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Re: http://disqus.com/preview/

jaffermaniar — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:17:24 -0000

Let's make this 2890 !

Re: The Cockfight

jaffermaniar — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:18:57 -0000

Wow, this is beautiful ! I'd be so amused watching them that I'd forget to even grab my camera.

I give it 5 stars !

:)

Re: With Twitter friend imports, FriendFeed again devalues Twitter.com

jaffermaniar — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:46:07 -0000

That is pretty cool ! I have learnt to work with FriendFeed and Twitter side by side (although not in harmony).

I am on Twitter more !

Re: Nintendo Wii Found At Pamida

jaffermaniar — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:07:27 -0000

Looks like you have got the Wii fever too ! Oh who am I talking to - it's the Geakz for goodness sake ! Ofcourse he'll have the Wii fever. Oh Shutup Jaffer !

Wishing you and the Ms. and Jr. a very Happy New Year !

P.S. I just remembered missing you on Twitter. When did you leave ? What gives ?

Re: Customer Service: It’s In The Details

jaffermaniar — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:31:56 -0000

It may be funny, looking at the pictures but let me tell you I used to work once upon a time assembling Canon and Xerox image servers.

Power cords and their converters were stored in different bins. An order called for them by a 9 digit bar code - distinct for both the cord and the adapter.
I'd just had to walk to the bin and blindly pick out the cord by just re-checking the bar code and do the same for the converter, and if they both "PASSED" under the scanner, they were packed and sent to shipping.

Did I check the the holes and the plugs ? Nope ! I just did my job exactly as said by the Manufacturing Process Instruction posted on the company's intranet !

I can't tell you how many times I misread the 9 digit bar code and packed Australian Power cords bound for the UK or German power cords bound for the USA - or more ridiculously, French cords to Italy and vice versa.

And I was never once blamed !

Re: Things That Are Scary

jaffermaniar — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:20:18 -0000

Beautiful Eye my friend ! Love the detail !

The price list on that motel sign make me go - "WHAT ?!"

:lol:

Re: New Wordpress Plugin: Directory of Love

jaffermaniar — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:17:27 -0000

I think it's a great way to allow bloggers to add themselves to your blogroll. (Thus avoiding blogroll envy !)

Re: Long gestation period: Microsoft’s first iPhone app coming next year

jaffermaniar — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:18:20 -0000

I drifted off to read an article about an elephant's reproductive cycle instead.

Re: Mobilize Your Blog With Mippin

jaffermaniar — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:21:23 -0000

I was actually thinking about creating a template for mobiles for my blog earlier today. Here you are introducing me to this killer application.

This is awesome, the rendered website looks exactly I had Imagined !

Re: Saturday Morning Fanfare

jaffermaniar — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:38:56 -0000

I didn't know the Mz. blogged as well. Hello !
No kids here and none planned in the near future.

My late uncle used to live near Wadala Rd. station in Bombay and his apartment was adjacent to a Railway yard.

You'd hear crashing of empty oil cars all day and boy those bangs were loud ! When making a consist, the engines would reverse at high speed with 2-3 cars attached. When enough momentum was gained, the cars would be released and the engine would brake. So the empty cars would roll down the tracks and stop with a BANG hitting a stationary car !

Uncle and family were so used to it that it was possible for them to even get pleasant afternoon siestas ! Well, they lived there for more than 30 years.

I loved visiting just to watch the trains. But I never got a good nights rest especially when shaken up to a horn sounding like this. (MP3 file)

Re: Top Ten Reason’s “Top 10 Lists” Suck.

jaffermaniar — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:13:56 -0000

5.) I love top ten lists - they are fun to read. Research says so !
4.) I like five-point commenting as well - there are 5 other reasons why get right to the point.
3.) You and I became friends by fighting over rights to the 5 point commenting on Kathy's blog.
4.) You won.
5.)I forgot what in order this list was supposed to start.

Re: My Cartoon alter ego

jaffermaniar — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:08:58 -0000

This picture only took you only five minutes ?!
You've got talent !

I was fiddling with one of my pictures yesterday for half an hour and I still could not get it to look as I wanted !

Re: Xbox 360 or PS 3 Oh which one.

jaffermaniar — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:49:48 -0000

Since the kids've got the Wii, you're purchasing a new console for exclusively you ?
I've never bought a console because I do PC games so I can't help you on that end !

Re: The Incredible Shrinking Bottle Cap

jaffermaniar — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:38:17 -0000

I find that Dasani the most outrageously priced. And I don't like how their water tastes by the end of the day.
With this cap, they just gave me another reason why not to give my mney to them !
(Thanks for fixing the comment form)

Re: Roundup: Apple remote app deactivation, the $1,000 app vanishes, Zoho hits 1 million users and more

jaffermaniar — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:19:56 -0000

Even if he clicked it as a joke or on a dare it was the most insane. Now one's to blame but the buyer himself and I have no simpathy for him what so-ever.

