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Getting back to work
Why don’t they have bank holidays every month? I loved this bank holiday weekend. Allowed my body and brain to catch up with some sleep. I had deprived myself of decent sleep for quite some time. Good sleep, a day out in the Notting Hill Carnival, phone calls to family and friends, meeting friends and…
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Textile 2.0 Plugin for WordPress
Did I tell you that, “last week, I upgraded my WordPress installation to version 1.2”. Today I decided to activate the Textile 2.0 plugin. It is a cool hack that allows us to format the posts without learning HTML(Hypertext Markup Language). Now formatting the content is simple as * typing * on either side of…
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Blog Directories
Blog directories on the web
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Telephone Spams
When I got my new BT number I made sure to exclude my number from the telephone directory. And I have never disclosed the number to any one. But I still get annoying spam messages on my answerphone. I am getting frustrated with the number of spams I receive in my voice mailbox. This is…
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Oracle 10g Installation (no) Woes
I don’t know what has got into my head. For the last two days, I have been fighting with a strange problem with Oracle 10g’s TNS Listener. I could not establish a connection to from the remote clients, the TNS Listener was not responding at all. And at the end I traced to problem to…
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Paes/Bhupathi looses the semi-final
Now that they have lost to the Germans in the semi-final, let us pray that they atleast win the bronze 🙁
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Indian Doubles Pair through to the semi-final
The Indian duo of Leander Paes and Bhupathi are now just one game away from challenging the gold medal. Yesterday the beat Zimbabwe’s W.Black/ K.Ullyett in straight sets. The final score was 6-4, 6-4. Now they will face N.Kiefer/ R.Schuettler of Germany in the semi-final on Thursday. Let us wish them good luck for their…
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Indian national anthem in Athens
Happy news at last 🙂 Rajyavardhan S. Rathore has won the silver medal in Men’s double trap shooting at the athens. Rajyavardhan is currently ranked number 3 in the world and I am very delighted to see him winning a medal at the Olympics. He is only the fourth Indian to win any medal at…