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Jan 30, 2010 apparently was day when the moon was pretty close to the earth. So here's a snap ;-)

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How about this to depict mother nature crying? The glaciers and ice caps melting are some the highly perceptible effects of the global warming scenario.Irrespective of the merits of the global warming debate.. this picture, captured by Michael Nolan, as a photograph is very descriptive of whats happening to the ice caps.http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2009/10/

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Have you guys played Tetris before? I am sure most of us have. Such an addictive game... Used to play this even in the Windows 3.1 time.. oops.. looks so much behind in the past. But nevertheless it was fun ... Have been hours at it before.. Also there is a two player version .. where two players compete against each.. the beauty in that if one player completes more than one row with a piece, two

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Another one those patent stories.. Which are ridiculous Google now has a patent for the google search webpage you know . The ubiquitous page we see whenever we go to www.google.com With an input box and few links is now patented. But cmon, this is such a simple page and anybody trying to give a shot at creating a webpage by writing a html code would end up doing something like this .. Check for

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This is Vinayaka Chaturthi season and this is the time the Ganesha idols are taken in a procession for immersion.The processions vary from simple idols with meagre decorations to highly decorated idols. The people in the procession go about dancing with all kinds of drums single sided horizontal, single sided vertical to double sided drums of various sizes. But the enthusiasm of the folks who

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I am going to move to the Moon.. Going by the present of real estate in Bangalore I am sure it would be better off to move to the Moon where the real estate I am sure would be cheaper.. and now here is all the more the reason..The moon has a better bandwidth connectivity than what I can get at my house.. 100Mbps..http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/08/20/1233258/NASA-Probe-Blasts-461-

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How about this news.. Pilot used the laptop of a passenger for checking weather.. for their flight ahead..http://gizmodo.com/5341675/random-dude-with-a-laptop-called-up-to-cockpit-to-help-pilots-plot-a-new-courseSo you see it is better to carry your laptop when on a flight. You never know when it will be useful..

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Found this new project by MIT.. "Personas". The concept is so cool.. It basically tries to scrounge the internet for your name and provides an output which basically tries to characterize the digital life of you. The best part is the way it does the characterization. The method it follows and the visual representation of the same is also soooo cool...The only catch is it looks up by name and if

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Came across this article.. now we can think of going to space without using present day rocket fuel based propulsion.. but with laser propulsionLeik Myrabo, an aerospace engineer, who has been working on this for nearly 3 decades claims it can now soon become reality.. He also hints at using this technology to go from one region of earth to the opposite end within an hour !!!Then we can commute

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Today's Bing Image India.. is coool.. greennn http://www.bing.com

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Phew.. this is so cool... both the idea and the execution...

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Today's Bing image in India (and most of Asia I think) is scary..http://www.bing.com

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I had a strange problem with my Windows Media Player that it was not playing wmv files properly.. I had upgraded to WMplayer 11 where the wmv files played only video and no audio. So when I downgraded back to WMplayer 9, the files started playing at twice the speed. :-) After quite some searching found a solution for this vague problem.. Thanx to m05ue on this forum who posted the answer to this

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New Speed test site.. at least new for me.. :-) I like the graphics and the report.. Check it out..

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Well, its been a while I blogged .. it is almost like I retired from blogging.. well not really.. let's say it was a hiatus away from blogging.Now that this has become a season of come backs, I though let me too make a "Come Back" on blogging. Season of Come backs?? Yup.. Lance Armstrong and now Micheal Schumacher.. Lance Armstrong's, the seven time Tour De France champion, comeback has really

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Some time back I had written a post regarding Farewell Emails. That post seems to have become very popular. Not that I received a whole lot of responses, but then it seems to a page which has the highest number of hits. This is the case even today quite some time after I have written the post.The main reason seems to be the search engines seem to lead people to this page when they search for "

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I am going to run for the next parliament elections. It is official.I am going to start my own political party. I have not zeroed in on the name yet. But a probable name is "Janata Jagaran Party (JJP)". Since I am the founder of the party, I shall be the President of the party for the first year, which will later follow a democratic process of elections. Posts of Secretary, treasurer and

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This is the latest offering of Rahman and BharatBala to the spririt of the nation. This has been released on the 60th Anniversary of Indian Independence. These guys manage to make great music and videos celebrating the unity of India.Video Courtesy usthadh007Rahman as always rendered another version of our anthem, albeit the score has not changed much, it is the arrangement etc. which has done

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Advertising is such a creative field... This ad talks about a bank but uses a seemingly different prop and models to convey the message. Pity not all ads are so good... Cool ad.. Video courtesy subhasisbeura

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Found this new version of the hit song from Munagaru Male.. in churmuri...hilarious...

