Chilligavva

Have you met those special set of people who after a couple of drinks, start screaming and spilling out expletives. We find these socially challenged people running loose amongst our midst. You know? You can see them at ‘New Year’ parties, or at office get-togethers. After some “liquid courage” they let go with their mouths. The above scene would be followed by the morning-after routine. Did I like say something stupid last night? Did I hurt your feelings last night? I am sorry. I didn’t mean to. I have seen this oft repeated drama and cannot but help wonder its the influence that is to blamed or the people itself? Especially when we compare them to the friendly drunks, who just pass out. I am no shrink but heres my chilligavva theory: “The underlying key to all this is whats in your mind. The drugs or alcohol is just a catalyst that drops the barrier between sub-conscious and conscious. In plain words, if you thought that, you would say it sometime…” I actually liked Michael Richards as Kramer. But all the fame and the friends pitching in wouldn’t help him now. ... Continue Reading

Been busy tweaking mareddy.com behind the scenes. For the last 10 days I have been getting terrible emails from a persistent spammer. I blocked the IPs but hey, they keep coming from a different place everyday, same author though! I wasnt interested in getting the contact page down as quite a few of my old buddies, wrote to me from that page. I am planning on a site redesign shortly, but the spam got to me. So I took a break, incorporated CAPTCHA and am back to behind the scenes work.. Take a look at the mareddy contact page. Thanks to the ideas from Ed Eliot , a codewalker tutorial, sitepoint tutorial. Continue Reading