Aseem’s Blog
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What is happeninng to me? |
Wake up Wake up Wake up…. this is all what people around me are yelling and SMSing… I dont remember when last I slept this long!
9:00 PM to 8:00 AM - Sleep
8:00 AM to 11:00 AM - Breakfast, Blog post, Planned out work but…
11:00 AM to 2:00 PM - Sleep
2:00 PM to 2:30 PM - Replied to SMSes and missed calls of ppl who didnt want me to sleep.
2:30 PM to 3:00 PM - Planning to have Lunch
3:00 PM to ______ PM/AM - Planning to sleep!
Kya ho raha hai mujhe???!!! Tomorrow a brand new year begins… and I dont have any excitement or energy oozing outta me to plan for the new things to come… Clean my room and desk as I used to do when I was a kid. Help my sis in her small home party preps (I am NOT a sexist, but i dont think guys should be doing that).
For all those who want to join me in, here is where you start:
And for all those who would prefer not to join, atleast do a favour… dont tell my clients that I have been sleeping like a log past a day. I had some pending work that I was to finish yesterday. And now I have kept it for the next year! :) Lol!
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No year 2007 for Saddam |
Yesterday, 30th Dec 06 marked the end of Saddam Hussein and tomorrow 1st Jan 07 marks a new beginning of a new year. I am sure you know, this post is not here to talk about the jubilation and jovial moods set for year 2007 but certainly about the much talked about execution of the former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein. And there is much more to him than just the former President of Iraq for which he has been executed today.
Some might believe that Saddam’s Execution was a vengeance and not justice. For the Sunni Saddam followers it might be a time to dim into sorrow and for the Shias a time to resurrect out of their ashes of the barbaric regime that they have been tormented into for years now! For the Bush it may be a dream come true and for the Anti-Bush another shameful act by America after the invasion of Iraq in search for weapons of mass destruction that they never found… Not joining this debate, the Indian politics plays its cards safe. They call it an “unfortunate event”, “disappointed over the incident”, and yes some take this chance to draw mileage and tag it as “an anti-muslim act” too…
The Indian media also joined the party. An hour before Saddam’s execution, I was watching Aajtak and the host of the show didn’t even think twice in saying that “this execution could provoke aggressive feelings in Kashmir”… How ridiculous it is really to anticipate such an event and in a way incite people to do so. Indian Media doesn’t really know where it is heading.
Now let me take a shot on the world media… worse! Make no mistake - Saddam deserved the gruesome end but making the execution video public (why did they need to take it at the first place!)… what a shameful act! Following are a couple of videos on Saddam’s execution. You might have got to see the first on all news channels, the second one is for the dissemination by the world wide web.
Preparations for Saddam’s Execution:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=z5EBa4awHp4
Entire Uncut Video of Saddam’s Execution (Not released in media):
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7532034279766935521
What is certain now is the fact that dictators are on a notice. You are no longer above the consequences of your actions. The execution of Saddam will leave a chink of hope towards a democratic Iraq and will mark a new beginning for all those oppressed under such brutal dictatorships worldwide…
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Determining popularity of your blog |
So how do you know if your blog is getting popular??? :D
- By the number of daily unique visitors your blog receives?
- Number of hits?
- Number of Returning visitors?
- Avg. Length of visit of the visitors?
- Or yea my fav the number of comments your blog receives?
- May be even PR of your blog will do to be counted in as one determining factor.
While all above hold good… let me add one more in: Number of spams your blog receives daily… :lol: (Hehe… you can bet this one comes out of frustration).
I just logged in into my Spam Karma control panel in wordpress.. and whoa! in last 24 hours 98 spams caught!!! :P Missed a century by 2 :( So how popular is your blog? :lol:
It really sux to regularly take the time out to delete all the spams caught and yet scan for some genuine comments that might have gone down the line… I think I better install some math plugin or captcha image to avoid all those spams.. So how much can I trust your math dear commenters? ;) (Hehe dont worry it will be simple numerical addition…lol!)
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BSNL Broadband now 2Mbps!!! |
I could bet this one was a joke anytime, but with the year 2007 already been declared as the ‘Year of Broadband’, there is surely some juice in this news. First got to know from a friend about BSNL’s broadband upgrade to 2Mbps. At first go I didnt believe and thought it was just another rumour. But when I googled, I found a hell lotta news on it (though as usual, no announcement on BSNL’s website). Its been about 10 days that media has covered this news. I gotta accept I am just not into reading news for the past couple of weeks. Also Technorati shows a number of bloggers blogging about it. M late!
Ok so let me not take you for a ride and lets come to the point. So whats there in for us? I called up BSNL and this is the kinda info that their customer service gave me:
- BSNL will offer on all Home and Business Plans data rates up to 2 Mbps, subject to technical feasibility.
- The customer wont have to pay any extra charge to BSNL towards the plans or the already existing hardware setup that is capable of providing such speeds.
- The following offered by BSNL are the new upgraded plans with higher bandwidths also:
Home 250 - 1GB limit, 90 paisa per MB over the limit.
