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Dot5Hosting – the worst ever webhost

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Since I bought my own domain 3.5 years back, I have been associated with dot5hosting. At that time I got the web hosting plan at an unbelievable price of $18 for 2 years including domain. I felt so happy to shell out less than $20 to avail both the domain and web hosting account. This was around Oct '06, dot5hosting were running a promo where in I got almost 80% off on the 2 year plan. I had no idea of what I was going to do with that account by then, but still went for it to have an identity of … Read more… about Dot5Hosting – the worst ever webhost

Purple start for a new year

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There are a number of reasons to share this photo today! I clicked this photo just a few moments ago, this is to mark the beginning of a Telugu/Kannada new year day called Ugadi. Tree in this photo is in front of our house having a new bunch of flowers budding out to signify the beginning of the month 'Chaitra'. On a personal note, this new season denotes a major change to my blog. I have moved to a new webhost now for better, more details to follow in next post. Significance of Purple: (If … Read more… about Purple start for a new year

2010 Fantasy F1 on ESPNSTAR.com

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Formula 1

Greetings everybody! For the season 2010 of Formula One, I have switched over to espnstar.com to create a fantasy league. This has been done since Yahoo! fantasy F1 is on hiatus this season. If F1 is something you are attached to and love the game, feel free to enroll your team online and lets play the fantasy game. I just created a team as well as a league for my blog readers. Feel free to join the league and set up your team. I am sure you will enjoy the game as much as I do. For joining the … Read more… about 2010 Fantasy F1 on ESPNSTAR.com

Story of a missing Nut Cap

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Plan was to visit Mysore and the surrounding places on one of the weekends. I opted for a self driven travel on our Hyundai Santro since ours is a small family consisting of mom, dad, wifey and myself. It was the occasion of a full moon day and we were told in the previous visit about the special deities being performed at Nimishamba temple near Srirangapatna on that special day. Mom was eager to visit the temple on that full moon day and hence well planned in advance as it coincided with … Read more… about Story of a missing Nut Cap

Somanathapura – Archeological marvel

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Somanathapura Keshava temple is located on the river banks of Kaveri, about 30 kilometers from Mysore city. This temple is now under the custody of Archeological survey of India. This is also declared by United Nations as 'Culture Heritage Center'. Every carving of a stone in this temple makes you wonder about the kind of artists our country is blessed with. Especially the Hoysala style which resembles that of Belur and Halebeedu, all belonging to the state of Karnataka. As mentioned in one of … Read more… about Somanathapura – Archeological marvel