Disclaimer

Not liking something is NOT THE SAME as hating it.
With above point in mind, I do not like MS Word - reasons for not liking it could actually be another blog entry and I will reserve it for some other day.
With first point still in mind, it does not mean that I do not dislike [...]

Eversince I got my personal domain, sgowtham.net, my mails (that is - anything sent to xxxx@sgowtham.net) were managed by Yahoo Mail servers. For quite a while now, I have been pondering about the idea of having my emails managed by Google Mail (popularly known as GMail) for several reasons:

One Way Traffic: I can only receive [...]

Well, so far I have had the feeling that St. Patrick’s Day was just a very valid reason for drinking good beer and lots of it but this time around I realized that it was a friend’s birthday - a big one at that. To keep the story short and make it more interesting, let [...]

I don’t recall too many years (of the five I have stayed here) that actually had Spring-like weather during Spring break! But, weather gods have been unusually kind this time around and granted near +50 F (yes, +ve sign is a hint that we go on the -ve side too) temperatures as the break started. [...]

Keeping in mind the principle of viewer-friendliness, I have added few more features/enhancements to my blog and here they go:

Pick A Theme: Quite many of you had/have been complaining that the current theme, Darkness, is pretty dark and devilish. So, this enhancement (applicable to the entire site and not just the blog) gives you an [...]

Part 1: Houghton, MI –> Minneapolis, MN
Part 1: Houghton, MI –> Marquette, MI
Well, some of you might have known about this for a while - either heard from me directly or read in my recent blog entry. Anyways, I got the VISA last Sunday (which, in itself, was rather surprising), got all the required paper [...]