A Product of my Left Over Creativity
Some things are just too damn hard to swallow, let alone accept. These days, we’re trying to cope with the reality that after October 31st, when we move into our new flat, we will have to leave our trusted Airtel broadband, and choose another service provider.
Apparently, Airtel doesn’t provide services on road number 12, Banjara Hills, which I must add is one of the most sought after places in Hyderabad.
I’ve always wondered if this were possible, after all an e-mail address doesn’t have an IP which you could ping and see if it actually did exist. But surprisingly, one can indeed validate an address without sending an e-mail to it.
The Lifehacker blog has a post about a service that connects to the respective e-mail server and checks if the user, format, and domain that form the e-mail address you specify do actually exist. I concocted five fake e-mail addresses and checked their validity using this service. The service was spot on and gave a “bad Request” message for each. This just might come in handy so worth including in < my del.icio.us account. (via Lifehacker)
Is it OK for the media to haul in shady characters to endorse the achievements of celebrities or achievers?
This is the exact mind-boggling question I’ve been trying to answer even since I watched a feature aired on CNN-IBN showcasing the life of Yuvraj Singh. As is the case with almost all down-memory-lane shows, the presenters brought in people who had known Yuvraj at various stages of his life- Dinesh Mongia who played for on the same team as Yuvraj; Billu, his childhood skating coach; and of course, Ranjit Bajaj, a childhood friend.
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Better late than never!
My sister Anuradha has finally succumbed to the blogging bug.
She now has her own blog, or now, it’s on Blogspot (the only Google service that I hate) but I am hopeful that she’ll eventually switch to WordPress. I finally did convince her to move to WordPress.
Actually this post is an update to the Fuser.com Blew My Fuse post. Before I share the reason for this update, I would like to apologize for writing CAPTCHA as captcha because it is an abbreviation and therefore cannot be written in lowercase. (Thanks for pointing it out Emily)
A while ago I got this comment from a Fuser.com staffer:
First of all, thanks for checking out Fuser and writing an honest opinion of what you thought. This type of feedback is what we need! Based on your feedback, we fixed our CAPTCHA last night. I hope that if you are willing to give Fuser another try, you’ll find a much improved CAPTCHA process.
Honestly, I got startled after reading the “First of all..” part of the first sentence. I thought this lady was going to blast me for doing a poor review of Fuser, and would demand that I remove the post right away, which certainly isn’t the case.
I’ve just finished creating my profile and as Emily said, the CAPTCHA was much easier to read. The use of contrasting colors in the new CAPTCHA has done the trick.
Though it’s been only 15 minutes since I added my GMAIL and FACEBOOK accounts to my Fuser profile, I am getting the feeling that Fuser looks quite promising. So, I am going to continue using Fuser till I run into the next hurdle, Of course, I will keep- providing feedback.