Bits of Thoughts

This post is dedicated to all my seniors in engineering college who welcomed me into the grammatical and language nuances of a foreign language by the simple tried and tested process of repetition. 

Historically repetition has been the single greatest factor for the advance of human civilizations.Some science nerds actually spent great deal of money testing human and chimp babies to determine this factor.

Any way I shall not digress from my main agenda

How to Learn Tamil expletives in a short time?

Method 1 :

A 5 * 5 Matrix of the choicest words in increasing order of ear bleeding capacity

Advantages: The matrix allows the user to choose and two points or he/she can traverse longitudinally, laterally or even diagonally to arrive at a combination of the expletive.

Method 2 :

Fill a the sides of the paper of a children’s game called using paper, i dont know the ones girls used to play. Make a paper based article that they used to slip on their fingers and then move the fingers to get a particular combo.. I think you are getting the draft.

Advantage: The paper cup method is simple and applicable , you can actually force the receiver to view the expletive directly from the object. You can make the receiver sit down in front of it, move it in what ever combination and make him/her self to see it directly.

Method 3:

I mean this is the curtain raiser of the show the most advanced techniques mimics the advancement of the native object.

I propose Rubic’ cube of expletives

Imagine just imagine the possibilites of choiciest diciest expletives one can churn out. Every face of the cube with a choice word and the possibilities are endless. You can even extend the meta model to other languages.

As an easter egg this cube has a very very special message to the guy/gal who figures it out and solves the damn cube.

After a series of conversations with my pal KRA we came across some reasons why parents look for grooms with MSC and MBA and other forms of higher education degrees vs a hard core geeks with normal degrees

1. Geeks do all the work and take pride in slogging and working. So where do we get time to spend with family. Bad thing for a father giving his daughter away

2. Geeks spend lots of time in consoles [terminal and game] and lesser with family. Bad thing for a father giving his daughter away

3. Geeks really know stuff and boy women dont like being corrected. Bad thing for a father giving his daughter away

4. Geeks get really pissed with stupidity and are uncomfortable with cute stuff and kids. Bad thing for a father giving his daughter away

5. Geeks will LMGTFY and this really really pisses ordinary people. Bad thing for a father giving his daughter away

6.  Geeks dont enjoy the money they make. Bad thing for a father giving his daughter away.

So comrades lets get these damn degrees and change the system from within…

Geeks rule the earth.

Trust the Web2labs to come up with a zany use of something thats so radically not for this.

Its starts with Dropbox : “An Easy way to share…. yadiyadi yaa…” Full details here

So on a cold dark night, actually i would say moderately warm except for the fog that clogs my vision when I come out of office. Mr. Retail Vertical Domain Expert /Slash/ Business Development and Contextual Collaboration Enterprise Knowledge Management guru and avid musician . Hari {Rollin} Flute makes a document on the Drop box folder.

A enterprise bred cubicalized worker , baited by the important title , yours truly me takes a look at the document. And voila after suffering him in videos,songs, games and even in office meetings, once again,I have been rolled by the Rick even in the text format. 

And there ensures a new age of communication. Powered by proprietary software that simultaneously synchronizes the file across all users with access to the Dropbox folder..Okay I am kinda lost here..

Right powered by this new real time synch there ensures a verbal albiet text format of communication that maligns the aforementioned man-eaters image. Non Thanga mudiliya by HTC desire evangelists joins the communication. Ofcourse this happened so fast only dedicated Dropboxists like K Balachandar.. not him.. Nexuz would realize the communication happening between Flute and yours truly..

Ofcourse yours truly in his half sleep stupor, with completely incoherent language ensures that this event is recorded in the annals of history..Okay time out. recorded until tumblr.com exists.. forces the hero of the story to bid adieu and meet angelina jolie.

btw .. watch SALT.. evelyn is so haaat… my angie is the best..

Wojooooo

Interesting conversation with a gentleman who I must saw has the extreme confidence of a savant. This post is dedicated to MANOJ who goes with the twitter handle ‘tshirtking’ .Dont know what his operating margins are , but I like his confidence. Only problem is that it gets in the way of making a clean purchase.

www.tshirts.in which was formerly Xtees.com and me have a long history. Our telugu gang made the first Ugadi tshirt during our college days, think that was way back in 04. That time i think it was a guy called Sam who handled customer care and boy was he professional and caring. We were young guys never know how ecommerce worked and the confidence with which we helped us made our first thirst purchases a lovely one.The delivery was prompt and smooth.

Fast forward to 2010. 

Xtees seems to have grown and with it also the bane of indian service industry. 

on 24th May 2010 I had ordered a tshirt ,for old times sake from the website. The first few attempts was riddled with bugs on the website.I should have realized it was an ominous sign from the guy above our heads not to get involved with this website. Still fond memories kindled my interest and persistence and I confirmed the purchase. 

Order # : 67613

Code

Product Name

Qty

Price

Total

CT00030

GEEK Printed Collar Polo T-Shirt
T-Shirt : GREY MELANGE  /  Size : LARGE

1

299.00

299.00

Shipping Charges (Credit Card / Net Banking)

1

40.00

40.00

Total

339.00

Little did I know that the Package would be delayed by almost 14 days and to top that I would get lip from MANOJ , who exists on twitter simply as a vomitpiece for marketing info rather than actually connect with the customers.

Well I do seem to be a hardass customer and plan to change myself in that angle. But getting lip like that from a FREAK.

Update : I was blocked by MANOJ .. rofl.. its interesting

I believe I must receive a personal award for stealing candid photos of cars all the while driving on my bike.

Zooming down Velachery Main Road, I tried to overtake a car with a blackened logo. My interest piqued as I had not seen this make before.So there I was riding the bike with one hand and stealing pics of this car , as it was gracefully rolling over bumps and riding like a nissan car should.

