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The Sod Project

Day 3 of our yard quest continued today. I know I’m yet to provide those pix that I’d promised in my previous Silver Maple post; it’s just that we have just been toiling away with our yard business. They could be here anytime now. Today, we kicked off the Sod Project. From my Silver Maple [...]

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A Silver Maple takes life in our frontyard

We planted this little guy last night and little did we know by morning, that the tree would look this good! It’s just gorgeous. Just wanted to do a short post with a few pictures. I shall post some more pix first thing tomorrow once I have them downloaded from my bulky cam. It is [...]

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Home Theater Setup Continued…

Last week, I had written about my Home Theater Setup and this is a continuation of that post.
6. Dell Inspiron Slim 537ST HTPC Contd…
On Black Friday, last month, I got lucky with a Bing promo that was advertising 25pc cashback on all Dell Home Office stuff and managed to pick up an Inspiron 537ST for [...]

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Home Theater Setup

UPDATE: I have posted part 2 of this article here.
Here is how my Home Theater setup looks like right now.
Components
- Panasonic 50PZ800U THX-certified 50 inch Plasma Display.
- Pioneer 1019 AH-K Audio-Video Receiver.
- Sony Playstation 3 Game Console/Bluray Player.
- Dell Inspiron Slim 537ST Desktop Computer.
- AT&T U-Verse Cablebox/DVR.
- JBL Northridge EC35 Center Channel Speaker.
- JBL [...]

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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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