Posting to this blog will be slow this week courtesy Diwali. Watch out next week for interesting posts including my experiences with getting wifi working on a Nokia E71, and buying  Dell laptop over the phone. Mebbe even a review of said laptops, a Dell Inspiron 1525 and an XPS 1330 Till then, Wishing you [...]

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WordPress just came out with an upgrade today, and thanks to the Automatic Upgrade plugin, all I had to do to update was to press a few buttons. Just like Firefox, there are loads of useful plugins for WordPress which make it the ideal platform for blogging. And to extend the analogy, I daresay it’s [...]

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I read this really fascinating article by Subroto Bagchi in a special issue of India Today, and was sufficently moved to upload a pdf over at Scribd. It starts off with a conversation he’s having with his camera lens, yes, lens so the first part of it is gibberish enough for those with a paractical [...]

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The subject line of my daily newsletter from PC World read “Diwali Discount From Microsoft” Apparently, Microsoft would be selling the Home & Student edition of Office 2007 for Rs. 3,699, 900 bucks less than the normal price.  The item further mentioned that this discounted price would only be available at select chains like Croma [...]

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The problem wasn’t to do with Yahoo, after all. I got a call from Clive at Yahoo India Support who explained that things were working perfectly fine at their end and the bug was probably to do with the php scripts in WordPress. I was convinced after a fair bit of explaining from his side, [...]

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I had mentioned in an earlier post about what I thought was to be a temporary problem with Yahoo, my web-hosting provider. This assessment was based on my last interaction with them in July when they had literally held my hand while I was installing a couple of WordPress blogs. This time around, I found [...]

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There is no doubt about the fact that inflation has begun to bite. The prices of vegetables and food grains have always been seasonal, which means that they go up and come down on a regular basis. But then, there’s all the other stuff that you find on supermarket shelves for which the prices only [...]

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The other webhosting provider that I’ve been using for the office website for the past three years is Net4, one of the top web hosting providers in India. The main reason for choosing them were that they were based in Delhi,  and their plan included unlimited bandwidth.  Their rates were reasonable, around Rs. 3600 for [...]

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I made my first Squidoo lens in December 2006 on Online Travel Agencies(OTAs) in India, covering the then new phenomenon of booking tickets over the internet. Shortly afterwards, I made another lens on Indian air carriers and had a few more in the pipeline. But, first I though I’d see how the ones that I [...]

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I’d been looking around for affordable webhosting for a long time and I grabbed the Yahoo India inaugural offer when it came along because it offered far, far more than Indian hosting providers like Net4, Rediff, and Indiatimes. Their inaugural offer was for just Rs.999, and for this amount I was getting a free domain [...]

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