Raves at Opportune Moments

Lots of people ask me where I host my sites and this blog. I guess they are impressed with the page load speeds...

I host them all in a 350 MB space on modhost.com.

About 2 years back when I was creating Ananya Exports website, my client Ramana's son came across this host and took up the webspace for the site. I was quite impressed with the Control Panel and the features and after hosting the site, convinced on the speed.

Last year, when my erstwhile host reminded me to renew, I declined and migrated to modhost. And I've lived virtually happily ever after. . Their service is also quite good and without an attitude , unlike my other host 1and1.com. (I've already posted about the latter's lack of technical strength).

Defenitely recommended

I watched with utter disbelief on TV just now,as the Minister from W. Bengal, Arjun Bhattacharjee, literally blackmailed the BCCI. He said that he ( and the Govt.) would boycott the SA-India test match in Kolkota if Ganguly was not included in the team. 8|

My blood boiled when I was watched this Hon"ble Minister say that he would return all tickets to the BCCI if Saurav was not a part of the test team. >

What exactly is happening? Arm twisting tactics ? Fuck, if this continues, we will have Lallu demanding that the entire team should comprise of only Biharis or trains wont run in other parts of the country. Maybe PMK here in Tamilnadu will hold protests saying that Venkatraghavan or Srikkanth should be a part of the team.

What are we getting to? Regionalistic chauvinism in team selection to satisfy a few individuals?

This is not fair. The current players have shown such form and talent, which once present in Saurav is not showing nowadays. Sadly for all his experience, Ganguly has not shown any maturity during the Chappell-Saurav imbroglio and i guess he never was a team player.Is Saurav Ganguly that indispensable ? At this point, he has no place in the team..

Let the blogworld unite again to express displeasure at this unscruplous blackmail before the virus spreads ...

CAN CONQUER CANCER

The Rotary Club of Madras (Metro) is organizing a Fund Raising Concert featuring singer Sonu Nigam on 10th December 2005 in Chennai. The proceeds of the concert are to be handed over for the welfare of the patients recovering from Cancer at the Cancer Institute, Adayar, Chennai.

In connection with this, Connexions has given its support as one of the main sponsors of the event . Connexions showrooms in Chennai located at Anna Nagar and Saligramam sell Gifts, Music, Stationery, Greeting cards and Toys. I'm currently designing the Connexions website and also act as their event management consultant.

To create the awareness and to raise support for a noble cause, Connexions has planned several in-house events and the initiative has been titled – CAN CONQUER CANCER. The main events include contests in Poetry, Photography and Painting and would include participants from educational institutions and corporate houses apart from the regular visitors and shoppers at the showrooms. The events are being scheduled between Nov 16th and Dec 10th 2005.

We have planned to culminate the events with an Awareness Walk around the Anna Nagar Park on December 4th 2005. The Chairperson of the Adayar Cancer Institute, Dr. Shantha has agreed to grace the occasion by leading the walk with 30 child patients who are currently undergoing treatment at the Institute. Other participants in the Walk would include our management colleagues and staff, customers, friends and general public who would be willing to join the Awareness Walk The contestant winners would also be rewarded on the same day. We expect the strength of participation to be approximately 500 people.

And last, but not the least, we have scheduled a "The Best Blog Post Contest" featuring the CAN CONQUER CANCER Theme between Nov 27th and Dec 2nd. The Best post wins a ticket to the Sonu Nigam Concert. (hey, if you are not livin' in Chennai, no probs, you can still post. If you win, we will hand-deliver the ticket to a person you want to gift it in Chennai)

Once I'm through with putting up some pages by latest 2morrow night, I'll update and announce the contest...Get set folks...

gotta split... gotta build the site...

Reproducing here a news article from Kerala.com. The article has been written by Palash Kumar through Reuters.

I request bloggers to publish a link in their spaces. Kuldip Singh's bravery should be made known around the world. A fitting expression to mark our disgust at the cowards who go under the guise of terrorists and kill innoicent people.

Let the blogsphere as a community pray for the speedy recovery of Kuldip.

Her husband, now fighting for his life, is one of the heroes of Delhi's horrific bomb attacks which struck at the heart of the nation on the eve a week of religious festivals. But 24-year-old Nigam, swollen and ready to give birth to their first child in weeks, wants only one thing.

"I don't have the strength to see him," she said, waiting outside the hospital room where her husband, Kuldip Singh, lies critically wounded after helping save dozens of passengers travelling in his bus on Saturday. If he lives at all, Singh, a 28-year-old low-paid driver, may never see or hear his child. Doctors are fighting to save his sight and his hearings. His right arm does not move. Singh's face took the full force of a bomb planted on his overcrowded bus, packed with almost 100 people, as he hurled it away after evacuating his passengers.

"I don't want any rewards ... I hope they give him back his eyesight," Nigam said. A. Majumdar, chairman of the Delhi Transport Commission which employed Singh, told Reuters there were 80 to 90 people in the bus. "Dozens would have died if he and the conductor had not acted in time." On Saturday, the last big shopping day before Diwali and Eid al-Fitr, a passenger spotted an abandoned leather bag as the bus pulled out of a stop.

"The conductor of the bus immediately ordered the driver to pull over and both of them asked the passengers to leave," said Majumdar. "After the vehicle was emptied, the driver picked up the bag. But as soon as he noticed some wires, he threw it and the bag exploded in his face. He bore the full impact." NATIONAL HEROES

The conductor and six passengers received minor injuries, but no one was killed. About the same time, two other bombs ripped through busy Delhi markets packed with shoppers and holidaymakers, killed 59 and horribly injuring many more. Had the bomb exploded on the gas-powered bus, the toll could have been horrific, said an corporation worker. "Our buses have about half a dozen cylinders of compressed natural gas. It would have blown up like a huge bomb. Apart from the passengers, many people would have died on the road.

"Both men are national heroes." The Delhi government on Monday announced a reward of 200,000 rupees for each of the men, who may also win a bravery award. But for Nigam, who has only seen the bandaged, burnt face of Kuldip through the small glass window on his door, the money means nothing. "It will never be the same again," she says. "I hope he can see and hear again.

Mail deleted without being read by Stephen Langdon. The mail was sent on Sept 4th and deleted on Oct 30th 8|

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I had forwarded my complaints to Eileen Rodriguez, the Consumer PR at Google HQ on August 2nd and August 4th . Today (exactly a month later), I receive a response from her ID.

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No wonder Bangalore and Hyderabad offices of Google are acting so funny. When the Consumer PR deletes mails without reading them, that sure is INDIFFERENCE. Way to go, Google....