Hey jax, That was a neat trick to increase traffic to the groups...!!! But wonder, how the statistics gives Kicha's IP address and Sinduja's ISP and not Sinduja's IP address and Kicha's ISP...??? the bios are good, jax. But we can't point on our names (the link) and scroll up the page to view the bio at the same time... hope u handle this issue soon. I'm still wondering if I have to come on saturday too. My heart says NO but my mind says YES. No special plans yet for the weekend as am still not sure if its gonna be a 1-day or a 2-day weekend. And that new feauture that I'm bringing up for past 2 days, the "Ponder of the day" ... its turning out to be more informative. But I assure u, it wont be the case everytime. I've got a good list of a few things... which seems very trifle and stupid at first glance but have something to ponder about. More in the lines of Dilbert's Management quotes. until monday.... so..long..mates...

Hi all, Was just checking the site statistics now. Noticed someone online now, I think it's Sinduja. Amazing what these statistics can give you. Like Kicha's IP address, Sinduja's ISP. Some got to this site from an iWay. And thanks to replying to the message sent to the group immediately.

About Bios: I've added a small bio for everyone. It is just for testing purposes. Not meant to hurt anyone or make fun. Please take it in the lighter vein. Site Meter: Also, I have added a site meter, which will count the no. of visitors to the blog yesterday. Going through the statistics for the past couple of days, found some interesting facts. I'll collect info for one week and then post it on the blog after collation. Kicha, You call them "tectonic activities". Bye for now,

B R E A K I N G N E W S . . . . Kavitha going to work in .NET in Chennai. and today's Ponder of the Day If mars had earthquakes would they be called marsquakes?

Hi, jax, that was a good journey thru memory lane... something to feel nostalgic about... in fact, we should thank u first, for making us open to this exciting new world of blogging... (diplomatic exchanges apart) its really opened up new ways to explore the net and great platform for knowledge-sharing (and gossip-sharing :-) ). and as broken at 4:23:59 ... Kavitha will be moving to Chennai Development Center next week. That'll be the end of her short saga in Bangalore... she now goes where she really belonged... (atleast I feel so)... even though she had always asked me to pray that she gets posted to BLR, I told her "I'll pray surely, but that will not prevent them from posting you to Chennai"... and the rest is history.

Breaking News... Kavitha posted to Chennai. Due to report there on June 4th.

This entry is about the origin and design of this blog. All links will open in a new window. All in a day's work! - a colophon I learnt about blogs and blogging somewhere round the middle of February. I was searching for an article for my company's newsletter. I felt it was a wonderful idea. I liked the idea of publishing to the web in a jiffy. Searching around for blogging tools, I found that I could not get into LiveJournal without an invite, Movable Type seemed superb but required a website. So, I opted for Blogger. It was free and offered free hosting. This was my only rationale in choosing Blogger. When this blog was started in March, I never had an idea that it would be a wonderful and delightful experience. After playing with it for a couple of days, I thought it would be a wonderful idea if it could be used as a platform for various people to speak on common issues. I invited Kicha, Ram and Rini to join me. Our initial efforts were more like mails. Later on, we broadened our horizons to include all issues from personal angst to music. The initial design was simple and colourful. The template was designed by Andrew Hoshkiw. You can a sample here. Everyday brought a new fresh look and avenues for experimentation. I had tried out webcounters, subscription tools, commenting systems during the whole of March and a better part of April. April brought me a new road to explore, Cascading Style Sheets or CSS. Till now I had seen some wonderful websites and just wondered about how people were able to create such beautiful websites. And I work in a web design company. At work, I was used to more of a image based layouts where the design preceded content. It still does. People here were just experimenting with CSS. I then began having a good look at the designs that had attracted my attention. I noticed most of them using CSS. A Google search promptly led me to a wide range of resources on the matter. Thank God for Google. Then what, search led to information, information transferred itself to understanding and understanding became knowledge. By this time, we managed to pick up a few more people on the way like Rajesh, Ganesh, Sinduja, Kavitha, Valli and Vijay Babu. We had increased to ten. One more member (Sangeetha) is expected to join shortly at the time of writing. Late April saw the blog's design being changed. This time, the bright colours were now replaced by a sombre dark purple colour. I took the layout from wicked design. This template was based on a CSS Design. I modified this template to match the requirements of the blog. It also gave me a chance to test out the various CSS techniques I had learned. My God! What an experience that was, both interesting and strenuous. May brought the summer with its scorching sun. The blog was also getting heated up with lots of discussions and other things going on. There came a change in the blog design once more. I found a very good simple and elegant design at CSS Colouring Book. I have modified it to implement a lot of interesting concepts that I had learnt over the past couple of months. By the end of May, I learnt one thing, CSS. It is really a beautiful way of expressing design. The trouble is not all web browsers support it. There seems to be a clear divide on support. If Internet Explorer supports it, Netscape and Mozilla don't. If they do, IE won't. There seems to be no common ground at all. As I had explained earlier, I seem to be facing some very peculiar and unique faults. IE6 is supposed to support CSS. A few of the most common layouts like those designed by Eric Costello, Rob Chandanais , Eric Meyer, and Owen Briggs are not displayed correctly in my machine (WinMe/IE6). But they are displayed in all their glory at my office machine (Win98/IE5). Mozilla is supposed to display CSS correctly, but this blog's layout doesn't. I cannot comprehend. So, my quest for a good design continues just as this blog will. I would really have to thank my friends, a part of this blog, who had sat there, demure and uncomplaining when I played around with the blog. This concludes the first part of the colophon for this blog. I?ll add the remaining parts whenever I get the time.

Kicha, what a co-incidence. I was thinking of asking the question this monday. but didn't get the time to do it. forgot about it by Tuesday morning. I read about it a couple of months back, but I don't remember the source right now. I had saved a few bookmarks now and then. Here is a couple of them. Read a short explanation here. Oracle (the database manufacturer) also suggests a few conventions here. Personally, I prefer the german style of abbreviativing number as nr, but due to easy understanding of others, it has to be written as no. Looking at it, no. also makes sense in the form of using etc. for et cetra. Regarding the bios, that's why I'm waiting for others to tell about the other members. OR we could put in a short note by everybody. It will take up a lot of space. Need everyone's help on the matter.

Hi, Guess it might have been great 4-day off for Valli. I remember seeing such aquariums in Discovery Channel and National Geographic. jax, for the short-bio, it wud be better if someone else writes for others... that way its likely to make more interesting reading... and here's my Ponder of the day... Why is "number" abbreviated as "no"? When there is no "o" in number?

