Archive for November, 2009

Dubai in Recession, a dream shattered?

These days, the most sensational news doing the rounds is that of Dubai in debt and recession hitting dubai. From what I have read, Dubai has deferred payment of its dues and various bonds since it is in debt and don’t have the money right now.

Interestingly, I read somewhere that oil sales in Dubai too [...]

My new blog on various tech tips

I had merged all my blogs some time back and hence had consolidated all my posts into this blog. However, I also separated quite a few of the posts and created a new blog to put all of that in. This new blog is something that I created where I could put in some tips [...]

I need more than 24 hours in a day

I want to do quite a lot of things but I am either procrastinating, or not doing it seriously enough. So I have decided that I will draw up a timetable of the things that I would like to do. But I am not finding enough time. Here is my current plan.

7-8am: Getting ready for office
8am-6pm: [...]

Where went my ACL?

ACL = Anterior Cruciate Ligament. It is one of those ligaments that holds the thigh bone and the shin(leg) bone together. In fact of the two Cruciate Ligaments, the ACL is the more prominent one andthese two muscles are responsible to ensure that the two bones stay together at the joint and dont slip.

Imagine what [...]

One noon at an Airtel call center

It was about 11am and I didn’t have any internet connectivity for the past 60 minutes. I had with me 4 different mobile number of Airtel technical staff who had over the past weeks fixed at least 5 complaint requests that I have had to raise thanks to the awesome service of Airtel. None were [...]

AIRTEL the most incompetent broadband I’ve come across

After my dream run with BSNL with whom I have not had any problem at all, I had to choose a private operator at my new house. After hearing a lot from friends, I decided to go for Airtel thinking they had the most reliable service. Right… reliable is a word that cannot be found [...]

My journey through the history of Internet and Broadband in India

I have been using internet service since a very very long time and have seen a lot changes and a lot of ISPs. From when VSNL used to operate, to when Caltiger provided free internet services, private operators such as Dishnet and Tata, to BSNL providing postpaid on demand dial up use. Then there was [...]

Unable to put forward my opinion about others

I have realized that I have a weird problem. For some reason, I have always been unable to tell anyone what I think about the way they look. For example, in one of the previous posts, I mentioned that when I changed my dressing style once, everyone in office appreciated it and said that it [...]

Revamping my blogs yet again

Ok, I am really sorry and I sincerely apologize to the regular readers of my blogs for yet another change. However, as long as you have not subscribed to my blogs, and just view them by coming over to the main page of http://blogs.prashu.com, you will not notice any difference. The rest, however, would have [...]

Making a 'friendly' transition at work

This post is inspired by a blog post made by my sister-in-law where she talks about how she changed her company and about the good friends that she had made. It got me thinking about my previous team, my xRPM team, and how much I miss those days together.

I recently switched my team. I had [...]