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Happy Birthday Blogger

On this day in 1999, Pyra Labs launched Blogger. Blogger was later bought by Google in 2003.
I have been blogging with Blogger for the last 3 years in this blog, and also in my Tamil blog. It has been a wonderful experience for me with Blogger, (though I prefer WordPress these days).
Congratulations to Google on [...]

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  • With the recent news from Yahoo that GeoCities is going to be discontinued on October 26, 2009, the Internet Archive is working to ensure their collection of GeoCities sites is as deep and thorough as possible.

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  • Why the YouTube logo changed to Green?

    I was just creeping through YouTube, just to find something interesting to watch,what got my attention was the changed YouTube logo.Just a little Google search revealed that this green logo is to celebrate the Saint Patrick’s Day.
    Saint Patrick’s Day is celebrated worldwide by the those of Irish descent and increasingly by non-Irish people (usually [...]

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  • I posted sometime back about SLT ADSL packages for low rates, and now it seems that they have reduced charges for all SLT ADSL packages.
    Now the Entrée package is Rs.500 (+VAT) which was Rs.1,000 (+VAT), and the Home package is Rs.1,600 (+VAT) from the early Rs.2,250 (+VAT). Both these packages have 128kbps upload speed [...]

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  • SLT might be announcing a new Special Broadband ADSL Package at the Deyata Kirula Exhibition which is now opened for public at BMICH, Colombo.
       
    The leaflets in Tamil and Sinhala leaked from some internal sources show some details about these new “reduced charge” packages. But when I tried to get a confirmation from SLT they denied [...]

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