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Personal Blogs

Where the hell am I ?

November 10, 2008 Personal Blogs

This site saw the last post almost 3 months back and since then many have been checking with me on my well-being.
Few services even banned this site for having no activity in the last 3 months.
I just took a long break from blogging and hope to be back as soon as possible !
It [...]

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Bangalore International Airport Site is down !

May 25, 2008 Personal Blogs

The new Bangalore International airport started operating from today and seems to have already handled around 341 flights.
I tried to check on the official website to know more about the launch day only to find the website down ! I tried accessing the site contents via Google cache; even that seemed to lead to pages [...]

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Bangalore International Airport

May 19, 2008 Personal Blogs

The Bangalore/Bengaluru International Airport (BIA) is finally commencing operations from 23 May 2008.
The switch to the new airport will take place at midnight on May 23. As per the statement from BIAL (BIA Limited) all flights landing and departing after midnight will operate from the new airport.
Update: BIA opened on May 24 (Saturday) and handled [...]

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Pagerank updated and the site is downgraded !

May 2, 2008 Google

There has been another round of pagerank update and I see that many sites have got a higher pagerank and few of them have even managed to get a PR of 4 within few months !
This site had a PR of 4 from quite some time and even during the last update where few sites [...]

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Airtel website hacked ?

May 1, 2008 Mobile

My 8Mbps broadband plan is sucking out money from the past 2 months; somehow I am managing to exceed the 4GB download limit.
With the intent of checking on some new plans, I tried to access the Airtel website http://www.airtel.in
I ended up with this:

The URL was being re-directed to http://www.airtel.in/srilanka/srilanka….. Looks like the site was hacked [...]

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Online Banking in India

March 23, 2008 Personal Blogs

Online Banking has really caught up in India and you rarely see a bank not providing online access to your bank account. However the quality of user experience varies across banks and the same can be said about the security.
ING Vysya Bank, the Indian arm of ING is one example of a crappy online banking [...]

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Color blindness

February 9, 2008 Personal Blogs

Recently Raj found out that he was color blind and requested his readers to take the color blindness test on Flixter. When I first scrolled through the quiz questions, I thought it was some kind of fun since I wasn’t able to find numbers in those circles.
After spending considerable amount of time, I finally came [...]

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Theme update

January 9, 2008 Personal Blogs

The new year has bought in a new look to my weblog. Here is a snapshot of the site opened in Safari.

The last update was done in July 2007. After checking lot of themes, I finally settled on the Freicurv theme. I still have to work on the ad placements and some of the page [...]

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Staples – Now In Bangalore

January 6, 2008 Gadgets

I have been planning to write about my visit to Staples from quite some time and now I have finally found some time
Staples is one of the worlds largest office supply retail store chain and they entered India via a joint venture with Kishore Biyani’s Pantaloon Retail Limited. The biggest store in Bangalore [...]

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Godfather vs Shawshank Redemption

December 26, 2007 Personal Blogs

I keep a regular check on the IMDB Top 250 to see if any new movies have made it to the elite list. Today I noticed that both Godfather and Shawshank Redemption have got the same weighted rating of 9.1
(I am not sure it was the same few months back, I guess Shawshank had a [...]

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