After a room safai @ IITD

IIT D TnP Can Do Better !

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4 Years in a shirt label

Sify ke 12 baj gaye !

Just have a look at the individual speeds.. and the cumulative one at the lower right corner ! and thats on a 256 kbps (32 KBps) connection !

An Unbearable Loss

The list :

• 1408
• 28 Weeks Later
• American History X
• Amores Perros - Love’s a Bitch
• Andaz Apna Apna
• Being Cyrus
• Bhagam Bhag
• Black Friday
• Bridge to Terabithia
• Casino Royale (the 1967 one)
• Cast Away
• Chak De India
• Cheeni Kum
• Das Experiment
• Das, Boot
• Dhol
• Everything Is Illuminated
• Fargo
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• Festen
• Fight Club
• Find me Guilty
• Gandhi My father
• Gangster
• Good Bye Lenin!
• Gridiron Gang
• Guru
• Hard Candy
• Heyy Babyy
• Irreversible
• James Bond 007 - A View to A Kill (1985)
• James Bond 007 - For your eyes only (1981)
• James Bond 007 - On her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)
• James Bond 007 - The Living Daylights (1987)
• James Bond 007 - The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
• Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
• MirrorMask
• Pearl Harbor
• Pyaar Ke Side Effects
• Saw III
• Schindler’s List
• Scoop
• Seven Samurai
• Shaun of the Dead
• SinCity
• Sling Blade
• The 9th Company
• The Lost City
• The Machinist
• The Merchant of Venice
• The Naked Island
• The Pianist
• The Pursuit of Happyness
• The Searchers
• The Wind That Shakes the Barley
• The world’s fastest Indian
• Tigerland
• We Were Soldiers
• Zodiac

The story :
I used to have this nice collection of movies on my laptop and to tell the truth they were hogging space and making the dibba slow. So I spent some moolah and got a 400 GB monster once and for all. A solution to all my binary data storage needs. One fine afternoon, after being on that piece of metal for a few days, they suddenly decice to go away ; thanks to ME ! To put it here in short, they vanished into thin air because some partitioning didn't go as planned and I was lazy enough to move them back to the dibba and then create the partitions.

Why the italics in the list :
Those are the movies I recovered thanks to other connoisseurs who share the same interests in cinema as your humble blogger here.

The best part :

I had tried using some so called 'undelete' appz. All I recovered was a clip from the movie The 25th Hour starring Edward Norton. This is a shot from the clip. What a wonderful pair of words staring at me !

P.S. :

If u r intrigued, here is a link to the ulti-machaoo dialogues that are in that clip and the reason why I kept that clip. Dialogues on WikiQuote

Kudos to Vodafone!

I don't know too many details about the Vodafone-Hutch deal but all that matters is that Vodafone is "the largest mobile telecommunications network company in the world by turnover". So, naturally expectations are high when u are using a product backed by such a huge brand. Alas ! it's all sham!

Frustrated with Airtel's third-class connectivity I decided to move to Hutch (it was still Hutch a week ago). The move turned out to be pretty easy. My number was activated in a couple of days and connectivity was superb. Then I decided to pay a visit to their website so as to register my number there and see what payment and bill-viewing options they have. The site looks good at first; but has a crappy layout. It involves too many clicks. Select your region , then click on 'manage my Vodafone accnt' , then again select region.. wtf ? One big goofup is still there. The site doesn't support Firefox. Comeon man! FF has 35% market share. What is ur IT dept. doing Mr. Voda ?

Here's proof :
and the two missing image placeholders lead to these :

I registered my no. (10:40 pm yesterday) and waited for the temporary password in my inbox.
00:00 hrs and still waiting.. I go off to sleep... get up at 8.. still waiting....

9:30 today - the message finally comes. Thank u god! I read it and make this strange face! It says call 111 to get to ur password. Calling 111 -the usual IVRS shit and then I press 9 to talk to a so called executive (45 sec into the call already) ... wait wait wait.. 1:20 min - the call is disconnected. Repeat! Call gets disconnected at 2:05 min ! W T F ?

I try again... this time I get thru and get a reply that a SMS would reach my cell shortly. This time it was fine. 2 min later I have the password. So far so good. I try loggin in; it works; logout!

Then, at 9:50 this happens.

13 messages saying 'Call 111' arrive in my inbox ! I deleted 6 of them, but what was that about. It was like a loop. Tring Tring -> Delete Msg -> Tring Tring. Somebody sue Voda on my behalf !

Rather than spending 250 crores on moving that stupid pug dog from a pink kennel to a red one with crappy music playing in the background.. do some work on ur infra Mr. Voda !!!!

update on 21-Oct : They still show this :


The network name hasn't been changed to Vodafone !

Hum Sab Bilkul Chirkut (HSBC)

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I am a loyal employee... I dont make fun of my company..

WTF ?


p.s. - if u really wanna read what was here.. ping me..

Chor Chor Chor !

Those moddafukaz at Blogsource decided to shut down their site leaving behind all the blogs hosted on it. I mean WTF? Wot about the precious tales and fables that people like me give birth to in their heads from time to time and scribble them down for the sole reason that they remain safe.

Believe me, these chors are running away with all the literary delights that the community memebers have pondered upon and taken pains to write down so meticulously. I wish doom for them; and this is what they had to say :

We regret to inform you that on September 8th, 2007, BlogSource will be shutting down. Please copy your blog posts and links to your computer or another blog site before that date as they will be lost and unavailable to you from BlogSource. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. We would like to thank everyone who has participated and wish you much success in the future.

R.I.P my dear first blog http://blogtv.blogsource.com, and welcome to the world my new blog!