Activa & Shell

I wasn’t keeping track of my scooter’s mileage as I know that Activa is known to give less mileage, but I remember it was some where around 40 to 43kmpl when I checked few months ago. I recently started using the Shell petrol as I have a Shell pump on my way back home from office. I was quite surprised when I calculated my mileage last time which came to 46.7kmpl. I just couldn’t believe my self that it made such a big difference. As I wasn’t convinced that it is true and I might have calculated it wrongly so wanted to check noting down the readings CORRECTLY this time. So today when I checked it again one more wonder, not sure if I need to believe this also. It was 51.25kmpl. Now wait for one more reading?? :) this time I remember the readings correctly and there is no chance that it can go wrong. 

Activa giving 51 is something great which I never heard about. And it is not because of economy driving in fact I drive it worse than any other. Trying to beat every one at every signal and drag racing with my competitors like Innova, Scorpio, Safari and the Red Bus :) and indulging in drag races and driving it at high speed of 75kmph(High speed for a scooter at least). Even today as I was returning joined a race with two Bullets who are racing against each other. And guess who won? Me and my Active. Exaggerating? No. The signals came to my rescue and I won it :P. Also being a small scooter helped. 

So Shell and Activa… not all Activas only mine ROCKs.

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Busy??!!!!!

It’s long that I had written a blog entry, was busy as usual. Back to the parent company because of recession and now traveling in the city for 2hrs daily. But it was better than expected cos of the airport. At last decided to write an entry before I forget that I have a  blog. 

Bangalore became cool for the past 2 days and I am quite happy about it after experiencing the hot sun. 

Many things to be written. Will try to do it some time later when I find time. 

And now when I tried to post my blog entry Google said that they have determined my password to be simple and forced me to change it. What all on earth are these guys getting into. Any way the whole earth is public now, nothing is private including the passwords. Some one knows them all :) Total depedence on Google :( no way out as of now.

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Browser Wars.. Again….

Well some time back on my blog I have mentioned about the Browser Wars. And here is it again.

A happy moment when open source won over monopoly. I just happened to check it yesterday and was very surprised and happy to see the Fire Fox took the browser share more than that of all versions of IE put together. 

2009	IE7	IE6	IE8	Fx	Chrome	S	O
January	25.7%	18.5%	0.6%	45.5%	3.9%	3.0%	2.3%

This is from the w3schools. You can see the same info here http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp. 

Also Chrome also making good progress may take time to reach a considerable share and it is good for a starter.  Now IE totals to 44.8 where as Firefox is 45.5. Wish to see the Chrome and IE swapping places now. I know it will take some time and IE will not go that bad as Microsoft won't let it. But for the moment FF wins over IE...

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GIMP Rocks!!!

Long time since I changed the look of my web site. Was wondering over the weekend how to change it and then this idea struck. Simple design with a cartoon picture of mine. Sounded interesting. After searching all the pics found one which can fit. Actually there are very less of mine present so have to pick one of the existing. 

Now need to convert it to a black and white sketch. GIMP was the first one to be selected for editing but not sure how to do and also not comfortable with all the menus in it. So the google boss helped it out. Got a tutorial which does that and its pretty straight forward. Few steps and here it comes. Good and nice looking drawing of mine :) 

GIMP has too many options and not sure if some one is using all of them. But it is too good for a open source tool and of course I am not into the domain of image editing so can’t tell how good or bad it is but all I can say is it did the job and worked for me. 

Just created a wrapper and uploaded it to site.

Looks cool isn’t it? 

That’s why I say GIMP Rocks!!!!

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A Black Friday

Today is the most stressful day at work I can ever remember but with out actually doing any work. To shorten the story the global recession also had an affect in the company and from morning they have started process of giving the pink slips in other words firing. The environment in the office was too bad as every body got tensed not known if they were on the list. I don’t think some one worked today. At least I didn’t and most of my team didn’t.  By evening it reached to the peak and got on to every one’s nerves including mine:) though I was telling myself not to be so. Never had I felt that way. And in fact this is the first time I am witnessing or seeing or experiencing a lay off day. 

And tough I was mentally prepared for the worse, I felt bad for the people who were asked to leave. Managing to get a job in the current market situations is not easy. Also it will be like loosing friends and team members that you have at work all these days. Noting is going to replace them. Couple of my team members and neighbors also left. Seeing all this almost got a headache by evening even after coming to know that it has been done totally. 

Left office early and to beat the bad day decided to hang out with friends some where and ended up watching the movie “Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi” which had actually spoilt the rest of the day. What a crap movie and subject. Wonder people watch knowing about it and going through reviews. I didn’t know anything about it else I certainly wouldn’t have gone. Didn’t expect that it will add worse things to Black Friday. You better not watch it if you value your time and money.  But it would be unfair if I don't mention about its beautiful, outstanding bits of music done for the title song and some parts of background score. Also the cinematography at few places and the lighting is good.

Now being a normal Friday night which is a longer one :) so got time to post this.

“Cheers!!! The future is always uncertain!! It had always been like that. Nothing new. :)”

At the end of the day thank God I still have a job.

Not sure when my day comes till then Cheers!!!

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