FIFIS 2010 worst team

Posted by toalakan-web on October 15, 2010 No comment

We just won the worst soccer team award in the fifis tournament @work

Square trade.com Warranty discount coupon

Posted by toalakan-web on September 11, 2010 1 comment

Squaretrade.com send me a 30$ off coupon code FF30 for getting my Iphone 4 warranty with them.
Please use them and do use my email address as a referral.
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Inception – a programmers nightmare

Posted by toalakan-web on July 18, 2010 No comment

Yesterday  I watched the Inception and it is one of the best movies that I have seen in a while with all those jumps between multiple dream states and keeping track of the flow of the movie  engages your mind constantly. It’s quiet possible that people won’t follow the movie even if they miss a few minutes of the movie.

It was like trying to figure out a bug in a 5 year old Spaghetti coded application. If you miss a few steps then you have to start from the beginning.

If you like the movies like Matrix, Identity and Memento then you would certainly enjoy it.

Waiting to buy the DVD during Thanksgiving :)

Ravanan a Santosh Sivan Movie

Posted by toalakan-web on June 20, 2010 No comment

Today I watched Ravanan and my verdict is that it’s a Santosh Sivan movie which should be clearly enjoyed in a big screen not @ home.  Santosh Sivan’s cinematography is @ it’s best and has captured nature @ its best.

I have already mentioned it’s a cinematographers movie and the story line purely based on Ramayana with a little twist for the current age, lets get to the story. Although it’s a know story line and trying to repackage it is quiet hard, but Mani Ratnam has already did this kind of repackaging in a successful way for movies like Thalapathi, Iruvar but this time it wasn’t up to the mark.

Pros:

  1. Cinematography.
  2. Supporting Cast, be it Karthik, Prabhu, Munna, Prithiviraj and Priyamani do their limited roles perfectly.
  3. ARR BGM’s.
  4. Vikram’s acting, not his best though, reminds me of pithamagan.
  5. locations.

Cons:

  1. The most important, you jump in to the movie @ the beginning itself , there is no concept of building up the story. Unless you have the patience to watch the second half, you will be wondering why the hell I came to this movie and wondering if there is any story in the movie.
  2. Suhasini’s dialogues. Sujatha is really missed in this department, he could have pulled off the movie.
  3. Zero comedy, this movie is a total drama. So most people looking for a masala flick, should really stay away.
  4. ARR songs, as if he was sleeping while composing some songs.

The first Con I believe is the reason for all the bad reviews and spreading a bad review about the movie.

Don’t expect a Mani Ratnam movie, then you can enjoy it in theater.

BTW my friends who watched the previous show mentioned it was worst than Aasal movie (all time crap), so I went in to watch a movie worst than Aasal. May be that’s why I liked the movie :)

remit2India plz stop ur annoying marketing campaigns(+2230833100)

Posted by toalakan-web on May 15, 2010 1 comment

Remit2India.com has started these annoying marketing campaigns bombarding me

  1. 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 to India to keep u guys happy but I don’t make that much.
  2. Email blasts reminding me that the US dollar conversion rate has gone up.  I can live with 1 email blast not with 8 of them which is called spamming ur users.

remit2India.com I really appreciate ur service and concern to notify me about higher rates but keep it to a simple email blast or a phone call, not both of them @ same time.

It would be nice if u guys provide some kind of option in the site for the marketing preference and I would happily say no to email/phone campaigns. Me and my friends will be happy,if you can get this done and don’t bombard with marketing campaigns.

If there was any other better service provider to transfer money to India, I would happily switch over to them, but not so I’m stuck with you guys.

BTW if some one doesn’t pick ur calls after 2 or 3 times it clearly means they don’t want to talk to you and Yes I have added ur number to my block list (+2230833100).

Please Google  ur above number and see it for urself how much people are annoyed @ ur campaigns.

Update on May 22, 3;55 PM:

I finally picked up the phone from this number again to complain again after listening to their music for like 5 minutes.

Who calls you and puts up a music and asks us to wait for them?

Long story I tell the CSR that plz stop calling me with marketing and she mentions it was just a reminder call and I still insist that I don’t want them and out of no where she hung up the phone.

remit2India ur customer care sucks but ur service is free, so until its free I will use you guys and also act like a jerk like you guys do.

cfthread and request timeout in coldfusion

Posted by toalakan-web on April 28, 2010 No comment

I have been playing around with CFthread in CF9 and assumed the threads would behave the same way as in Java, where the thread doesn’t die until all the operations are completed.

I was expecting a similar behavior with CFthread as well,since I was planning to spawn a asynchronous thread and let it complete a file upload to cloud using CFHTTP. In the process I found the following after some testing and playing around:

  1. The CFthread basically respects the CF admin panel timeout if it’s set and kills the thread after the timeout period.
  2. It doesn’t respect the request timeout set using the CFsetting tag in onRequestStart or any where in the code.
  3. There are still certain tags that don’t obey the CFthread request timeout,they are CFFTP,CFEXECUTE, CFX tags and CFStoredProc.

So if you like start a asynchronous thread that runs for a longer time than the request timeout set in the CFadmin,please use the following ways:

  1. Un-check the request timeout settings in the CFadmin and then set request timeout for all other requests using the cfsetting @ onrequestStart function.
  2. Use either of the above tags that don’t respect the CFthread timeout.
  3. Use the event gateways if needed.

Just thought some one could find it useful.

LA POSADA by SEIS CUERDAS

Posted by toalakan-web on April 25, 2010 No comment

I was @ the 3rd street promenade yesterday and listened to Seis Cuerdas perform this song and ever since I have been playing this track on loop.

It’s not every day I buy a solo guitar music CD on the street :)

Carton of Milk – 2$, Nokia N85 – 300$, the joy when the phone works after dropping the N85 in milk – priceless

Posted by toalakan-web on April 4, 2010 1 comment

I really wish I didn’t do this mistake of trying to save 2$ milk carton from falling down and dropping my N85 in to my cup of milk when I was preparing my coffee while I was talking to my bro at the same time.

I did the usual stuff that I usually do when my equipments has water damage like completely dismantle it and let it dry for a day and try it back again. Most of the time it has worked for me and since the phone is from Nokia, the percentage of survival is little higher then other manufactures.

Multitasking has its share of failures like this, may be that’s why apple decided not to include Multitasking in ipad.

Until then I will try to resurrect my old HTC SDA phone which had suffered its own 30 feet drops, water damage and living in freezer for an hour :) and btw it worked all the time without issues. I decided to replace it only when its charger connection got loose which made it harder for me to charge the device.

I hope the N85 can also survive all the sufferings as good as HTC SDA has suffered in my hands. It has gone through a 20 feet drop and made out alive so lets see if it can survive the water damage.

Now I will have to wait for another 24 hrs to figure out if my phone can be revived or not.

Please email/im me if you need to contact me before that.

Yet another quake as I write this post. It shud be easily a 4 and we got after shocks.

-Updated April 4, 2010 @ 7.46PM

Well the phone is working perfectly as of this moment without issue. Thank you Nokia.

Carton of Milk – 2$, Nokia N85 – 300$, the joy when the phone works after dropping the N85 in milk – priceless :)



Stop Rocking when I’m asleep..

Posted by toalakan-web on March 16, 2010 No comment

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. May be I should use twitter for these kind of posts..

too many list of things of to do and too sleepy as well..time for a quick nap between the snoozes and blogging..

Hitler and Cloud Computing woes

Posted by toalakan-web on February 26, 2010 No comment

One more reason why Hitler failed. Its just too funny especially when he wants to update his facebook page.

Enjoy it.

Here is the original video.

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