its extensions (Google Suggest, NextPlease, Tab Mix Plus, Google Bookmarks Button, Extended Statusbar, IE Tab, Live HTTP Headers, Web Developer)
• Paint.NET: Quicker than Photoshop. Mostly I just crop images.
• Picasa: Adequate for viewing photos.
• Powertoys for Windows - TweakUI: To make Windows even more spartan.
• Restoration: Can restore permanently deleted files.
• Subversion: I like the version numbers (1, 2, 3, ...) better than CVS' (1.1, 1.1.1, 1.1.1.1, ...).
• VirtualDub: Mainly to convert videos from my digicam to DivX.
• VLC player: When all else fails, I turn to VLC.
• WinAmp: with Media Library import/export and Pepper
• WinRAR: For the occasional .rar download

And finally, after reinstalling my SVN repository and copying my WinAmp playlists, Firefox bookmarks, etc, my new laptop feels as good as old.

Videos you can learn from

• Berkeley webcasts of their courses.
• Google TechTalks.
• Authors@Google.
• LongNow seminars about long term thinking.
• UCTV Video on Demand.
• Nova.
• Computer History Museum.

Classic texts in computer science

Classic texts in computer science. Worth reading for the sheer insight.

Update: The link didn't seem to work in Feb 2007. Here's the list.

• An axiomatic basis for computer programming by C. A. R. Hoare
• Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) by C. A. R. Hoare
• Call-by-name, call-by-value, and the lambda calculus by Gordon Plotkin
• Towards a theory of type structure by John C. Reynolds
• Definitional interpreters for higher-order programming languages by John C. Reynolds
• An APL Machine 1970 by Philip S. Abrams
• Henry Baker's Archive of Research Papers (many classic Lisp papers)
• The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engin by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page
• No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering by Frederic P. Brooks, Jr.
• A Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude Shannon
• Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems by Claude Shannon
• Bayesian Networks without Tears by Eugene Charniak
• A Universal Algorithm for Sequential Data Compression by Jacob Ziv and Abraham Lempel
• A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks 1970 by Edgar F. Codd
• Let's Build a Compiler 1988-1995 by Jack Crenshaw
• Gauging Similarity via N-Grams: Language-Independent Sorting, Categorization, and Retrieval of Text by Marc Damashek
• Worse Is Better by Richard P. Gabriel
• Hints on Programming Language Design by C.A.R. Hoare
• Why Functional Programming Matters by John Hughes
• The Design of APL by Kenneth E. Iverson
• The Early History Of Smalltalk by Alan Kay
• Computer Programming as an Art by Donald E. Knuth
• The next 700 programming languages by Peter J. Landin
• Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and their Computation by Machine (Part I) 1960 by John McCarthy
• FORTH - A Language for Interactive Computing by Charles H.Moore
• Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years 2001 by Peter Norvig
• Parenthetically Speaking, a collection of essays from the 1990s by Kent M. Pitman
• The Definition and Implementation of a Computer Language based on constraints by Guy Lewis Steele Jr.
• Growing a Language by Guy Lewis Steele Jr.
• Epigrams on Programming by Alan J. Perlis
• The Complexity of Theorem Proving Procedures by Stephen A. Cook
• Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence by Marvin Minsky
• The Original 'Lambda Papers' by Guy Steele and Gerald Sussman
• A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-Key Cryptosystems by R.L. Rivest, A. Shamir, and L. Adleman
• The UNIX Time-Sharing System by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson

BitTorrent round-up on lifehacker

• How To Set Up Azureus
• Automatically download your favourite TV shows
• Totally Anonymous Azureus
• Tips for speeding up your torrents
• Make your own torrent with Azureus
• Using BitTorrent to send files
• Download public domain movies
• Huge list of BitTorrent sites
• Encrypting BitTorrent traffic
• Top Azureus plugins
• What do Mickey Mouse, Lars Ulrich, and Mr. Rogers all have in common?
• Protecting yourself against BitTorrent bandits

The Personal MBA

The Personal MBA. John Kaufman says reading (and practicing) these 42 books should be as good as any MBA (and that an MBA is, perhaps excessively, expensive). Some of these books are worth a read in any case.

Master Yourself

• Mastery by George Leonard
• Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham & Donald O. Clifton

Manage Your Life and Work

• Getting Things Done by David Allen
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

Learn the Fundamentals

• What the CEO Wants You to Know by Ram Charan
• Profitable Growth Is Everyone's Business by Ram Charan

Strategic Thinking

• On Competition by Michael Porter
• Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne

The Only Thing Constant is Change

• Seeing What's Next by Clayton M. Christensen, Erik A. Roth, Scott D. Anthony
• Re-imagine by Tom Peters

Masters of Management

• The Essential Drucker by Peter Drucker
• First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman

The Finest Minds in Business

• The Essays of Warren Buffett by Warren Buffett & Lawrence Cunningham
• Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charlie Munger & Peter Kaufman

Dollars on the Books

• The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course in Finance for Nonfinancial Managers by Robert A. Cooke
• Essentials of Accounting, 8th edition by Robert Anthony, Leslie Pearlman

Numbers and Negotiations

• How to Read a Financial Report by John A. Tracy
• Getting To Yes by Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton

Operational Effectiveness

• The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt & Jeff Cox
• Lean Thinking by James Womack & Daniel Jones

Form and Function

• The Substance of Style by Virginia Postrel
• The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman

Project Management and Marketing

• The Art of Project Management by Scott Berkun
• The Marketing Playbook by John Zagula & Richard Tong

Do Your Own Thing

• The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki
• The Bootstrapper's Bible by Seth Godin

Speak Your Mind

• On Writing Well by William Zinsser
• Flawless Consulting by Peter Block

The Delicate Art of Human Relations

• How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
• Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler

Sell, Sell, Sell!