Yes, Kicha. it should look great. I got up very early today morning @ 7:00 am to get this thing right. After twiddling it for about half an hour, got it ready to go. Came to office, spent some time again to check it online & implemented it. A good thing about the blog is that I am learning new things almost everyday. Within three months, I have now become an expert copy, paste, tweak expert on CSS. Unfortunately, CSS support is lacking among browsers. I've got a very queer problem at home. CSS stylesheets are not displayed in IE 6 (Don't whether it is not displayed in my system alone or is it an universal factor. Most experts seem to agree with me). But the same style sheets work fine at office where I have an old IE 5 browser. Can't figure out what the problem is? I guess most of you might be using IEs. So working on the blog at home is out of the question. Moving on to the next best thing in CSS, Mozilla. I know Ram uses Mozilla. I do use it at offfice and home. IT displays CSS wonderfully. Even it has some lackings. The blog is not displayed correctly in Mozilla. Don't know why. So editing with Mozilla is again scuttled. The next thing is... Phoenix. A derivative of Mozilla. It supports all versions of CSS exactly. More on the design of the blog wil be continued tomorrow. My time is up for today. Please send in your bios. Bye.

Empty Box strategy is great jax, Looking forward to the full blown version ...

A good one... This is a famous paper written for an Oxford philosophy exam, normally requiring an eight page essay answer studded with source material and quotes and analytical reasoning. This guy handed the following back and aced the exam: OXFORD EXAMINATION BOARD 1987 ESSAY QUESTION 1.1a Question : What is courage? (50 Marks) Answer : This is courage

hey! I have made some changes to the "Empty Box" contents. It is not empty now, though it looks empty. Move your mouse over Ganesh's ( hope he forgives me for telling the truth) and my name in the "Members" box. Expecting your comments and expecting your contributions for the other names.

Just now read a beautiful essay on friendship by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is very intersting with lots of thought provoking ideas and messages. Read it and then tell what you felt. Bye.

I had to go out yesterday afternoon with my CEO for a client visit. We have learnt about TQM. But I saw TQM being truly followed at the client's place. They were following the 5S principles. Everything was so clean and neat, not like my desk.

Valli, have you tried this out with Ganesh or he with you? bastinado. Maybe Sinduja has tried it with Boomi or vice versa. Where is Rini? Busy...

Kicha, read Claude Shannon's Information / Communication Theory here. Found an interesting history of languages (programming ones). See it here. Ciao,

Hi, No blogs y'day... I was expecting to read a big list... nevertheless... I was back from Mysore late last night and rushed to office as usual this morning. I didn't have access to net as we were in an auditorium the entire day y'day. I was the 3rd guy to present and the last one before a heavy lunch y'day. This time again, I used my PL's laptop to load my presentation and thankfully I remembered the connections and did not look dumb in front of around 80 people. It went on well. The best part was, due to lack of time, all people were asked to put the questions off-line ie., mail/talk to the respective people. So, nobody bothered me with questions and I need not have to look dumb for the 2nd time... And the bus dropped us at our respective places late y'day night. Yep... Tilak has mailed... and will mail again sometime soon with the same line "it is my duty to do this even though I don't mail to the groups..."

Everyone must have been busy (the start of the last week of the fifth month of the third year of the third millenium), Ram. BTW, When is Rini's wedding date ? (Sorry Ranjini, I forgot, 5th of June or July). I have to apply leave. Will try to make up for yesterday's postings today. Hey Tilak has mailed to the groups.

I couldn't post anything today. I had to act being busy while doing nothing. Here is a good word, serendipity. I'll be online tomorrow late morning (11:30 - 13:30 IST). Maybe if someone else is online, we can have a chat. Have a nice weekend!

Ok, Kicha. I guess you might have read Claude Shannon's Information / Communication Theory in college. Try recalling it. You'll understand what it is all about.

I came across this interesting piece of information from Rediff. It is from the Indian Constitution.
Article 51A. Fundamental Duties. It shall be the duty of every citizen of India : (a) to abide by the Constitution and respect its ideals and institutions, the National Flag and the National Anthem; (b) to cherish and follow the noble ideals which inspired our national struggle for freedom; (c) to uphold and protect the sovereignty, unity and integrity of India; (d) to defend the country and render national service when called upon to do so; (e) to promote harmony and the spirit of common brotherhood amongst all the people of India transcending religious, linguistic and regional or sectional diversities; to renounce practices derogatory to the dignity of women; (f) to value and preserve the rich heritage of our composite culture; (g) to protect and improve the natural environment, including forests, lakes, rivers and wildlife, and to have compassion for living creatures; (h) to develop the scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform; (i) to safeguard public property and to abjure violence; (j) to strive towards excellence in all spheres of individual and collective activity so that the nation constantly rises to higher levels of endeavour and achievement. Are we following it in its true spirit? Your comments.

Jax, if u watch with more precision... R sends a forward... K says it originated in infy... G sends a forward saying it was written by one from infy... V asks why K mentioned the company name and throws up the words "infy and non-infy" and "discrimination"... K questions why... K's question is... why should V take it as "discrimination" - a word which seems to be in a very bad taste for him... and demands for a clarification...

Kicha, I don't think there is discrimination. It is more a misunderstanding. This is what I think must have happened. Ganesh must have received a forward from someone in Infy (I don't know & don't want to know who). He forwards it to the group. He also mentions where he got it from. Vinitha reads the mail. She wonders why the company name is mentioned and shoots off a reply to the mail. Kicha gets worried at this mail and writes another reply to Vinitha's mail. So it begins... Ganesh has no part to play in this interaction, so leaving him out, it comes down to two persons, K & V. V thinks G is trying to make fun of K by not refering to him by his name ( while he is not). G was just trying to give us a background information about the forward. So she thinks why should the forward's origin is given, when there are no information given for other forwards in the group. Now K reads her mail and feels that he is 'dicriminated' against because of his company/people. I hope by now, you would've realised that all this was caused to misinterpretation and misunderstanding. The above is just my imagination of what the problem is. It might be real or might not. Unless the concerned persons put forward their points, noithing more can be said.

Tried accessing Yahoo! mail. I was able to get through. Here, we have a procedure, if anyone wants to access a blocked domain, we need to get it unblocked through the proper channels. Some one must have requested access to Yahoo!. Valli, Read your mail, I understand your concerns. The same problems exists here as I mentioned earlier. I still haven't received a few cds I should have received months ago. The postal dept here also doesn't care about the items sent. I think you should use a courier service like Fedex for sending things over here. They 'might' get things delivered promptly and safely. Anyway thanks for trying. I thought you might have a reduced shipping rates. Usually Microsoft does it. I guess have to wait for Office 2003 to arive on Indian shores. An interesting discussion is beginning to take shape in the msitmmb group. These inspirational forwards are very nice to read. but it would be nice if someone takes a little time to maybe put it in a printer-friendly format. We can maybe take a printout of it and stick it someplace where we will read it often and try to follow it. Read an interesting word today, 'estivation' It is a noun and has three meanings: 1. The act of spending or passing the summer. 2. Zoology: A state of dormancy or torpor during the summer. 3. Botany:The arrangement of flower parts in the bud. If possible, I will try to post a new word daily or an interesting piece of information. Ram & Rini had been asking me to do this for a very long time. Bye.

