^@%#$* on CBSE..!!
Posted by Prashanth | Filed under Uncategorized
It was just another day at school for me. Loads of studying, a bit cricket and albeit a bit tired only find out the most atrociously shocking news that my CBSE Bored results are out today! Hëll, wait for me to convince my Dad for a new Graphics Card atleast…!!
2 PM: I return from school and almost save myself from a nervous breakdown. CBSE donkeys had sent me mail informing me on a very very ‘long’ notice that my results would be out 2hrs later… Down here, you can see the Gmail screenshot of it. I am not lying!
3 PM: I almost felt as if I would soon turn into an epilepsy patient. Couldnt sleep, couldnt eat, couldnt speak. All I had on my mind was the results. I called up people and informed them that CBSE servers are going to be soon overloaded with more than a lakh students accessing the same thing. So it is better if you have more people checking your results otherwise it would be hours till you see your own score.
4 PM. I am fast asleep. Dreaming about eating a pizza at Slice of Italy or a Foot-long (12″) Footlong at Subway. Suddenly, my thigh starts getting a strange feeling. A missed call by someone woke me up. Its 4:45 already..??
I ran back to my PC and check the site, and then check my mail to find this…
WTF..!! @$#^@#&#**^$%# on CBSE..!! How can they mail over quarter of a million students something like that..??
Both the mails are from different senders, as you observe from above. But both sound official as not anyone but the CBSE guys have access to an NIC account and their vast student database… God, what an embarrassment this is…
And with this, I learnt the fact that I have a very good Hindi Vocabulary. I realized some of my hidden talents today. Thank You CBSE you bloody @#&%#*#^$ ..!!
Gmail Rules Period. Infact, Google does…
Posted by Prashanth | Filed under Uncategorized
Gmail has got some new features in line now to kick Yahoo!’s butt. Yahoo! made an unnecessary move by increasing the storage to infinity. Unfortunately, you will have to send tons of attachments with the maximum multiple 10 in order to fill that space up…!!
Google became a bit thoughtful about the usage of it’s (theoretically) infinite space, and hence doubled it’s attachment size. Now this means, nice big galleries of photos can be packaged together in an archive and sent across. This makes passing around large album’s of photos twice as easier. There you go Yahoo! Scum!
The best thing about Gmail is that it has an open architecture. Any day, you can chuck Gmail and go towards Yahoo!/any-other-trashy-email-service and import all your mail, contacts and everything else as easily as you migrate blogs..!! Gmail understands the fact that it is arrogance to believe that it is the best. It shows modesty by giving the user complete freedom to move on… and again come back. Just the thing is that other mail services don’t think the same and lock users from moving on…
Another thing that Gmail allows users to do is, receive mail from other accounts as well. Even if you have an external account, you can receive mail from a Gmail ID. The conversation style mass email service allows your mail information exchange to be displayed in the same form as a discussion forum. Only thing is, its private. You can plan new WTC/Parliament attacks comfortably using Gmail..!!
With a totally simplistic UI, Gmail simply means business with what you want to do… Extremely fast, highly reliable (on most PCs) and a pleasure to work with. The fact that many other mail services borrow ideas from Gmail simply shows how much innovation is involved in creating such a masterpiece. Heavy words, aren’t they..??
With free POP3 access and no such line called Premium/Plus/Pro versions, Gmail is completely compatible with most well known Email clients. Corporates make best use of such a service. If you are still under the dark ages of dial-up? No problems, Gmail has an HTML version right there for you. Being almost as utilitarian as the standard version, it speeds up your job if you mean business and not beautiful looking transparent tabs..!!
Gmail does feed reading for you. It is compatible with all other Google Services. If you are in a cyber cafe which doesn’t sport office tools, Gmail can read all the PDF, DOC and all other open standard attachments you get in a jiffy.
Anyway, did a post after long time. I have about 25 posts due. Will be posting stuff soon. Busier than ever right now… adios alligators! Yessss, I ripped this off tooo…
Lara Croft in LuminaR
Posted by Uma Damle | Filed under Uncategorized
A long overdue drawing and post of mine.No prizes for guessing who this dame is though.The title gives it away blatantly :-).
From this post onwards I’ll be starting a new blog (for want of a better word) series called Flotsam(Readers of my old blog are probably thinking,”There she goes again”) They are just random thoughts floating in my brain which may surface at any unrelated point in a post.
<flotsam> Who is God ? God does not perform miracles. God is the strength we have in us to do extraordinary things. We find it difficult to worship a formless shapeless entity hence we make idols and images out of God. Its just an unfortunate fact that many don’t know that they have strength within themselves. The people who realize this strength and make their lives better are called successful people. The ones go a step beyond and use the strength to better lives of others are known as God men </flotsam>
That’s all for now, alligators.
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