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February 10 Yahoooooo!!!!!!!If the title indicates that i am in a jovial mood trying to shout from a roof top....sorry!!!! the title is for some serious blog bashing to one of the most widely used www.yahoo.com
Let me put this up chronologically..........
8th Februray 2006
I acces my yahoo atleast 3 times a day. No problem everything is working fine...... 9th Februray 2006 0930 hrs
I access my yahoo account for the first time....it dispalys a message saying "Temporarily unavailable". I leave it to heal itself. 1200 hrs
Again displays the same message, and it asks me to relogin/refresh the page to solve the problem. I do it umpteenth number of times :(. I lose my cool (which being a S/W engineer i wonder if i have) and click on their "Send Us a report" link. I have provided an alternate e-mail id just incase the link works and the customer care feels like talking to me (High expectations...huh!!!!!) Around 1500 hrs -
I get a mail on my alternate id. I say Yahoooo!!! (this time the word means what its supposed to). The first solution they tell me is that "Temporarily Unavailable" is a transient kind of message and usually disappears on refreshing/re logging in.....(&*^&$!^@*&@%^ ... so much of advise on something that has already been displayed on the stupid "Temporarily Unavailabe" page). Next they tell me if the first solution doesnt work, send a reply to the mail stating the approximate date and time of my last successful login into yahoo.They also tell me that if i cant give them the required info they can reset my yahoo mail account with the only 'side effect' being that all information associated with the account will be lost. (Hellllllllooo!!!! u call that a side effect ...i call it effect , its got absoultely no 'sides'). Anyways, i did send them a reply with a note of appreciation saying i didnt expect a "Functioning Customer Care" unit taking care of the customer.... 10th February 2006
The much appreciated "Functioning Customer Care" hasnt replied yet and now mails cannot be sent to my account (sigh!!!!!!!!!) Today being a friday I give the Yahoo team the "Benefit Of Weekend"...lets see what happens by Monday....
I'll keep u posted ;) December 30 Me on the phone :)One thing I really dread is the Alexander Bell’s invention. The damn telephone has landed me in more soups than I can recollect and most of them ‘coz I cannot recognize voices on the phone. To me everyone on the phone sound the same. I guess even if Big B calls me I won’t be able to distinguish although he is said to have a characteristic voice. This is one of the best conversations I have had. Scene: phone rings up, I pick up Me: Hello She (ya it was a she :( ): hi Prameela, how r u? Me: fine (I am trying to place the caller’s voice) She: I know u won’t be able to recognise my voice…the stupid habit of urs…. Me: ya…well..Hmmm…. (U too have a stupid habit of not disclosing ur name) She: common, now don’t be such a bimbo…tell me who am I? Me: I dunno, I mean I cant..(why don’t u skip the part and just speak out ur name girlie) She: Ok, fine tell me do u have the book,digital fortress with you? Me: ya, of course I do. She: Fine, I want it…..Mind lending it? Me: No probs (Except I need to know whom am I suppose to lend it to) She: Fine, give it to Mihir and I’ll take it from him….ok…chal yaar me getting late, will catch up later…ok..see ya…bye Me: hello…listen…….ur name…hello…..
There I was, expected to lend a book to someone I hadn’t deciphered and what do I go and tell Mihir…."Mihir, someone’s gonna come and take this book from u, I dunno who, but whoever it is give it to her and lemme know who it was". Huh!!!!!!
if u all are wondering what I did……I didn’t bother Mihir….neither did the female caller ever realize that she wanted the book……..saved for once :D July 22 :(Never thought Java wouldnt have something so simple. Damn! to randomly access a serialized object i have had to go thru hell. 'coz there seems to be no direct way of doing so. So converted an object to bytes and wrote the bytes to a file and then accessed the file randomly. If u want any help on it accessing objects randomly after they are serialized ,folks get back to me, i can tell u of all the ways (i assume) it wont work(to copy Edison) June 28 Sholay RevisitedI sometimes wonder what would have happened if in the movie Sholay Jaya bachhan would have fallen for Dharmendra rather than Amitabh......Assuming this plot, sholay would have proceeded like this . Amitabh on realizing that Jaya loves Dharmendra would get angry on his 'dost' in particular and the unfair world in general and would have joined Gabbar's gang ;) Dharmendra being a good friend would try reason out things but then the angry young man would not listen. Now apna Dharam pajji is in a fix! The end of the movie would be something like this- Place: The same hills where gabbar stays. Scene: End of the movie Veeru(Dharam) is fighting all the villains courageously. They come ony by one and try to kill our immortal Veeru. He ends up Killing all of them until Gabbar catches hold of Basanti. Now Veeru cannot do anything. As Gabbar is about to shoot Veeru , apna Jai shoots him and poor Gabbar collapses wondering what happened. Veeru is happy that his friend realized his mistake, as he is about to hug him, Jai shouts, " Yeh mat sochana maine tumhe bachaya. Main tumhe apne haathon se marna chahta tha". Saying so he shoots Veeru but Lo! Jaya(I dont rem her name Finally its only Veeru and Basanti left....
Man!!! i could actually give teh sippy's the script to recreate it...what say folks? June 21 Prniciples Of Life ;)Don't drink and drive. You might hit a bump & spill your drink. God didn't call 'em the Ten Suggestions. If at first you don't succeed, Sky diving is not for you. God is real, unless declared integer Do you have trouble making up your mind? Well, yes or no? Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need more. Death is hereditary. There are three sides to every argument: your side,my side and the right side. An expert is someone who takes a subject you understand and makes it sound confusing. Many things can be preserved in alcohol. Dignity is not one of them. Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference. When you're right, no one remembers. When you're wrong, no one forgets. Cheer up, the worst is yet to come. Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. Everyone makes mistakes. The trick is to make them when nobody is looking. They say hard work never killed anyone, but why take the chance. Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back. If you can't see the bright side of life, polish the dull side. Where there's a will there are five hundred relatives. Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. ---------------------------------------------------------- What say folks? any comments |
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