• The Little Red Book of Selling by Jeffrey Gitomer
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini

Economics and Worldviews

• Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
• The Economist

Businesses, Past and Present

• American Business, 1920-2000 by Thomas McCraw, John Franklin, A. S. Eisenstadt
• Brand New by Nancy F. Koehn

Rules and Morals

• Law 101 by Jay M. Feinman
• A Primer on Business Ethics by Tibor Machan & James Chesher

Analyze This

• The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch
• Principles of Statistics by M.G. Bulmer

Voices of Experience

• The Little Book of Business Wisdom by Peter Krass (Editor)
• Swanson's Unwritten Rules of Management by Bill Swanson

Pulitzer Prize non-fiction

These are the Pulitzer prize winning non-fiction books. I've read only two: Godel, Escher, Bach and Guns, Germs and Steel. These were the very best books I have EVER read. If that's any indication to go by, I want to finish this whole list.
1962: The Making of the President, 1960 by Theodore H White
1963: The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
1964: Anti-intellectualism in America by Richard Hofstadter
1965: O Strange New World by Howard M Jones
1966: Wandering Through Winter by Edwin Way Teale
1967: The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis
1968: Rousseau & Revolution Story of CIV Volume 10 by Will Durant
1969: Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer
1970: Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence by Erik H Erikson
1971: The Rising Sun by John Toland
1972: Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 by Barbara W. Tuchman
1973: Fire in the Lake by Frances Fitzgerald
1974: The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
1975: Pilgrim At Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
1976: Why Survive?: Being Old in America by Robert N Butler
1977: Beautiful Swimmers by William W Warner
1978: Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan
1979: On Human Nature by Edward Osborne Wilson
1980: Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
1981: Fin-de-siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture by Carl Schorske
1982: The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
1983: Is There No Place on Earth for Me? by Susan Sheehan
1984: The Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr
1985: The Good War: An Oral History of World War II by Studs Terkel
1986: Common Ground by J. Anthony Lukas
1987: Arab and Jew by David K Shipler
1988: The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
1989: A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan
1990: And Their Children After Them by Michael Williamson
1991: Ants by Bert Holldobler
1992: Prize by Daniel Yergin
1993: Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills
1994: Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick
1995: The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner
1996: The Haunted Land by Tina Rosenberg
1997: Ashes to Ashes by Richard Kluger
1998: Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
1999: The Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
2000: Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower
2001: Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix
2002: Carry Me Home by Diane McWhorter
2003: A Problem from Hell by Samantha Power
2004: Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum
2005: Ghost Wars by Steve Coll

Software inventory

I end up changing my office laptops every year or so, and hence reinstall lots of software. Here's my inventory.

I most certainly will install the following.
ActivePerl. I still program. I know Perl. I love Perl.
Acrobat Reader
BitLord
DivX player
Dave's quicksearch deskbar
Microsoft Office 2003. Has some really good improvements over Office 2000.
NoteTab Light. Multiple tabs notepad. But is there anything better?
Nero Express
Picasa 2
WinAmp (with Media Library import/export)
WinRar
WinZip

I most likely will install the following, but not necessarily.
Adobe Photoshop. Almost vital, but I can live with Microsoft Office Picture Manager.
Goldwave. I often record interviews, or give commentary for home-made movies.
Google Earth (with Fraps). To browse the world and make movies out of them.
Google Toolbar
Mozilla Firefox. For multi-tabbed browsing, mainly. Otherwise, IE is fine.
MSN Messenger. Just for the interface. Somehow, it feels "smoother" than Yahoo.
RealPlayer. Don't listen to RealAudio that much. Still...
UnixUtils. I use "grep" and "less" more often than "dir"
VirtualDub. For the occasional movie editing that Microsoft Movie Maker can't handle.
WinHtTrack. To browse offline.
Google Desktop Search. Helps remember my browsing history.

Tempting, but no thanks.
Opera. Mozilla's fine, thank you.
Yahoo Messenger. MSN Messenger's better, thank you.
Yahoo Desktop Search. Better interface than Google's. But no browsing history.

Top 10 Hindi movies ever

Inspired post by Aashish on the top 10 hindi movies ever.

1. Sholay
2. Lagaan
3. Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge
4. Anand
5. Deewar
6. Roja
7. Aandhi
8. Golmaal
9. Khamoshi
10. Pyaar to Hona Hi Tha