Entries from September 2006

September 22, 2006

IE Tab

I was facing a problem at Aztecsoft. I can access the Aztec mail from Internet Explorer (IE) but it was inaccessible from Firefox. Some setting needed to be tweaked and I didn’t really know what it was. Google as always came to my rescue. I found that Firefox has a cool extension called IE Tab. [...]

September 18, 2006

Automating Life…

Suddenly, life has become dull and boring after I’ve joined Aztecsoft. Why? Oh! I’m attending training and they keep showing us these presentation slides. That’s why. I guess it would be interesting when I join a project team and actually start coding. It’s a common practice among system administrators to write scripts to automate dull, [...]

September 9, 2006

A new chapter unfolds…

Finally, the long wait was over and I joined Aztecsoft yesterday. And thus began the era of monetary independence in my life or so I think. I reached the office around 0900 hrs. Felt kinda weird that some parents had accompanied their kids to office. The ball started rolling @ 1000 hrs. We were asked [...]

September 6, 2006

Let’s debug the system together

This morning I was shocked to read in the Times of India that Abu Salem, the underworld don who was extradited from Portugal for his involvement in the 1993 Mumbai blasts is all set to contest elections in UP. It seems that he is being approached by some major political parties. The motive seems to [...]

September 5, 2006

3 down, 1 more to go

Last week, I finally decided to visit a dentist as I thought it was high time to get over my fear of doctors, hospitals and everything associated with them (injections, pain, etc..) and do something about my ailing teeth. He told me that 4 of my teeth had been damaged by cavities beyond repair. So, [...]

September 5, 2006

Xtreme hiking

This Sunday, after lunch at Hotel Sharma, I and my very good friend Johnny a.k.a. Tux suddely had this extremely eccentric idea to walk to M.G. Road. No, it wasn’t a cost cutting measure or a protest against the rising pollution. Just a weird thought. Well, some friends from Wipro were planning to do a [...]