My First Smartphone - Motorola Fire XT530

At last, I get my first smartphone - Motorola Fire XT530 which is based on Android. And this was a gift from a very close buddy of mine - Srikanth. He wanted to gift me something for my marriage, and I put it off till my second anniversary as I wanted his gift to be something very memorable. And this has proved to be a really wonderful gift.

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Replacement Laptop Keys

It may sometime happen that a key of our laptop breaks, or no longer works properly. Often the solution suggested for this is to have the entire laptop keyboard replaced. But this is not economical considering that laptop keyboards are pretty costly.

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Buliding Vim 7.3 RPM packages for 64-bit CentOS 5 / 6

Vim 7.3 has one really useful built-in feature - Blowfish encryption. With Blowfish encryption, strong encryption of files is now possible using vim. Here is a short tutorial on how to build RPM packages for Vim 7.3 on 64-bit CentOS 5 and CentOS 6. I have built the packages as user 'root'. However, it is generally not recommended to build packages as 'root'. Instead, this should be done as a normal user. I have not tried this but if you are interested, you can look at the links in the References section.

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Diamond Books Publication Online Shopping Review

This is a review of my online shopping experience with Diamond Books Publication (http://www.diamondbook.in/). Without doubt, ordering through your online portal is one of the worst sales experience I have ever had.

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Long Time, No See!

It has been almost 9 months since I've posted my last post. Now, that's a very very very long time. The longest time I've inactive on my blog. But now, I'm back! And hopefully, will not repeat this :p. So, here is what has been keeping me busy of late.

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Health Chart 2010-2011

July 2010 Plantar Wart http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantar_wart
Aug 2010 Lumbar Disc Herniation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinal_disc_herniation
Sep 2010 Relapse of malaria http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria
Oct 2010 Piles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemorrhoid
Nov 2010 Supernumary Teeth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperdontia . Guess what? I have 38 teeth currently !!!
Dec 2010 Viral fever
Jan 2011 Wisdom tooth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_tooth
Feb 2011 ????? :)
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Nokia Symbian S60 SIP Clients

Here is a list of some of SIP clients for Nokia S60. Kindly note that these are generic SIP clients and not bound to any SIP provider as such.

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A Small Story

Once upon a time there lived a king. The king had a beautiful daughter, the princess! But there was a problem Everything the princess touched would melt. No matter what; metal, wood, plastic- anything she touched would melt. Because of this, men were afraid of her. Nobody would dare marry her. The king despaired. What could he do to help his daughter. He consulted his wizards and magicians. One wizard told the king, "If your daughter touches one thing that does not melt in her hands, she will be cured."

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Blog Action Day 2010

Blog Action Day is a day on which bloggers from all over the world blog about a particular topic impacting our society in order to spread awareness about it. The topic for 2010 is "Water".

Here are some interesting facts which I got to know through them:

  1. Unsafe drinking water and lack of sanitation kills more people every year than all forms of violence, including war.
  2. More people have access to a cell phone than to a toilet.

The Success Of Marriage

Once upon a time a married couple celebrated their 25th marriage
anniversary.  

They had become famous in the city for not having a single conflict in
their period of 25 years.  

Local newspaper editors had gathered at the occasion to find out the secret
of their well known "happy going marriage".  

Editor: "Sir. It's amazingly unbelievable. How did you make this possible?
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Husband recalling his old honeymoon days said:  

"We had been to Shimla for honeymoon after marriage.  

Having selected the horse riding finally, we both started the ride on

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