Hi, I tried very hard to resist bringing the msitmmb politics to the blog. But I just can't refrain... I wonder what is happening... why are mails being taken too personally... and why these unecessary words like "discimination". And why do people think one is trying to discriminate if he uses his company's name... I wonder if I were working in "Mangaathaa technologies" and used that name in my mail, then will they think I'm discriminating... is it a punishment I'm getting for working in a big company... ???

Valli, I check my mails only once a week. I cannot check it at the office. So usually I check it on Sundays morning somewhere around 11:30 to 1:30. You ca catch me online at that time. If there is any mail that you want me to reply immediately, use the mail address in the blog , 'Contact' link. Vijay, Convey my wishes to your bro. Bye.

tomorrow i m going to my home. next one week i may not participate in our blog. nice to see the feedbacks from valli, kishore and jax for the statistics. for valli's feedback i prepared a nice replay, surely valli ll accept that, i ll send it after seeing the feedbacks from other members. so if anybody hav points to tell abt that statistics, post it as early as possible. Alert if anyone is ready to join hands with valli, then sorry i cant help u.

Yeah, ganesh, I chatted with Sangeetha last Sunday. Told her about the blog. Will invite her. If possible her through the joining process. I think as we are getting more and more people, we should try and prepare a small FAQ to help the newcomers. Anyone willing to take the challenge. You can refer the Blogger FAQ. Bye,

Hi, I'm being moved to a project as a consultant for .NET and BizTalk Server... Usually freshers are not put in such consulting assignments, but there is a heavy resource crunch and they are forced to send me for this. There was some speculation that I might be sent to Pune or Bhubaneshwar, but thankfully, the project is within Bangalore only. I have to report for it from June 9th and the consulting period will be for 4 months... after which I'll get back to my usual R&D stuff... My team people have asked me to keep in touch with them in case I need any help... and I'll need a lot of that for sure... Its going to be tuff and challenging... The project is for a client called RUAN... a logistics company based in US. Thats is all I know abt the specifics of the project as of now...

Just a passing thot... If anything's possible, then is it possible that nothing's possible?

Interesting to read VizBabu's categorisation of the group. Wondering why s/w pros are languishing at the bottom of the list. And why Viz is not a s/w pro. Got up at 6 am today morning after a very long time, (last time was in August, I used to get up at 4 am). My parents have left for Madurai and from there to Palayamkottai. My brother has left to Ooty. So I'm home alone till Monday. Due to a lot of marriages to attend and birthdays, my salary has disappeared in a jiffy. So I won't and can't eat out often. So have to improve my cooking and try out new recipes. My first experiment is today afternoon or evening, a coffee. Found a lot of recipes on coffee on the net. So will try out a couple of recipes by tonight. Bye,

Hi, FCMOFTN - Future CM of Tamil Nadu ... and that was an intersting piece of statistic visbabu came up with... but only one thing I can't get.. how come kavi became "little girl"... she must be "little BIG girl"... But we need to be very careful of little boys. Because it was the little boy and the fat man that changed the course of history... ;-)

hai, an interesting statistics abt our group, based on age, old ladies(patties) - 2(valli & sindhu) middle aged lady(naduthara vayasu ponnu) - 1(ranjini) middle aged men(naduthara vayasu aangal) - 2(rajesh & ganesh) young men(konjavayasu aangal) - 3(kishore, ram & xavier) teen age boy(izhavatta paiyan) - 1(vijay) little girl(kutty ponnu) - 1(kavitha) based on profession, politician - 1(rajesh) homemaker - 1(valli) shuttle player - 1(vijay) marketing - 2(sindhu & ganesh) content developer - 1(xavier) software - 4(kishore, ram, ranjini & kavitha) the above professions are ordered based on their importance in todays world. note:- all the information provided here are based on the data available at 21 May 2003 08:13pm IST. i know everyone ll find it useful, so in the future i ll come up with more statistics. ivan, endrum kulappathai undakka ninaikkum, ungal vijay

Breaking News: Legal threat to commercial Linux users The owner of the UNIX operating system today warned that Linux is an unauthorised derivative of its software and that commercial users of Linux may be legally liable for violation of intellectual copyright. In a media release issued by its Sydney office, the SCO Group, which owns UNX, said Linux contained code which it claims as its intellectual property. Read full-story

Hi, Whatever VisBabu means by "hybrid" group...no guesses but eager to hear. and whatever ramgopal meant by, "but kicha is in infy, blr.. but what to do.. cant figure OUT and IN...." no guesses again... but want to know what it meant or tried to mean... some breaking biz news: rupee ended the day yesterday at Rs.46.9 / dollar. It has strengthened considerably. It was 49.7 in June '02. And that is not good news for the Indian IT firms. iFlex CFO says he expected rupee to depreciate by 3-4% annually as it was happening all this time. But contrary to all expectations rupee is becoming stronger by the day and expected to rise further... Either Indian companies move business out of US slowly and steadily... or perish. Nobody wants the latter to happen and the former is going to be a big struggle.... so much for India's IT prowess...

Dear Kavi, I noticed you used "My final compre is preponed" in one of your posts. The word 'prepone' is used by most people (mostly subcontinental people) to mean the opposite of , i.e. move forward in time. Nothing wrong in using it , though if Sinduja and Valli use it in Uk or US, people might think they are blabbering. The right word to use would be 'advance' like "My final compre has been advanced". Note the 'has been' - past tense. You shouldn't use 'is advanced' - It is wrong. Hope this small bit of grammar has been useful to you,

Hi, Kavi, I thought of a book first. but as I am giving her a story, that idea was a no no. As for CDs, she doesn't have a CD player. I thought of an audio cassette. She liked one cassette. it is not available in Coimbatore. I tried buying on the net. I found it at Sony Music, but they don't have a delivery in Coimbatore. Maybe those in Bangalore can help me. The name of the cassette is "Dance with Me". It is a soundtrack, featuring Chayanne and Vanessa Williams. The cassette may be available at Planet M or online at Sony Music. Buy and send it to me. I'll reimburse you ;-). As I was working late last night, I couldn't go out to buy a present. Planning to escape from office later. last night watched three films, "Matrix Reloaded", "Samy" & "Putiya Geethai". The two tamil films was watched by fastforwarding whenever there was a song or a fight or any sentimental dialogue or jokes. But I wached Matrix completely. An intellectual film, my brother was watching it when I went home last night. he said he was watching it for the second time and it is difficult to understand the movie. The movie is totally superb, can't wait to watch it in the theatre. Bye for now,

hi, i havnt seen or heard about any group like ours. what a hybrid group it is? i hav reason to say it. but i dont hav time to tell it now. coz i hav important work to do. (my friends are calling me to play shuttle... hihihiiiiiiiiiii). so i ll post it tomorrow.

