Ankur's profile-->BUGMAN<--PhotosBlogListsMore Tools Help

Blog


    January 30

    New Home

    Bugmann has a new address now-

    Different perspective

    Commenting was not easy on MSN spaces and Prashant wanted me on blogspot...so i decided to switch.

    It is harder to add counters and link on blogger, but still :-)


    powered by performancing firefox

    January 18

    Love Indian style

    Love, Indian Style -- Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2007 -- Page 1 -- TIME

    A nice article which once again makes me wonder why people feel ashamed or bad if someone kisses someone in public??

    Why is love so bad? People dont feel ashamed of the beggars on the streets, but feel ashamed of love?


    powered by performancing firefox

    January 14

    Bugs on moneycontrol

    Moneycontrol

    A nice useful site but with so many bugs. Dont know who does the programming, they should be whacked, or better make me the testing manager of the stupid company that has made the site for them  


    powered by performancing firefox

    Classic steel

    ::Magppie::

    Now a days there are beautiful products in steel coming in the market. Magppie is one major player in this category. They have given another dimension to steel crockery which were not considered classy before.

    I wish to buy them for long now, but the prices are keeping me at bay...


    powered by performancing firefox

    January 12

    trip to Ajmer -pushkar

    Planning a trip to Ajmer-pushkar sector on the long weekend of 26 Jan, probably will be driving after some time now. More pics will be there on my flickr
    December 28

    Talking about Baathists: 'Grave consequences' if Hussein's hanged - CNN.com

     

    Quote

    Baathists: 'Grave consequences' if Hussein's hanged - CNN.com

    Just wondering how come world was sleeping when Saddam was suposedly killing so many people. Why did it take Kuwait war for america to wake up? Where are those supposed weapons of mass destruction?

    Whats happening and what has happened??  v v intriguiging...

    What next?

    The restless nature of a gemini always forces me to ask this question from myself time and again.. The current project was a big challenge and i have succeeded in it to a reasonable level, so as to make a decent position for me but what next??  Got a laptop now even though it is not official for my position..

    Unlucky at job scene once again, no news from 2 interviews at big companies recently.

    Going on travel from 29 dec to 2 jan to place near Jhansi, hopefully will be a nice change and i should have some nice snaps from my camera. Been sometime that i really clicked the way i like..

    Car insurance this time is from reliance general insurance and is till yet to come, very shoddy service..been more than 20 days since they encashed my cheque...

    Car servicing- i.e. engine oil, oil filter and air filter change this time was through the local mechanic.. From next time onwards i am certainly going to avoid the authorised workshops for servicing,,take too long and expensive. Also u cant see whatever they are doing to your car..


    Ubuntu exploration is over to an extent, and it has been a fun experience learning linux and easy it has become now.
    December 14

    Radio Mirabai

    I finally found one radio Internet station which broadcasts devotional music. To my surprise it is Radio mirabai from Brazil. I never knew we had some sizeable indian population in brazil?

    I am loving listening to Shoutcast radio....
    December 10

    Things on my mind..

    Since very long i have wanted to fix fog lamps/lower lights on my Fiat petra..The problem is that the bumpers have not been provided those slots. I also have not been able to discover one reliable and recommended car accessories shop that has a large variety..

    Need to do some research work at this end...

    Delhi winters are getting better by the day and so my oil heater is out..But nothing beats the Hot tea in winters and the heavenly feeling you get sleeping in a heavy quilt in afternoon...<bliss> Winters is the time to pamper oneselves, creams and oild for your skin,,some variation in clothes with sweaters, suits etc, and some lovely fooods and drinks..