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FacelessOriginally uploaded by museum of dirt Tring...[Automated Message]Welcome to XXX BankEnter your Credit Card or Debit Card number787988799366313308Thank you, enter your PIN6532Sorry, that is an invalid entry.. Please enter ur pin6523Sorry that is an invalid entry.... Transferring you to a customer service executive.[beep] [beep] [beep]All our Customer Service Executives are busy.. Your

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Found this post in the blog of my blogger friend Keerthi. Very interesting capture.. Translating for non Tamil audienceMunjagirthai Muthanna (Over cautious Muthanna)This guy seems to have all the following on his cycle2 Rearview mirrors,2 Bells1 Horn in the middle1 Baggage Container in the front1 Baggage hold at the backTo top it all a "helmet":-)

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Hooked onto this song.. Get this widget | Share | Track details

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Now that we have been seeing quite a few farewell emails at work, how about this one.I always used to think when people write farewell emails, do they really mean it? All the nice goody goody words. Do we really tell what we want to tell?Having said that, being optimisitic, I can also assume that may be the guys who write goody goody farewell emails really felt only goody and moved only for

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I have been a fan of the Tickle tests and have taken many of their tests.. Now they have new thing call post results... so trying it out..Tickle Tests.. - Multiple Intelligence Test You're a Logical/Mathematical Intelligence! The Multiple Intelligences Test Brought to you by Tickle

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Amazing forward I received.. Read on and enjoyLovers of the English language might enjoy this.....There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any othertwo-letter word, and that is "UP."It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP?At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP and

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Indian Government bans the ads of the spirits, liquors and cigarettes on the television and radio channels. This I guess is a measure of trying not to promote the usage of these products by the people in general.But then, if that was the noble reason of the government, why would not just ban these items of the market and production. A large portion of the revenue to the government's exchequer are

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I just saw a video on National Geographic "Amazing Videos" about how a gorilla saved a child.Apparently, in the Brookfield zoo in Chicago, a boy once fell into the Gorilla enclosure. The boy was only 3 year old. Even as the rescuers tried to rescue the boy, who had fell 20 feet and become unconscious, an 8 year old female Gorilla, actually extricates the child and takes him to safe place where

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Yesterday as I was watching the Formula 1 race, at the end of the race during the podium ceremony, the commentators were talking about winning and losing. A comment was made about what Mario Andretti, a legendary car racer said. Mario, by the way, is such a great driver that he has driven almost all types of competitive car racing from Formula1, NASCAR, Indycar, Touring Cars, ChampCars etc. and

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I guess one of the most difficult things of driving a car is parking and that too parallel parking. I am sure many of the drivers find it extremely difficult to do it. How about this for parking help? Watch this..The technology is amazing. I am sure we will one day have "auto-driver" cars. 

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Have always wondered how cartoons like Mickey, Donald, Tom and Jerry etc. actually were actually thought of. As the story goes, Walt Disney came up with the character of Mickey after watching a mouse nibble on some food. I bet this would have been quite an inspiration. Coming to think I can very clearly see Chip and Dale have come from. I have these group of squirrels in my garden which seem

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Some ads are really innovative especially when they try to tell a message. Have a look at this.

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Gone are the days when car racing as a sport was dangerous. I guess they are much more safer than the driving on the present day roads in India. Have a look at these videos. This was an accident which happened to Robert Kubica in a  Formula 1 car in the Canadian Grand Prix.  The accident is so spectacular and one would assume the accident would have been fatal or the driver would have been

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The other day we were having a discussion regarding the skin colors of people. Nature has not made all human beings to have same skin tone. We have people in some parts of the world, with the deepest of the deep browns bordering on black, to some people who are so fair that one could even see the blood through the veins near the skin. And in between these there are people of various color

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People in the present day corporate are always told of one thing.. "See the big picture". While it might be a very good thing to do.. not sure how many would have really seen this big a picture :-)

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Heard about this.. Muscle power over electrical power. We have heard that cars or road vehicles need a push sometimes when they are low on battery or some such things... but ever heard that a train had to be pushed. This bizarre incident happened in Bihar. Apparently a passenger train was stopped by pulling the emergency brakes. When the train came to a halt, it stopped in the neutral zone

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Flowers are great subjects to be photographed. I am fond of flowering plants, and have a small garden though just in pots. How about this yellow hibiscus blooming away?