Hi, jax, thanx for giving ur cousin's ID. I contacted him and he's told he'll try for some docs to help me. Meanwhile, today is the last day to submit income-tax proposals for me here. And as u might expect I'm yet to learn or plan anything. So, submitted it with the only field that I could enter - the PAN number. This means, I'll lose heaviliy on tax until November when this thing will be online again and then I can show some savings and get my tax exemptions. And whatever I lose until then (or after that) I can file for returns next april with the tax consultant who comes here for getting refund of the additional tax payments. So... I'm gonna earn less from this month ;-( ... VisBabu... No Good Evening from u y'day and no Good Morning from u today... What happened... and only 1 post before this today...

---

Bon Jour mes amis, It is good to hear from all of you. Ranjini: Where are the snaps? Did you put in Yahoo! photos or did u mail them to me? Sindu: How was Dreamcatcher other than scary? Horror movies are supposed to scary not funny like our Tamil horror flicks. Heard it was a wonderful film. I didn't have the time to put the page numbers. I can do it only in the weekend. Valli: I need a lot of things. But you can't get me all of them. If I require anything, I'll let you know. Right now, I would love to get a copy of Microsoft Office 2003. It is available free from Micosoft website. But includes a shipping charge of $19.95. I don't know your exact location, State, zip code. So I could not calculate how much it would cost you. Maybe you can also check it out at the Microsoft website. Maybe Ganesh has got it for his company. The Microsoft OneNote beta cd was functional. I installed it and it worked very fine. Microsoft says I can use it till November. That is still 6 months away. Hoping to spend the next few weeks putting the s/w through its pace. My writing mind decided that I had to write an article on OneNote. Let us see if I have the time. Kicha: Maybe you can contact my cousin, Alex at Bangalore. He works in IBM. His mail id is jraymond at in.ibm.com or ibm.in.com. I forgot which. Please check it out. Ram: Seem to be working very late at your office. I think your aim of sleeping for only four hours has come true. What figures were you mentioning to Kicha? The ones on paper or the ones on road? Ganja: Good to hear that you are keeping yourself fit. I get to play cricket rarely nowadays. Looking forward to hear more of your crickexploits. Hey, I had asked you all for suggestions for a birthday gift for my friend. I still haven't received it yet. It is tomorrow (May 21). I only have a story that I wrote for her with me. Ranjini has already read it. I'll send it to the others later. I wanted to give something in the materialistic format. I had thought of buying her a pair of shoes. But I cannot, because last night her brother called me and said that he was going to buy her shoes. So, we went out last night to buy her shoes. I never knew that girls had so small feet. Also never knew or understood how they wear those high heels or stools or platforms. Saw a lot of shoes last night. Luckily, her brother knew what she liked. Black coloured shoes with straps and little or minimal heel length. Our half an hour search ended finally. But I felt that ash grey or silver coloured shoes are nice as they are neutral colours and will suit any dress. As said, now I cannot buy her shoes. One idea is to buy her a bag, what do you girls call it, handbag or pouch? Still contemplating other gifts also. Your suggestions are welcome and please make it soon. Adieu,

Hi, sindu, so, for a change, he shuts ur mouth... I guess he'll not have this opportunity very often... hope, he made best use of it... Here, I'm still struggling to figure out something about IBM MQ Series. rini's suggestion of having names on top is really good and looks nice too...

Dei Rajesh, Leave application rejected. No satisfactory evidence. Adha enna FCMOTN, mudhala browsing centrela yeddam kaydeikudhannu paaru, appuram Assembly seatta paaru. Seetukku alainja nikka kooda idam kaydeikaadhu. Dialogue gynabakam irruka. Landline to mobile charge irrukira velavasila unnaku phone pannanuma, Adi...

Hi everyone, Recieved my copy of Microsoft OneNote beta today. Our efficient postal dept. had delivered it to me with one of the cds cracked. the crack had occured when they had stamped the post office seal. I am very angry and disappointed also. But there seems a hope because I received two cds, one was the demo itself and the other one must be a presentation on OneNote. praying that it was the presentation cd that broke. Those in Bang, any chance of dropping in at MS's office there to see if there are any office 2003 betas available. Shipping a free copy to India costs around 20$. Maybe Valli can help me. She can maybe get a free copy there and send it over to me. Also searching the net for any cracks of Office 11 or Office 2003. Someone finds anything. Inform me. Ranjini, I've made a few changes regarding the identity of the poster. If you want an easier way to post to the blog, try reading one of my previous posts here. The best option is to login to blogger and check the "remember me" checkbox. After posting, don't sign out. You can go to blogger anytime without signing in. If you are worried or using a public computer like Valli, there is another way. I tried it out once, didn't come out well. Need some time on it though. Please bear with me. I'll check out the story problem later. Seems you are out there visiting a lot of kutcheris. I am jealous. Bye,

Hi, rini, I've heard the "Bhavayami Gopalabalam" song by M.S. I've got my own favorite song composed by Annamacharya. Have u heard of "naanaati baduku naatakamu...". If u buy the cassette "Annamacharya kirtanas by MS" this will be the last song in that cassette. This is my favorite... I've got an emotional bonding to this song... Literally tears flow out of my eyes when I listen to it... just try it... not sure if it'll be of ur liking... but it surely drenches my heart everytime I hear...

A few changes made to the blog, Vijay's name added and Archives section has been modified to a dropdown box. Go through it and expecting your comments.

Welcome to the team, Vijay.

hi, good morning to everyone. even if i dont post any important message, atleast i ll try to post good morning and good night daily. -vijay

Hi, It was a weekend as usual. Watched the Austrian Grand Prix. An exciting race with lots of drama and excitement. I can't wait for the next race, Monaco, the most hardest racing circuit in the world. Last weekend, I read two stories. One, "The Pelican Brief" by John Grisham. It was made into a movie starring Julia Roberts & Denzel Washingon. It is amazing to know that many of this books have been made into movies. The only other author (if you discount Shakespeare) whose books have been made into a lot of movies is Michael Crichton. I read the other story on the net. It was an interesting story of love between the Devil and a woman. An interesting idea for a story. Read it here. For those interested in Business stories, here is an interesting one I read a short time ago. That's all folks,

Hi, Had a somber weekend. Waited for Ramgopal's call to go out somewhere... and... am still waiting... Sunday afternoon saw a hindi movie on CD... "Pran jayey par shaan na jayey" (lose life but not self-esteem)... it was a satirical art-film that revolves around the lives and happenings in typical middle-class families living together in a mansion in Bombay... A truely satirical movie that ended with a poke at RK Laxman's "common-man". Not many people might like it for all that happens in the movie but all that was nothing but reflections of any middle-class household. It also touched some happenings of national priority and their impact on such families. To me... it was a good attempt. Apart from that nothing useful. Just went on to read another junk mail in our groups and gave another somber reply to it. I'm tired of this.

