Aditya Shevade

And I Started Loving Oscars Again

Posted by Aditya on March 8th, 2010. 4 Comments »

I was planning today for quite some time now. Was going to wake up early and sit with some coffee and peanuts to watch the 82nd Annual Academy Awards from 5-6am whatever the broadcast time was. Did I watch the show? Well, no. Turns out I was more tired than I imagined and slept through half the show and then I had college.

BUT, when I came back home, I was greeted by a pleasant surprise. Why? Well, first thing, Avatar did not receive the Best Motion Picture of the Year award. Secondly, Avatar did not receive Best Director Award (to James Cameron). Seems like the jury this year had at least some sense to them. After last year’s disaster of Slumdog winning 8 Oscars when it actually was worth 0, I had almost given up the hopes of seeing someone else take the Oscar. I am really happy Avatar did not get the award.

Posted in: Anecdotes

New Addition – Random Posts

Posted by Aditya on March 5th, 2010. 3 Comments »

A few weeks ago, my friend Santhosh posted a nice little tutorial on noob2geek on how to display random posts on your wordpress blog. I was thinking about implementing it on this blog for a long time, finally I got some free time and I have implemented the feature here on this blog.

I have made a few changes to the code given on that post on noob2geek. I wanted to display random posts at the bottom of every individual post. The method on n2g does 2 things, 1 is that it displays even the current post in the random posts. Secondly, it does not work well in-line to a post as we don’t store the $post variable anywhere. Hence, the code with the changes is given below.

Posted in: Announcement

Thank You For Smoking

Posted by Aditya on March 5th, 2010. 1 Comment »

WOW! That’s the only thing I kept saying about this movie right till the end. Don’t worry now, I am not going to advice people about smoking. Neither will the movie, mind you. Thank You For Smoking is a movie about a smart-ass spokesperson of Big Tobacco, Nick Naylor, starring Aaron Eckhart in a brilliant and strong performance. The plot outline in short is, Nick Naylor, has to struggle a lot to make sure that Big Tobacco is never in any sort of bad publicity and dispute. He has to do it by talking his way out of tight corners, making big promises and bunch of other things, which I am sure you will love to watch. Heck he even tries to rebel kids for smoking (no… not literally), makes a cancer kid his friend and announces a $50mn research campaign without consulting with his boss. Still they all love him.

Posted in: Movies