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How to fix the RAM – Explaining to a girl over phone! |
“Women and Americans are kinda dumb at PCs”. I really don’t know why people say it so! I don’t! Even if you may conclude part of it from the conversation transcript below. ;)
Well, I would be dead tomorrow if I had to disclose the real name of the girl in this conversation over my blog. So lets call her simply “Girl”. Please do not make any generalised statements over the example cited below. I am just sharing my experience. I do not want a Women’s commission to sit in front of my house with a dharna or any of those Geeky Tech Girls (anytime smarter than me) hack into my blog!
Just to be safe let me put this disclaimer: :P
The events and characters mentioned in this blog post are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Ok here we go… A friend of mine called me up and…
Girl: My PC is not working. Someone told me that its because of the RAM, as my PC is making a “Peeng…Peeng…” sound.
Me: Hmm. Yea looks like a RAM problem. There must be some dust or moisture on the RAM.
Girl: Can you come over to my place and get it right? This Tuesday?
Me: Yup sure. Just keep a screw driver handy.
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Shabji…do din se kuch nahin khaya…bhook lagi hai |
“Shabji…do din se kuch nahin khaya…bhook lagi hai”. Walk out onto the streets and most certainly a homeless tramp would utter this to you. An age-old preset line used by every beggar, not surprising really, it still works! It did on me too yesterday evening when I walked out of a cellphone showroom. Well, I may be an exception to this, as I usually give away atleast a rupee to them. Possibly so that they stop annoying me or just because I cannot see someone in poor state. Yes, I am still learning to be a beggar ignorant, a skill that most metropolitan people have mastered. Anyway, a few bucks away and I am not broke. So I don’t really mind.
So this eight or nine year old poor kid finds me (they all always do! :( ). It sometimes amuses me, how beggars find their catch, is it just randomly? If so may be I am their random favourite who does not usually disappoint them. I am just too bad at ignoring beggars. Especially when I walk out from one of my city’s premium restaurants (where I just paid a huge overhead for the food and yet left a few bucks as a tip to a salaried guy waiting there). Then why not a few bucks to the beggar who spot me on while entering, and waited all while till I was out so that he can get a few bucks. It’s very interesting how these beggars spot their catch (rock-hearted to say so… I am just learning to be). A couple sitting on a beachside (you think that guy with a fat wallet would refuse in front of his fiancee?), a mom with her kid who gave them a glance (Bet me! She gonna give a rupee in her kid’s hand and ask to handover, thinking that she taught some good values)… But then why me?!!! Or may be as I said, I just might be their random favourite.
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Google April Fools fools |
If you think that in this new IT age Google is God (or vice versa) and can do anything, you better believe for it. But yet not all that Google tells you to :P. Today I logged on to Gmail and noticed some new FREE service offered by Google.
They call it the Gmail Paper. According to Google:
You can request a physical copy of any email for FREE in your Gmail inbox with the click of a button
Google will print all messages instantly and prepare them for delivery. Allow 2-4 business days for a parcel to arrive via post.
Photo attachments are printed on high-quality, glossy photo paper, and secured to your Gmail Paper with a paper clip. MP3 and WAV files will not be printed. We recommend maintaining copies of your non-paper Gmail in these cases.
You can make us print one, one thousand, or one hundred thousand of your emails. It’s whatever seems reasonable to you.
Gmail Paper is made out of 96% post-consumer organic soybean sputum, and thus, actually helps the environment.
After being exposed to bizarre April Fool Pranks all day, like one local daily claiming that Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai had married secretly overnight and published a photoshop edited pic of the marriage, I guess I quite very much knew on how to react to this prank by Google… I just burst out laughing. It was soon that many of my friends thought it was all true and instantly posted it on their blogs appreciating this effort by Google.
Had they known about Google’s new FREE 8Mbps Broadband Service TiSP that will require your Toilet to access, they did really know what a fool Google was trying to make out of them.
Hey have a look at the system specs for acquiring TiSP access:
Windows XP/Vista (Mac and Linux support coming soon)
Internet Explorer 6.0+ or Firefox 1.5+ with the Google Toolbar
Round-front or elongated toilet providing at least 1.0 gallons per flush
Use of automatic toilet bowl cleaners is not recommended
Haha… And you couldnt let yourself leave without having a look at these amazing installation pics that Google has on their site.
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Have a safe April Fools Day |
A small story -
A guy is April fooled by his friends. To prove that he is not one, he decides to fool a few of his close friends. Messages them that he has met with a small accident. They call back worrying about him. He looks like a fool all the more… explaining to them that it was a joke. While riding back home he really meets in an accident. Ok he is fine now… no injuries. Just small bike damages.
Moral of the Story: Ride Safely, Wear a helmet. :P :P :P
Hehe…Ok here it is…
Have a safe April Fools Day! And please don’t ask me who the guy was ;).
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Indian Cricket Team after World Cup 2007 |
After India has been shown the back door in this world cup, I have been enjoying a lot of funny sms jokes and email forwards on the Indian Cricket Team. Along with me many cricket fans are expressing their grief with comedy. As for the players themselves, they may not find any of it funny.
