Month: April 2006

  • upgraded WordPress

    Any reader here is unlikely to notice anything different. however if there’s anything unexpected please let me know, thanks! The upgrade from 1.5 to 2.02 should’ve been extremely simple actually, maybe I did something the hard way 😉 though I more or less followed instructions. I think largely the FTP must’ve failed somewhere in the…

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    no man is an island?

    mini-island Originally uploaded by common man. Actually I’m just discovering why Leonid was so impressed with flickr. There are countless other features like customizable APIs, tags, calendars, etc but one of the coolest things is the way it provides an upload tool that integrates with Windows Explorer – just right click and send to Flickr!…

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    the irony of caste

    [Though there are specifics here, my guess is that similar ideas are applicable to any caste] Going through the” trauma” 😉 of arranged marriage reveals many things, among others, the role of caste in our modern urban highly developed Bangalore society. It is just unbelievable how many highly educated families are so closed knit about…

  • un-singled

    Well here’s a confession of an unmarried man – in all my life of 30+ years, only one time have I taken a girl out alone for coffee and a chat. And that was only after I found out that she was married and there would be no cause for misunderstanding 😉

  • Indian curry!

    Here in UK they call any Indian masala based item as curry 🙂 and just like how in blr we guys generally go out to have pizza for a treat, here they go to have “a curry” … its seriously that popular!

  • a guest departs

    A year or so ago, one of my uncles (not much in touch with him, mother’s cousin) had expired. My mother and me visited his family – there were a lot more people than I expected standing both outside and inside the house. In a room inside, where the body was placed, some elderly gentleman…

  • what's in a blog

    Having an independent spirited attitude, though I admire a great number of people, I’m generally a sceptic and rarely go to the extent of idolising anybody. [On the other hand, I believe there’s always something to appreciate and learn from each and every person we come across.] I’ve been been following Nipun & his wife…