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Brinjals from my GardenVille

February 15, 2010

I know many of you are still busy in playing FarmVille game on facebook. As mentioned before on this blog, here I am sharing the brinjals (Egg Plant) from my GardenVille! You can read about that mention in one of my previous posts here. Yes, home grown brinjals from my tiny rooftop garden. All these [...]

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Life Through Lens…

January 5, 2010

These photos were clicked on various occasions. See the photo description for more information. Again, these photos were clicked with Canon PowerShot SD630 IS, a good old point and shoot camera which is still working great with some great captures! Getting a new DSLR is on the cards for sure in near future.Click on each [...]

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Solar Energy – How you can help?

December 5, 2009

Partial Solarization of house:
If you want to make more impact, there are solutions you can use in your home. Eg. you can convert some or all of your lights/fans/television to run on Solar power. This way, you will never need to miss your favorite TV show due to power cuts.
Here is a simple way to [...]

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Solar Electricity – Products!!

December 3, 2009

A great variety of Solar Lamps/Lanterns:
Solar Lanterns are the most common solar gadgets. They come in various sizes and brightness levels. They are portable and rechargeable through solar power (most of them can be recharged by AC power too). Some of them have option of mobile charger too.
Solar lanterns can be great replacement for kerosene/gas [...]

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Solar Electricity – Part 3

November 27, 2009

What is available?
So far we have seen why Solar Electricity and why is it not so popular so far. Solarization of the whole house is little too expensive for many of us. However, we can go Solar in a partial way. Again, these options may not save you lot of money, but they are the [...]

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Solar Electricity – Part 2

November 26, 2009

Is Solar Electricity Expensive?
For a moment, let us ignore global warming and pollution, as we always do. We can always complain that somebody else is responsible for that. Now, we are left with the most important question: How expensive is the solar electricity? What is the return of investment?
The calculation of expense is no rocket [...]

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Solar Electricity – where to start?

November 24, 2009

As mentioned in one of my previous articles, here is the first article of a series of guest posts. Author of this article is Raghavendra Ijjada, has spent more than a decade in software industry after obtaining Masters in Engineering from IISc, Bangalore. He has recently developed the hobby of experimenting with Solar Energy and [...]

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Sunrise to Sunset…

November 3, 2009

I will let the pictures and the related quotes to speak on my behalf. These photos were clicked during my vacation last month.

“There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.”
-  Bern Williams
“The heavenly-harness’d team begins his golden progress in the east.”
-  William Shakespeare
“Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness [...]

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More from my garden…

October 13, 2009

Playing games like farmville on facebook is an addiction to many of us. I was surprised to see so many of you getting grossly involved in playing the game that promotes the mankind’s oldest known profession of farming! Over a period of time, someone might lose interest in playing that virtual farming game, but the [...]

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Garden colors

August 16, 2009

I couldn’t make it to Independence day flower show at Lalbagh this year. So, what? here is a set of pics from my own garden . Along with that, here comes a puzzle for you all. Name the plant if you can with greenish spherical budding flowers on top of tentacles like structures captured [...]

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