Here is one email forward that is making rounds on the net… :P
Indian Team after World Cup 2007:
Lets do it in the batting order: ;)
Virendra Sehwag
Robin Uthappa
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Happy Birthday to Me! |
This is Aseem… a little different than a few hours ago, 21 now! I dont really feel like old. But I know I am slowly getting there. When I was small my reference for being old was teens, got to the teens and then thought 20s should be fine to be called old enough. Now got to 21 and I can still feel a kid in me. Being old is yet so very far! And everytime I make it to what I felt was the age to call mature and responsible my reference changes. :P
Right from my days in KG to my 12th exams, I have never ever got a chance to celebrate my birthday. Everytime without fail my final exams for the academic year would coincide with my birthday :( . But am happy its not the same in engineering. Exams are a way ahead :) . So I can just have a nice time with family or hangout with some close frenz. Planning to do the same today :). Hmm… looks like a busy day too. Been receiving calls right from midnight and I have just lost count of all of them :p. Orkut scraps on a birthday are like a supernova explosion….. have loads to reply to! Also there is this most important match of the world cup for India today (in which India is not playing) Bermuda Vs Bangladesh. Indian team… I know you are good for nuts, so please dont waste more of our time, pray that Bangladesh(the deserving winners against you) win. And all those bookies please dont fix this match with Bangladesh. Let the Indian team be kicked out of World Cup today, that will be a perfect birthday gift for me.
So what am I gifting myself on this birthday? hehe… yea actually had plans to redesign this blog, but kinda got so busy with websites and college last few days that I just didnt get the time to. Fast forward another 2 weeks and I should be free to start working on a new blog design. Just one of those little ways to keep me up for blogging. Have been down all last month :(. Need to give it some life back.
Hey there my cellphone is ringing again… My first love my Nokia 3315. I call it N-3315! :P
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Xoom – Send money to India |
All my online transactions have been through Paypal. But disappointingly, everytime I decide to withdraw, it takes about 15-20 days for me to receive the cheque from Paypal, and another 10-15 days for the money to be deposited to my account as Citibank (Bank partnered with paypal for this) is not available in Goa.
This time, I wanted to withdraw some 1XXX USD from my paypal account. I logged in to paypal and realised that my monthly withdrawal limit showed 0.00 USD from 2,500.00 USD 8O. Uh! Now what was that! So immediately contacted paypal via email. Paypal popular at sucking customer support, I knew I will be made to wait for a week atleast to get a response. So I switched to Google about this issue. Found a post on DP. This limit has been imposed on all Verified Indian Paypal members while most of the accounts with 500.00 USD limit. Ofcourse I could not wait for the issue to be resolved as no one had any idea about it.
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Rising from the ashes… |
No fire… not charred… no ashes… but just getting back to life that I felt like lost all last month… out of the grave now and back to blogging. Last 30 days were full of Khatta-Meetha experiences. Some I don’t want to remember, some I can’t forget. But I am glad that this pretty long sabbatical from blogging is finally over… or rather partially maybe. Only time will unfold. Don’t know if I was off blogging because I was a little more busy than usual or it was that nothing came to my lazy head.
As JohnTP put it “Every blogger stops blogging once in a while…” in his post Do You Apologize to your readers for not blogging.
An apology has to fight the inner ego first, that no blogger would confess of having. But be a dedicated blog reader of a blog, and you will know how frustrating it is if you don’t see a new post when you log on to the site for more than a week. So here it is… battling my inner ego (If you thought I was too humble to have one. Your wrong, I do!) let me put it in the most modest way possible:
“I am really sorry for not blogging all last month”.
I can’t draw any good things out of this break… though my blog traffic has somehow increased and so has the Google Adsense earning (however meager it might be). Should have been the other way round eh?
Hmm… Anyways lets not get into the past now. The saffron skies tell me it’s a new fresh day, calling me out to fly… fly high into the boundless space (afterall I am Aseem – without boundaries). Just keeping my fingers crossed that I am not facing west…
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My valentine with cricket |
What better than spending all your day this valentine with your most loved sport! Was kinda holidaying last week…and on the top of the cake here comes a cricket match India Vs Sri Lanka @ Goa’s Fatorda stadium. Just the second one I have been to… and as expected it was pure fun! Howling and screaming slogans, obeying the Mexican waves, waving at cricketers who would field at the boundary line, posing with ppl wearing weird costumes just to catch the attention of the cameraman…yea it was all there!
Though we missed so much Dhoni’s big hits… and a high scoring game but the cricket fever was pumped up all day. I missed nothing, it was just a perfect Valentine’s Day!
What did you do on your Valentine’s day?
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Irritating SMS beeps |
While an SMS beep would infill excitement in you with the thought of your near and dear ones trying to get in touch with you, for me its getting increasingly irritating now. Thanks to the tonnes of messages Idea Cellular sends me all day. Idea Dhamaka…. Gadi jeeto, Sona jeeto… Ek lakh rupaye jeeto… Bollywood quiz… Number collect karo…uh! Can I tell them that I am not interested in making quick money like this? (Or may be lose balance quickly with every call for such offer charged a minimum 6rs!).
All my family members have Idea connection… so imagine how much irritating its getting for all of us.
