Nirmal’s Weblog

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 [...]

I felt excited when I was selected as Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in 2008. It was a great year as MVP and has had lots of opportunities to learn more, interact with more people and know more about MSFT products. Microsoft has extended my award this year also July 2009- June 2010. I’m selected as [...]

Generally I’m not a movie reviewer, but I watch a lot of movies and only have the habbit of reviewing it with my wife and friends. But the recent movie which I watched, Pattanathil Bootam, made me a reviewer for many reasons. This movie is one of the latest movies from the Malayalam superstar Mammoty. [...]