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The Contigo Stainless Steel Travel Mug – A Brief Review

Last year, I had written about a plastic coffee tumbler that I’d gotten for cheap from the Starbucks store here (opens in a new window). The post received a lot of interest from informed readers like you, especially concerning the presence of any BPA in the tumbler material. After repeated attempts to get that information [...]

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The Green Project adds a new member to the family

If you remember, when we started the Green Project^ in early November of last year, I had pledged that I was going to ‘drive a better car’. During that time, I had the 2005 Honda CRV and a 2000 Mitsubishi Montero. In May of 2008, when I bought the Montero, little did I know that it had [...]

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Five GTalk tricks that will change your life

This might come in as a big surprise to most of my blog readers. You might wonder, of all things, how can one stay cool, on a frikking IM client? After all, GTalk is nothing but another internet messaging tool like the rest of them out there (Yoohoo, Windows not-so-live etc.) right? Well, you might [...]

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ATT out, TW in

*Rant Alert! Last week, owing to several issues that I had been having with AT&T, I finally decided to bid adieu to their UVerse TV service. I had been with Time Warner for a long long time and I just loved their service. Then, AT&T came out with an enticing offer (rebates etc!); so I [...]

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Money experiment: A little research yields a cheaper video card

Guys, Long time no see on the money experiment eh? Well, the money experiment is still kicking and screaming just that I haven’t been able to post updates as much I’d have liked to. We have been really busy campaigning for LSP lately. Last year, I had built a desktop for myself. I got some [...]

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