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I used to remember a time when anybody and everybody hailing from southern India was called a Madarasee. This was rampant during my parents generation. But even in my own, I had to inform at least one aquaintance that it was an incorrect usage. In recent times, there are more references to the Malayali and I find that in general, more people have become aware that there are actually different states down south and not just one city. Is it because there is no more a place called Madras that has brought about this transition? I don't think such triviality would bring about the change in generalized nomenclature. I am more inclined to believe that one factor is that the the Malayali has made a mark and the other being that, more and more people are refusing to continue to be arrogantly ignorant. I hope anybody reading this blog and feeling that I woke up to this fact pretty late, would forgive me. In my defense I would like to mention that I do not usually think along lines of...

Just saw in yahoo.com that they released a new service called yahoo Pulse to, yes you guessed it, share whats important with your friends! From the quick look that I had, I could see sections for contacts, profile, photos, blog, apps and of course the status area to share news with the friends who have "connections" with you. Another attempt by Yahoo to get going. But folks need to come up with something more if they want attention. As it is, there are a lot many more services that are available and its getting really challenging "keeping in touch" with all my friends on different services. The service which was released in Jun, is the  Yahoo profiles that got re-born as pulse . You can find the Yahoo! service at http://pulse.yahoo.com/

I got myself a domain name afterall! Here is my new address ! A few days back I read about an article on domain names and remembered that it was one of my old "wants" to get my own piece of the world wide web. So I went ahead and registered it. In the earlier days it was techies who could put up web-sites and domain hostings. Now thanks to google and other sites, it is childs play to register the domain name and point it to your blog or other site. You don't even need hosting space. As in my case, I just pointed my domain name to my Blog! Don't remember what other "wants" or even how many I had. But lets just say, one down!