I’ve been using Flickr.com pretty fre­quently since it appeared on the Web. I like the inter­face and the pre­sen­ta­tion of the appli­ca­tion. On Sun­day night over din­ner at a place called Mag­no­lia, we — Adel, Kaushal and I — were dis­cussing the Web’s next apps. Actu­ally, I was pretty zonked hav­ing been awake since about 6 am in the morn­ing, but the two of them were going great guns.

Amongst the topic of the con­ver­sa­tion was Flickr.com and who it would sell out to. And hey — they must’ve heard us — because the news broke the next day that Ludi­corp was sell­ing out to Yahoo! I’ve been think­ing about get­ting a Flickr pro account, but now I think I’ll just wait and see for a while longer.

Kaushal is another Mum­bai­ite who has moved to Ban­ga­lore recently and is cur­rently in the process of set­tling down in the new city. He blogs at kronicles.blogspot.com. In fact, there’s news that another Mum­bai blog­ger (and we’re not nam­ing him yet) is mov­ing to Ban­ga­lore soon. So looks quite a few peo­ple are look­ing southwards :)

We also caught a movie called Chai Pani etc before din­ner. When Adel told me about the movie, I thought it was one of those 3rd grade gang­ster flicks. When he said it had Konkona Sen Sharma I felt a lit­tle bet­ter (that woman is every­where these days!). The movie was actu­ally quite good. I had seen the main actor, Zafar Karachi­wala in a play called Class of 84 a cou­ple of months ago and found him pretty good. The only thing I found strange was Konkona play­ing a dou­ble role (though she did a good job), the two char­ac­ters she played were look­ing too sim­i­lar. Even though they dressed up one in khadi, long kur­tas, dupat­tas, bindis and nose rings. The movie made an attempt to show how life goes on in India — despite every­thing — and though the con­cept was not new, the treat­ment was pretty good and it had its fun moments. Worth a watch, if you are look­ing for some­thing to do after a hard day at work!

Also watched Avi­a­tor on Sat evening. I know it’s been writ­ten about every­where. I actu­ally thought the movie was a lit­tle too long (the feel­ing you get after an Ashutosh Gowarikar film!). But the act­ing was good. Leonardo and Cate Blanchett were excel­lent. I can imag­ine why Leonardo would have been dis­ap­pointed to lose out on the Oscars. But appar­ently, James Foxx was even bet­ter in Ray, accord­ing to those who have seen the movie. I missed it when it came to Ban­ga­lore, so I will have to wait till the video is released.