March 2007

Boston Food Experience

March 28, 2007

During my stay in China, I had trouble getting good food. Being a vegetarian finding “edible” food became much more difficult. However unlike China I had no trouble in finding veggie food in Boston. Here is the list of restaurants I visited over the past one week and the “veggie delights” I had over there [...]

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MeasureMap – What ever happened ?

March 20, 2007

When I initially started this blog I signed up with Statcounter service which showed me detailed data of visitors reading my posts. It was exciting and nice to see the increasing number of visitors every day. However the free service of Statcounter has limited functionality and you infer less data with more visitors visiting your [...]

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Trip to Boston

March 16, 2007

I’m in Boston and will be here for another two weeks. Some of the highlights of my 19 hour journey from Bangalore to Boston The Lufthansa plane was at 3AM due to which I spent only 10 min in the cab from my home to the airport which otherwise would normally take 40 minutes. The [...]

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Web Host Switch

March 10, 2007

I started my web log with Blogger and later on moved to WordPress.com. The restrictions/limited features on WordPress.com made me switch to WordPress.org which at that time required a user to buy his own web hosting and a domain name. This gave birth to venukb.com/blog and on mid April I will be celebrating the first [...]

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Airtel 2Mbps “Live”

March 5, 2007

On March 1st I requested Airtel to switch my current 256kbps unlimited plant to 2Mbmps limited (3GB) plan. (For more details on Airtel new plans, check this post) After making multiple calls to Airtel customer service, the plan switch is finally done today. Nice to see downloads happening at 1.5-1.8Mb/second and nice to watch YouTube [...]

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Airtel offering 2Mbps

March 1, 2007

Airtel broadband service, one of the 3 SBU (Strategic Bussiness Unit) of Bharti Enterprises has now started offering 2Mbps bandwidth plans. The official site is still not updated with the latest tariff plans. The service is available only in select areas (as told by the customer service). Sushubh has more info about the new packages. [...]

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Cisco Stock Price !

March 1, 2007

Check the stock quote data of CSCO The day high was 100,000$ against the avg price of 24$. Now who would pay so much for 1 stock and how does the exchange allow such a transaction. One of my friends in Cisco was regretting that he missed an early retirement opportunity

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