Livejournal would always remain close to my heart for it introduced me to some really cool and amazing people who became friends across years. It's a different thing that as the social media arena got swamped by likes of FB and Twitter, the traffic started dropping here. Despite that, I am also glad that LJ did survive and sustained so far. I have ( Read more... )

The house started looking like warehouse after few recent purchases. Time to shed off extra luggage, I thought and gleefully posted advertisement on OLX around 0700 hrs on 6th Feb. Received 3 chat messages on OLX within 2 minutes asking for my contact number. Supplied them with the number that's not linked with any bank account. One person called ( Read more... )

2gud.com was my source of purchases for laptops and mobile phones. At least that was the idea till 5g becomes matured, to not invest in any of the current generation phones as they would be deemed useless post launch of 5g. One of the motivation for buying gadgets online was easy return thingy. In my last purchase, some $hitty seller "Flashstar ( Read more... )

Axle or hub's internal disc for Raleigh Elevation gave away today. Almost 2 months back, hub's internal disc as well as axle both went down for Raleigh Terrain 30 29er. Either I don't know how to ride bicycle, or I am overweight, or the roads with potholes and awkward speedbreakers are playing havoc on my cycle, or that mumbai roads better need ( Read more... )

Disclaimer: Am not a networking person and whatever setup I designed here was more adhoc in nature than a professionally designed one. In short, do not replicate unless and until you have not other way out :P ( Read more... )

That was 16th July eve when I completed six teen (AKA 16) in NCST/C-DAC. I wasn't even going to remember it but apparently linkedin poked my acquaintances to start wishing me from the start of July. Did not reply to any on linkedin because I was feeling lazy as usual. So here it is - Thank you folks. Although numbers and labels still don't matter ( Read more... )

Our online cyber presence is continuously subjected to whims of God of small packets AKA the internet of pings (and pongs). Alike numerous deities that ours and greek mythology has, Indians have plenty of ISPs around. You can surrender to will of any and yet be assured that your desire for best connectivity shall remains myth forever. I have ( Read more... )

10K cashback as refund was issued by Paytm on 31st Jan. I was checking out the details in the wallet when I noticed "refund" button next to that particular transaction. I clicked it thinking that it would show me some sort of explanation about the transaction nature but next thing I knew was that it initiated refund back to my debit card. Seeing ( Read more... )

Hopefully this will be last post on cycling... unless, I end up buying more of them or some writable incident happens etc :P ( Read more... )

I know it's bit early to write about the differences felt between riding the two bikeys. But if I wait for too long, there is higher probabilities of me forgetting all about it ( Read more... )