It is (was) a beautiful day


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Personal

“Up by 8:00 sharp. Disconnect the Internet. Go back to sleep” funda of a holiday :-). Hey today is Eid so it is off from office. So finally I managed to raise my butt from mattress. Straight to computer. Logged on to net. Checked my shares.. and looked for someone to chat. I and Akhilesh had a good voice chat on yahoo and skype [You can skype me on “a s h i s h 9 2” remove the space] He is just gone to US on H1-B so kinda new to city, just as I’m new to Hyderabad. He told me his plans, good and bad things about US. Not it is time to log off. We chatted till 3:00 AM his time. I let him go when his wife came. So finally had food by 4:30 PM. Again browsing and updating my To-do list of Google Docs [http://docs.google.com]. Use it heavily. I can easily keep my thought/task/docs and access them from anywhere. So now comes the most sucking experience of the day. Domino’s. My roommate and I had gone to Pizza Hut. This time I thought to go to Domino’s. It was a real bad experience. Hey….
1. You don’t wipe clean the table when customer has gone. Most of the table had left over lying just there. Very very disappointing.
2. We took a table, which was clean. Not to forget, it had the food lying there. I had to request the counter for the same.
3. Ordered Farmhouse medium, 2 Coke, 2 Chili Bread (similar names) within 350 bucks. I had to request the guy fro glasses three time. and by the time it reached out table we had finished the food. :((
4. There is no fork and knife provided to cut the pizza. Though it hardly matters but that would help a bit.
5. WTF pizza come packed when I’m dining in?????????????? It is a big puzzle for me.

Anyways, I found a garage that provides service of bike wash. My babe had not taken a bath for so many days. Too bad.

“Add to Percentage” metric added in brain


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Development

So here come the ghost of Cashier Dashboard report. Armed with not matching different table heterogeneous for date, 24 metrics.. This gave me cold shiver when I started it. Now having to complete the percentage, it was a tricky part. I added so many derived metrics. Made the report OLAP. Shouldn’t be doing that. Keep it Standard Stupid. I played with “Add to ….” is added in my brain.

HR guys .. teri mahima apar hai


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MicroStrategy

I have got so much fed up of job call (Bhagwal kare aise din hamesha rahe), that I made my resume on Jobsahead and Monster confidential. I used to take calls and welcome any mail to forward it across to friends for jobs. But stopped it. But the guys (gals) at Ness, to whom I had replied, ages back realized that I had sent CV????? This opening happened to be at Hyderabad. As usual .. Never said No to anyone in life, spoke to her and she told me that my resume on Jobsahead is search-able. Now I know why I was getting mails (read spam) and sooooooooooooooo many questions were asked by Geeta, the lady who called. My O my…… One thing I can tell you she was so used to searching people for MicroStrategy that she virtually took my mini technical interview. Hey..Ankit she was asking about you man. Tune aisa kya kar diya yaar…. And just 10 minutes past the end of 30 minute interview, another guy from Ness called and asked for the same, in-spite of telling that I had been through this. BTW, No response from Sify about the issues raised… This is what they call ISO certification… :

Sify really really sucks


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Sify Broadband definitely sucks. It sucks big time. They’re such a cheat. Now they have deducted one more day for having crossed 150 MB a day download limit. Now I was forced to see how come the limit is getting crossed so often in spite of taking utmost care. So I checked the log again. Viola! I download 1435.45 MB between 00:09 to 08:10. So much!!!!!! A speed of 178 MB an hour can be achieved in day dreams. No doubt I get speed of what they promise, but over billing of downloads is too much. They can do a mistake by may be 20% margin. But 300% to 400% error is not accidental. It is intentional. And logged another complaint with them. Their customer care is good for thing. happened to meet a guy who had very little understanding of English. For something which took me 3 minutes last time, it took me 20 minutes to tell him. The customer care executive was someone named Prabhu.

Sify Screw up


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Just got up to disconnect the Internet as premium download rate starts from 8:00 AM. But hey… Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind just needs 2 minutes to complete the download. So I decide to disconnect after the movie is completed. After the download I checked the usage. Oh my god. 107 MB between 8:10 to 8:50. That’s impossible. A phenomenal speed of 3.75 MB a minute. Now I know why I lost 6 days of Internet usage. (Sify decreases your usage be one day for every 25 MB downloaded above 150 MB daily download limit.) Good way of making money Sify. Fudge the downloads and charge the customers. If you use Sify then do keep a tab on what they show as usage on “My Account”. Just logged complaint with them. #4212247. There is no doubt that Sify Broadband gives what it promise. I get speed of 25K for 256kbps plans which is acceptable. I used Beam CableSystem when I was staying at Company’s Guest House and I used to get same speed for 512 kbps plan. Let us see what action they take for over billing.