Home 500 - 2.5GB limit, 80 paisa per MB over the limit.
Home 1000 - 5GB limit, 80 paisa per MB over the limit.
Home 1800 - 10GB limit, 70 paisa per MB over the limit.
Home 3300 - 20GB limit, 70 paisa per MB over the limit.
There is no mention of the Home 900 UL plan.
Business 700 - 4GB limit, 80 paisa per MB over the limit.
Business 1200 - 8GB limit, 80 paisa per MB over the limit.
Business 3000 - 20GB limit, 50 paisa per MB over the limit.
Business 5000 - 35GB limit, 50 paisa per MB over the limit.
Business 9000 - 75GB limit, 50 paisa per MB over the limit. - This change is with effect from Jan 1, 2007.
Hmm… you must be wondering that BSNL Customer Service guys are good opposed to their poor image. That guy surely had a lot of patience to gimme all this info on phone without getting bugged with my foray of questions at 12:45 AM. Yea I appreciate that. But hello… they are still the very same “We have not been notified yet” guys if you ask them anything even a little out of the way. I still have a number of questions gone unanswered.
The present upload speed limit is 64kbps. Will it be the same or increased? Why there hasnt been any change in the unlimited plan? (Hehe… I know even I could answer that… With unlimited bandwidth @ 2Mbps coming @ just 900Rs a month… people will suck them out dry…!) This is not just it! There a a couple of hiccups more. BSNL says that the 2Mbps speed available is subject to technical feasibility. Hmm.. I asked them what they meant by that. Thank God this BSNL Customer Service guy could tell me something about it. Says: It will totally depend on the telephone exchange of your area. Smaller exchanges which are not capable of handling this speed boost to 2Mbps, wont be able to offer this support. You need to call up the BSNL internet section to know more about your exchange’s speed limits. Speeds could vary from 256kbps to 2Mbps… :( Not fair! I reside in Porvorim. Which is just 4km from Panjim where 2Mbps will be possible. Porvorim it still may not be :(. Also there has not been any change in the free night surfing feature. I think they should have relaxed the timings… 2:00 AM to 8:00 AM sux bigtime for normal working people. Though not nocturnals like me :lol:
But in the bigger picture, this is certainly a welcome change and I see India soon reaching their Vision 2010 with this. Provided they upgrade their infrastructure for such changes. Its certainly not upbeat. BSNL even keeps new connection applications pending because their exchanges run out of ports. Uh! I wonder if all this will turn out to be a gimmick with the infrastructure not capable of hosting such big promises. I just hope not!
When I tasted 512kbps on their promotional game plan, it was awesome. 2Mbps should be God like Speed! And it comes for just Rs 250 a month! Anyways, as BSNL’s 900 UL plan subscriber, I have a reason to grumble.. but I know I will anytime prefer even a 128kbps unlimited connection to any plan that has data transfer limits :lol:. I just hate them….
More resources to read about BSNL’s future plans and on the 2Mbps upgrade:
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Rediffmail down! |
Heck! Right from yesterday evening I have been trying to login to my rediff email account… :( Looks like those guys are working on some update. But its seriously too long a period for an email service to go offline like this… Its already shooting up to reach 24 hours now.
I was expecting some important business mail and another urgent email. Its really frustrating to see the ‘Service temporarily unavailable :(’ page right there on logon…
Only God and Rediff knows wats the problem. I dont think it is a service update or upgrade thats causing the delay to restore things back to normal. Its a common practice to pilot test such updates and the service should have been back online in an hour or so. May be its some network or hardware failure/upgrade thats taking this much time.
I think such email services should have their official blogs to keep their subscribers updated of the latest with them. Whatever.. I am still sulking… I wish I had given my regular business email for the urgent commuinication. :(
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‘Industrial Visit’ to Goa Web Solutions! Lol! |
Does my firm website give you a feel of a big-time company? If it does… M glad!!! :) :) :) Hehe.
This season I got a couple of similar mails as below and yea a few sometime back too.
Sir,
I ——— from SOME COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, Hyderabad along with my co-students would like to visit your company between — of january to —- of january with regard to the convinence of the industries. The basic idea of our trip is to gain basic industrial knowledge which we can use in our later stages of our career. So I request you to provide us a chance to visit your company and help us to gain knowledge.
I request to consider our sincere request and give an oppurtunity to meet you to gain knowledge.
Thanking you
SOME STUDENT
SOME COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Company… Industrial visit… whoa! I didnt want to disturb the view of this guy and that of many others (u knw it feels good :)) but had to tell them all… mine is just a small website designing firm. I just hire people to get work done and work myself. Thats all. I wonder if there even will be proper place for you guys if you come in 40-50 numbers. Lol!
So at the end I just helped myself with a laugh.
Well Goa is truly an upbeat place for tourists. Being an engineering student myself I can guess what these students basically lookout for when deciding on such trips. And you are like, any damn company will do when u get to go 2 Goa!