I had moron of a friend, who as a joke rised the bid on e-bay by $1 to the very soccer-ball that David Beckham hit and missed a goal during a match at EuroCup 2004. The highest bid was in the range of $900 million and my friend's bid stayed there for several days while he was tearing his hair out.
Fortunately some one outbid him but in the end the ball was sold at a much lower price.

Heavy lesson learned there.

Re: Managing To-Do Lists With Notepad++

jaffermaniar — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:52:33 -0000

I started using Notepad++ a few years ago for a quick and cheap solution to edit VisualBasic and C# code as it allows syntax hilighting.
Now I use it to edit the themes on my blog - using the FTP function. see screenshot

Too bad Notepad++ is unavailable for Linux, however I run it on Debian using some Wine ;) visit website

Gedit and KWrite which are default editors for GNOME and KDE have syntax highlighting, sidebar, and tabbed browsing but I am not sure if the latest versions support FTP.

But for my todo lists, I use "Remember The Milk". I find it very simple.
They've integerated it with Twitter and I can talk to it using Jott, which makes it very convinient.

Re: Classic Italian Sub Goes A-Rye

jaffermaniar — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:22:26 -0000

OMG, It's hilarious ! But if I was in your place, I'd not be amused ... pissed off ! And then I'd laugh later and twitter about it and you'd be commenting on it instead of me :D

If you ever get a chance to watch a cricket match, you'll notice the bowlers try to roughen up the ball in their crotch area and stain their pants red.
Totally accetable behaviour in that gentleman's game.

Re: As Seen On Twitter

jaffermaniar — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:29:49 -0000

Here are some of my favs:

@offendedblogger Dreamed I was doing community service, picking up trash on a mountainside in Yellowstone last night, wtf sort of dream is that?!

@ijustine Just because I fell asleep in your cab doesn't mean that you can drive around and run up the fare !

@mayjah Say a prayer for me, I am about to go wake up a sleeping baby.

@loiclemeur I ask @geraldinelemeur do you love me? She says "I don't know each time you talk to me you talk about Seesmic" - startup building <> love?

Re: Last One For July ‘08

jaffermaniar — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:52:52 -0000

TweeDeck allows you to sort contacts into groups and display them in columns. I think this way there are less chances of missing out on important conversation.

Check out this interesting discussion about if RSS readers are hip anymore http://bit.ly/SI1k6

Re: Last One For July ‘08

jaffermaniar — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:57:49 -0000

Sometimes it may be better to follow such websites and blogs on Twitter !
But unfortunately news sites such as the BBC/CBC/CNN could overwhelm your time line - in which case TweetDeck could be a viable option.

Re: Google Webmaster tools for Bloggers

jaffermaniar — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:11:10 -0000

I've been a long time user of Webmaster Tools. The first few months when I started using it, I used to go there everyday and needlessly worry about PageRank, keywords and other things I did not have to worry about.

Then I found the Site Map Generator Wordpress Plugin with auto-generates a sitemap whenever you've a new post.
Now I sign in like once in 2 weeks - just to make sure that my Site-map is working

Re: Cuil Mail In The Future?

jaffermaniar — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:50:26 -0000

Quite interesting actually ! They look like a serious to competitor to Google - or so they seem to be because the founders are ex-googlers.

Cuil needs a lot of time to mature to get to the poit where the results are relevant. So I am going to hang on to Google in the mean while.

If if Cuil mail ever goes public, I'll be there to claim my username first and then decide if it's good enough for me.
Until then - you've got my current address eh ! ;)

Re: GrowThumbs View - IEBlog : IE8 Beta 2 Coming in August

jaffermaniar — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:26:58 -0000

This is interesting because Microsoft waited so long between IE 6 and IE 7 and when many people are still beginning to get used to IE 7 there's IE 8.

Microsoft's got nothing to loose on this one due to the number of daily users out there.

Re: Burn, Baby Burn.

jaffermaniar — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:58:17 -0000

Whoa ! That's an awesome fire ! So the firefighters were also there when it burned (just in case) ?

You've a beautiful backyard !

Re: Tale of the Devil Hair

jaffermaniar — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:01:41 -0000

My nasal hair tends to grow straight out my nose and it bothers me so much when I forget to trim that single long hair but I've already left home for the day !
And because I take public transit and sometimes I've to stand right in front of people who are sitting - I become way too self conscious then and cover my nose with a hanky - with I think makes people more uneasy because I might be telling them that some one has just farted.

Just like http://beards.org/ there's an entire website dedicated to Nose Hair Trimmers at http://nosehairtrimmerguide.info/
And there are some models listed for the ladies too.