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Want to earn some cash?

Want to earn some cash?

I am sure you have entered our little Diwali 2007 Giveaway. If you’d like to give your shot at some some cash prizes, I have some more contests for you. Blog About Your Blog Contest: Blog About Your Blog is running a Bidvertiser contest that ends Oct 29. There are some cool cash prizes ($100, […]

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ShanKri-la Sports a New Logo & Favicon

It’s exciting times around here. We just recently hit 200+ RSS subscribers and we have a Diwali 2007 Giveaway going on. In the midst of all this, I had won a contest at the ProBlogger Birthday Bash. The prize was a logo design by the famous Graphic Designer, David Airey! He was wonderful to work […]

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ShanKri-la Diwali 2007 Giveaway

ShanKri-la Diwali 2007 Giveaway

Diwali is a great Indian Festival of Lights. It was one of my favorite festivals growing up. I still have fond memories of this colorful celebration with lots of fireworks and miss being home for it. What do I win? I would like to thank my readers and would like to show my appreciation by […]

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A New Milestone for ShanKri-la

A New Milestone for ShanKri-la

I just wanted to take the time to thank all my readers for supporting me and encouraging me since the beginning. I have had my doubts when I started blogging like who would read what I write. With 200+ RSS subscribers today, I have found a few of you who do like what I write […]

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How Can I Improve My Blog?

It’s been a while since I participated in meme’s. I have tried to stay away from some for obvious reasons but when my friend Stephen Cronin of Scratch99 tagged me with the Blog Improvment Zone meme, I had to take it. It couldn’t have been better timing to be tagged with a ”How Can I […]

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ShanKri-la is a Contest Winner

I entered a few contests as you can read in this post to test my luck. It looks like the lady luck has shined on me today. I just found out that I have won a $50 BestBuy gift card at the LiveLearnInvest Blog contest. Thanks to Kenric for hosting the contest and UltimateKilimanjaro for […]

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ShanKri-la Sports a New Look

ShanKri-la Sports a New Look

For those who are following ShanKri-la via your RSS reader, we are sporting a new look! As much I loved the old theme, it had a few flaws that bothered me. I have been in the lookout for a new & clean theme and I finally found one this weekend. Here is a little sneak […]

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Contest Time: Time to Test Your Luck

I haven’t participated in any contests lately but there are a couple that I noticed were pretty good for the requirements. Blog About Your Blog Contest I can’t believe I waited this long to enter this cool contest to win a 125×125 banner ad for 1 month at BAYB or a 512MB Philips MP3 Player or […]

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AdGridWork Serving full page Paypopup ads?

AdGridWork Serving full page Paypopup ads?

Yesterday was an interesting day for ShanKri-la. I started out fixing broken feed and ended up fighting annoying popups that had creeped into my blog. Read on, if you are into things like that. Broken Feed Vinod kindly pointed to me that my feed was broken. Here is what went down if it’ll help someone […]

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Blog Contests are Fun, If I Win

Blog Contests are Fun, If I Win

I am going to try my hand at entering a few contests and letting you know about them so you can participate in it as well. NiggyBuzz – Win $25 Contest The first prize is a cool $25 PayPal cash. There are a variety of ways to earn tickets like subscribing to the feed, adding […]

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Random facts about ShanKri-la

Kyle of Kyle’s Cove tagged me to write some random facts about me. Even though the title implies random facts about ShanKri-la, it might be fun to know little about the person behind this. I have to say that this was harder than writing a tech post and the reason why my About page doesn’t say […]

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Xinu and a Poll

Unlike last week, I am not trying to give you a long name and its meaning, Instead, Xinu is a web service that provides a lot of stats in a nice layout to get a quick overview of a multitude of information. If you liked Website Grader [review] to learn a lot about your website, […]

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What’s new at ShanKri-la?

Just a quick weekend update to my readers. If you had visited the site today, you might have noticed a few things here. Ads I have added a few ads and I have tried my best to make them unobtrusive so it doesn’t hinder or dampen your reading experience. I don’t think this is going […]

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Paraskevidekatriaphobia and a Poll

I learnt a new word today from CNN this morning. I don’t think I’ll remember it even right after I finish writing this post but may be it’ll be useful to you if you find a time machine to go back to your spelling bee competition again. Paraskevidekatriaphobics – Fear of Friday the 13th. Argh, […]

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Guest Blogging at Blog About Your Blog

Blog About Your Blog (BAYB) is a project where quality bloggers from around the world come together and blog about their interests. The result is a blog with an excellent community around it with great content flowing in every day. I have been a BAYB reader ever since I heard about this blog. My first attempt […]

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