Praveen's Blog

An Eternal Quest for Incremental Improvement

I have posted a lot of topics to the journal. Still I am not getting the sleep. I am so annoyed today because of a personal problem. I think I have compensated the days that I haven't posted anything here. But today the time that I spent was quite ...


It seems that Google adsense likes the keyword "Chennai" just like I do. For the first time I noticed that all the three ad blocks (top, right and bottom) in my page are active in a post that contained the term Chennai. It showed a lot of hotel, matrimonial, flowers ...


Blogger now supports new feature "Email this post to a friend". Read more about this here. This is really a good feature.


I just now configured the POP server for GMail on my localhost. Courtesy FreePOPS. It rocks. The configuration was just a matter of child's play. Once I installed the debian package, and configured my Thunderbird, it worked like a charm.


Yesterday I have registered for Google AdSense program. I got approved today.I have included the Google ads in my blog now. I really wonder if it would generate any revenue as I am not sure how many of my friends read my blog! I would put it my homepage ...


Today I bought a new UV filter for my Fujifilm Finepix S5000 digital camera from Millenium photos. I went for buying circular polarizer and a good tripod. I have seen some tripods and I am not satisfied with them. 55 mm circular polarizer filter was not available. I had a ...


I just came across a nice small article article on the filters used for nature photography. Great one!


A lot of Tamil people would have heard the slogan "Puduzu kanna puduzu" (It's new dude) atleast 10 times a day. It was the slogan for Kungumam, a weekly Tamil magazine. Kungumam was one of the lowest selling books compared to the other famous Tamil weeklies. All of a ...


One of the useful sites for the amature photographers is Short courses. It has a lot of good topics like "Basics of digital photography", "Digital cameras and accessories", etc. I found the information about different tripods and monopods is quite useful.


I was quite packed these days. Too lazy too to post here. Got my Sify broadband as well. Running smooth.