Guruprasad L
Guruprasad L
@lguruprasad@www.lguruprasad.in
112 posts
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  • WordPress 3.8 and the new Twenty Fourteen theme

    WordPress 3.8 was released recently and I upgraded my blog to it. With it came the new theme “Twenty Fourteen” which I liked so much and that is why I have applied it to my blog. Hope you like it 🙂

  • Two years without Facebook

    I completed 2 years without having a Facebook account a couple of days back on my birthday. I wouldn’t say the experience was perfect, but still it did me more good than bad. A lot of people use Facebook under the guise of staying in touch with a lot of people, but do they actually…

  • Sachin Tendulkar – End of an era, take a bow!

    With curtains coming down on a glorious career living the dreams of millions of fans, a lot of emotion and sentiments were let loose, I thought I would repost some of my blog posts and tweets (a few of them critical as well) on the great man as my tribute. 20 years of my superhero!…

  • I do

    I said the above words and that is how my marriage got fixed and is going to happen on 9 February 2014. 😀 What made it even more special was that it happened on her birthday.

  • Demystifying “lucky draw coupons for all” at malls

    If you are living in a major city in India like Bangalore and have visited malls, you might have noticed that lucky draw coupons are offered to whoever enters the mall. A lot of us have at least once filled in those coupons with our name and phone number and handed them over. Have we…

  • Looking back at 2012

    One of the most important lessons that I learnt this year – never put your health at stake no matter what. No, don’t do it even if you are absolutely sure that you will emerge unscathed. I did exactly that at the beginning of this year and now I am wondering if I will ever…

  • Moving away from Ubuntu after 5 years

    Ubuntu’s Amazon search “feature” fiasco (Probably I have enough in my mind to write another big post) was the last thread in the straw for me. Switched to Debian Testing with GNOME 3. Surprisingly, GNOME 3 isn’t that bad at all and not much different from Unity. Yeah having to install extensions to achieve some…

  • Mirror or a photograph?

  • Tamil subtitles for the “Diaspora* next online revolution” video

    I saw this Diaspora* promotional video posted on Diaspora* (https://diasp.org/posts/463943) and there was a request to translate it to as many languages as possible. Myself and Bala anna thought that we could contribute. So a couple of nights back, we sat together and tried to translate the English subtitles to Tamil. As we progressed sentence by…

  • As a birthday gift to myself, I quit Facebook and deleted my account

    Update: Almost 2.5 years after deleting my Facebook account and writing this post, I have gone back to Facebook and created a new account for myself. This time I will be mainly a passive viewer on Facebook and WhatsApp (which I joined a bit earlier) and keep myself protected from Facebook’s evil designs by doing…