I came across an old message in my inbox from my friend Kalpik. The message contained some funny error messages. Although quite old now, it still made me smile. So here they are, with a hope that it will make someone smile. 
In my opinion, out of the lot, last two are the best 
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My dad today got operated at Breach Candy Hospital for two problems - prostate and hernia by Dr. Pheroze Sonawal. My dad is 70 years old. Although the operations by themselves were not major ones, anaesthisia was somewhat tricky due to his health generally and a by-pass surgery that he had undergone 4 years ago. We were a worried lot at 12 noon.
But all’s well that ends well! 
He is out from operation theater and is back in the normal room. He is pretty ok. I spoke to him, he responded well and was only sleepy due to the sedation that he received for operation. As of now he is not allowed to eat for a few hours. But oxygen mask will be removed and he will be given some water at 7, some other liquid at 8 and light food at 9. He will be discharged within a few days.
I felt like shouting from the roof top, but internet has a far wider reach. 
Isn’t it?
It has been months since I blogged. The last post was about how Vanilla ice-cream puzzled General Motors and that way back 4th of April. In Ankur’s words the ice-cream has melted since quite some time. With my birth date falling on 13th April, I can say that I have become a year older (or is it wiser? ) since I blogged last time.
But work has kept me extremely busy. Secondly adsense revenue doesn’t motivate me enough to blog. And most important thing is that I am a lazy blogger. 
I will think about blogging only if I have nothing else to do, today being an exception. Today I am blogging to take a break.
These days I am so neck deep in work that I have been working on all Saturdays and Sundays of this month till 10 in the night. My usual office hours have become 8am to 10pm (or later) in place of 10am to 8pm. I am not complaining because I enjoy my work. But I have only one problem about such long working hours. I hardly get to play with my 2 yr old twin daughters, Mahi and Meha. During the whole of last week on most days I used to leave home before they wake up and reach after they have gone off to sleep. 
Since they have now learned to talk, they used to ask about me quite a few times in the day. So on one day I left all pending work and left early just to be with them. On that day all 4 of us were happy - me, Mahi-Meha and my wife. My wife was happy because I was home early. And she was more happy because she got a break.
I don’t have any fan-following on my blog and I don’t have too much motivation to blog too frequently. Still I think I will try to blog a little more regularly now. Wish me luck!
Hellooo!! Is anyone there reading my blog? Please wish me luck so that I can blog regularly and write good posts. 
This is from my inbox. Quite interesting.
Never underestimate your Clients’ Complaint, no matter how funny it might seem! This is an interesting real story that happened between the customer of General Motors and its Customer-Care Executive. Please read on…..
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So far I have written about how to “manually” switch hosting providers i.e. how to backup and restore the files. Following is the list of previous posts:
There is another easier way to do this through cPanel.
This is the 5th post in the series for shifting websites from one server to another. The earlier posts in this series were as follows:
In my last post I mentioned that series of manually transferring the sites was complete. But then I thought about this new way of transferring dynamic sites (with a database) with minimum downtime. Irrespetive of DNS propogation or DNS cache with ISPs, this method can transfer your dynamic sites almost instantly. Downtime will only last the amount of time you take in transferring the database from old hosting provider to new hosting provider. In my opinion, this is the most efficient way of transferring dynamic sites. Here are the steps.
This is the 4th post in the series for shifting websites from one server to another. The earlier posts in this series were as follows:
In this part, I ennumerate the steps for transferring a forum and a WordPress blog from one hosting provider to another. In earlier posts, I have written the steps in details. However in this post, unless necessary, I have not mentioned the details because they remain almost same.
In part 1 of this series I narrated how to shift static sites (i.e. sites without a database) to a new server. In part 2, I wrote about how to get left-over emails after the hosting is shifted. This is the 3rd article in the series which is about shifting dynamic sites (with a database) from one server to another. For the sake of convenience, I have divided this 3rd article in sub-parts and therefore call this one as part 3(1).
There are various types of dynamic sites with databases. The database content is changed by the administrator/owner of the site or the the visitors or both. These are the 4 categories of sites with databases:
In part 1, I wrote about shifting static sites from one server to another. This is a small addendum to that post and other posts that I will write about shifting sites. This one is about how to retrieve left-over emails. I kept this separately because the same steps apply whether the site is static or dynamic. It also doesn’t matter how you backup/restore your site. Steps to retrieve emails will remain the same.
Here are the steps in brief. Please note that these steps are to be used after DNS propogation is over and not before that. This is for retrieving mails from “old” hosting account. In my opinion, at least for a week, you need to have access to both the hosting accounts - old and new.
Slowly people are realising the importance of paid hosting or at least professional and quality hosting. In website hosting, there is a golden rule - if something is too good to be true, then probably its not true! Many people use free/cheap hosting services to save money. But soon realise that quality of services (uptime, speed, support, etc.) is not upto the mark.
But then comes the dilema of shifting from one server to another and a whole lot of doubts set in, especially for those who have never changed servers!
Here I have enumerated steps of transferring a “STATIC” site. It may look a little confusing if you haven’t done it before, but the steps are pretty straight-forward once you understand the logic behind them. Here are the steps in short:
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