Dear Ram, The word you should have used is GHOTI not GHOT to write the word Fish. For those you who can't understand, Bernand Shaw, i think once while commenting on the English language said that hereafterwards, Fish is to be written as "Ghoti". Reason: the first letter "F" of fish has a similar pronunciation as "gh" in 'enough'. I forgot the exact word he used for 'i' in 'fish'. The 'ti' comes from any word ending in 'tion' like nation or demonstration., where 'ti' is pronunced as 'sh'. Valli, what's your bro's plan, doctor or engineer? reagrding the bottom pane refresh, it is nothing but blogger updating itself every minute. Also this problem would be evident in machines using IE5.x or higher or Mozilla 1.3 or Netscape 7. Thsi is because Blogger uses two interfaces. A "Standard" one that Valli and Ram or anyone using the latest browser will be using. the other is a "LoFi" interface for those using older browsers like IE 5. I have been using IE5 for the past few weeks as my Mozilla browser crashes often, I couldn't notice the problem. Currently, I am typing this using Mozilla. The bottom pane does get refreshed. It is a feature, not a bug. I had said yesterday that there were plans to go to Ooty this weekend. It has been cancelled. I've to spend this Sunday as usual. Bye,

GHOT - Go Home Only Tomorrow ... Ramgopal's office timing policy... :-) Have a nice weekend... Catch u with all the vigor back on monday morning... Already Broken News: Kavi is leaving for Salem today and something for u to ponder over the weekend... Work smarder and not harder and be careful of yor speling.

Wow! two posts within 45 seconds from me and Ram. Maybe as Ram said the refreshing in the blog might be due to this. Everyone seems to going somewhere this weekend. Happy weekend to those who have holidays tomorrow. I'm off for lunch now,

Hi, Great to hear from Ranjini after a long time. two weeks I think? Rini, you have a Yahoo id, why don't you upload it there and send us the link. It'll save you time and also you can mail it from there itself. It has some great features. Why don't we use the facilities and the technologies. I guess you might know your way around Yahoo!. You had posted your message twice, I think you are too excited. Don't worry, I'll delete the repeated message. You think Black is better? I think I'll also try out some options. next week perhaps. Yesterday, I had the time to go through the souvenir. It was a great experience. Felt like sitting there in the class and listening to you all. I miss those days. This week, I might be going to Ooty for the flower show this Sunday. Still undecided on nr. of persons. Hey guys and gals, got any interesting ideas to improve the participation of people in the group? Blog it. I have got a great idea of improving the participation in the groups. Starting next monday, I'll be removing a random member from the group. If that person doesn't reply within a week's time, they will be removed permanently :-). An interesting thought. Please suggest some useful ideas. Don't send anything like the above one. Ranjini, you are exempt as you might have a lot to catch up (mails, blog archives). BTW expecting your comments on the story, if possible. Bye,

Hi all, As Kicha had said, yesterday seemed to be the day with lots of posts to the blog, I think about 12 posts were made yesterday. It is good to know that. Valli: You had said that there was some problem in the bottom portion of the blog.I didn't seem to find any problem there. Is your problem occuring when you were viewing the blog or did it occur when you were inside blogger.com. Could you be more specific? If ther is anything I can do, I'll do it. BTW where do you mostly use the net, home or outside? You seem to be waving a lot of white flags often. Hey just now read an interesting piece about warfare on Rediff. Kicha: Since we have to make do with only one page, we cannot have a next page button. But certainly, there is an option for displaying more entries in the blog. Currently, the blog is set up to display 5 recent entries. I felt that as there might be days when we might be posting at all say like Sundays. I didn't want just one or two entries to be displayed in the blog. I'll change the settings to display 7 or 8 most recent posts. If it crosses that, you have to read it in the archives. I feel that number is sufficient, otherwise the page might go on scrolling downwards. Sindu: Hope your trip went very fine. Ganja: Nee, corporate salesle, note the time-aaa. Where is Rajesh? No posts from him at all. Sari, indha annan-thangachi sandaiya neeruthurengala. Undane 'avana neruthasollu, naan neruthuraennu ' dialogue annupathe. Still waiting to hear Bye,

Hi, Yesterday it was tight...real tight... after a looong time... Me and my team-mate (a senior guy) tussled with .NET for more than 6 hours (at-a-stretch) until 9PM IST to get a performance critical task going... and we made it at last... and I rushed to the restaurant to have a meal in a hurry and managed to catch the bus at 9.15PM IST... the habit of eating fast has its own advantages... This weekend... I want to get some things right regarding my income tax... Until yesterday, I seemed to be a kid with no responsibilities and today all of a sudden I'm a kid (still) who has to worry about a whole lot of things... I need to learn on how to save, what to save... will get the help of our Maths-expert (guess who) to aid me with some calculations and need to go to Post Office (remember that place...?) to learn about PPF, NSC etc. That place still has got some utilities...if not for snail mails... and by tuesday I need to declare my Investment proposals here in infy. I remember the question posed by Valli (I think) to Ravichandran on private company people getting away from tax and Govt people forced into it... and he replied "thappu seyya mudiyadhavan thappu seyyaravana paathu poraama pada kudadhu"... :) Infy is very strict on I-T and cuts as per our proposals from our salary and the final leftovers, if any, are deducted at the end of fiscal year... in case we pay more tax than needed then infy also arranges tax consultants to get the refund back... Looking forward to (probably) one of the few weekends remaining... guess why... grapevine sources here say that we'll be working on saturdays too... from July... nothing official yet...

Hi, I think today is the record for the most number of blog posts in a single day (combined time-zones)... jax, can u verify it... at this rate we might need more entries to be displayed / page... or a next pagebutton...

