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Sennheiser HD202 Repair

Monday, March 29, 2010

I have a Sennheiser HD 202, which has served me well for the last 3 years. Recently, I tripped on the cable and broke the left ear wire (or made it loose at any rate). This led to intermittent song playing in the left ear, which is extremely irritating! Here is what you need to [...]

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150 Things To Do Before You Turn Thirty

Thursday, February 12, 2009

I got this from my friend Sudheendra’s site. I have seen this tag on so many blogs and why not, it’s a wonderful tag! The name is ’150 Things To Do Before You Turn Thirty’. The rules are, 1. The things you have already done – make them bold. 2. Italics is for things that [...]

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Laundry Hack

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Everybody goes through the same rigmarole. Wash your clothes on a weekly basis, and use the dryer to dry them. Then you probably iron them, before you let them hang in your closet. Hack #1: Iron Elimination If you take your clothes out as soon as it finishes drying, and hang them in your closet, [...]

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Calling Card Solution

Friday, January 2, 2009

I’ve always hated the calling card solution to call back home. You have to dial the calling card access number, then optionally type in your pin number and then dial the international number that you are trying to call. It is cumbersome, and I hate it! I use Reliance Global Call for my calling card [...]

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Translators, an observation

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Imagine you are listening to the radio. Have you ever found it irritating that when they play translations of people speaking in a different language, they play a couple of seconds of the original person’s voice. I was listening to PRI’s – The World on WLRH while driving the other day. It then struck me [...]

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