Hey kinda surprising, isn’t it? But this is about the all people who send me invite for sites. Let it be big or small. Generally I have subscription to all type of site that interests me. Still I get mailers from my few friends to register for some sites. I really get irrigated by this. Only Reason, most of them are new so could be in email harvesting. I hate spams. I hate my innocent friend who sent me a flowered to win Nokia phone keeping some spammers/email id harvester in CC. I have not able to counter spam in last 3 years. I had very jolly 4 years of usage. I didn’t get even single Spam. I use service of GMX.net as my primary email. I send my personal mails from this id only, if at all. Now I get around 30 spams a day :((. So just ad advice, if you like a service take some effort to send a personal mail, drop an offline or scrap. Don’t use ready-made mailer of websites. Do you know that these sites would keep 1 PX image in image to find the authenticity of the address and sell it? Just to tell you Spam is the biggest cost to ISP. Let us see the offline model first. If someone wants to send you unwanted postcards like “40 din mein takdeer badal gayi.” My home in Bombay still gets such mails. The spammers have to spend money for that. But in case of online model it is your ISP who pays to mail server-hosting ISP when you open such a Spam. Totally opposite of offline model. Also, now spammers have become damn smart. They would scan Internet for PC with less security (Blame it on evil empire of Bill Gates called Windows, the most widespread but most useless OS) to use as relay for Spam. This way they can even hid the origin of Spam. So just an advice (1) Don’t put anyone’s mail id in any web page (2) Don’t forward a mail for winning something. Those are just Spam. Remember the “Bill Gates is sharing his fortune” that was the biggest running online scam. It originated some 6 years back I still get mail of people expecting money for forwarding money. BTW, the reason I use Gmx.net as my primary email, because it is world’s only ad-free POP-3 supported mail service provider.
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Peter…………..
About to finished the report that Peter explained to me. And now Peter pings me about some correction in some report. God knows what does he want!! He changes his requirement every now and then. Chatted with me to do something that he could have had done by just dragging some object (intentionally) hidden from reports. These OLTP guys are really big problem. How much time it takes to write a report on OLTP system. May be 10 minutes. The same would take 1-2 days or may be even more. If not possible then go for Freeform SQLs. Man. how he is chatting with me. I do not know the answers, so ask Ritesh. He was busy with Adi due to last day of week. He asks to ignore him. Well I just did that. 5 minutes later phone rang. That was Mayank asking about the same. Peter wanted a confirmation about the possibility of the same. I was witless, due to not having any information about the table used in the report. He was asking to make that report as he has seen in OLTP system, which we don’t see. So can’t comment on it. So finally the report guru Sachit comes. HE was the one who made the report about which Peter was fretting. I gave up. Sachit asked me ask Peter to chat with Sachit. Well Peter was still insisting that I should let Sachit know all that. I told his he was the person who created the report so it is better to ask him. Well 1 minute after that Peter said, “When you were not the person having created the report, why were you answering the question?” Bouncer… no beamer….
Just in one day the misunderstanding was cleared…
It is (was) a beautiful day
“Up by 8:00 sharp. Disconnect the Internet. Go back to sleep” funda of a holiday :-). Hey today is Eid so it is off from office. So finally I managed to raise my butt from mattress. Straight to computer. Logged on to net. Checked my shares.. and looked for someone to chat. I and Akhilesh had a good voice chat on yahoo and skype [You can skype me on “a s h i s h 9 2” remove the space] He is just gone to US on H1-B so kinda new to city, just as I’m new to Hyderabad. He told me his plans, good and bad things about US. Not it is time to log off. We chatted till 3:00 AM his time. I let him go when his wife came. So finally had food by 4:30 PM. Again browsing and updating my To-do list of Google Docs [http://docs.google.com]. Use it heavily. I can easily keep my thought/task/docs and access them from anywhere. So now comes the most sucking experience of the day. Domino’s. My roommate and I had gone to Pizza Hut. This time I thought to go to Domino’s. It was a real bad experience. Hey….
1. You don’t wipe clean the table when customer has gone. Most of the table had left over lying just there. Very very disappointing.
2. We took a table, which was clean. Not to forget, it had the food lying there. I had to request the counter for the same.
3. Ordered Farmhouse medium, 2 Coke, 2 Chili Bread (similar names) within 350 bucks. I had to request the guy fro glasses three time. and by the time it reached out table we had finished the food. :((
4. There is no fork and knife provided to cut the pizza. Though it hardly matters but that would help a bit.
5. WTF pizza come packed when I’m dining in?????????????? It is a big puzzle for me.
Anyways, I found a garage that provides service of bike wash. My babe had not taken a bath for so many days. Too bad.
HR guys .. teri mahima apar hai
I have got so much fed up of job call (Bhagwal kare aise din hamesha rahe), that I made my resume on Jobsahead and Monster confidential. I used to take calls and welcome any mail to forward it across to friends for jobs. But stopped it. But the guys (gals) at Ness, to whom I had replied, ages back realized that I had sent CV????? This opening happened to be at Hyderabad. As usual .. Never said No to anyone in life, spoke to her and she told me that my resume on Jobsahead is search-able. Now I know why I was getting mails (read spam) and sooooooooooooooo many questions were asked by Geeta, the lady who called. My O my…… One thing I can tell you she was so used to searching people for MicroStrategy that she virtually took my mini technical interview. Hey..Ankit she was asking about you man. Tune aisa kya kar diya yaar…. And just 10 minutes past the end of 30 minute interview, another guy from Ness called and asked for the same, in-spite of telling that I had been through this. BTW, No response from Sify about the issues raised… This is what they call ISO certification… :
Sify really really sucks
Sify Broadband definitely sucks. It sucks big time. They’re such a cheat. Now they have deducted one more day for having crossed 150 MB a day download limit. Now I was forced to see how come the limit is getting crossed so often in spite of taking utmost care. So I checked the log again. Viola! I download 1435.45 MB between 00:09 to 08:10. So much!!!!!! A speed of 178 MB an hour can be achieved in day dreams. No doubt I get speed of what they promise, but over billing of downloads is too much. They can do a mistake by may be 20% margin. But 300% to 400% error is not accidental. It is intentional. And logged another complaint with them. Their customer care is good for thing. happened to meet a guy who had very little understanding of English. For something which took me 3 minutes last time, it took me 20 minutes to tell him. The customer care executive was someone named Prabhu.