Category Archives: USA

remit2India plz stop ur annoying marketing campaigns(+2230833100)

May 15, 2010 – 2:03 pm

Remit2India.com has started these annoying marketing campaigns bombarding me by calling me and asking me to send more money back to India @ odd times pretty much every week , even though I send money back pretty much every month to pay my EMI. I wish I can send a million dollars a month back [...]

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Stop Rocking when I’m asleep..

March 16, 2010 – 6:00 am

Just woke up to the news on radio that there was a 4.4 earthquake near Los angles and I didn’t even feel a bit  although I see a few entries from Redlands in the did you feel site. Well gotta move the bed away from the windows, lets hope I do it by next year. [...]

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Amazon S3 isn’t for everyone

February 9, 2010 – 10:41 pm

Its always been a pain to maintain a  backup of all photos and personal documents.When I heard about Amazon S3 cloud storage with its cheap pricing structure, I was in heaven finally a place I can store my data for eternity for cheap. But when I started to move my data to Amazon S3 , [...]

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Windows 7 Vs Kubuntu 9.10 the fight continues..

December 10, 2009 – 12:49 am

I recently got a new laptop Lenovo ideapad Y550 which was supposed to come with Windows 7 but came with Vista instead but I already decided that I would use Ubuntu 9.10 to avoid all windows nightmare and started using Kubuntu 9.10 (KDE graphic environment of Ubuntu). I can do a whole podcast on the [...]

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We choose where we develop..

November 25, 2009 – 2:45 am

I was always under the impression that my country India was well developed culturally/socially and still developing economically. Its not more than a year since 26/11/2008 Mumbai attacks happened and already my country(India) government has totally forgotten about it. The Prime minister of India is on whirl wind tour of USA during 26/11 this year [...]

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Orkut No Donut for you..You can only add upto 250 favorites

November 1, 2009 – 4:42 pm

Well who ever has used Orkut are aware the blog post title message which shows up when Orkut’s server are too busy to respond. But this time no donuts for the whole Orkut team since they have set a hard limit of only 250 video links per profile which I hate personally hate and I’m [...]

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Bitten by the ATT data bug

October 12, 2009 – 9:05 pm

I was caught unaware, unprepared and without guard when it bit me. Yes, today I was bitten by a huge bill of 120$ of data charge for 12,000KB of data for my ATT wireless phone service.  So thats roughly a penny per kilobyte which is one of the costliest KB that I have ever paid for in [...]

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End of Tax Season 2008…

February 12, 2009 – 12:55 am

Generally I procrastinate filing the tax every year but this year I filed it too early considering my standard. Although I’m not getting much in federal and paying some to CA tax its the free e-file feature, sudden interest to file my tax and get the return before federal govt goes bankrupt    that motivated [...]

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Is it a boon or bane..

October 23, 2008 – 10:15 pm

50 is a reality no more a value just for ease of calculation, 50 is a boon no more a night mare for NRIs, 50 is a bane for people buying petrol in India,

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Fight of quotes

September 25, 2008 – 11:16 pm

Change We need or Shake things up which one is going to win and the fight is already intense.

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