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March 26th, 2007 1 Comment »
I haven’t forgotten my New Year’s resolution. However travel has kept me from blogging. End of January had me in New Delhi for a wedding. That was the first time I’d attended a North Indian wedding in North India - the hospitality and arrangements were amazing. The wedding function was for 3 days - I got to attend it only for a day though.
February saw me in Bombay, Nashik and Hyderabad. In Nashik I got a chance to test drive the new Mahindra Renault Logan - The car’s great, BTW. Hyderabad gave me a chance to visit Navin & Vidya in their new house. Navin also took me on a visit to his office. While it might not be the Googleplex it’s still a Goolge office with all the legendary benefits (free snacks and drinks). There were a couple of visits to Bangalore and Madras in February.
March saw me off on a vacation for 11 days visiting Pattaya & Bangkok in Thailand and Langkawi & Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. It was a great break. I espically enjoyed drinking till 5 am in a beach bar in Pattaya
Oh, I’ve also started to exercise daily. I started in the middle of February and have managed to keep it up even during my vacation. I go for a brisk walk in the morning followed by a swim. A bunch of us are in the exercise group including Vijay. The target is 32×32, i.e. to have a waist size of 32.
January 9th, 2007 1 Comment »
I’ve been playing with two new toys for the last ten days. First is a new laptop. Raghu brought me an Apple MacBook Pro. I’ve been setting it up - with 2GB ram and a Core 2 Duo 2.33GHz processor it beats my previous Apple PowerBook G4 / 512MB ram hands down.
Next is a new cellphone. I’d been planning on a Nokia E60 for a long time but Pratheep convinced me at the last moment to spring for a Nokia E70 because of the better battery life. It’s got WiFi, GPRS and a QWERTY keyboard so should keep up my New Year resolution of blogging more frequently. (Yeah right!)
January 1st, 2007 1 Comment »
New year resolution - be a more frequent blogger. I’ve been really bad at it. Oh, and Happy New Year everyone.
April 28th, 2006 1 Comment »
Jack went to the market to sell a cow and got magic beans instead. Navin’s went to have a haircut and ended up clean shaven! Looks good on (or should I say off?) him. The kicker - Vidya was kept in the dark about it. Brave man indeed! May I suggest some future hairdos?


January 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
GMail seems to have a bug/feature. If you have an email address abc.xyz@gmail.com, email sent to abcxyz@gmail.com will be sent to your inbox. the converse is also true, a.b.c.x.y.z@gmail.com does the same thing! The Gmail served ignores any full stops (periods) in the middle!
Contrary to earlier reports, Gmail does not allow the registration of more that one variant (i.e. abc.xyz@gmail.com and abcxyz@gmail.com). Whatever is registered first is the only permitted version.
While I can’t think of any inmmedeate use of this feature, I’m sure someone will think of one.
November 13th, 2005 No Comments »
This week my blog received it’s first Spam comments!
When I received the first one, it took a while for me to realise that it was spam. So far I’ve only told a few close friends about my blog. I haven’t submitted it to any search engine. I was just surprised at getting my first external visitor and the message was worded to fool me at the first glance & I approved it. Next thing, I’m hit with multiple spam comments. How did they ever find my blog?
October 20th, 2005 No Comments »
I haven’t blogged in a long time since I’ve been traveling and falling sick. As a filler here’s a must watch advertisement video link that’s just great:
:::Carlton United Big Ad:::
PS. It’s work safe
October 8th, 2005 No Comments »
I came across this amazing photpgraph of the light patterns on the pavement caused by the recent solar eclipse .

From the photographter, Nils van der Burg:
What you see is the form of the sun when the moon was passing in front of it, then the shadow of the moon is reflected through the leaves of the trees.
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