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Points to remember when learning a new task

I was brushing my teeth and talking casually to my dad when he suddenly passed a comment - "Rahul, the phrase 'Master of all trades, Jack of none' aptly suits you". It sounded humorous but I couldn't help pondering over it. Indeed my past was full of activities which I tried stepping into - dance, music (keyboard), swimming, driving, cooking, tennis and yet I doubt if I am really good at any one of them. But of late, I have begun to analyze and understand what I was doing wrong when compared to those people who seem to be good at everything they do. Here are a few lessons I have learnt.

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Lifehacker

Update

Had a gr888 24 bday. Snaps can be accessed at 24 bday snaps :).

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Journal

Why we adopted Buzzi

It was November 25th, 1998. A rather hot afternoon. Ring Ring! We heard someone ring the doorbell. It was our friendly neighbourhood ... spiderman .. no ... it was our friendly medical rep :). And he brought Boozi to our house. Actually when Boozi first entered our house, he had many lollipops. Being the mean me, I took away all his lollilops and also snatched the one he was eating. He began to cry loudly and uncontrollably. When mummy saw this, she spanked me properly and then decided to adopt Boozi.

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Journal

Update

Added two new monitoring services for my website so that I can get immediate alerts when my site goes down. Apart from this I also get a weekly and monthly report showing me the site uptime stats. Some things you have to look out for while subscribing to these services are:

  • Monitoring interval - most free services offer 1 hour monitoring interval but you can also get a monitoring interval of 15 mins
  • False Alarm protection - this means that the site would be tested from various locations to be doubly sure that the website is really down
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Journal
Tech

Update

Have just come back from a trip to Ooty-Kodaikanal-Madurai-Palani. The photos can be accessed at Kodai Trip Photos. Kindly note that the last three slides (151, 152 and 153) are actually 30 seconds videos of size 15-20 MB. Unless, you are very enthusiastic about viewing them, I suggest you do not visit these last three slides :).

Category: 
Journal

Ways to spot indian travellers

I'm not saying that "YOU ARE" or "YOU HAVE TO BE". All
I'm saying is that there is a very (VERY) high chance
that you are an Indian traveler flying abroad if you
do any of the following things:

1. Carry home cooked food with you on the flight.

2. Wear a suit even if you are not going for any
business or business related work.

3. Ask the person sitting next to you in the flight
where they are going (pleaseeeeee people, it's a
flight and not a bus. The chances are very very very
high that you are all going to the same place!!!)

Category: 
Misc

Update

Do not forget to checkout my latest post on domain registrars - New Domain Registrar.

So what's been happening of late? A lot. I kind of got busy with other things. I have been exploring new opportunities. I purchased a new laptop. My ISP is giving a lot of problems. This coupled with frequent server crashes is making me consider to move my website from my home PC to some hosting service.

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Journal
Tech

Good one

A woman wanted to reach her husband on his mobile phone but discovered that she was out of credit, She instructed her son to use his own phone to pass across an urgent message to his daddy who was on site. After junior had called, he got back to mummy to inform her that there was a lady that picked up daddy's phone the three times he tried reaching
dad on the mobile.

Women!!

She waited impatiently for her husband to return from work and upon seeing him in the driveway, she rushed out and gave him a
tight slap, and she slapped him again, for good measure.

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Genders

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