I know I have been writing, at least in the last two entries, what might be considered by many as techno crap. Continuing the trend, I changed the OS (the Operating System) in my laptop from you-know-what to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. With that, ladies and gentleman, I am very very proud to announce that [...]
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PHP, MySQL & Pagination – With Tags
Disclaimer The instructions/steps/scripts/methods given below worked for me running CentOS. It may very well work for you on other linux distributions, Red Hat-like or otherwise. Please note that if you decide to use these instructions on your machine, you are doing so entirely at your very own discretion and that neither this site, sgowtham.net, nor [...]
PHP, MySQL & Pagination
Disclaimer The instructions/steps/scripts/methods given below worked for me running CentOS. It may very well work for you on other linux distributions, Red Hat-like or otherwise. Please note that if you decide to use these instructions on your machine, you are doing so entirely at your very own discretion and that neither this site, sgowtham.net, nor [...]
Super(Bowl) Racism
OK – only 5 of my 11 picks for the ongoing NFL Playoff season turned out to be right, and more importantly, my favorite team – New England Patriots – played uncharacteristically to loose another Super Bowl appearance. But no regrets – Colts played really really well in the second half to win the game. [...]
Hiking In Hungar…
There is a typgraphical error (rather intentional) in the title. If you guessed Hunger was wrongly typed as Hungar, you are absolutely wrong. Read on to find out. When you wake up early on a Saturday morning, without the aid of any additional device (such as an alarm clock and/or some on calling,…), you know [...]
SIESTA & Global Warming
I knew this would catch your attention – before you come out all the way to Houghton to kill me, give me a fair chance to explain: I will start out with describing the title. SIESTA is not what you generally know it as – but it’s an acronym for Spanish Initiative for Electronic Simulations [...]
NFL 2006-07 Play Offs – My Picks
Hmm… Well, this NFL regular season flew past in a jiffy and play offs begin in just a few hours from now. Following is something I have never done before, at least not in this format. There is some football logic behind what you see below, and needless to mention, there is some favorism involved [...]
For The Year Ahead
What do I want to do during next 365 days? My list has been under preparation for a while – very much expected to grow further and here are some excerpts: Research, Graduate School, etc.: Have been at Michigan Tech for over four years now – in what has turned out to be the best [...]


