It is annoying when you spend your money on a good quality product expecting it to provide useful service for a long time and your purchase turns its back on you. It is worse if you took good care of it and it is still in working condition and yet you cannot use it. Continue Reading >>

 

 All the practical aspects for my blog posts take place out of my house, usually when I’m traveling to different places on official work, or on leave -especially my annual leave which I prefer to take all at once for Christmas. This is a blessing in disguise as I can focus all my energy on my list of things to accomplish and research.  Once I switch off my phone for a month, it is utopia. The Christmas before last, I had heard that the fisher folk of Udupi  have a very easy method of grilling their fish. I did ask the fish wife Yashodha who comes selling fish to our house daily and she told me how it was done and then as usual I got involved with my other projects. It wasn’t time yet for that post. Continue Reading >>

 

Prawns have been one of my favorite foods. However like all bottom feeding or filter feeding creatures, (prawns, mussels, crabs, cat fish etc..) it causes allergies -serious allergies in some people. I know of friends and relatives, who would die without medical aid if they ever ate one or more of these foods, yet they long to eat these forbidden foods. In fact we bury the waste from the above foods as if the household dog or cat eats the waste, it throws up in no time.

This post is for those who can eat prawns but have always bought ready made prawns or have eaten out because they do not know how to clean them.

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The most expensive of my camping purchases finally arrived. It was a long wait while I bought the essentials and kept postponing this purchase. I didn’t plan it this way -to make this my most expensive purchase, but as the years went by, so did my paycheck and of course I wanted something which would be of good quality and of lasting value. I had almost finalized Steiner binoculars -the rugged military models with the built in range finding reticle and compass, but both the times that I tried at Optics planet, my card was declined even though the Nikon I finally bought was much more expensive than the Steiner. Continue Reading >>

 

I currently have 4 cook pots that I use when trekking. Often I use them at home too!

The Vargo Ti lite mug
The Snowpeak Trek 900 Titanium
The Montbell #3D Titanium cooker
The Zebra 12cm “Billy Can”

The Zebra has been my latest acquisition, and my first stainless steel cook pot as I prefer titanium for most of my outdoor gear. Although I’ve not yet reviewed my other cookware, I’d better start off with the Zebra as I have a huge backlog of posts for writing as of now and I’d better start with what’s fresh in my mind. Continue Reading >>

 

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We had been managing on an Airtel 512kbps business plan for quite a while.  When a new fourth office came up, it became apparent that our connection would no longer serve our purpose. For the fourth office, the Internet was critical and even after going in for a new 1Mbps leased line, our individual bandwidth did not seem to increase proportionately. It was time to crack the whip. Continue Reading >>