2012 and on..

Posted by toalakan-web on January 9, 2012 1 comments

Its quiet interesting that I’m posting my so called 2012 to do list exactly on the same day I posted last year.

As per the status on 2011 resolution I was able to achieve only 3&4 and partially the 2nd item where I lost 5 pounds but gained it over the end of year vacationing in India. So yeah last year wasn’t the greatest but it wasn’t my fault that I was totally occupied watching India win the world Cup with all my friends.

Thanks to Facebook which I joined starting of last year exactly today my blogging activity has drastically gone down to 7 posts for the whole year.

Well this year I have decided to stick with only 3 items and try to achieve it. Here it goes:

  1. Thanks to my new favorite activity of Running that I picked in Sep 2011,now I would like to run 500 miles by the end of 2012 if my legs can keep up.
  2. Become a Good Sharepoint developer, I’m just now in the ice breaking phase.
  3. Less Coffee more tea.

All of the above require need a lot of dedication and motivation to accomplish. Hopefully I keep my self motivated to achieve all of it before end of 2012.

Statement I hate the most from News organization/Politicians

Posted by toalakan-web on July 13, 2011 None comments

Whenever I read/hear an variant of the below text from news organization or any politicians I just can’t control my anger and today its a little high after reading this.

“After a so & so incident(mostly bomb blasts), the so & so city city people stood resilient,bold and went for work with out any issue”.

These statement has appeared so many times across different countries during different times since I knew and all I have is these questions for the writers.

  1. Do you really think that the people of any nation/city really care about the incident? unless they are a close friend or relative.
  2. Do you think most of the people have the luxury to take  a day off after the incident occurs?
  3. Do you think the government/corporate going to give mourning day offs? unless its a natural disaster that’s affecting a huge area.

Just stop these statements it really doesn’t make sense and report/follow up on the investigation of these blasts and please delete this news template as well.

 

Man from Earth – a movie to watch

Posted by toalakan-web on April 13, 2011 1 comments

Man from Earth is one of amazing movies that I have seen in my life.  I’m not even sure how the writer of this movie came with a concept like this when we humans forget what we ate yesterday and don’t know what will happen in the next few days.

It has no action,no graphics just arguments going on between a group of scientist and man that was awesome to watch and listen. Well I’m actually feeling productive after watching such a thought provoking movie.

My mind is already wandering around like crazy, hopefully I will get some sleep.

Its available in Netflix instant stream check it out.

April 2,2011 a day to remember

Posted by toalakan-web on April 3, 2011 None comments

April 2,2011 a day to remember in my life and for lot of my friends as well. This is the day Team India won the 2011 cricket world cup after waiting for 28 years.

The last time we won in June 25th 1983 I was a 3 month baby and missed it out but this time I’m here alive celebrating, enjoying every moment and going nuts. I’m still high on the victory and not sure if it will go off in a day.

I feel bad that I’m not in my home Chennai, India to celebrate and party with the crowd.

Lot of people turned for the world cup finals @ my place and we had a huge party after the match and totally enjoyed it. It was worth spending money on Willow TV for watching the match.

Here is an winning moment video:

 

Amazon.com is the best…

Posted by toalakan-web on March 21, 2011 None comments

Well recently I ordered a PS3 from amazon.com during the promotional 50$ amazon.com credit period which could be used towards any electronics purchase.

After playing around with Ps3 I realized its not a good fit for my internet streaming content and decided to go with Roku which was offering more content that I liked. So when I bought the Roku XDS (99$ – 50 = 49$) from amazon.com  again and the ps3 50$ promotional credit applied itself and there was no way for me to remove it.

In a few days I returned the ps3 as well and I got back the full amount of 299$ credited towards my CC to my surprise since according to their promotional offer for ps3 if I return the product then the 50$ credit would be charged to my credit card.

So I thought may be its a different work flow process and eventually they would charge me . After like 10 days and me checking my credit card statement every day I got really frustrated and sent a mail to customer service asking why Amazon.com hasn’t yet charged the remaining balance for Roku XDS order.

To my surprise when I checked my mails just during the snooze sleep time, an customer service agent replied that they will not be able to charge the 50$ to my account and keep it as a compliment.I ignored it assuming I was dreaming and went back to my snooze cycle. So I finally opened my mail in the evening to check my mails and saw I wasn’t dreaming but the mail was true.

Eventually I didn’t feel comfortable getting 50$ as a compliment so I transferred it to American Red Cross for the Japan earth quake relief through amazon.com.

I’m quiet impressed with Amazon.com service and I will surely use their business more. I just can’t wait for amazon.com to get more streaming content.

Below is the email communication.