Pardon the bad shots, but thats all one can manage with one hand free.

<update>Nissan Micra is available to be viewed in all its glory in Nissan showrooms from June</update>

This post is dedicated to a close friend who was in deep distress over a matter close to heart.

In this era, we consider email to be our second spouse/partner. Email { though some detractors might add Facebook/twitter} is our lifeline and one of the scariest parts of that life is when you get an email with the following subject

“YOUR ACCOUNT HAS BEEN HACKED. I OWN YOUR ACCOUNT , DONT ATTEMPT TO CHANGE THE PASSWORD”

from your own email address.

And when that happens to an account held at GMAIL , its far more scary. The repercussions are immense when come to see the impact the owner can have if he/she has access to your photos, social network , Google search, private information and Mobile numbers.

The aforementioned friend was agonized when the perpetrator kept sending mails , whenever { as she felt } she changed the password. And the mental torture came to such an extent that she sent a long mail cautioning everyone in her addressbook about her account being compromised.

So enter yours truly to help her out. After checking her mail and settings I had a hunch that the perpetrator was just forging header information and was sending the mail from some remote domain.To confirm I sought the Web Security Guru Karteek and asked his opinion.  He rightly pointed me to this.

Do check out where the mouse pointer is hovering to have an idea about what I am telling

Always do check the Show original option to see the origins of a suspicious mail.

By checking it out it turned out to be a simple case of playing on emotions. { The perpetrator was sure of her behaviour of changing passwords and kept sending emails at regular intervals} and a classic case of header information tampering.

So next time in trouble please follow what the Guru does

• Check the Filters set in the email.
• Check for IMAP/POP forward settings and remember where all you access email from
• Check the IP access history at the bottom
• Check the original body of the email and verify header information
• And dont Frakking click everylink without being sure of the end destination { check out the status bar for the location}
• And dont ever give out passwords to anyone or anything you dont trust.

Cheers..

Live long and Prosper

Saturday a busy day for catching up on lost interests. This saturday was bersek chatting up with ol friends.

I have found out an interesting point today

Seems Bangalore city stocks alcoholic drinks in supermarket stores ala the ones u have outside the country and all you got to do is produce an Id and you have good international brands of liquor at your disposal.

That seems very very comfortable instead of having to stand in crowds outside shady shops [ TASMAC, u need a brand overhaul] .

Well I decided to experiment, when to my surprise none of the major stores  Spencers Daily, Nilgiris or MORE had any of them. Seems it is some government policy.

The only options are some shady Billabong Australian versions,sourced from Coimbatore [ Global Local ;) ] and that too strippd , denatured, neutered Wine with no alcohol.

Seems drinking is a social evil in Tamil Nadu and so must not be encouraged via legal purchases in Superstores, as it hurts family sentiments.

Grow up Chennai in this matter. It aint a Taboo to sell it in Stores.

Mental note to myself this 2010. Dont do stuff you normally would not attempt to do

Rediff.com also had a dark side i generally ignore. It has been elaborated by bothkarteek and Ashok.  Although my roomie generally roots out pearls of wisdom from the comments board of Rediff ,I generally use my rediffmail alter ego for all websites that require email registrations.

A former new year resolution , got me to atleast try clicking on one of the tabs that rediff throws up and I landed in some Salman khan video about his rants of his latest Veer

{He is really brave for broaching a topic of that magnitude, wonder if he can pull off india’s next oscar nomination …

Veer {Vee/er} - Tale of the Indian Braveheart

}

and end of that video what do I see, a gamut of Pornographic videos for all to see and observe with glory.

<porno warning>http://world1.rediff.com/profile/getprofile/omkashyap/17042405

That one guy has hosted so many videos streamed by the powerful CDN of Rediff and  actually had the gall to tag content properly. <sarcasm punctuation>

{ CDN is really good btw}

Heres where the web2.0 training kicks in.

“It is shocking to observe that Rediff has not provided a Report User feature to notify a moderator about the behaviour of their users.”

A second study of general user behaviour on Rediff shows that the average repressed native Indian Junta generally does not care about the occurrence of these videos but actively promotes it,which poses a serious challenge on the Moderators.

Now the interesting questions that comes to my mind is , whether there is a social pattern applicable that can reduce the occurrences of these videos  or is it generally futile given the sleaze element involved.

{ Once again most ,the most googled word from India is youKnowWhat }

This January Team Priyanka is going ga ga promoting her latest chic flik and it raises a very particular question thats been boggling me. I mean I can say I can speak for the rest of the my comrades..

Why the Fish do you have to portray a geek this Way !!

Guess what I think the rest of you are jealous of us. Hell yes we do have our insecurities and some times dont get relations. But heres why we are the greatest

We

• Actually own or create most of the money in the world
• Actually have a life and most of the times its good
• We are a cut above the rest of the “baad” men/women.. we have intelligence
• We are second to none
• We can actually get the “chick/Guy of our dreams” { In honour of the geek women i have added the Guy}
• WE SHALL Inherit the Earth

I am  a Geek and I am proud of it

Okay , now i really miffed. I was travelling on Saidapet road and stopped to recieve a phone call. Couple of rough necks , 6 ppl on 2 bikes , absolutely drunk came and dashed into my bike

One guy was threatening me with death sentences, one idiot kept on hitting me with his bike and one semi sober guy kept pleading with me to listen to them.

I was decently alert without being disturbed , and tried dialling 100, the emergency response number and I got an IVR..

Here was a potential flashpoint and I got an IVR confirming whether I wanted the police assistance.

Talk about IVR fail.. at the end I kept my cool and they went away. Which left me wondering whether an 911 style smooth operation ever come to India