Disaster has struck

It was july 17, I turned on the PC and was reading mails, suddenly it stopped responding. Restarted it only to find it wouldn't boot. Called the Xeroxtronics helpdesk the next day. The service engineers took the Motherboard and the processor on 19th for diagnosis. The doubt was on the motherboard which had problems earlier also and was fixed. Last time they took the mother board for a repair it was almost a month before they returned it to me. This time I didn't want the same response and requested them to fix the problem at the earliest. But to my despair, this time too the response wasn't any different. Its more than 20 days now and still no information when the pc will be restored. I have made more than 15 calls now. Whenever I call, the response is the same, "Sir, innum rendu naal-la unga motherboard redyagidum", all those promised dates passed but the motherboard wasn't restored. Some days passed and they started a new story, that a new motherboard will be restored. This was to reach me last week but it didn't. When I called them last saturday the status was that the problem was not in the motherboard but with the processor, They promised to restore the pc by this tuesday. But this too didn't happen. When I called up, they had no reply. Only thing they can say is "romba, romba sorry sir(very, very sorry sir)". When I called them today, They have promised to restore it by tomorrow.

I am currently not using this pc for any critical jobs. But i had some plans for this month and this totally irresponsible behaviour of these people at Xeroxtronics had shattered them all. It's not the long delay but the lack of commitment is what makes me tighten my fists.
tag: {experience} {consumer}

Joined Thuligal

Just subscribed to the Thuligal groups at yahoogroups. This is an initiative taken by the AITEC students for welfare activities. From a first look at the website, I should say that this is very well organized and professional.
Quoting from the home page: "THIS GROUP IS CREATED TO GENERATE WELFARE FUND THROUGH WHICH ORPHANS CAN BE BENIFITED..... THUS INTIATING OUR FIRST STEP TOWARDS SERVING OUR COMMUNITY."
tag: {society}

Writing skills

Lately, I have bee doing less writing. Already, I am using the desktop dictionary extensively. If the same continues, then it will not be long before I forget a language. I remember having read an article on importance of writing skill for any programmer and how important the documentation is. Planned to post regularly starting today. Hoping to see a better language in the days ahead...
tag: {language} {english}

Work, Taste & Me

I hate people without a taste. You should have a passion in everything you do. Don't do what you don't feel like doing. For long, I was misguided and told that the success of a task is in completing the task. Now after these many years when I look back, I realize that the success actually lies in _doing_ things and not in completing it. This may sound strange but this is what works for me and is true for me. When people usualy set goals it is always about completing something within a time frame. After this the entire focus turns to the completion point and the mind throws you down and dreams about that day when you will be completing the task. The task in hand becomes less important at this point. Both mind and body marches towards the completion through the shortest available route.

tag: {taste} {me-me} {work} {philosophy}

Anniyan and 8 of us

Eight of us from SCM decided to watch the evening show of the much awaited film Anniyan. The booking was done yesterday over phone. We were all sitting in Vichu's car by 1800hrs and were ready for the drive through ECR to Mayajaal. It was a cool drive and arrived almost on time for the 1830 show.

This is my first visit to Mayajaal. The pleasant climate added colour to the already nice environment at Mayajaal. The film, with the right mix of all the ingredients, is a really nice one - the best i've ever watched. The first half was light and comical, it was a laughing riot with me almost splitting in to pieces. The second half was thrilling. The end is beautiful.

We drove back with a lot of funny remarks and every one bursting into laughter. We stopped at woodlands and had a nice dinner. A wonderful outing altogether.

tag: {experience} {fun}

New blogger hack

I'd like to be able to label each of the posts. Seems there is no option available yet on blogger. For now, using an invisible tag at the end of each post to label it - not the best idea, though, but should make searching the blog easier.

Here are the list of tags:
* blogger
* consumer
* english
* experience
* fun
* hack
* hardware
* language
* linux
* my-art
* me-me
* philosophy
* plans
* tag-list
* taste
* tech
* travel
* work
* society
tag: {blogger} {hack} {tag-list}

New look blog

Finally managed to pull some time to modify the blog template. Now it looks a lot more simpler and neat.
tag: {work} {tech}