Chilligavva

Was I excited reading about the unearthing of a major pre-historic village, near Stonehenge in southern England. You can read more about it over here at the National Geographic site, which BTW is a sponsor. EXCERPT FROM THEIR SITE.. "Cult Houses" The project team says these imposing buildings to the west may have been the homes of chiefs or priests (photo) who lived separately from the rest of the community. Another theory is ...

As a spouse of a recent convert to Apple's Macbook , I thought I was the only Windows user turning out to be an Apple OSX, LAMP admirer. But boy was I amused reading about this outcome of an Iowan antitrust law against Microsoft. Personally I think Microsoft should have stuck to their strength, a.k.a. Office and left OS stuff to the likes of Novell, Unix etc. What do you think? I would

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HAPPY REPUBLIC DAY TO THE CITIZENS OF INDIA. Update: Was I pleasantly surprised when I got a comment from Hyderabadiz, saying that I am featured in their blog in the topic "What Hyderabadi Bloggers are doing on Republic Day". For those of you, new to Hyderabad, India, you must read the PUNCHLINE description of Hyderabadis in their post.. Too Good.. Its 58 years ...

Pic Source:Mangalorean.com-Sand Art.

I hail from Mangalore, and every time I go nostalgic, I read Mangalorean.com, or grab some news at daijiworld.com. So last week I came across an article about the Mangalore beach festival. I was immediately transported to my childhood memories of a wonderful clean beach [Please note mumbaikars and chennaites, and vizag natives!]. Eating ice cream, playing in the sand,

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Hailing from a multi ethnic country we definitely encounter racism in India. Some subtle, some not so subtle. The subtle variety lurks everywhere,but no one talks about it. Its funny to read about our sensibilities being offended when it comes to defending the ethnic slurs heaped on a gritty movie star, Shilpa Shetty, that too in a reality TV show. In the back of our minds, we do know that ...

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Yesterday, I taught Miti the basics of drawing in a graphics program. In the last week of Dec. 2006, Massa bought me a Pen Tablet, as I was struggling with my mouse. For the geeks, its a Graphire 4.0 [CTE 440] by WACOM. We finally installed it last week, as I was upto my ear in pending work, post vacation blues.. With its arrival, starting Monday, I got busy putting together this new Chilligavva design, and yesterday Miti was intrigued enough ...