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Well this is another of those posts which most of Bangalore bloggers would write about.. No cookies for guessing.. Traffic. Actually I will not talk about traffic per se but more on how I was surprised. My drive to work in the morning is, like most of us, in the peak hours that is 9ish. My usual drive time on a normal day (non holidays) is an average of 45-50 minutes. The fastest I have ever

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After a long time I tried something which I was fond of before - painting. It was something which I was fairly good at during my primary and high school days but never got around to paint anything after that. I has been nearly 17 years. So yesterday I did roll over the inertia and tried my hand at it. It was definitely hard thing to start of with as I was completely out of touch. But then was

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In one of my earlier posts I had talked about man made and natural, and actually I had talked about birds weaving their nests etc. Today I saw one such act of nature live.There was a spider which had decided to make its home in my garden. So it had begun its construction activities. Spider Webs comes in different types. So this one in my garden, I guess, belongs to Aranaidae family which spins

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Today is May Day, the first of May. May day is celebrated by many communist and socialist nations as the workers day. But actually it has spread to many countries which are not communist or socialist too and they celebrate it as a Worker's Day. Today I too have a day off at work on account of May Day. I work in the software industry where there is no such concept as unions or the like. Even we

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The sky wars are raging... Indian skies have opened up for the various airlines and now there are many airlines offering services both to the premium customers and low cost customers. Now there are so many airlines to choose from to fly. Now that options are high, so is the marketing to woo the public.This was one of the set of hoardings seen in Mumbai, depicting the sky wars. Superb.. marketing

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India exited out of the Cricket World Cup 2007 early.. too early than the whole world expected. Anyway.. I am an ardent cricket fan and a great supporter of the Indian team, so naturally I am too upset about the whole episode. I was so upset the next day after the debacle that I hardly found anything interesting to do. So I don't want to ramble on further about this. But I found something very

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Way back in 2002 when we first saw this ad on TV, it blew the Indians of their feet. I think no other ad jingle was ever so popular.It was and is still so popular that various morphs of this basic tune is still making the rounds in the ads.It is the single most popular downloaded mobile ringtone.Lots and lots of cars use this tune as their backup alarm.I have even seen house bell ringers with

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Another of the long weekends whizzed past me. Every time I come close to a weekend I plan to do some of my long pending, or let me say, long planned activities, but many times they do not materialize. This weekend was a rather hectic sprinkled with some periods of illness.So in effect another weekend which went by without a lot of my "long pending" activities. The weekend had social visits and

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I have always liked many kinds of music except hard rock and anything harder than that :-) . I like Indian Classical Carnatic music and also many of the other non conventional music which is normally classified as "new age" or "world music" genres. I just wanted to share some of such music which I like. So let me start with one.Gladiator Main The...This is the OST of the blockbuster "Gladiator".

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A forwarded joke..----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------A guy woke up at home with a huge hangover. He forced himself to open his eyes, and the first thing he saw is a couple of aspirins and a glass of water on the side table. He sat down and sees his clothing in front of him, all clean and pressed.Rohit looks around the room and sees

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What do you think a spider can do that too a blind one? It has actually stopped the progress of setting up a mine worth $10 Billion. This is in Western Australia where a new iron ore mine was being setup. As part of the excavations they found few species of this spider and they were deemed as endangered species. Hence the mining has been put on hold. So what is so special about this spider?These

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Cingular, one of the largest Mobile Service provider in USA is going to be renamed as AT & T. In this age of mergers and acquisitions, these name changes have seem to become common. But the history of this is pretty hilarious.Watch this.. :-)

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Another of the trivia I heard the other day on the drive back home,"Cold Water Showers gives better character to a person"Wow !!! I am sure this is a joke. :-). But then I did some research on this.We know that in India, yoga advocates cold water showers (at least normal temperature) showers in warmer climates. Basically it rejuvenates the body and makes the blood circulation better. But then it

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Today on my drive back from work, I heard a trivia on the radio. The topic was about why women complain that the men do not talk to them as much they want. It has been and I guess will be an universal grouse which women will have against men. On an average, a woman speaks 20000 words per day while the man speaks 7000 words per day. Ooops thats lot of difference. But lets face it, it is a

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I am not a great book reader. I somehow "lack the patience", you might say, for reading books. I feel it is a rather slow process. It is not that I read slowly, I read pretty fast. I did quantify it too the other day :-). But then it still seems slow compared to watching visually. The data transfer I feel is much faster in case of video. Even if I read books, I don't go near fiction, movies are

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Have you ever thought about how each one of us have different perspectives about the same thing?One such incident.. some more than 10 years ago, Indian currency notes had Mahatma Gandhi only on rupee notes of denominations Rs 500 and more. And one fine day almost all rupee notes right from Rs 5 to all denominations upto Rs 1000 started to have Mahatma Gandhi on them.In a casual conversation with

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Posting some forwarded Santa Jokes.. Hilarious... :-)What is Common between : Krishna, Ram, Gandhiji & Jesus..?Sardarji Replied : All are Born on Government Holidays.*****Sardar bought a new mobile. He called everyone from his Phone Book & said"My Mobile No. has changed .. Earlier it was Nokia 3310 Now it is 6610"*****Santa : I am a Proud Sardar, My son is in Medical CollegeBanta : Really, what

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Kannada films are coming of age. Some nice movies coming out and even more nice is the music for some of these films."Mungaru Male" (Monsoon Rain) is one such movie. I like this song especially. It is amazing music by Mano Murthy. Sonu Nigam has done an extremely good job in singing a Kannada Song.Enjoy..

