Posted in Uncategorized on May 28th, 2006 No Comments »
We had installed Ubuntu months ago, but I never had a chance to use it. To be frank, I refrained from using it . Today, Balaji has gone out and here I am in his machine with Ubuntu loaded up. I wanted to test a few of the basic internet applications. Ubuntu comes with default [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 23rd, 2006 4 Comments »
I used to have good word power when I was in college. I carried my Oxfod dictionary where ever I went to keep up with the world of words and their meanings. I succeeded in mastering a lot of words. I used to pester my friends by making them ask me questions from dictionary. In [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 22nd, 2006 16 Comments »
Last week, I was in kerala for a colleague’s wedding. It was my first visit to the coconut paradise. I was gob-smacked by the scenic beauty of the state. After the marriage in Palghat, I and Sabaree (my colleague) headed to Ottapalam. Ottapalam is a small town with great views of the nature. After visiting [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 6th, 2006 2 Comments »
Now BSNL offers unlimited broadband services for Rs.900 per month from May 1 2006. It got my attention as I am one of the users of Data One broadband services offerred by BSNL. It is a happy and great news. I expected this to happen a few months before.
I checked with Data One [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 4th, 2006 2 Comments »
I was curious to see a lot of websites with FavIcons in the address bar and also in the favorites toolbar. I wanted create a FavIcon for my website with a decent picture of mine. Googling favicon creator fetched me a lot of results. The first result helped me to accomplish my task.
The tutorial on [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 4th, 2006 10 Comments »
I thought I could write up a user guide for booking tickets online in Satyam cinemas Chennai. The easy steps are listed below.
Open up Satyam cinemas’ online booking site.
Select number of tickets, day, the name of the movie and the price according to the class.
click book tickets
Login with the member account if you have one. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 4th, 2006 3 Comments »
Got up just now and found that the famous tamil actress Trisha Kannan’s birthday was making the headlines in Chennai chronicle today. Trisha’s fan club has celebrated her birthday in a lavish way yesterday. It was quite unusual for a actress’ fan club celebrating the birthday in a spectacular way. In TamilNadu, it is the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 3rd, 2006 Comments Off
I use bloglines as my feed reader. I am quite comfortable with it because it is online and so I don’t have to worry about missing any of the feeds, as I am used to read blogs both at office and home. My blogroll in bloglines can be shared publicly and there is an option [...]