Dear Sindhu, I have allowed you to access it online at Yahoo!. use your Yahoo! id 'sindujak' to access it. open "The Mission" , print it out, read it out and then send your comments. Bye,

Hey all, I have added the subscribe to this blog option. It was there a month back, but due to template changes, it was not added. It is done now. Guess what Bulb has subscribed. She will be receiving the updates made in the blog to her mailbox. Let us who all will subscribe. BTW, members of the blog need not subscribe, unless you want to recieve a mail everytime someone posts a message. Welcome Kavi, try to post as often as you could. Any queries, ask your infy senior Kicha. Convey my regards to Sweet. Bye for now,

Hi all, Good to see a flurry of posts in the blog from Valli, Kicha and Ram. My replies: Valli: Valli, Glad to read your comments (that too from a SCO). I feel you must have read the story as the pdf file. Did you print it out and then read it? Becasue the pages would appear sort of flowless if you read it online. You should have printed it out and then read it. But then, I made a mistake of not including page numbers. If I had done so you have been able to print and arrange it properly before reading it. Anyway try reading it out after printing it it out. Same advice to Sindhu and Rini. Other don't worry. I'll let you have access to the files. I have put it online at Yahoo! briefcase. But right now, I have made it a private briefcase. once I have make it a public briefcase, I'll inform the link. You too can read them. Kicha: Your suggestion for the empty box is valid. My arguments against it are: 1) As the content for the box had to be permanent (i.e. not to be modified at all or will be modified ocassionally a la members list), having the news there would be say a waste of time. 2) But as you said, maybe something like events that involves most of us say for example, Rini's upcoming marriage, an online chat could be put there. It could serve as a reminder. 3) talking of chat, I found a link at Yahoo! that will tell if a person is online or not. It will display an icon, if the user is logged into Yahoo!. Say for example, i have logged into Yahoo!, you are reading the blog. My Yahoo! icon will show that I'm online. Still haven't tried it out. Maybe we can colloborate over it, we can try to implement it. 4) The Blogrolling section is a trial version. You too can create your own blog roll. This section will mostly contain sections that I am interested in, say, a sort of My Bookmarks. if everyone creates thier own blogroll, we can have a separate section for each one of us with our names. This decision is left to everyone in the group. As I have to update only my links section only at Blogrolling.com, I need not touch the template code at all except to add the html code once when i set it up. Ram: That was quite a big post. As Ram had added his location of posting, I think that is a very good idea since this blog is updated from several countires, (an international blog). Sometime back I had written about Geo URL. There is also another thing known as warchalking. In our case, blogchalking, Visit to know more. bye,

Hi, I can't resist sharing the following piece from the Infy BB... (and for those who wonder what BB is - its Bullettin Board)... this is the lightest side of any sport... Enjoy... Soccer at its BEST!!! It concerns a match played some time back between Barbados and Grenada in some cup competition. Barbados needed to win the game by two clear goals in order to progress to the next round. Now the trouble was caused by a daft rule in the competition which stated that in the event of a game going to penalty kicks, the winner of the shoot-out would be awarded a 2-0 victory. (Yes, I'm sure you can all see what's coming....) With 5 minutes to go, Barbados were leading 2-1, and going out of the tournament. Then, when they realised they were probably not going to score against Grenada's massed defence, they turned round, and deliberately scored an own goal, to level the scores. Grenada, themselves not being stupid, realised what was going on, and then attempted to score an own goal themselves. However, the Barbados players started defending their opponents goal to prevent this. In the last five minutes, therefore, spectators were treated to the incredible sight of a team defending their opponents goal against attackers desperately trying to score an own goal! Naturally, the game went to penalties, which Barbados won... This story is completely true. Apparently it was being televised live, so maybe we'll see highlights of it soon! Now how's that for sportsmanship....

Hi, For the Empty Box we'll put some Breaking news... the news could be anything... anything about us/our friends or any links to some actual happenings around the world/us... we can send any breaking news we have using the contact link to jax and he'll put that in its place... this is different from the Blogrolling section... in this case, we'll have a coupla lines like a headline that'll carry links, not just a phrase linking to a site... this is one more opinion for the count... Ganja... reliance offer oothikicha... DAE offer enna aachu... BusinessWorld 'la pottu kizhi kizhi nu kizhichuttaan...The weather is pleasant here too in the past week or so... Valli... I'm not an avid novel/story reader, but one thing I would say is... if u understand everything in a story then its not a story... u should not understand them, still it must make sense... (whatever that means)... so I think jax has scored on this point... and its good to see two thangachis fighting for their beloved annas... (but the annas never seem to bother...!!)...

Hi all, You are right Sindu. But as our targets might be changing often (e.g monthly sales for someone in marketing), we have to make it dynamic. Unfortunately, that cannot be done to the layout. Only the admin can edit the template and add the content manually. I had already suggested something like this earlier. I thought of putting a small bio of the person there. I found an interesting method here. I am trying to work out a way to include such a method into this blog. Will let everyone about this experiment soon. Hey Sindhu, heard you too had cut your hair? What did they use to cut it, a pair of gardening shears? Why don't you and Valli send us the photos? You can use Yahoo! photos. BTW I have sent you a story to read. Read it and tell me your comments on it. In course of your browsing the net today, if you come across any good and interesting sites, post it to the blog. Happy Browsing and Blogging,

Hi, Valli, take care of Seetha... she might just run away with Ram if u don't keep her happy ;-) Its wonderful what Valli and Sindhu are doing away from home. One, teaching Americans to drive cars and the other teaching Brits to speak their own language. BTW, sindhu, just wanted to know... how long is that British Gas (am I right) project gonna take... or, in other words, how long will u continue to stay in UK... I guess, its for some implementation work that he's been sent there... does ur employer know u'll not be there eternally... Soon, I'll pay a visit to Mysore, officially (another OD). Remember that presentation I told I have taken for our Microsoft Group here... the same thing I'll giving there too... looking forward with mixed feelings for that... coz I'll miss VisBabu's bro's marriage on this pretext...

hi, Great to hear from Valli again after a long time. Her driving experience was funny. Hoping to hear a lot from her often. Vijay Babu, got the wedding invitation. But I am worried I would not be able to make it. Convey my wishes to your brother. No news from Ranjini, Ram, Rajesh, Ganesh, Kavitha for a long time. Is everyone very busy? Valli, Sindhu & Ranjini, expecting your comments on the story.... Bye,

Hi, As the day progressed, I have made a few changes to the layout. You might have noticed it. Kicha, as for the darker background, it gave a sombre mood to the blog, especially during the events of last week. That's why this week, it is a much lighter note. Just kidding, Rini wanted a white background, this layout is for her. Also searching for a good layout takes time and patience. To edit it without knowing much of html and css was interesting and tiring too. I have made the top and bottom footers as grey. Check out other layouts at the website at the bottom. I have also given a mail address to contact as a trial option. I'm still looking out for some content on the right side top. Your suggestions are welcome. bye,

Hi, The white background throughout doesn't seem pleasant... backgrounds like the previous layout and font like this layout is my suggestion...

