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Thanjavur – Brihadeeswara temple architecture

Ubiquit — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:22:32 +0000

I once visited my friend’s house – an apartment built by one of the most famous builders in South India. It was 7 years old then, and I could see a lot of cracks running along the walls, the bathroom ceiling marked with seepage water-marks, not-so-good wall plastering, and..phew…a lot of other woes. Well, this [...]

Fort Collins to Horsetooth Reservoir – Colorado

Ubiquit — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:37:29 +0000

I was cleaning up the pictures folder when I stumbled upon these photos. Hmm, it’s been two full years since I clicked these pics on the way to the Horsetooth Reservoir from Fort Collins, Colorado. After crawling through the unruly maze in T.Nagar, there’s hardly anyone wouldn’t wish for a calm, neat road, winding up [...]

Retweet enabled on my Twitter account

Ubiquit — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:47:31 +0000

Just a couple of weeks ago I wrote about the upcoming retweet feature on Twitter. Today, when I signed on to Twitter, I got an info message that ‘m a part of the retweet beta group, and that the feature has been enabled. Finally, no more copy-paste and adding @tweeter at the beginning or the end. [...]

Rain clouds, and damned humans

Ubiquit — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:58:56 +0000

How many times have you come across people complaining that it’s raining outside, and their plans are all spoiled, or it’s disgusting to get wet, or how dull & gloomy it’s outside? It’s quite sad that I’ve been hearing such comments since it started raining over here. I agree that the roads are a mess [...]

Umbrella beads..

Ubiquit — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:07:48 +0000

It’s been raining, raining, raining…since yesterday morning. Looks like the rains will have non-stop fun in Chennai for another 12 hours. But, heck, I’m getting bored sitting at home, staring outside the window… So, I decided to colorize the otherwise grayish view outside the window.. (click the pics below to get a bigger view) [...]

Retweet on Twitter – Coming soon..

Ubiquit — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:50:04 +0000

Well, it’s quite a process to RT (retweet) someone or someone’s tweet as it involves copying & pasting the message and adding the tweeter’s id at the beginning or end of it – all within the 140 character limit! Phew!! Now, the folks @Twitter have taken this into account, and have enabled (or integrated?) this RT [...]

Equal opportunity follower..

Ubiquit — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:47:21 +0000

If you follow someone on Twitter, there’s no guarantee that he/she will follow you back. So, some tweeple (Twitter people) think that having more followers than following is a show of strength/popularity..or, whatever. Crap! Well, today I discovered that I’m an equal-opportunity follower. LOL! Nevertheless, I do religiously perform a ‘twitter-weed’ every other Sunday. Twitter-lists is just [...]

In the wrong place at the wrong time

Shalini Puthiyedam — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:20:11 +0000

“Am I to be blamed for the recession?” This must be the question raging in the minds of many unemployed educated youth here in India. This is the situation in the employment market. There are no jobs to be had and if there are, they come with a heavy price to pay for accepting them. [...]

Twitter Lists – It’s here!

Ubiquit — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:47:03 +0000

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the new feature, Lists, on Twitter that would help us organize our friends – categorically. Well, it’s finally up and running on Twitter, in BETA though. I just created a new list where I’ve added people whose tweets I’d like to follow. So, if I click on the list, [...]

Under the male gaze

Shalini Puthiyedam — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:57:15 +0000

I just read this somewhere and it set me thinking. Well, it’s a situation that’s neither new nor exclusive. Neither is it something that has not been written about, but maybe it’s still sometimes good to renew the debate. Why do women have to fight against the odds all the time? This incident that i read about [...]

Time is of essence

Shalini Puthiyedam — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:44:37 +0000

Time is always turning and yet it is still because its march is ordered and predictable. There is a relentless continuity to it. Each day, the sun rises in the East and sets in the West. The days come and go, the seasons come and go, the planets move around in their orbits ceaselessly and [...]

Secret of success – Shortcuts to move up in life..

Ubiquit — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:39:03 +0000

If you landed on this blog post to know the shortcuts to move up in life, then you must seriously consider knowing who you are and what you are. Do you think that there will be someone to guide you to a better and successful life? Sadly, the answer is NO. You’re all by yourself. [...]

Shimmering memories, and a leap back in time

Shalini Puthiyedam — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:11:41 +0000

20 years ago. It was that long back that I had last seen most of them. In the space between then and now, much water has flowed under the various bridges here in India and abroad. We had all traced our paths in life and are still continuing the journey. The passing years and the [...]

