Archive for the 'Personal' Category


Nostalgia - Our Wedding Invite

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Click on the link to see the  Wedding Invitation of Deepak and Sreeja.
(Might take some time to load initially - The file size is 1.58 MB)
 This is was made by Vipin who was junior to me in Government Engineering College, Thrissur.
 I think he got some orders for similar work seeing our invite. He is an excellent artist […]


Guinness is Good for You

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

The old advertising slogan “Guinness is Good for You” may be true after all, according to researchers.
A pint of the black stuff a day may work as well as an aspirin to prevent heart clots that raise the risk of heart attacks.
Drinking lager does not give the same benefits, experts from University of Wisconsin told […]


Do not wash meat before cooking !!!

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

This is an interesting principle which I got convinced after being in UK. Here local councils  advice people of various techniques for being healthy..
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) - advises you not to wash meat because any splashing might spread bacteria around the kitchen - worktops, dishes and utensils . This could significantly increase the […]


UK Interest Rates Trimmed - Hooray !!!

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Bank of England has trimmed the base rate from 5.75 to 5.5 . It is good news for me as my biggest loan - Mortgage - is on variable rate.
It is relieving that they have reduced although there are signs of economy slow down!! For people who are on Variable Rate - the mortgage payment […]


Free Range Products & Climate Change ..

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Today was another busy day..Nowadays I am sleeping very late around 2 AM. As an adult requires a sleeping period of 7 -8 hrs, I try not to wake up before 9AM
Managed to give a positive demonstration of a DQ system in progress at work today . Did a bit of shopping at […]


Wordpress - Truly Fantastic

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

I have managed to bring this site up using Wordpress. It is truly amazing !
Easily configurable ..extensible infinitely .. PHP is new to me but with the ASP / web experience. I am picking it up quickly..
I have managed to bring up a site on finance also . I have decided to write atleast 2 […]


First Post on the Blog

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

This is my first post on the blog after succesfully setting up the server & the site using Wordpress. Bought the server from Softlayer . As recommended by praveen got the server on a good deal and selected Redhat Linux as the operating system. After a bit hesitation I […]