Monthly Archives: September 2008

Onam Aashamsakal (Happy Onam) !

Posted on September 11, 2008 by Varun

Happy Onam world! Did you know the legend behind Onam? I am missing my family right now, am missing the slightly different mood on this day and especially missing the home food.

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Makes sense

Posted on September 11, 2008 by Varun

Dheeray dheeray ray mana dheeray sub kuch hoye, Maali sainche sau ghada, ritu aaye phal hoye. ~ Sant Kabir

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Wordle graphic of blog home page

Posted on September 7, 2008 by Varun

Feed a block of text or a URL to wordle.net, tweak a few options (words layout, font, colours etc.) and voila! you have a cool looking frequency-based cloud of the words in that block of text. Click on the thumbnail … Continue reading →

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Google Chrome – try it out!

Posted on September 3, 2008 by Varun

Google Chrome, the browser from Google is here. Read the comic, the announcement, my review or other reviews. Or better still just download it and try it out. It is fast, looks good, works as expected in most cases and … Continue reading →

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Times of India flicks from Twilight Fairy’s Flickr stream

Posted on September 2, 2008 by Varun

Since ages technology has kept on making it easier to share information. From Gutenberg’s press to current day blogs it has become easier to record something and share it with others. The Internet is especially powerful in this regard. The … Continue reading →

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