Hi, A warm welcome to Valli. Hope to see your posts frequently. Hey, everyone. I'll be changing the layout once again today. So kindly bear any errors if any. How does the new layout look? Bye,

Hi, Helllloooo..... Anybody out there... Can anyone hear me...... Hellllooooo...... prrrrrrr...ppprrrrrrrrrr... ppprrrrrrrrrr...(whistle, a la Titanic)... This is what I feared... a blog starting with all the hullaballa for a few weeks and when things seemed as though they were never better, everything comes to a screeching halt. What the hell happened to u all... Has blogging already bored u ... Great that Valli too has joined... On my weekend, hope u remember I got a Wndows 2003 T-shirt when I attended its launch (putting OD to office)... last friday I got another T-shirt... written MSDN and a small picture of Bill Gates at the back... And carrying all that I went home to mdu and spent both days of the weekend sleeping... a nice one that... didn't see anyone... just called up a few people and had a quick chat with them... This weekend planning to go out somewhere with Ramgopal. Its been a long time since we went out. Almost 2 months. So, want to break the shackles. Lets see how things get to happen... Expecting some non-jax postings also... and waiting to see that "something big" from Valli...

Hi, My net connexion was down fro an entire day (Saturday). That's why couldn't make any posts. It seems everyome were busy. No messages from anyone. I guess you must recieved my latest mail to the group. It was composed Sat morning. But I could mail it only now due to above reason. Any news of Ranjini, Ram, Kicha & Kavi? BTW, the msitmmb poll results are out. I'll mail them results later to the group. Bye, for now...

Hi, Meeting since moring... Meeting all afternoon... and come 5.15PM start home... how does that sound for a schedule... and one more news... remember our junior Reka... she has got selected in infy too... She's reporting in Pune on May 19th... Off to Madurai today and back on monday morning... jax, will call u saturday night or sunday morning...

Hi, Sad... I missed the talk by Steve Mills. I was called for a meeting at 2.30PM and it went on until now, when its hardly 5 mins left in his talk. So couldn't get to the amphitheatre-like designed arena in the campus where such talks usually take place. I'm being requested to do a consulting for a project (will take just 4 or 5 days)... normally they don't ask freshers to do such things... but a testing requirement in a project needs a component similar to the testing component that I had developed for the white paper to test the performance of BizTalk Server. But they cannot use it off-the-shelf as some other project specific customizations are needed for that. So, I'll be involved in helping them design their testing tool in the lines of my component mutatis-mutandis incorporating the project-specific customizations and (may be) also help them with their testing... but I've told them I got a lot of work and I can remain only until the component development part and cannot remain until the entire testing gets over (as though I was tooooo busy.....manasula periya aaalu'nu nenappu...) jax, I'll enquire about the tech writer opportunities and let u know soon and anyways will call u saturday night or sunday morning...

Hi, Just came back from client visit. The climate was horrible. It was so hot that Chennai must seem like heaven. I think there might be heavy rains tonight or tomorrow, because of the heat. Hoping the summer ends soons. And to think when we were in school, we longed for the summer to come and now we wish that it had never come at all. Kicha, Got news that there are tech writer vacancies in Infy. But with 2 yrs exp. Could you find out more about it? Adios,

Bon Jour, Kicha: Ask him a few questions about IBM's stance on open source s/w if you get a chance. Ask him what he feels about mSql and mySQL eating up IBM's DB2 marketshare? As I might be going to a client's place, I might not be able to blog today. But the trip has not yet been finalised. The client's place is somewhere on the foothills of the Nilgiris mountains, enroute to Ooty. So hope I can get away from my desk and enjoy the pleasant climate out there. I'm temporarily making you admin. So I guess you can add Valli to the blog. It is true that the groups have been silent for a few days. As you said, this is what I didn't want to happen, a flurry of messages flying thick and fast and then nothing at all, just like the dangerous typhoons we have seen in the movie, Twister. Did I miss anyone's birthday last week or so? Dei Ganja !@#***#! Either you give me my souvenir or return my money with interest. Sindu seems to follow a very effective policy of give and take. Either Boomi gives or he takes... Nice one, Rini lessons for your future, perhaps!... Bye

Hi, Today the VP of IBM, Steve Mills is coming to infy to give talk... that is going to be at 3.30PM... looking forward to that... Caught up with Valli online y'day 7PM IST... she told she's also interested in the blog, jax time for u to act. Tomorrow I'm going home to mdu and will be back monday morning... And what happened to our groups... it was hot with mails until an issue was on and now its dry as anything...

Hi, I had always been fascinated by the thrillers and action flicks they inspired. Well, browsing through a blog I found a reference to an unknown site. That was early in the morning. The site was very interesting. I guess you should visit this site. It is Crime Library, a informational site about the greatest crimes that had been committed. The only disappointment is the they had covered mostly crimes committed by Americans, a notable exception being the story of Marquis de Sade, the man who gave the world the word 'sadism'. There might be references to gory details of murders and other crimes. So if you think you are brave to handle them, go ahead and read it. It gave me quite some interesting ideas for a couple of stories that I had in mind. Bye,

Hi, Am still cracking my head with the WebSphere MQ thing. BizTalk doesn't show up a Properties dialog box for MQ. I checked with the Microsoft consultant who roams here... He came... he checked and of all the solutions in the world he said "This is strange"... Then, said it could be an OS problem... So, now have to install repeat everything in another system having Win2k server and hope it works...

Hi, My boss is not in town for two days. So guess what I'll be doing? Browsing and browsing... Hav to try and fix up a little of work in between also. Hey, I won't be able to post anything tomorrow. I'm going to a client's place. It might take an entire day. So I'll either post everything today or the day after. Rini, when will you be going home @ MDU? Busy with work or wedding preparations? Bye,

Hi, People are enjoying out there in Chennai. Wish, we were all working in the same cities... And sindu making her poor husband pay through his nose....poor guy... I pity him... And Ranjini seems to be too tied up with her work... Its routine as usual here. I'm trying to make some sense out of IBM WebSphere MQ, but its managed to elude me until now. This weekend I'm planning to go home to mdu. There was an online quiz here in infy as part of the Knowledge Management Initiatives. I attempted the one on XML and managed to get 2nd prize. No idea what they'll give or if they'll give anything for prize... but had managed to put up some scene within our unit with this. That'll do... Kicha

Got a mail from Vijay Babu. Seems he needs some help in joining us! Can someone help him out? Bye,

