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Its been a while I’ve blogged anything substantial except for my automated tweet collection; What better way to put some zing into this blog by writing about our recent travels eh? As Anu’s exams got over in May, and she has a long three month vacation ahead of her, we had begun planning about her going to India for summer holidays well in advance. However the idea of doing a European country on the way to India excited us, as 1) It would save us money of buying dedicated tickets to the country and 2) We could fit in a few days of visit in the country.

As it turned out a few days really became quite a few days; in-fact close to two weeks to be precise. And the first European country we did as a couple? Greece.

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• Now I am being greedy; I wish FB allowed more than one username for my account 😉 😉 #
• Eh, there are really not that many of my namesakes in this world 😉 – was easily able to get my name for facebook username 🙂 #
• Don’t understand US Government doling out billions and millions of $ in aid to other countries when its own ppl are without food / money! #
• Eerie. Was this destiny? http://bit.ly/1KkeV #
• Trust Boeing to earn some brownie points out of Airbus’s disaster. http://bit.ly/wfVde #

• @patrix Check out this http://tinyurl.com/n3fxst or http://tinyurl.com/ba49lr – both are pretty good IMO. in reply to patrix #
• @patrix What you need is a network attache storage with RAID; that will help even if one hdd dies in a stack. in reply to patrix #
• @patrix I know a lot of people in my office use drobo – too expensive for me though. in reply to patrix #
• @patrix I usually find DVD backups best and safest option; do it once in 6 months or more, has been enough for me. #
• @patrix Well even a small static shock is enough to ruin your hard disk, so anything to could happen anytime. in reply to patrix #
• I wish there was a GOOD working, facebook app for smugmug. None of them work properly! #
• WHO declares flu pandemic – Ye! WHO must be so happy today! #
• Absurd analogy in previous tweet; must be on a tangent today! #
• Microsoft making an anti-virus is akin to Vijay Mallya offering an anti-hangover drink to public. #
• @google: When are you going to offer Picasaweb with infinite storage? Id’ pay for it. Please, pretty please, make it happen! #

• http://twitpic.com/73mq1 – @patrix This is what I see when i access http://www.ipatrix.com or ipatrix.com #
• @patrix Well something’s gone wrong with your site; I’d say talk to the customer support. Ipatrix.com is certainly going to BangtheTable. in reply to patrix #
• @patrix What happened to your website? ipatrix.com is taking me to umm BangTheTable site… in reply to patrix #
• As a desi, this headline reads just so wrong: http://bit.ly/FCQSE #
• @patrix Only 100$ for regalia? We paid 220$, that too 4 years back. I never returned mine 🙂 in reply to patrix #
• Greece photos uploaded finally. http://www.suyogandanu.net/Travel/806251 #
• One hour into two and half hour meeting, and we’ve covered 1 page of the document to be reviewed. Oh lord… #
• Boston.com photos of hubble’s servicing mission; awesome photos again, Boston.com http://tinyurl.com/ksspxt #
• California weather makes me sick! Fog in morning, sunny afternoon, chilly evenings – too much for my body! Hate it! #
• Indian Media: There’s a difference between Canada attacks on Indians vs Aussies. Canada police actually arrested and charged the attackers. #

• Smugmug’s slideshows are slow as hell again – arrrggh! #
• Overheard desi talking to another: “We are having a NEW baby”. Nice, what did you do to the old one? #
• Walking through SFO’s customs and immigration yesterday felt like walking through Chinatown. Seriously! I wonder where the natives were… #
• I seriously wished for an iPhone in Greece; CDMA doesnt cut it if you travel! #
• @smugmug how do I customize my gallery layout which has multiple sub-categories (or sub galleries). Need to change from 2 colum to 1 column. #
• @100$ a year, my bluehost webhost provider is getting a little expensive; any other options? #
• Uploading pics…. should be done by end of day – 8 Gb pics upload take time! #
• Was my workplace this boring before I went on leave? #
• Got up early at 5.30 due to jetlag. That shouldn’t mean I should get to work also early, does it? #
• Started with 3100 photos; Reduced it to 1600 photos that are acceptable. 800 of ’em upload-able and nice! Averages to 50 photos per day. #

• Read last year’s booker winner: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. Rubbish book – another wannbe slumdog in the making. #fail #
• Can’t deny that when our flight hit turbulence at 4 hour mark, my heart skipped a beat. I hate it when planes hit turbulence! #
• Back. Home Sweet Home. Greece was AMAZING! Detailed report, blog, photos, reviews to follow soon… #

• The first result for a search on my name on bing.com takes me to a page 5 years old now. Google takes me to my current website. Bing: #Fail. #

• http://tinyurl.com/oh4f3d This is getting eeriely similar to LOST! #
• I feel so crippled without my camera #

• Santorini has bored me so far; surprising, considering this is THE most popular greek island. #
• Mishap after mishap; finally arrived at Santorini; drained out, & not too excited abt the place either :(. Maybe I’m just too tired. #

• Second leg nearly over; Tomorrow over to Santorini for some total laziness & relaxation! #
• @cgawker LOL! You’ve made some drastic changes as a boss; usually they don’t achieve that much so soon 😛 in reply to cgawker #