We needed to open bank accounts / PPF accounts of Mahi and Meha and for this needed passport size pics. After lot of difficulty we managed to get their passport size pics clicked. They both are looking so different and cute that for the Twins Timeline, I have kept these pics for february even before the month ends. Here are the pics. 
A click on them will give a closer look 
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Today, I have so much to do that 24 hours look insufficient!! 
I took a break and blogged!
I had a holiday on Saturday and Sunday. But wanted to come to office on both the days. But I couldn’t come because Mahi wasn’t well. She is very fond of me and doesn’t go to anyone else when I am around. The heavy doses of medicine made her cranky and so I had to stay at home to look after her.
Now there is so much work to do and there’s so little time!
BTW, India won even the last one-day cricket match against Pakistan but the Indian juniors lost the u-19 world cup final to Pakistani juniors because of a spineless performance. 
India won the one-day cricket series against Pakistan once again! So its a pay back time. Pakistan defeated India in India. Now India defeated Pakistan in Pakistan. I want them to win even the last one to make it a good sweep! Hope Indian team keeps up the good work. 
From the Digit issue of February 2006, I came to know that sale of digital camera surpassed the sale of film cameras around January 2004. I felt relieved. I was not too far behind. In November 2004, I took my first DigiCam. Its a 5.1 Mega Pixel DigiCam, Nikon Coolpix 5200 with a SanDisk 512 MB Card. It still feels like new and works great. Touch wood! 
Photography has been a hobby since long but the cost of films and developing & printing was stopping me from pursuing it. Still, during all leisure or work tours I am in very few photographs because most of the times I am on the other side of the camera taking pics.
I love to take pictures of nature and natural beauty. Here are some of the pics that I have taken and would like to share with everyone.
ITEF, the Income Tax Employees Federation is opposing outsourcing of work (mainly refunds) even though it is well known fact that Income Tax refunds takes ages to come 
and higher authorities are continuously complaining about vacancies!
ITEF claims that its members were not given an “opportunity” to do their work and some of them don’t even have a place to sit. I want to ask them 2 questions.
How much time do they spend working on their desk and for how long are they missing from their place/work/duty?Whatever be the reason given by them. The main reason is that outsourcing results in loss of “revenue” for its members! The IT staff always takes months and continous follow up to issue refund cheques. Additionally, they take bribe before they issue any cheques of refunds and still behave as if they have done a big favour! Even after taking bribes, they hardly ever bother to calculate interest which is a legitimate claim of an assessee.
More than anything else, this loss of opportunity in earning extra revenue is their main grouse.
The recent well justified uproar all around the world by Muslims because of a cartoon/caricture of the Prophet Mohammed made me think about the muslims I know, see and interact with in my life. My experience with them has been pretty pleasant. Here’re some I can remember at present.
A few years ago, it was the birthday of their priest (or may be it was some other important day). There were thousands and thousands of Bohri muslims standing in queue all the way from his house to my house and further. The queue was more than a kilometer long. But still, as always, there was no chaos. Everyone of them was patiently waiting and moving. Pretty disciplined crowd!
He comes at least once every year to our home to have our gujarati undhiyu, puran poli and kadhi. He is a foodie and loves these dishes!
Mohammed taught me Visual C++ and has been a friend since then. I have somewhat lost touch with both of them. I must admit that I am somewhat selfish and call them whenever I need their help. But they have always been helpful and solved my problems.
He has been always helpful. He is a techie to the core and has always answered my questions even if they were basic FAQ kind of questions. And this was even before we came to know each other pesonally or met each other. Actually, he keeps doing this to all. He is one of those patient guys who goes through the HijackThis log of every one who posts it.
I have been able to reap some benefit out of Fahim’s pool of talent because he, alongwith Parita and Sonal (another talented pro and my sister-in-law :)), have designed my personal logo, visiting cards, letterheads, etc. They didn’t charge me a penny and still spent so much time and effort after it. I take this opportunity to thank them. They all still keep helping me by making templates for my clients’ websites. However, now I ensure that I pay them.
I finally got a new Sony DVD Writer. My friend Deep will be pretty happy on hearing this because he is a self-proclaimed “Sony Man”.
I always get fascinated every time I buy something from Lamington Road. They always have something unusual to offer. This time, I was given 2 rates for the same piece of DVD-Writer. One of them was box packed and the other one is called “OEM”. OEM was cheaper by about Rs. 400. I have been buying from the same dealer since a few years. So went for the OEM and saved 400. Afterall what will I do with the box? BTW, for record, this one isn’t a grey market purchase. I have the bill, warranty and will pay by cheque.
I have to install it and do it as soon as I finish writing this. I don’t wait for tech support guys because I am always too eager to install and use new pieces of hardware. They take little longer to come and I am pretty impatient.
Now I will take backup of all my data. I haven’t taken a complete backup of data since quite some time and now my hard disk is due for a low-level format and a clean re-install of OS. I am pretty eager to try out the new version of Mandriva as well. I recently got a DVD of Mandriva with my issue of LinuxForYou.
The Government should come out with an amnesty scheme for all defaults in registration of partnership firms with Registrar of Firms.
Why an amnesty?
Under the Indian Partnership Act, 1932 (as is applicable in Maharashtra and consequently in Mumbai) registration of a partnership firm with Registrar of Firms (ROF) is compulsory. There are very drastic effects of non-registration. For example, if a partnership firm is not registered, it cannot file a suit against any one!
I today read in Mid-Day that the richest man in the world, Bill Gates is so rich that computers in the US tax offices, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) cannot handle the figures in his tax returns. A separate computer is kept to handle exclusively his financial figures and still he keeps receiving false notices (followed by apologies from IRS) due to erroneous calculations made by those machines.
VSNL/Tata Indicom is going to dumps day by day. Earlier (a few years back), their whole database of users was sold and marketing calls started coming in. How do I know it was sold? Because the marketing caller had some info about me which was submitted only to VSNL while I took my first dial-up account.
Now they have started mailing their customers with clandestine adverts.
I am not against advertising in their mails. Everyone tries to optimise their revenues. But they are trying to take people for a ride by covering it up as an informational mail. Here’s an example. This is the mail that I received yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »
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