Hello,

I understand that you’ve returned the PS3 but still the promotion of $50.00 was applied to this order.

I also understand from your e-mail message that you need to remove the $50.00 promotions and charged to your Credit card.

I’m sorry it is not possible to remove the $50.00 promotions once it has been applied.

As our compliment, you can keep this $50.00 promotions.

Please accept this our compliment.

Thanks for your understanding.

Thank you for your recent inquiry. Did I solve your problem?

If yes, please click here:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/survey

If no, please click here:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/survey

Best regards,

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Amazon.com
Your feedback is helping us build Earth’s Most Customer-Centric Company.

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Your Name:A AL
Order Id:
Other info:PS3 promotional disc not yet removed from this order.
Comments:I placed this order and the promotional 50$ discount which I got through PS3 was applied. But I have returned the PS3 and amazon has credited the full amounts to my Credit card and gift card. I was wondering when will this 50$ promotional will be removed from my order and charged to my Credit card.
Looks like some where along the return process Amazon forgot to charge me 50$ and it won’t be fair of me to accept it as well.

Thx
AL
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Irony 2011

Posted by toalakan-web on March 5, 2011 None comments

With the Tamil Nadu assembly election coming up in April 13,2011 I’m sure we are gonna see more contradictory statements from all politicians.

Check out this news where the TN political parties are requesting the election commission for extension of campaign timings on the last day of the campaign day to 11 PM because they have short time to campaign but they really really like to postpone the election date itself from April 13th,2011 since they don’t want the polls to affect the SSLC students, festivals.

But they are just fine disturbing people and poor students who will be studying overnight for just one night till 11 PM for the sake of conducting a free and fair election?

Timewarner internet sucks

Posted by toalakan-web on February 27, 2011 None comments

After being awake the whole night watching India vs England match my Internet connection dropped during the first 10 overs of second innings still not back up.

I’m pissed,sleepless and really can’t understand y the modem would go offline for an unknown reason.

This has made me to depend on att for the score updates and that’s how desperate I’m to watch the match and couldn’t find any open wifi as well.

2010 & To do list for 2011

Posted by toalakan-web on January 9, 2011 1 comments

Well I know its a little late to post my resolutions for 2011 but its always never late to do things.

Before going into the list 2010 has been one of the most stablest year in my life.No downturns, no pressure, no worries, no unplanned issues rising up,no resolutions to catch up for, tons of free time to spend time with my friends and I even made a 1 month trip to India for Diwali.  2010 was a year where I just roamed around in my own careless way.

So for 2011 I have a list of resolution that I need get it through and pretty much every thing is possible with a little bit of commitment on my end. Here it goes:

  1. To get my California motorcycle license. No more excuses I live in California and I have to enjoy the summer cruising in my bike. If my finances are good may be buy a bike/scooter to ride to office.
  2. To drop off like 10 pounds which I have gained in all of 2010. No more slacking around gotta hit the Gym.
  3. Spend less time on Netflix online.  This will be the hardest one to keep up since I’m a big time movie watcher.
  4. Work on some open source project and being a Coldfusion developer my first preference would be to work on coldbox open source projects/plugins/modules the best CF framework out there.
  5. Blog more on Coldfusion/Coldbox or pretty much any web related technology.
  6. Visit Yellowstone national park. One of the few places that I have been planning to go for a long time.
  7. Visit Tulsa my alma mater and visit some of my friends back there.

Well that’s pretty much the list I can think of right now and hopefully I will be able to achieve some of it by 2012.

Windows 7 sucks

Posted by toalakan-web on December 19, 2010 None comments

Yep true when my laptop was good when all was new but typical to Windows after a year I’m really hating it.I have about 4GB of memory and still my system is running crazy slow and I don’t even have any of my development tools running.

The last patches that Microsoft pushed has literally screwed up my Wireless network connection since after every time I  hibernate and restart it just wouldn’t connect, either I will have to restart the system or the router to get it working.

BTW I do have a Iphone4 and it works perfectly without any issues..I have never experienced a lost wireless connection with that phone, but still ATT sucks.

I’m seriously considering buying a MAC for home use because of this if I can get rid of this laptop.

Am I a computer scientist?

Posted by toalakan-web on November 3, 2010 2 comments

Today morning I went in for H1b stamping @ Chennai,India US consulate and the consular asked me Are u a computer scientist? I was quiet taken back,perplexed, short of answer and was wondering am I really a computer scientist because I can program.

After a while of my thought process; I totally had to deny it and say I’m an web application developer.

But I’m still wondering why was that question asked and what was going on in consular mind?

What would you have answered if the same question was asked to u?

Yep I’m in India on a long vacation.

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