 
Mumbai monsoons are back. The city was in a mess today, and normal life came to a halt once again. Here are a few pictures that I had clicked in the morning. I had been waiting for the rains to slow down, so that I could leave for office in the morning. Today was an important day as I had a training scheduled for my team. Armed with my laptop, I just reached the main gate of my society, Takshila. And behold!! There whole road right outside the gates was flooded with nothing plying and the autos nearly in water. So I just came back and changed, and went out again to capture the interesting sight.
As I was going to put the pics online, the electricity also went out. However, the laptops saved us, as we ended up watching two interesting movies with our lappies running on battery.
The pictures are from outside the gate of my residential society - Takshila - in Andheri East.
Read this on Chandra’s blog:
“Obscenity is a symptom of an inferior vocabularyâ€
Loved it !!
The 6th Annual Party of Netscribes was a fun event. On the evening of 9th June, all the roads led to Amnesia, the pub/disc at Hotel Leela. It was true to the Netscribes tradition - a cheerful bonhomie with everyone hitting the dance floor and swaying to the music. The party went on till the wee hours of morning. Of course, equally interesting were the test tube shots that some of us tried. I had a great time.
It was also the last day at Netscribes for Biplab Das, who had come for his summer training from IIMK, and I had come to know this chap as a happy-go-lucky fun chap. Here is wishing him the very best in all his future endeavours.
I went for a weekend trip to Murud Janjira. It was a great experience, with the rains providing the much needed relief against Mumbai heat. I will be writing a small trip guide for people looking for information on how to go to Murud Janjira, and what are the interesting places to visit there. However, the review is a work in progress as of now. Check out the pics available on my photoalbum.
In these times of aggressive marketing, and marginally improving customer service to back it up, Hewlett-Packard has come as a pleasant surprise. I had recently bought the awesome HP dv1345 laptop from a vendor in India. During the course of installing some new software, I found that my bluetooth was not running. And the DVD writer was not working directly from Windows XP.
After doing some deep searches on Google, and accessing various online discussion forums, I thought that the best way to address this would be to have someone from HP take a look at it. But due to time constraints, I thought of trying the online help desk of HP. And I was flabbergasted. The service is not only fast, but an extremely pleasant experience in itself. I came to know about the software driver upgrade for Bluetooth. And the DVD writer was not a hardware problem, but a Windows error. I tested the DVD writer with Nero and it is rocking. The HP help desk was quick to respond and the chat applet was nicely designed. I found the people informative, and I was able to resolve both the problems quickly with their help.
It is nice to see that HP is not only focused on innovation, and marketing of its new products - but at the same time has the right kind of customer service to back it up. The help desk people are always ready to help you out with eagerness and enthusiasm. These positive experiences make me feel that going along with HP, even though there were IBM, Sony, and Toshiba around - was a good decision.
Nokia has recently launched its Nokia M-Blog service for India, wherein you can directly post pictures to your blog that is hosted on the Nokia site. I had recently reviewed Mabber, and how the application might not find a lot of users in India due to the high-priced Advanced GPRS, which is a requirement to run the app. However, Nokia M-Blog application takes care of this issue, and easily connects to the servers. It is nice to see one application that belongs to Web 2.0 and easily works with the basic GPRS (aarrrggh!!!) subscription in India.
For now, you can only upload images to the blog site. Along with the image upload, there is an option to add a caption for the image. I would like to see more text capabilities in this application, to rate it as “The Blogging Application”. A single image upload took took less than 20 seconds for me. The quality of the image remains a concern though. Incidentally, the application reduces the size and the quality of the image so that it can be transferred over a WAP/GPRS network. But that is one issue that I am ready to overlook for now.
I also have set up my own blog to test out the service and the ‘coolness’ factor. I am testing this application right now, and will post an update soon. Till then, check out the service at the Nokia M-Blog site for India.
 
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