tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74235972024-10-05T09:22:58.974+05:30My nth attempt at maintaning a continuous blog...Shanmuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09035748052928095107noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423597.post-1148970351927545602006-05-30T11:49:00.000+05:302006-05-30T11:55:51.936+05:30

Here I am, after another hiatus.. Blissfully married and settled down (well, almost!!).. Lets see how far the blogging spree goes, this time around. The blogosphere is pretty active these days with hot issues such as reservations and Arjun Singh's senility, I need to find more interesting topics for me to blog on!!! Meanwhile, savor one of photographs (of that very often photographed Ooty Lake):

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Borra Caves, near Vizag This is now turning into a photo blog, I guess. Had been to Vizag for one my colleague's marriage and had gone on a tour of the nearby tourist spots-Borra caves, which was my first real cave (fictional ones being a lot in three investigators/tom sawyer-huck finn from my childhood). It turned out to be a bit of an anticlimax - the cave smelled of bat droppings, and was

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A Rose in our garden This is one of my first Macro Experiments..which came out pretty decent(I hope).

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'Feel Like God' - goes the tagline. Even though I had decided long before seeing the ad, the ad did make me feel good. Yes - all ye faithful readers of blog, I am the owner of a Bajaj Avenger, my first Motorbike, and a cruiser. All gleaming chrome and contrasting black, the vehicle would be my steed for quite some time, I believe. None of the people I know, believed me when I said that I am going

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Naa...it was just Australia losing a test match to England.Not really the end of an era, but I did enjoy watching England close out the match keeping the pumped up Bret lee and Share Warne at bay. Was expecting Flintoff to close out the match but Giles turned out to be the unlikely hero. Why do we always root for the underdogs? Has it got to with me being a middle class south Indian, who is

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"No thinking - that comes later. You must write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key to writing is... to write, not to think!", says Forrester, in Finding Forrester. Thats what I think I will do from now on. I know this is going to be harsh on the esteemed readers of my blog (heee heee)..still a man has gotta do what he has gotta do. Swami

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Thanks to Vishu, I have been tagged. and This tagging madness has waken me up from my blogging hibernation. OK..here goes: Ctrl+c Ctrl+v from Vishu's tagged post: Number of books I own: Quite some...around 70+ Last Five Books I Read: Coma – Robin Cook The murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie Mystery on the orient express - Agatha Christie The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett The Color of

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After quite sometime, found the drive to just hit the keyboard and blog away. Not many things happened on the personal front. Moved to a new house in Hyderabad. Had good food for almost a month and half because of mom being in Hyderadad. Visited a lot of friends during the Good Friday long weekend at Chennai. Trying to grow a full beard. On the work front, its just bugs, bugs and more bugs.

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Teppakkulam, Trichy

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After a log time comes this posting. So must be more precious than others... The price of something is purely based on supply and demand. Given the miniscule demand for my blog, I am sure the frequency of my posting is beating down the supply..so my blog should be havinng a decent value (my MBA readers, pardon the mistakes in my lingo)... As promised earlier, details reagarding my trip: The

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Above Clouds... Yipee! Google is my customer. I sell adspace to Google. Man, that does sound good. Before I forget, for all the photoblogging enthusiasts out there who are shrouded by the iron curtain of a corporate firewall, use the Hello bloggerbot client from this URL: Hello Beta Oh, and the pictures for the day are taken from the plane from HonkKong to Bangkok. Will write my

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Montara State Beach, Off Highway 1, California The work atmosphere in the US HQ is so very different from the one which we are used to in Hyderabad...Everybody is so 'professional'..Come in by 0900..keep working...have a quick lunch...keep working...leave workplace by max 1700 hrs...no cozy tea breaks, no big team lunches...of course there are always exceptions. Hyderabad is much more laid

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SanFrancisco Skyline All Ye invisible fans of my blog!(visible fans also), This is a post from the USo'A...(Oh! All my posts from Hyderabad also used to be from the US because my proxy server is in the US...hehehe). Came to the US on the eleventh of this month. Not much of any kind of shock...just some jet lag. The roads a wider, cars are bigger and faster. The people seem friendly enough.

