MSN Video

The online streaming video sites are gaining popularity (youtube, google video, etc). I just happened to look at MSN Video and surprisingly it requires IE 6+ versions and Media player 10 to display the site.

http://video.msn.com/

It does not run on Firefox!!!!
But the interface is real cool and the categories are well organized. Far better than clumsy google video. The only problem with Microsoft is whatever product that they come up with requires the user to get tied with other products of MS (ultimately boiling down to Windows OS).

if you want to visit http://video.msn.com/,u should be using Windows OS. And the site cannot be accessed by users sitting on Linux or Mac. Revenue of google is only thru' advertisement and now everybody follows the suit of google, including MS. MS will loose its consumer base if its sites mandate requirement of one of their other products.

DaVinci Code

The movie is releasing this weekend and the sony pictures is banking much on this movie (the last box office of sony was spider-man 2, i guess, and the recent disaster being Basic instinct 2). And people in the third-world and developing contries are protesting. In India, people go one step further when it comes to protest. What else, HUNGER STRIKE!!...none other than Mahathma Gandhi to be blamed for this. I think the movie is banned in India.

Well, I am not that curious to watch the movie. the movie is not gonna be different from the novel. The novel was amazing. I got the novel frm a second hand store (just a random pick) for my flight journey to Frankfurt. It was a real page turner. No wonder the novel is read by 60 million people. I bought the novel Angels & Demons from the same author. That was also a real page turner but it resembled DaVince code very much. I kinda liked Dan browns way of untying the knot. So bought many of his old novels from amazon. But they were total disaster, especially Deception Point. The story closely resembled Ice Limit of Preston & Child. Ice Limit was written exceptionally with finer details and no loop holes. Ice limit is all about a bunch of explorers crossing oceans to one of Chillies island to excavate a meteor and eventually also providing a evidence of Panspermia theory of evolution (I think this theory sounds better than Darwin's theory of evolution). Speaking in this line, recently there was "red rain" in southern part of India and scientists have found the cells in the "rad rain" without DNA. They believe they are "alien cells". Good to hear that!!

I think Davince code, the movie, will not be a huge success as the novel. I will watch the movie to see Tom Hank's performance!!

IMF ?

Well, its not Internation Monetary Fund, its Impossible Mission Force. How does one pronounce disappointment? MI:3. I saw MI:3 last week. I went with a truck load of expectations.

First dissapointment: The classy theme music composed by Danny Elfman wasnt there much. Second disappointment: it was not directed by John Woo.

The style and the class are missing in this movie. The utter disaster would be the opening scene. People expect a Bond flick kinda openeing scene but in MI:3 it was real nasty. I dont think there will be anymore versions of Mission Impossible.