Category Archives: Personal

Some jottings which relate to my life and worries…

Questions of The Day

  • If no information is deemed confidential, does that translate into the fact that everyone has access to data over and above their pay grade ?
  • How can one write mails containing words (a friend called them “Dilbert words” when used in official mail) like commitment, value when both the recipient and the sender know that the sender does not mean them and consider them worth adhering to ?

Sick and feeling it

Not feeling well at all. This started sometime past 1300 today. There’s nothing I can put a finger on as being wrong, but the body system seems to be freaked out. Time for a medical is near I guess. Managed to have a little bit of that age-old feel good tonic which Runa had made and a hazelnut cookie and will drop off to sleep. Hope sleep does make me feel better tomorrow. In the event you were waiting_on_me for some task, be notified it may get delayed 🙁

Idle times

On what is going to be one of the longest weekends (it has been a long time since I’ve had a 4 day weekend), I woke up really late and managed to make the tea go cold (that is kind of unique). Spent the larger bit of the morning lazing around, writing some draft content for a few wiki pages, replied to pending mail, uploaded a few photographs and watched TV (no make it – kept flipping between MTV and Channel [V]). There is some more work to do for today. Rest of the holidays has been earmarked for study and introspection.

On a completely side note, got my hands on “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda” edited and with an introduction by Ilan Stavans. Once I finish my favorite pieces shall nibbling away at it.

In case you are choosing Werewolf (you should, it rocks for reasons that are plentiful), be sure you read up the Common Issues.

The tryanny of Cc:

I recall that one of the first pieces of sagely wisdom that I received regarding mail was “if you are in Cc:, your a** is grass“. In spite of reading at umpteen places that the Cc: list is just a “for your information” only place and folks in Cc: are not expected to be the “A” part of RACI, it ain’t really so. Stunning is the arrogance of folks who put others in Cc: and then shoot a mail to world and its aunty stating that the Cc: list was an “A” and not an “I”.

In short, it is not a good start to a day.

Suggestions about getting attention from Airtel Broadband in Pune, Maharashtra

The line at the house has been down since 12th of Sept 2007. I have raised tickets with Airtel with the following scenario:

1. I raise ticket
2. Airtel Customer Support promises visit of technician by 1300
3. At 1330 I call, get visit promised by 1430
4. At 1430 I call, get visit promised by 1700
5. At 1715 I call, get visit promised before 1800
6. At 1815 I call, Customer Support tells me that technician had called me (?) and provided feedback that line was ok, so ticket gets closed
7. A new ticket gets created and we are back at Step 1

The above steps have been happening since 12th and I am really at a loss (not to mention at the end of my patience) as to how to get this fixed. Short of chucking Airtel Broadband out that is.

UPDATE: Since 18th Sept 2007, thanks to a nasty mail to the nodal office, the line (and the internet link) has been up and running