http://www.gauravvaz.com/blog Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:48:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So after years of searching and debating, Shilpa and I found our song .. for the moment! we've found many such songs, but this one we're learning to sing a duet for etc .. so here goes .. http://www.gauravvaz.com/blog/our-song/ For some odd reason, tonight, I was sitting and watching Channel [V]'s feature on 'Rock On', the new Farhan Akthar movie about being rock musicians in India, a topic that is dear to my heart. And after an Ad break, a message, "Please Stand Up for the National Anthem" came ... http://www.gauravvaz.com/blog/independence-day/ And all of a sudden today, wordpress.com stopped working for me! I kept getting an error message "not site admin" on any wordpress.com page. And whats more .. the page source shows NO HTML, NO NOTHING!! Anyone have any idea what the issue is? *UPDATE* - So there was an issue! and ... http://www.gauravvaz.com/blog/wordpresscom-goes-down/ Sign the Pledge - http://bengalurubleeding.com/petition/ I have been an amateur musician for about 8 years now and a large part of my education as a musician happened playing in the various venues in and around Bangalore. These were either college fests where my band Phenom competed or pub gigs where we ... http://www.gauravvaz.com/blog/dance-to-my-tunes/ I came across this brilliant video of one of my favourite bands "Rush" trying to play one of their most popular songs "Tom Sawyer" on Rock Band! And needless to say they Suck at it!! But it makes for a damn hilarious watch! http://www.gauravvaz.com/blog/wonder-how-i-would-fare-with-phenoms-songs/ Seems like our friendly neighbourhood software company is either trying out new marketing tactics or is the victim of some interesting spam? http://www.gauravvaz.com/blog/interesting-spam/ This has been a long neglected area of my life, I got my DSLR (off my good friend Ashwin of course) over 2 years back now and I have been taking lots of photographs mostly because I am usually the only person with a good camera at hand, but of ... http://www.gauravvaz.com/blog/my-photography-skills/ I have just started putting up photos of my lovely trip to London on my photoblog and it should be all up there by the end of the week. Please check from time to time :) http://www.gauravvaz.com/blog/london-photos/ The past few weeks and the next few to come have officially been the craziest times of my life! I have learnt so much its not even funny and everything just happened at the same time.After the North East trip, I have come out a much stronger person and I ... http://www.gauravvaz.com/blog/the-craziest-time-of-my-life/ I got back to Bangalore yesterday and I'm still trying to catch up with things on multiple fronts. The trip through the North East of India has positively changed my life! And in many ways, the lessons I have learned from this trip I would never ever have got otherwise ... http://www.gauravvaz.com/blog/back-home/