IMDB Lookup

I have this amazing friend who has more data than a corporate data center can manage. If you give him a $ for every byte of data he owns, then he will figure in the 10 most richest Indians. Anyway, I got the privilege of copying a subset of his data onto my 500GB harddrive (Obviously, it ran out of space). But I now have over 100GB worth movies and I have a difficult time figuring out what to watch.

I had to do a IMDB search for every title I see and pretty soon I realized its a pain in the ass. I did a small hack to ease my burden and it is here. (http://www.esnips.com/doc/5150768b-1e27-4847-962d-da5b55e8e625/IMDBLookup) I had to put it on esnips because my so called personal website dream has managed to remain one. (here and here).

The zip file has a registry hack, just double clicking will put required info in your registry. It manages to bring up a nice little “IMDB Lookup” menu when you right click on a file. Copy the imdb.py Python script to your c:\windows\system32 folder, so that its there in your system path. Now you are good to go, whenever you see a movie file on your computer, just right click on it and select IMDB Lookup. If the movie title is neat and clear, your favourite browser pops up with IMDB description of the movie. Thats all it is.

IMDB is unfortunately blocked at office, but you can see that URL is valid and perfect. Most probably it will work for you.

PS : You need Python 2.4 and above( freely available) for this hack. A C exe could have done the job, but.. why bother.

-- If everything else fail, try Python.

Hospital Trivia.

9 March 2008·2 mins

Hospital Life

Its business for the hospital, its personal for you. No matter how healthy you were the day before, you shall be deemed a patient by various means. Ex. Hospital Uniform, medicines. You shall witness a sudden spurt of love and emotions among your not-so-distant relatives. Every tom, dick and harry shall visit you and make sure that you have noted their presence. The motivation could be concern, love or…. ah lets not name it. If you haven’t ever believed in God, you shall. If you believe in God, you shall feel him. You will be proved highly ignorant of your body and its functioning and you shall wish you had paid a little more attention in the boring biology class so that you could have taken up medicine instead. You will feel the taste of humanity when ward boys, nurses do their service with sincerity and honesty. The ward boys and nurses shall grow more closer to you than your blood relatives. You shall realize - afterall, there is still good in this world. And it is true. You will pledge to live a more satisfactory life, to do more service, to be a little more nicer to people, to smile a little more. And lets hope we cherish that spirit. All of a sudden you will realize how PRECIOUS your health is. I mean we all know and talk about it, but you shall REALIZE. All of a sudden you will realize how delicate and yet how marvelous your body is. All of a (not-so) sudden you will start to see how in body, mind and soul the other person is so similar to you. You will learn to be thankful for everything. To the workers who constructed the hospital in the first place, to BSNL for their mobile network, to the ground floor cafeteria for supplying with much needed food and beverages, to the surgeon’s teachers for teaching him so that he could save your life today… I mean you will be thankful for everything. And if you are lucky enough to realize exactly how valuable is your presence on this earth - you shall remain THANKFUL for the rest of your life.

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