http://www.chilligavva.com Chilligavva is a blog maintained by Lakshmi Mareddy, a technical communicator from Omaha Nebraska. Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:11:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last week, I was excited to send a gazillion amount of invites to my email contacts asking them to join me on twitter."Did you develop a new product called twitter" was the question I encounter in a phone conversation in response to my "join me on twitter email". I ... http://www.chilligavva.com/2008/06/22/the-new-caste-system.html Most of my readers know that my site ChilliGavva has a currency reference. if you don't, read the colophon in the about page! My good friend Bharath Raganathan is a walking wikipedia on history and trivia on a number of subjects. Lately I have been spending time ... http://www.chilligavva.com/2008/06/21/some-interesting-references-to-shells-as-currency.html Have been very very busy for the last three weeks.  I apologize for the lack of posts and hope to address the same very soon!  Really ! :) digg | del.icio.us | technorati | e-mail http://www.chilligavva.com/2008/06/11/sorry-for-the-lack-of-posts.html I always believed in the marriage of P2P and web 2.0. Most of the signs were already out there. One obvious use of this combination was of course illegal downloading of movies amongst private web 2.0 networks. But as a system, I believe that if you could pass ... http://www.chilligavva.com/2008/05/16/i-phone-and-p2p.html My, this week has been eventful.Two women known to me were hospitalized in the past 10 days. Shirley is my friend Cynthia's mom and Phyllis is my friend Mary's mom. Here is wishing both of them a speedy recovery and good health.Then of course the cyclone hit Burma. ... http://www.chilligavva.com/2008/05/08/a-speedy-recovery.html Last friday, I got a "Mom Andre's mom wants to come home, and she will follow your car" when I went to pick up Miti from school. So I waved and proceeded home with Miti. On the way he gently told me that the plan was to go ... http://www.chilligavva.com/2008/05/07/of-kites-kittens-and-a-parade.html digg | del.icio.us | technorati | e-mail http://www.chilligavva.com/2008/04/28/random-reflection.html Would love to hear from my readers, what this bird is called. I shall of course, try to find out.Update: My son comes back from school and takes one look at the photo and says "Its a cardinal mom!" digg | del.icio.us | ... http://www.chilligavva.com/2008/04/25/interesting-bird-outside-my-window.html Lovely Lovely Voice of Matthew Santos.. Very unusual. Now there are two guys in this club, Akon and Matthew Santos..digg | del.icio.us | technorati | e-mail http://www.chilligavva.com/2008/04/24/lovely-lovely-voice.html Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons. WWdigg | del.icio.us | technorati | e-mail http://www.chilligavva.com/2008/04/16/famous-blogger.html As per usual, I have rehauled the look of chilligavva again. This time its all dark, and very magazine style inspired. I had a copy of an old web magazine called "Practical Web Design" [printed in England, issue #160] and the cover dark gray, yellow and white, and ... http://www.chilligavva.com/2008/04/10/dark-theme.html Sometime during my MA years at Hyderabad, India my classmate Dhanalakshmi and I went to see a telugu movie called "Bava Bava Paneeru". We landed very early for the movie, and actually got seat numbers 1 & 2, which for me is the rarest of rare events, ever. So we ... http://www.chilligavva.com/2008/04/10/pop-corn-coke-and-movie-love.html [My rating for the video.. 8/10.. what do you think?]digg | del.icio.us | technorati | e-mail http://www.chilligavva.com/2008/04/07/you-take-my-breath-away.html Wishing all my readers a Happy Telugu New Year. digg | del.icio.us | technorati | e-mail http://www.chilligavva.com/2008/04/06/sarvadhaari-nama-samvatsarapu-subhakaamshalu.html Source:Krish Asok's very interesting blogCaution! You need to know your indian mythology really well.. What cracked me up absolutely was the entry "Click here to listen to Yudhisthra's podcast 'Aswatthama is dead' "digg | del.icio.us | technorati | e-mail http://www.chilligavva.com/2008/03/30/when-facebook-meets-mahabharata.html Pic Courtesy: http://greatandhra.comHow TRUE!digg | del.icio.us | technorati | e-mail http://www.chilligavva.com/2008/03/30/very-apt.html Great artwork, lovely song..digg | del.icio.us | technorati | e-mail http://www.chilligavva.com/2008/03/26/really-thrillicious.html The underlying principal of a good business is always based on a sound product. [Otherwise what can you sell?] But when I was reading this article, the extent to which the phone companies have become "Mafia" is pretty apparent. It obviously took another Moghul like Steve Jobs, and ... http://www.chilligavva.com/2008/03/26/power-back-to-products.html Finally the new almost stable WP 2.5 is ready. After a few days of testing, it shall be out to general public. I have obviously signed up as a tester, and shall keep you readers posted on the development! I'm so excited. Matt has promised the ... http://www.chilligavva.com/2008/03/18/the-new-wp-is-almost-ready.html I was blown away by this site, and the lovely lovely design work of Maurico Guimaraes, an artist, digital illustrator, animator and flash developer from Brazil. Do visit his website, and experience the site. Its nice, and his creative work, just blew my mind away.The site is bilingual, ... http://www.chilligavva.com/2008/03/18/website-highlight-mauricio.html