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Who would have thought Ganguly would be back in the Indian team and that too in the helm of the affairs an year ago? I certainly did not. I did have a thought that he would do a few "try-to-comeback" test matches and then finally hang his boots. But he has proved me wrong. I guess he has proved many of us wrong. He is back with a bang. At his age and also after all the humiliation and

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I saw this Tamil movie Anbe Sivam (Love is God) starring Kamal Hassan and Madhavan again on TV. This movie is a 2003er directed by Sundar C. The movie is loosely based on Planes, Trains and Automobiles. This must be the 4th or 5th time I have seen this.This movie is about how two guys Nallasivam (Kamal Hassan) and Anbarasu (Madhavan) who were supposed to come from Bhubaneshwar to Chennai by

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I came across this article in "How Stuff Works". I did not know such a thing existed. This is called "Acoustic Levitation", the act of making something float in air with sound :-) . Nice reading. It uses the property of standing waves caused by interference due to the reflection of sound waves.Enjoy..

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Sethusamudram project in the southern coast of India is an ambitious project of the Government of India. It is some what like the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal, but not really that overwhelming.The small strip of sea between India and Srilanka near Rameshwaram on the southern coast of India is the site for this project. In this straits passes the legendary Rama's bridge or Adam's Bridge. This

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Today is Sarvodaya Day aka Martyrs' day. This is the day when Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated, truly a black day in our history. It is a pity that we really dont remember this great man today and we hardly even observe a couple of minutes of silence for the Father of our Nation.Some weeks back I read a biography of Mahatma Gandhi by Taya Zinkin, one of the many biographies about this amazing

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One of the greatest inventions in the era of communication is the Television. There was an era when we used to have Doordarshan the only channel. The TVs were equipped with only a rotary switch which could switch the channels, not that we had more channels to switch to. We had to watch what would be played on the one and only channel. I used to wonder how everybody has to see what a group of

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It was a sleepy Sunday afternoon, was channel hopping and found the Maniratnam's Tamil movie, Kannathil Muthamittal (A Peck on the cheek). This is another of Maniratnam's touching movies which talks about a child who is brought up in a very loving family and finds out on her 9th birthday that she is adopted. The movie is about the search of the girl for her mother who is involved in the Tamil

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Menfolk of the world unite... we are all brethren, this is not a figure of speech but truly we are all scientifically brothers, cousins and the like. When I say, "menfolk of the world", I literally mean it. Sounds strange? So did It for me too.Spencer Wells, a genecist, is carrying out a research on finding the Scientific Adam. His research is to find how the present day man has evolved all over

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Last week the CSO announced that the economic growth in India has touched 9.5%. That is very good news.. We are one in the top few countries which are achieving this kind of growth rate. This means we have more money to spend and our standard of living is improving leaps and bounds. I guess it is true to some extent based on the amount of vehicles being added to the road, the number of apartment

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This year's official Indian entry for the Oscar's is "Rang De Basanti", the hit Hindi movie. It was selected over many other movies including the other block buster hit, "Lage Raho Munna Bhai". But Vinod Chopra was not satisfied with the selection and he is planning to take his movie to the Oscars as an independent entry. I happened to see both the movies and just want to see how these two movies

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I remember when I was a kid, I lived in a house in Bangalore which had a huge garden. As a corollary, our backyard used to be frequented by various different birds ranging from crows, pigeons, humming birds and last but not the least the then ubiquitous House Sparrow.The House sparrow (Passer domesticus), the small brown and gray bird, which would come down the moment my mother would toss out

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Man-made and natural.. how many times have we heard about these phrases? Virtually all literature in school text books, fiction and non fiction books, in articles, papers, even in our day to day talk.. we talk about these.Any talk or literature about environment cannot be devoid of these phrases. We talk about man destroying nature with all that he creates. So what does man create which

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I thought we are moving forward from the dark ages of racism into much better era, but I guess we still aren't there. Just couple of days back, we had Dean Jones sacked in disgrace by Ten Sports from its commentary team. The offence - he made a racist comment against a South African Cricket Player. The circumstances are actually more intriguing here. Apparently Dean, made the comment about Amla,

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As the title goes, this blog is where I am going to "write" about anything. From the time I started my blogs, I had to ensure that my blogs were somewhere around my blog title, not that somebody would cut my hand off, but then, the blog title means something after all, does'nt it.

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