Shivaranjan.com

I finally moved Shivaranjan.com to DreamHost web hosting. My previous web hosting was was good but their mysql server was a screwed up one. Most of the time I would always get a message which would say “Mysql went away”. This was brought to their notice many times but I felt that they did […]

All of you might have wondered that what might have happened to me for the last 3 months as there was not a single post from me? Before telling that I would first apologize to you guys for not posting and for not reading your blogs. (I won’t write any big story for not blogging […]

Update: Now my mom is doing fine. Thanks for all your well wishes which has made her recover.
My mom is suffering acute malaria for the past 3 weeks and she was hospitalized for more than 11 days. She was discharged today from the hospital and now she is doing fine and the […]

I am switching to partial feeds for time being as I am experiencing content theft from a splog which is republishing all the post that is being posted here. This splog about which I am talking about is ripping content via my feeds and since I was using full feeds the whole post gets published […]

At last I have got myself a Intel Core 2 Duo based laptop, I had ordered Dell Inspiron 6400 on 29.09.06 and it arrived on 14.10.06. I actually had two laptops in mind and it was pretty difficult for me to decide between these two; one was Dell XPS 1210 with 12.1″ widescreen and Dell […]

My trusty Lite-ON SOHW-1633S DVD burner has retired (it died) from my killer rig. Now I am left with only ASUS DRW-1608P2S running at Pioneer DVR-110, so I need to get myself a another DVD burner. I have two drives in my mind they are Benq DW-1650 or Lite-ON drive models that came after […]

I have replaced my old trusty Samsung keyboard with iBall Power Key Designer Keyboard. This keyboard is real good as the keys are very soft and now typing feels lot more easier than before. I will be putting a review of this keyboard in few days so keep your fingers crossed for the verdict.
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After Dad’s Nokia 2300 got retired it was time to buy a good phone; so I suggested him to get a smartphone instead of plain vanilla phone and moreover we had to get a 1GB memory card for our digital camera. Doing shopping in Chennai’s gadget market is the best thing I love to do.
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