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My first fall off my Bajaj Pulsar 150 |
A fantastic final paper of your semester, the much awaited end of exam right in front of you, too excited to kick start your bike, too careless to notice the side stand LED glowing and you are just set to vroom… you must have got it right by now, this guy ought to taste some mud. Ah… How embarrassing to tell that I had my first fall off my so beloved Pulsar 150 today. And you do know how :(. Well it turns out to be even more embarrassing when you havnt had a fall after the first time you learnt to ride your bicycle when you were a kid.
All through the few seconds I and my friend skidded with the bike that ripped off my favourite new trousers…I was only thinking of what part of my bike was getting damaged. Once the trio came to a halt all lying on the road above eachother, I looked back to see my rear view mirror broken into infinite pieces. Got up, lifted my bike and then sat down staring at an all the more damaged bike, wondering how the hell did it happen to me! I thought I was a good rider. :oops:
Couldn’t just let it go, with “Goofups do happen sometimes”. Seriously bruised with just about to bleed wounds crying for a dressing and the ignominy of falling in front of many of my college mates, it kinda gets in your head. Ask my friends who were around and helped me with some attention. My friend Rajat was pillion riding… thank god he didn’t have much to cry about, just a small cut. But I still did have to say a sorry to him. My mistake afterall (Does bolding this text help a little in penance?). Another friend surely found all this funny, got pics of us both, and I shamelessly posed. I can’t guess it wrong, these surely will be fillers for my college magazine. Arrgggghhhh!
Had an anti-tetanus injection done. I have not had any injections since when I was a kid, so they have always remained in the darker memories of my childhood. Luckily this one wasn’t more painful than a mosquito bite. But I still did confirm it with the nurse before she proceeded with it. Lol!
Got back home and had to take a verbal battering from my parents. It wasn’t supposed to get better. Can’t lie, that I am feeling much better now, though I did get up all with excitement after the fall(just to tell the others, that I am hell fine!). With peeled off skin, swollen wounds and bones crying “you hit me”…I have made a resolution to ride safe and sound heretofore. I wonder if the bruised biker in me wants to beat that. But don’t want to loose more blood and bones either. ;)
My sis has these kinda small little things to get me happy. First bike fall, and she was all set in a party mood. Hehe… just ordered a Domino’s Pizza. And what is playing on my mind right now… is that the delivery boy comes safe and sound and in no hurry to reach in time… something rings in your head??? (30mins nahin to free…. ;))
Ting Dong…. :( (Bah! In 28mins 30 secs and now me a 720 bucks poorer bruised Aseem)
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Happy Birthday Goa Web Solutions |
Its been a year today that I had started a website designing and hosting firm - Goa Web Solutions. Feels great that my baby is now aged one year :). When I look back to all the ups and downs in business (and hopefully there will be only ups heretofore), the silly things that have got me upset about, the good things that made me jump in joy…its been a long ride to reach here.
A big thanks to all my friends and wellwishers who have been with me all through and ofcourse how can I forget to thank my clients for without the trust they showed in me it wouldnt have been possible. :)
Just a little earlier in the day, I had a suprise in store for the site visitors on… Yeah a few hours left. Guess you can surely try your luck too!
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Google Apps for Your Domain |
Smiles, smiles, smiles! Google Apps for Your Domain is a free service that offers private labeled email, Instant Messenger, Event Calender, a WYSIWYG based web page creator and stuff. I guess its been online for over two months now. What I was looking out into it was the Gmail offered for the email service. :)
Who wouldn’t want your domain email to have all the features of and power packed into Gmail. So I signed up there and within a matter of an hour I was running my email on Google servers. 2GB of space and a hulluva features over SquirrelMail(the default mail webmail client on my server), its brought a smile.
The configuration doesn’t take much time at all. Just a MX entry change from your Domain/Hosting CP, and if you would like to have a custom page from your domain then a little CNAME settings that you will have to ask your host to do it for you. Or you can just redirect any subdomain. Once done you can use Google’s Gmail to send and receive your emails and also chat on Google Talk with that id.
Currently this service is free. This is what I just read on Google’s Official Blog:
If you’re from a larger business or university with more advanced needs for communications and sharing, please get in touch regarding premium versions of the service, due out later this year.
Also here is what their site says:
Organizations accepted by Google during the Google Apps for Your Domain beta period are eligible for free service for their approved beta users even beyond the end of the beta period, as described in the Terms of Service.
Hmm… that means there is always going to be an ad supported free version on the roll. May be they will offer their advanced services like Writely (their word processor) and Google Spreadsheets into more plans to be rolled out in future.
You can offer this service free to as many people, as you would like to use your domain email. While Google’s competitor Yahoo, offers a service for a single email at some 34.95 USD/Year and 10 email IDs for 9.95 USD/Month. Though all this is interesting, I don’t see big organizations resorting to a Google or a Yahoo to manage their email. Inhouse mail servers not only give companies a server-level defense against spam and virus attacks, but also provide the ability to back up e-mail at will.
But for all my needs for this blog’s email, this free service is way too impressive. And the word does count FREE :).
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