Mast Kalandar – bakwaas bandh kar..

Ubiquit — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:11:40 +0000

Well, people were going ga-ga over this restaurant, and recommended to me saying that it’s the real taste of Dilli (I mean, Delhi). I’m a foodie, and I leave no restaurant un-tasted. Stepped in, and found that the ambience is full of red, yellow and dark pink combo – to me, not too appetizing. When we [...]

Bharti Airtel is now enabling Twitter via SMS, but..

Ubiquit — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:30:27 +0000

Nowadays, MyAlltop page is the starting point for most of my blog articles. Today, I stumbled upon this post on Twitter that talks about its latest partnership with Bharti Airtel, one of the largest mobile service providers in India. The announcement goes like this.. Our partnership with Bharti Airtel, the largest mobile operator in India, means a [...]

WeFollow: Add yourself and network with Twitter-users by city or interests..

Ubiquit — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:46:16 +0000

If you’re looking for a way to find and befriend Twitter users in and around your locale, interest area, etc., you can try WeFollow. WeFollow is a Twitter directory, and you need to log in with your Twitter username and password to access this directory service. So, you may want to enter some relevant tags, [...]

Twitter and video tweets? Please NO, NO, NO.

Ubiquit — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:37:23 +0000

I came across this news about Twitter planning to add video tweeting. I checked MyAlltop page to see if there are any blips from the Twitter blog, and from the others. None of them talked about Twitter’s new adventure in the multimedia space. Expressing in 140 characters is by itself a big deal, and just imagine [...]

12 must-have plugins for your WordPress blog

Ubiquit — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:56:33 +0000

You would’ve come across many posts suggesting a list of cool plugins that one must install on their WordPress blog. However, in most cases, the plugins would’ve never been tested by the author suggesting them. Well, nothing wrong in that. However, I feel that one must get a hang of it before suggesting it to [...]

Google Chrome browser gets a dash of style..

Ubiquit — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:44:53 +0000

At last, it’s here! You don’t have to stare at the plain grayish monotonic Google Chrome browser anymore. You now have a wide choice of themes to choose from. According to Google, the themes are a result of the creations of various international artists, musicians, fashion designers, interior designers, etc. Art for Google’s sake!? Well, fire-up [...]

9 tips for a lean, readable blog..

Ubiquit — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 11:36:26 +0000

So, you are looking for information, you Google it, and get a list of links to various blog posts containing the info that you’re seeking. Imagine, there are 20 links, and you explore them one by one. Would you be reading the entire content of the blog post(s)? Well, I wouldn’t be doing that, [...]

Proof read your blog posts intelligently..

Ubiquit — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 08:30:24 +0000

After the Deadline – I came across this neat plugin for WordPress that integrates into the visual text editor, and enables spelling, grammar and style check of your blog posts. You may be aware of the inbuilt spell checker in WordPress, but you know, it’s not intelligent enough to make your blog posts error free. Until [...]

Group your favorite Twitter users using ‘Lists’ – Coming soon!

Ubiquit — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:30:28 +0000

I follow a lot of people that are spread across various time zones, and the same applies to my followers. Most of the time, I end up missing all those tweets (well, interesting links, news, blurbs, tips & tricks, jokes, etc) that come up while ‘m sleeping. So, how about creating categories/lists, and group my [...]

Come to think of it, old age is..

Ubiquit — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:18:17 +0000

I snapped this pic @Porscheplatz, Germany, on my way back from the famous Porsche Museum (drooled at those 911 Turbos and Carrera GTs). Whenever I saw a Porsche or BMW, I used to wonder “Oh boy, when ‘m I gonna buy one of these?”. Somewhere deep inside, I knew that I could never buy such [...]

Sunset on the Bavarian Alps – A moment to remember..

Ubiquit — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:50:21 +0000

This is the thousandth time ‘m staring at this pic. I took this pic from aboard an Alpen rail, on my way back from the fairytale-ish Neuschwanstein castle. Whenever I look at the picture, I get reminded of those good days in Germany, the Bavarian alps, the snow, and the petty craving for the ever-elusive [...]

WideAngle Typography – A remixed WordPress theme

Ubiquit — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:55:17 +0000

I’ve customized a lot of themes to my liking, and this is just one of them. This is one of those themes that I drool at, simply ‘coz of its super-fast loading times and uncluttered layout. WideAngle Typography is a remixed version of the original theme Typography Paramount, by Six Shooter Media. Part of WideAngle [...]