For last few days, my hard disk was not in good health. I thought warranty is already over. I didn't know that now Seagate has an extended warranty of 5 years! They have a nice warranty checker in their site. There I saw my warranty exists till July of too far 2010! So happily I took my disk to Seagate Service Centre, Chennai. I was quite amazed with their service. They didn't even ask me a single question! They just took my disk and told it will take 3-4 days for replacement. And today they handed me a brand new hard disk.
The centre is located at Greams Road, Accel Frontline Limited IMS.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
India goes gaga..
World cup has started finally with all it's excitement. India is fighting hard to get into super8s. Ireland has made the critics swallowing their insults for minnows. Bangladesh is on high in their new found out-of-minnowhood status. Pakistan is already out of the blue, which turned out to be too much for Bob Woolmar, a shocking loss to this once-in-four year extravaganza.
It hasn't started as expected for India. India have lost to a spirited Bangladesh in their first match. But watching yesterdays murderous Bermuda victory, you have to agree men-in-blue are back in business. Though you should (can) not make out too many things over this Bermuda victory, But I believe no one can hold us back from going to super8s. And once you are into next round, altogether a different story begins. I think we have a fare chance of bringing back the glory.
To watch them triumph, we have purchased a ctv few days back. We have gone for the *most cost effective* one. It's a "Sansui cine sargam - 22", costs only 6500 bucks! Though I am yet to press all remote buttons, I am quite happy with the product. Picture is good, Audio is mono, but that's enough for us. Let us see how the marriage goes..? I hope, I can see Rahul holding the cup on our tv!
I was asking my friend if he is watching WC? He told he is not, since him watching matches live, make us defeat! Another Amitabh Bacchan story..? I wish them luck. Please please bring us the cup this time...
It hasn't started as expected for India. India have lost to a spirited Bangladesh in their first match. But watching yesterdays murderous Bermuda victory, you have to agree men-in-blue are back in business. Though you should (can) not make out too many things over this Bermuda victory, But I believe no one can hold us back from going to super8s. And once you are into next round, altogether a different story begins. I think we have a fare chance of bringing back the glory.
To watch them triumph, we have purchased a ctv few days back. We have gone for the *most cost effective* one. It's a "Sansui cine sargam - 22", costs only 6500 bucks! Though I am yet to press all remote buttons, I am quite happy with the product. Picture is good, Audio is mono, but that's enough for us. Let us see how the marriage goes..? I hope, I can see Rahul holding the cup on our tv!
I was asking my friend if he is watching WC? He told he is not, since him watching matches live, make us defeat! Another Amitabh Bacchan story..? I wish them luck. Please please bring us the cup this time...
Saturday, March 17, 2007
My first wikipedia article
Few months back I thought of adding an article on my school in wikipedia. For some time I was thinking of writing on this experience. This post is not exactly a how-to-write-a-wikipedia-article, rather it's to tell what I learnt writing a wikipedia article.
Initially I digged hard and got an article on www on my school. I read and liked it. I started writing the article based on it. Later that turned out to be a big mistake. Problem is when you start doing something based on some other existing work, most probably your present work is bound to get influenced by the existing one. Editing is a difficult job indeed! After finishing the article, I found it has been flagged for copyright violation due to some right reasons. Though no one knew I had some such thing, but I felt extremely embarrassing. To remedy this, I decided to rewrite it but this time it must be totally from scratch. It really helped. It was much better an article.
Moral of the story I learnt is to write something in wiki, it's best to start from scratch. You need to be very careful about this copyright stuffs. You can not avoid copying always, in those cases be fare. Refer the references from your article.
Another thing I learnt is importance of objectivity. When you relate yourself to something, you often become personal in your point of view. That's what happened to me. School being one of my favourite thing, subconsciously I was trying to glorify it. Which can be true, but wikipedia is not the place to post my opinions. Being so you loose the objectivity, which is the main objective of wikipedia (in broad sense for every encyclopedia).
After all this self taught lessons, I was able to write a fresh article and get rid of copyright violation flag. If you are wondering what is this article, here is the link for you.
Initially I digged hard and got an article on www on my school. I read and liked it. I started writing the article based on it. Later that turned out to be a big mistake. Problem is when you start doing something based on some other existing work, most probably your present work is bound to get influenced by the existing one. Editing is a difficult job indeed! After finishing the article, I found it has been flagged for copyright violation due to some right reasons. Though no one knew I had some such thing, but I felt extremely embarrassing. To remedy this, I decided to rewrite it but this time it must be totally from scratch. It really helped. It was much better an article.
Moral of the story I learnt is to write something in wiki, it's best to start from scratch. You need to be very careful about this copyright stuffs. You can not avoid copying always, in those cases be fare. Refer the references from your article.
Another thing I learnt is importance of objectivity. When you relate yourself to something, you often become personal in your point of view. That's what happened to me. School being one of my favourite thing, subconsciously I was trying to glorify it. Which can be true, but wikipedia is not the place to post my opinions. Being so you loose the objectivity, which is the main objective of wikipedia (in broad sense for every encyclopedia).
After all this self taught lessons, I was able to write a fresh article and get rid of copyright violation flag. If you are wondering what is this article, here is the link for you.
Monday, March 12, 2007
about new blogger..
I am blogging after almost few months. I like Blogger's this out-of-beta new interface more than the previuos one. Some of the things which I have noticed:
- One single signon with other google accounts: I used to forget my Blogger user id. Today I was surprised to see my blogger account getting opened without logging in. Then I found this is because I had already logged in GMail from FF.
- Option to upload a picture from local computer: Since I don't have any other online presence where I have my photo, I was not able to upload my photo earlier. But today I found that there is a new option, and you can see my face now :-) [Though I never claim that's a good thing!]
- Customized Templates: Templates can be customized more easily now.
- More options to customize my account: I think there are much more than previuos one. I am yet to explore all..
Sunday, March 11, 2007
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