30 Jun 2006 at 01:24
thiyagaraj
Unbelong
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I was tagged by Mahen, who has written some weird facts about him.Now I have to write six properties or acts of me that might seem strange and weird to others! So here we go!!
My mom still hand-feeds me if I am at home!
I cry easily when I miss someone. I think this is weird [...]
28 Jun 2006 at 01:57
thiyagaraj
Unbelong
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My blog was featured in a Tamil article on blogging and related information in a supplementary page of the Dhinathanthi!! The screen shot of the article is given below,
It reads
Kovaiyai saerndha kaloori maanavar oruvar http://www.thiya.net/blog endra paeril oru blog uruvaki irukirar. Adhil kadandha ayendhu varudangalaga dhinamdhorum thanadhu yennangalai padhivu seidhu varigirar. Atthudan nanbargalin karithukalai [...]
27 Jun 2006 at 00:58
thiyagaraj
Unbelong
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I was reading Xavier’s post on What would you be if you weren’t in the Information Technology Services Industry?
This set me up thinking. I had been thinking of many ways to drum up money over the days. One was freelancing in web design, something which I am already doing. Another was serving advertisements on pages, [...]
26 Jun 2006 at 01:46
thiyagaraj
Unbelong
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I came across The Million Dollar Webpage again today. It is a totally novel concept of selling pixels to advertisers over a guaranteed five year period and perhaps more which helped the founder of the site, Alex Tew to pay his way through college.
It is kind of interesting to see so many small images advertising [...]
22 Jun 2006 at 23:36
thiyagaraj
Unbelong
12 Comments
Orkut is a good community website alright, but the functionality sucks in a whole variety of ways. There’s something called the Scrapbook, which is as the name suggests, Scrap.
It is something which you can write notes and other stuff and post it for others to see and others can write in your scrapbook too, [...]
20 Jun 2006 at 00:04
thiyagaraj
Unbelong
7 Comments
My friend Vignesh set off on a quest to find us a decent place to live in that wouldn’t be too far from our workplace at Bangalore. Due to some illogical reasons, I was unable to accompany him to the same. He went to a few places and was almost contented with a house which [...]
17 Jun 2006 at 00:46
thiyagaraj
Unbelong
25 Comments
I came across this nifty utility for converting conventional image files to the OTA format to be sent as picture messages using your mobile phone. The source code and the binary for the same can be found at The Code Project. Since zipped files are only available for download to registered users(free) of the Code [...]
16 Jun 2006 at 00:49
thiyagaraj
Unbelong
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With the Football World Cup fever at its peak, I consider myself lucky that my Cable TV provider, SCV, has decided to air ESPN on which the matches are shown live. For over two years, some channels were not provided here at Coimbatore since they were pay channels and not everyone was willing to pay [...]
14 Jun 2006 at 20:48
thiyagaraj
Unbelong
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I am talking about the almost obsolete floppy disk. I have known it to be one of the most unreliable of digital media that I have personally used.
Right now I am looking after an internet cafe. Sathy, my friend, who owns a browsing centre near my place asked me to take care of his cafe [...]
12 Jun 2006 at 00:59
thiyagaraj
Unbelong
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I have informed most of my batch mates from my school about our annual get-together. The response wasnt as usual, not many responded, but having taken up the responsibility indirectly of getting everyone together, everyone expects me to contact everyone and make arrangements and I would be happy to do so, but I am not [...]