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Happy New Year 2009

Nirmal — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:30:29 +0000

Wishing all our readers and subscribers all over the world a Happy and Prosperous New Year 2009. May you have a wonderful day with friends and loved ones, and spread love and joy with the ones around you. We take this opportunity to thanks everyone who has supported us throughout the year. We are hoping to see your continued support for the year to come as well. Special thanks to our sponsors and Slicehost for supporting us.

Once again Wishing all a Happy New Year 2009.

Life Rocks! 2.0 turns One Year Old

Nirmal — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:30:22 +0000

Today Life Rocks! 2.0 is one year old. This blog was started on March 16th 2007 and it has been a glorious one year of blogging. Today when I look back at past one year, blogging was one of the best decisions I took. Now blogging has become a passion and addiction for me. Blogging also helped me learn php and I was able to release two themes for this blog. With over 550 posts, 6000 comments and 850 subscribers, I feel it has been a great year of blogging.

I thank all the readers who have supported me with this blog and expressed their views and comments. I had the opportunity to meet new people, interact with them and make friends. It has been a eventful one year of blogging. Hoping to see your support in the future too and looking forward for celebrating more birthdays on Life Rocks! 2.0.

Bahrain-Dubai-DSF and my New HP Pavilion dv2600

Nirmal — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:11:42 +0000

“Bahrain-Dubai-DSF” -The title may not be clear, but this was my schedule in the past one week. Many of you have noticed that I have not replied to any comments in the last week and also not commented in any blogs. I was on a weeks tour to Bahrain and Dubai, but I had scheduled posts for one week. I left for Bahrain on Sat 26th Jan and returned back on 3rd Feb. It was an exciting trip and was real fun all the way. I also visited Dubai and DSF (Dubai shopping festival).

In between I purchased a new blogging equipment- HP Pavilion dv2680 Entertainment Notebook PC.

The specifications are;

Operating System : Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit
Processor : Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Duo processor T7500 (2.2 GHz, 4 MB L2 Cache, 633MHz FSB)
Memory: 2GB DDR2
Display: 14.1-inch WXGA High-Definition HP BrightView Widescreen Display (1280 x 800)
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS with DirectX 10 64MB
Networking: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 4965AGN Network Connection and Bluetooth(TM)
Hard disk: 160GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
DVD Drive: LightScribe SuperMulti 8X DVD+/-RW with Double Layer Support
Battery: High Capacity 6 Cell Lithium Ion Battery

Other features are:

HP Imprint,
Fingerprint Reader,
1.3 MP Webcam,
Microphone,
Remote Control.

This new laptop cost me 420BD (Bahrain Dinar) and it comes to around 43500/- INR.

Life Rocks! 2.0 has a New Look

Nirmal — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:26:36 +0000

As mentioned in my previous post, I was working on a theme for this blog for quite some time. As I was not able to find time to get it working, it took me more than a month to get the theme running. Well, I’m not a php expert although I had learned it few years back, so there could be bugs in this theme.

So presenting the new look of Life Rocks! 2.0.

Features of new theme;

Better layout of posts and excerpts
Better readability
Improved navigation and much more
Theme tested in IE6, IE7, Firefox, Safari, Flock and Opera.

Please share your views on the new theme and also report any bugs and issues like alignment etc. Also, any new suggestions and improvements also welcome.

Happy New Year 2008!

Nirmal — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:30:53 +0000

Life Rocks! 2.0 wishes all its readers a Happy and Prosperous New year 2008. Let this New Year be joyful and fulfilling as 2007.

Let this year bring in all happiness and prosperity to all.

Whats new for Life Rocks! 2.0 in 2008?

Well, Life Rocks will have a new theme in the first week of new year. The work on the theme is fast progressing and it will be available sometime before 10^th Jan.

Once again wishing all my readers a HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008!

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Merry Christmas to All

Nirmal — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:30:00 +0000

I take this opportunity to wish my readers all over the world a Happy and Joyous Christmas. May the coming year be filled with joy, prosperity and happiness.

Have a wonderful and happy holidays and enjoy it to the fullest.

I’m back to Blogging after Marriage

Nirmal — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:09:02 +0000

I’m back to Blogging after a vacation of 20 days for my marriage. My marriage was on 3rd November and a reception on 4th November. All the function went fine and the marriage was in Guruvayur Temple. I joined back to work on 19th November.

Marriage Function at Guruvayur

Reception at Hotel WyteFort, Kochi

Thanks to my friends, Ken Xu, Shankar, Mayank, Madhur, Rajesh, Ram, Brown Baron, Sumesh, Mani, Keith, Samuel and Ram Karthik who helped and supported me during this period in the form of guest blogging. Thanks to all my readers who gave me the support in my absense as well.

New House Constructed

Nirmal — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:59:34 +0000

Last Saturday (20th October 2007) was the inauguration of our new house in Kochi. I had mentioned about the new house and its construction long time back in this blog. The house is located in Maradu, Kochi City, Kerala. The construction of the house was started in mid February and completed last week.

Some details on the house;

Total Area: 2650 sq ft.
Bedrooms: 3 nos (all attached bathrooms)
One Drawing room
One Kitchen
Dining room
Upper and lower living room
Closed terrace on the first floor
Balconies for 2 bedrooms
Total Time for construction-8 months
Architecture- Kerala Style
Plan and design- by Myself

Here are few snaps of the new house.

The architecture I followed was Kerala Style one and the design and plan was done by me. This is actually my third house plan. We will be shifting to new house this week once the house is fully completed, some minor works are still pending.

My Desktop

Nirmal — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:20:57 +0000

Madhur had tagged me to show whats on my desktop. So this is how my desktop looks like. I save all the files on my desktop and once in a while I sort them to different folders. Sometimes its very crowded and sometimes, there will be only a few files. I haven’t done any customizations to Windows XP.

News Update: Back to Blogging

Nirmal — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:35:08 +0000

After a small vacation, today I’m back to blogging. It was festival time in Kerala (India) and I had taken a 5 day vacation. I had a great time at home last weekend. Although it was 5 day leave, I was able to publish a few posts with the time stamp feature of Wordpress.

Regular posting will start from today. In the meantime, you can Subscribe to this blog and get all the updates on Technology, Internet, Blogging, tip and tricks, tutorials and reviews. You can also opt for email subscription.

Update: Few photos from Onam Celebration