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Gagan's Space4/3/2008 Adios...It is with a great amount of sadness that I inform you that I will not be updating this blog from now on. Yes, you read correctly, I am hanging up my blogging shoes. And wearing new ones. :D Did you seriously think that I will let you live peacefully without giving you any of my gyaan? That may happen someday... but for now, there is no respite for you (yes, for all 4-5 of you ;)) So for now on please head on to : The RSS feed link is given on the top left side of the page. The move had been in the making for a long time now. Problems with uploading images, the inability to comment without logging on, the complete absence of tags etc. combined with the awesome range of themes and options available on wordpress made it a no-brainer. Also, the fact that I could move all my previous posts to the new blog clinched the deal. The move was effected with the help of the easy instructions given here. See you there! :) 3/28/2008 Amazing Pics...Some of the most beautiful pictures that you will ever see... http://www.stevemccurry.com/main.php (link courtesy the Mumbo Jumbo blog) 3/20/2008 Vodafone Rocks!Since I have recently shifted from Gurgaon to Pune, I decided that I need to give up my old Vodafone connection and take up a new local connection. As I was pretty happy with the service of Vodafone in Gurgaon (and in Pune) I thought it will be better if I get the connection deactivated legally (and not just throw away the SIM). Also, since I want to take up a Vodafone connection in Pune as well, I also wanted to know if Vodafone would be interested in shifting my old connection details to the new number that I take here in Pune. After all, wouldn't it be more profitable for them to retain an existing (relatively) high-paying customer (my average monthly bills are usually in the range of 600-800) without incurring any costs on the acquisition? (I got a B+ in the Customer Relationship Management course in college, but surely this is a more common sense approach to building "lasting customer relationships")  Anyways, back to the point. The customer service rep flatly told me that there is no way that my existing customer profile can be shifted to Pune. I would need to get a new connection here and that may or may not be a Vodafone connection. He also told me that I will need to send them a letter (not an email, a letter) asking for the current connection to be deactivated. After I almost laughed at his face and flatly told him that I am not going to go through the trouble of writing a letter for them, he agreed to make do with an email from me (though a fax would be still preferable for them). He also took down a request from me regarding this and promised to get back to me in 72 hours (or so i thought). In case you didn't know, Vodafone cares such a lot about "prompt" service for its customers. After putting down the phone, I got a confirmation message from Vodafone regarding my request. This is what the SMS says: "Hello! Your service request number is xxxxxxx. We shall respond to your query by Thursday 05-Jun-08 06:00 p.m." ROTFL. Maybe, I misheard the guy on the phone. Maybe he said 72 days and not 72 hours. But still, do they seriously expect me to hold on to this connection (and pay HUGE roaming bills) till June?? (p.s. It seems that Windows Live does not allow comments without first logging on (I had no clue till now). I am in the process of shifting to another domain, till then, drop me a mail plz :)) 3/16/2008 Why??Why do some people write "ma", when they want to refer to themselves, instead of the more understandable (and correct) "my"? Is it some new age thing which whizzed past me while I was busy hiding under my rock? Or is it a fashion statement to use grammatically incorrect language? Similar questions come to my mind when I see people writing LiKe tHiS. WHY?? 1/25/2008 Thoughts of death and destruction...When you get an excess of this: Your tired and frustrated mind starts thinking of this, and this, Until finally you can't take it any longer. THE END  1/21/2008 Where are you from?One of the questions that most gets my goat is "where are you from?" My answers to this have varied from "I was born in a, did my schooling from b,c and d, engineering from e, worked in f. And ooh... BTW my parents are from g and h. So what is the color of Saturn's third moon?" to anything from Kashmir to Kanyakumari (usually to random people sitting across me in trains, planes or buses). I mean, how the hell are you supposed to answer such a question? If the person who has asked the question is from anywhere between a and h, you can usually expect a barrage of questions and/or sweet memories of that place. which you will generally have no clue about. And if you are as bad as me in remembering routes, names etc., you will understand what I am talking about. I mean I have been living in gurgaon for the past 18 months now. But the only places I can go to without asking anyone for the route is the Sec-14 market and the 3 malls between iffco chowk and Sahara mall (am still confused between the names of the other two malls). So the next time you are in Gurgaon/Pune/Anywhere else and want me to meet you in DLF Phase Whatever... please be prepared to give me detailed instructions about how to reach there. And as far as the
"where are you from?" question is concerned... the next time someone
asks me that i am going to say Frogstar World B... and subject the questioner
to a Total Perspective Vortex. Let me see you survive that.
1/1/2008 The perils of drinkingThe worst part about getting drunk (i mean, really drunk) is the morning after. I'm not talking about the hangover, its the temporal amnesia that I can't digest. Imagine waking up not remembering what you did after a certain point of time the previous night and you'll understand what I am blabbering about. So far this is what I've been able to gather about the previous night:
But other than that its a shitty experience to have a nice time and not remember it the next day. Seriously. 12/31/2007 Love is... (Part 2)After the extreme verbosity of the first part of this post, here are a few visual definitions: 1. Questionable Content 2. Octopus Pie 3. Diesel Sweeties (P.S. The links above are from a few web comics that I follow. So some of the panels would be a bit abstruse for the majority the readers (who on last count were five :D)) 10/26/2007 WeirdJust read on the news that Microsoft has announced a huge profit for the quarter ending September 30. Since a profit figure of $4.29 billion is sufficient to make me interested , I went to their website to have a look at their previous Annual Report. And the thing that stuck me the most on going there was that they still give put out their annual reports on their own .doc format files. I mean, its probably a small thing, but isn't .pdf one of the most widely used formats on the Internet? Yeah, I also agree that all computers can open a file in the MS-Word format. Maybe even more than the number of computers which can open PDFs. But if the whole world is moving towards using PDFs (specially for online documents), doesn't it make more sense to follow the same? Or at least give the user the option of downloading the same file in multiple formats? Or is this because their XPS format is directly pitted against Adobe's PDF format? Weird. |
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