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Now don't go off imagining all sorts of lofty idealistic trysts.. On Wednesday, Adbul gave me the much anticipated Ubuntu Linux distribution. Much anticipated because this linux was supposed to be a breeze to install and use. It was reputed to recognize all graphics and sound at the first install without much of configuration mumbo-jumbo typically associated with other Linux Distro

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Today was a Bharat Bandh. Went to office at the usual time and came back at the usual time, and would probably sleep at the usual time. But the amount time spend online has increased...yes..earlier after coming back from office, I used to watch TV and read some novel and then go to sleep...now as soon as I come from office, I go online and thats it...the only thing recognize after that is

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Lots of updates, In descending order of importance: Got a cable internet connection to my house over the weekend. The logic being that I would now regularize my timings - and would not stay absurdly late in office (as I usually do). Fat Chance. A more observble offshoot may be more regular blogging. When I took the 256 Kbps connection, I had visions of lightning fast downloads like the

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Happened to watch the movie- Pulp Fiction, the 'acclaimed' 'cult' 'movie'. Not sure what was the director's intent when he made the move. Q T the great had a decent image in my mindscape after Kill Bills, but he fell flat on his face after I watched(rather, waded through) this one. I do agree that the movie is slickly made and the screenplay is taut, but it borders on the verge of missing

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Unable to find time to watch WI trash Pak and the English belt out Aussies, in the ICC Champions trophy. Unable to find time to even post in my beloved blog. Apologies People. (As if I have a fan following! :-( ) Life is tricking along. It is so insipid, one day same the other, with no special occurances to look forward to. Even the shared-auto trips have become so monotonous. Need to infuse

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Yipee! Google has recognized my blog - this is such an important event, that I have rewritten this post, pushing the news about that unfortunate piece of software which would have become famous for being the most short-lived installation on my PC. Thanks Amma, Appa, for naming me,rather, spelling me Shanmuhanathan - with a 'ha' between 'mu' and 'na'. All the search engines point to me

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Moved from ageold Netscape 7 to Thunderbird and FireBird and it rocks! I am not sure if the applications have become really faster.. And finally chucked out IE from my default browser. You should never even think of using it for default browsing when guys tell you not to use it even on a microsoft site OK. Gotta rush

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PC would increase rates. PC would decrease rates. PC will do nothing. PC for P.Chidambaram, India's Finance Minister. The media has turned all of its googol candela spotlights on the Indian budget 2004. Every channel you surf, every newspaper you pick up, every site you visit has the some advice or other for the poor guy. He has a huge expectation to satisfy,generated due to his 'Dream

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As Sidin says, Humble Apologies for not posting for the last....um.. 6 days. I donot believe in 'post gratis postia' (Thanks MGM). However, my earlier posts might belie this belief. Looks like Greece is going to romp home with the Henri Delaunay Trophy. Even though Figo looked sublime in the match against the Dutch, Maniche could bend it like you know who, I think they might not be up to

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Its not yet 5 posts and finding appropriate titles has become quite a daunting task. Will probably remove the title part...or better still decide on the title after I have completed my rant for the day! :-D Happened to see a deserving Czech republic crush the helpless Danes and roll on the the Euro 2004 Semis. Would be interesting to see how Greece fares in the semis. All ye fans of

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Its yet another weekend and I am at office as usual.. Trying to solve some issue at an Argentinean Gold Mine. hmmm...If only I got some of that Gold as my pay :-D Tried submitting a story to slahdot and it got rejected. One of my favourite sides in Euro-2004, France is out of the race. My Saturday of learning is spoiled by some unseen Argentinean conspiracy. How low can it get... Good

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Portugal Vs. England - Euro 2004 - It a was good football match. I very much wanted Portugal to win and they did. Somehow, I am always against England...(Probably got to do with my hate of colonization). Even in their last match, wanted Crotia to win - unfortunately that didnot happen. Portugal was clearly the better side, mainiting possesion for more that 60% of the match. Yet, they lacked

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