Nirmal’s Weblog

I have been awarded the Microsoft MVP award for the third consecutive year. Its been a great pleasure being an MSFT MVP in the past two years. Last week I received the award package shipped from US. Here are some of the pictures of the award.

Well, I’m not sure if last night was an unfortunate one or a fortunate one, but I would say a combination of them with more towards the latter. Yesterday night I and my wife were travelling to a place called Adoor (Kerala). Since we had come from Mangalore, we took dad’s car for the trip. [...]

Although I have been living in Kochi for more than 28 years now, its been more than a decade since I visited Fort Kochi. Previously Fort Kochi was one of the famous beaches in Kochi, but it was taken away by the sea. Still Fort Kochi remains to be one of the top destinations in [...]

My HP DV2000 Pavilion Laptop was running on 1GB RAM and it was pretty slow when I used to run 5-6 applications simultaneously (memory consuming applications). I was using triple boot on this machine (Vista Home Premium, Vista Ultimate and Windows 7 RC) and the performance was still good, but it would slow down if [...]

Its been long time since I was planning to get a new Notebook since my HP DV2000 was ageing and needed memory upgrades. Netbooks were getting more and more popular these days and I got this idea of getting a Netbook instead of the Notebook. This new machine is for my wife who will also [...]