Messier 81, also known as Bode’s Galaxy or NGC 3031 is one of the most studied galaxies in the northern skies because of its proximity and large size. But how does it actually look from your own telescope compared to the super awesome images from Hubble Space Telescope?

You really think you have a lot of time. Until you don’t. I lost someone very dear to my heart and it makes me think of all the different ways in which I wasted time. Precious time.

DNN is a great framework that gives you a very capable base application right out of the box and a jumpstart with the free modules from the day you install it.

Attempting to prevail over the oddities, to scale the unconquered, to slip, fall down and attempt to fix the plague that besets one surely is not meant for the meek. But what if the plagued do not even realize they are afflicted?

There are two kinds of people -- Those who love trees and those who don’t. We used to wait for the spring season…

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The new iMac with its 27” LED display and core i7 goodness, slim profile and drop dead gorgeous looks lacks just one thing. It doesn’t run Windows 7 out of the box. Snow Leopard and the lackluster Apple supplied software notwithstanding, I was still drooling at how big a code window I could get if I fired up Visual Studio 2010 in this baby. Here’s a step by step guide to matching the most beautiful (if not the best) hardware with the most useful OS of all times – Installing Windows 7 on iMAC 27” Core i5/i7.

Here’s how to use GoDaddy’s SSL certificates with Exchange Server 2007 and ISA Server 2006

Planning for that much awaited vacation? Expect boss to come up with a work-during-weekends-plan…

First Solo

“Cessna five zero niner three kilo Reid Hill View Tower Right closed traffic approved runway three one right cleared for takeoff.”

At 10 minutes, she looked so straight in my eyes, I could hardly hold back tears.

At 1, her smile meant the world to me

Just like every other infatuation, this too shall pass. Until it does though, it sure feels I’m at the top of the world. Well, just 5500 feet. And just above San Jose.

Until the past Sunday, watching snow flakes fall so majestically through the sky was a wonder that I was unaware of. And how beautiful a place like Yosemite can be was an experience I’d missed so far.

I laugh when people call India a third world country.

I get mad when Indians talk about poverty ,blithely unaware about the lifestyle of folks in the villages.

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Welcome to corporate America. Silicon Valley is home to hundreds of successful tech companies and stories of their amazing climb to success galore. Not heard are the insolent, tormenting stories where hectors bring down the sky crashing and taunt the Achilles, the Paris freely, for; there is no such thing as righteousness here.