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Dot5Hosting – the worst ever webhost

Mohan — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:38:41 +0000

Since I bought my own domain 3.5 years back, I have been associated with dot5hosting. At that time I got the web hosting plan at an unbelievable price of $18 for 2 years including domain. I felt so happy to shell out less than $20 to avail both the domain and web hosting account. This [...]

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Purple start for a new year

Mohan — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:55:10 +0000

There are a number of reasons to share this photo today! I clicked this photo just a few moments ago, this is to mark the beginning of a Telugu/Kannada new year day called Ugadi. Tree in this photo is in front of our house having a new bunch of flowers budding out to signify the [...]

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2010 Fantasy F1 on ESPNSTAR.com

Mohan — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:19:13 +0000

Greetings everybody! For the season 2010 of Formula One, I have switched over to espnstar.com to create a fantasy league. This has been done since Yahoo! fantasy F1 is on hiatus this season. If F1 is something you are attached to and love the game, feel free to enroll your team online and lets play the [...]

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Story of a missing Nut Cap

Mohan — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:55:36 +0000

Plan was to visit Mysore and the surrounding places on one of the weekends. I opted for a self driven travel on our Hyundai Santro since ours is a small family consisting of mom, dad, wifey and myself. It was the occasion of a full moon day and we were told in the previous visit about the [...]

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Somanathapura – Archeological marvel

Mohan — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:44:59 +0000

Somanathapura Keshava temple is located on the river banks of Kaveri, about 30 kilometers from Mysore city. This temple is now under the custody of Archeological survey of India. This is also declared by United Nations as ‘Culture Heritage Center’. Every carving of a stone in this temple makes you wonder about the kind of [...]

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!ncredible India : Atithi Devo Bhava

Mohan — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:57:12 +0000

We all have heard, seen and enjoyed the campaign called ‘!ncredible India’ by tourism department of India. In fact they did a great job in creating a brand campaign that reached masses around the globe. It is also true that this campaign made a huge impact globally. But have you ever wondered about what the [...]

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An Update on Random Things

Mohan — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:13:05 +0000

I have a lot of things in mind to write but not finding enough time. Most of you would have already noticed that I am not being very regular on this blog since the beginning of February. Getting very busy at work offlate and hence not able to spend time on blog to write new [...]

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Chekkala Bhajana – A Folk Art from Andhra

Mohan — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:10:32 +0000

You all have heard of well known dance formats like Bharata Natyam, Mohiniaattam, Kathak, Kuchipudi, Kathakali and many more. But in those art formats, each person is associated with usually one of the task among singing, dancing and playing musical instruments. Of course, all these formats are Indian classical dances. There is more in our [...]

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Kingfisher Indiblogger Meet @ Kyra

Mohan — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:43:04 +0000

Writing this post as I am returning from Kingfisher Indiblogger meet at Kyra Theatre, Bangalore while traveling in a BMTC Volvo public transport instead of taking out my own vehicle. Since Kyra is pretty distant from my home, I chose to utilize the public transport on a lazy Sunday afternoon. This meet was sponsored by [...]

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Brinjals from my GardenVille

Mohan — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:15:18 +0000

I know many of you are still busy in playing FarmVille game on facebook. As mentioned before on this blog, here I am sharing the brinjals (Egg Plant) from my GardenVille! You can read about that mention in one of my previous posts here. Yes, home grown brinjals from my tiny rooftop garden. All these [...]

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