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A new name

It's nothing but beautiful to look back to your past self. Today I visited my private blog after a long time and uncovered some nuggets from the early 2010s. It's not a long time ago, and the posts never felt so great when they were written either; but like they say, old is gold !

Anyway, this post is to keep a record of the fact that for the longest time until it's inception until today, this blog was named "electrokavalam's fun with technology" and its url electrokavalam.blogspot.com

Since Blogger allows the name (and yes URL too !) to be changed, I took the liberty of re-purposing this blog to it's current form instead of starting a new one.

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