Hi everyone, Just finished reading Vijay Babu's mail. Phew! I started to read at 8:30. Read through it a couple of times to understand it. I pray he would not be writing such mails when he joins us on the blog. I know Vijay was right in pointing out that I jumped the gun before the votes of the poll were decided. Now I feel like hitting myself for not following my own rules. BTW: My friend's wedding went on fine, if you discount the following factors: A total power shutdown lasting the entire day. (Power didn't comeback till we left at 9:30 pm) The generator broke down. It got eventually fixed. Then it gave up at 8:30 just as we were having dinner. It was a wonderful experience, eating in the dark. I had two extra servings in the dark. The wedding mass was to be in English. But when it started, it was in Tamil. Everyone was shocked. Afterwards learnt that it was due to some instant decision taken by the priests. The singing was average for our standards considering the fact that we had only three mikes for a dozen of us, that too very bad ones. You have to literally insert them into your mouths to makee yourself heard. No-one had got over the shock of hearing the mass in Tamil. To add more interesting twists, the priests suddenly started saying a few prayers in English and then in Tamil. Totally, the whole mass was a mixture of English, Tamil and Latin (we sung a few songs in Latin). A truly international mass. Everyone felt very bad over these issues. I really felt sorry for my friend the bride. An once-in-a-lifetime occasion marred by blithering, blasted nincompoops. I really didn't know whom to blame. After all this what to do, just trudged along with my friends to buy a gift. If Coimbatore could be so hot and stuffy at 8 pm, I really feel sorry for those in Chennai and Madurai. We bought a nice shiny brass candlestick at Poompuhar (the khadi showroom, similar to one opp. Madurai Raliway station). I wanted to buy two of them so that they make a set. but others wanted to buy something else. So we bought a wooden carving of a fisherman and his wife. It came around 500 bucks. Got it giftwrapped. As the gift could not be given just like that, I thought of getting a card, but no shop was open. So I got a sheet of paper. After wracking my mind for a few moments, I recalled a wedding blessing. Sinduja might remember it. It is written on the back of her photo, given to her on her wedding by us. It is an Apache wedding blessing. After this, went to have dinner at the reception hall. Posed for the usual photos twice, once with my mom and dad and again with the choir. The lights went off as mentioned earlier during dinner. After seeing off the choir members leave, made my way back home and realized that i didn't have the keys to my house. My brother had one key (he was at the wedding reception) and my parents had the other (they had gone to visit my aunt). Sat outside the house for an hour, feel asleep a couple of times on teh doorstep itself. Finally, my brother came, went straight to bed. Back at work today morning, Found a lot of materials to be typed into documents. Thank god for the OCR technology, just scanned everything into documents. I have to check them for typos, Bye for now, Jax.

Hi all, You might bee seeing a few changes in the blog. Nothing to worry about. Just checking the archives section et al. Bye Jax.

Hi everyone, Blogger has just released a test version of its new interface. So the next time you log into Blogger, you might find a new interface greeting you. For more info, visit Blogger

Hi, Ohhhhhh... Just a little off from office, and a whole lot of things happened... May day... went to my cousins house (and stayed until weekend). On friday... I'm continuing our MS(IT&M) tradition of getting OD and escaping even here in infosys...!!! I went to attend the launch event of Windows Server 2003 at Le Meridian after putting an OD to office. Thats why you couldn't see any posting from me to the blog or groups. They gave some brochures of the OS and a T-shirt with "Microsoft Windows Server 2003" written on it... Nice one... will update my views on the hot issues soon... Kicha

Hi all,

Hope you all had a good weekend this week. Today I'm on half-a-day's duty. One of my friends is getting married today. And she wanted us to sing for her wedding. So after days of practice, we are ready to go.

I'll let you all know how it went tomorrow. I think I'll be at Madurai on the 9th. The trip has not yet been decided. Will let you know about that also later.
Bye for now,

Dear Ram,

I can understand. but please da. Don't mail to my office id unless it is something really, really important. I had already mentioned it. You could sent it to the blog. WE would have read it there itself.

As I'll be checking the blog page almost every hour, you need not worry about your message reaching me at all.

As for Ajayan, if he mails, let him mail to my personal id, not to my office id.

BTW, what happened to Ranjini and Kicha, no posts from them at all? Let me know.

As for the poll, since the poll will be on for only one week from today. Ask everyone you get in touch to participate. (please don't engage in poll rigging, da?)

In case if anyone of you read / get / post any new messages to msitmmb, please blog a note to me immediately. I'll check it out immediately. I say this, because, I have made an option of not recieivng any mails from msitmmb. I have to visit the group site to view, post messages. Incase you get any mails from there. Just send a short note to the blog. i repeat please don't send it to my office id.
Bye,

Hi all,

After your requests, I've mailed to the groups. hope you would have recieved my mail regarding the issue.

My advice is let it go. As Valli had said about the dog and its tail, let everyone decide on the matter.

If I had removed him on a few of your requests, then someone lese might want to remove someone else. Why even I can remove those who I don't like. In fact I can remove the group itself. There is a saying, "Absolute power corrupt absolutely." I don't feel like proving the axiom true.

BTW, Could someone mail Valli and ask her she's willing to join us. That's if she can and has the facility and time to do so. I guess I might be the only person who sits and office and spends almost the entire day on the blog or msitmmb.

Hey, what happened to the gift I was asking you all for advise. Refer my previous mail regarding it in last week's archives.

Bye,

Hello,
Didn't get any posts today from others. What happened?
Anybody home... Hello... Helloooo......
Guess, I'll have to wait till someone makes contact.

Hi all, A very important tool for us, bloggers. A rightclick option to enter entries into blogger. hereafter, no need of going to blogger.com and logging in to post. You can now make posts from any webpage, fast and efficient, the wonders of technology. For more details about this, read this and then visit this page and install this small s/w. You might find it very useful. This technique is for IE users. Mozilla users like me and Ramgopal can use this small utility. Please take some time to read the documentation before trying out anything. Wow! 3 posts within one hour. bye,

Hi all, In one of my previous blog post, I had mentioned about inserting images into the blog. Here is an update. DON'T TRY IT!. It is illegal. Referrring to images from other servers without permission is known as "bandwidth stealing". Click here for more information. So let us be professional and ethical. It wil help us. Bye,

Hi everyone, I agree with Sindhu and Rajesh. Just completed reading the mails from Tilak. There are just two options left with me as a moderator of the group. 1. Remove him from the group 2. Send him a strongly worded condemnation As for the first option, the moderator job was taken by me voluntarily. So ethically, I have no right to remove him from the group. This has to be a decision taken by 45 other members of the group. As far as I know, a few of them haven't even posted a single message out of the thousand odd messages to the group. So unless everyone agrees, this plan of action has to be scuttled. The second option is feasible. Infact there has already been two messages sent to him by you. I am willing to wait to wait for another day before I send my mail to him. Let us give him a chance to apologize and promise that there would be no messages of such sort to the group. So my day has started with a bang today.