    Some more reasons to use firefox 2.0 is spelling check while typing, i was missing this feature badly and it came as heavenly sent..Also the best part is the extensions. Scrapping on Orkut become so fast and fun.. World is moving more and more towards open source..Personally i am getting more and more biased towards them,, started using Ubuntu OS at home, open office in my office and open source testing tools..
    November 26

    Shoutcast on VLC media player

    today i accidentallyaccidently discovered shoutcast radio in the VLC media player and it has so many radio stations to listen to..I am just waiting to get my sound card and listen to all the lovely music. The variety is just so awesome :-)

    1. Go to view-playlist on the VLC media player.
    2. Then Manage-->service discovery-->shoutcast radio listings.

    This should be enough to get you all going.....

    skype and linux

    The error handling of skype on Linux looks to be so lame. When i run skype on my Ubuntu it shows problem with the sound device. What is the problem? god knows... coz all songs play fine.. Tried to run it from terminal and no error is shown on the terminal.


    I had a very high opinion about skype and they let me down..
    November 15

    Getting away with murder

     

    Quote

    Lone ranger in white shoes : HindustanTimes.com

    I very proudly tell to everybody that India is the place where the money is valued. The rich can do murder and get away easily. Should i really be proud about this?

    November 07

    Talking about Sambar of 69'

     

    Quote

    Sambar of 69'
    This is a remake of the Bryan Adam's summer of 69' using Indian verbiage..i liked it :)
     
    I had my first real six rupees,
    stole it from my father's pants.
    went to a madrasi hotel,
    to eat the sambhar of 69.

    Me and some kadke dost,
    had it all and we caught bukhaar,
    jimmy puked, Joey got ulcers,
    and Bagga ne maari dakar.

    Oh when I went back there now,
    the food was as stale as ever,
    and though it was 1999,
    still the sambhar was being served over there,

    That was the worst food of my life.

    There's no use in complaining,
    when you got no other place to eat,
    rushed in the evening to the doctors clinic,
    but he too was at the toilet seat, yeah

    Standing there waiting outside,
    nurse told me I will wait forever,
    oh and when I held my breath,
    I knew that I had to use that loo there
    That was the worst food of my life.
    November 04

    Nainital here i come

    Nov 11 weekend will be another weekend trip to nainital. Travelling by the Kathgodam express. I hope to capture some good pics with my Kodak this time..
    October 23

    Noida flyover start construction again

    There were few pillars for flyovers on the sector 18 T point and more at the junction of Greater Noida expressway. They were just blocking the road for more than few yrs now,,but atleast now i see the contruction happening. Though it would take more than a year to get them completed, but atleast it is much better than stubs of flyover pillars blocking half road...


    October 15

    Bye Bye ABN AMRO

    i finally broke my ABN AMRO credit card and mailed it to the bank. The bank apparently does not handle post dated cheques. When i asked the bank to return my post dated cheque, they did not, but asked me to issue a stop cheque instruction on the post dated cheque and issue a fresh one.  I did not issue a fresh cheque and on the said date they encashed my previous post dated cheques. So ABN AMRO handles post dated cheques when it likes.!!!

    I had to also struggle with the bank to get the reward points redemption coupons. It took few calls, and many emails and finally trashing of the card to get the bill.

    ABN card was more risky simply because of my salary account with them and ABN has the reputation of taking out money from ur savings accounts against the credit card charges with some false authentication. Apparently when you open your bank account there is a cheque box to authorise the bank..the Bank cheques this box when it needs and therefore you do not have any official case against them...V V SMART.

    ABN also add some insurance charges to your card every year. If u are not interested then you are supposed to call them and get it cancelled. The cancellation does not happen with just one call. Sometime i think do they get paid by phone company for making us call???
    October 12

    Talking about FDI in retail must be allowed

     

    Quote

    FDI in retail must be allowed

    I use to wonder why we dont have walmart and other such big stores in india,,now i know Why..The consumerism is yet to arrive in india in the organised and till the to buy 5 items at good prices i need to go to 5 shops..UHHHH

    September 18

    Not buying a new system

    i just installed Red hat linux on my PC and was amazed by the ease it installed. It made my system as dual bootable, my XP stays. I was thinking of buying another system simply because the XP was slowing down my system.

    Linux has almost everything (i am facing some problem with sound from speakers). The net appears to work faster, it loads faster, the messengers are there and all the imaging applications and all..So instead of buting a new machine i just upgraded my had disc, installed Linux,,now am goood :-)