Adsense Blues - Why No EFT?

Its good to hear that Google has rolled out Cheque delivery via Blue Dart for Indian Users but its really surprising why google does not have EFT for indian adsense users.I do hope the payment modes of adsense evolves here too. Even a tie up with paypal,moneybookers or alertpay would do the job. Hope google adsense looks over this payment issue.

Curious Case of Fake IPL Player

Kishen Kanhaiyya, Mr. Batlivala, Big Sister, Sheikh of Tweak, Little Monster, Phoren babas, Prince Charles of Patiala, Di*do,and a few more are part of the Indian Premier League this year. Puzzled? To start with, this is not a new advertisement i am talking about.

The names that you've read above are aliases used in a mysterious blog spurting daily dirty details about the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). The blog is called The Fake IPL Player, and the mission - well, it looks like an entertaining satire on the 'life in IPL' through the eyes of a Kolkata Knight Rider.
The last blog post has generated over 500 comments till now, which clearly goes out to show the growing popularity among cricket-frenzied voyeurs - a majority of them begging for more. As the media has caught on with the buzz, the posts exuberate narcissism by the writer as he's sure not to get caught in his true identity.
Here's one of his recent blog posts that elucidate this:
"News is that the team management and the Phoren Babas (McCullum & Buchanan, apparently) think that Lordie is Fake IPL. Apparently, he was called into the CEO's room where Di*do, Coachie, and Skipper, politely asked him about it. But, they forget that this is THE LORD OF THE RING they are dealing with."
Some of my Fav NickNames are Appam Ch*tiya(Sreesanth),Bhookha Naan(Buchanan),Vinnie Di*do(SRK),kishen Kanhaiya(ravi Shastri).
Is this one more marketing strategy,who the f*ck Cares?Dada n Fake IPL Player Blog Rock not sure about KKR Though!!
Oops!! Here is the Link

Religious Exploitation

Its a complete Shame that more n more people are exploited in the name of religion.
Here is one such example.The Video Shows how Sai baba used his optical illusion tricks in fooling people.


This is Just one such example.Sadly there many such illusionists Exploiting People everywhere.

IPL-Is this Cricket?

IPL Season 2 Starts tomorrow in SouthAfrica,IPL to me is a massive P.R Exercise,Its more about the money involved and less about cricket.More about team owners and less about cricket players.Its a cleverly strategised business model aimed at a cricket maniac country.Cricket has never seen such controversies,Dada at the healm of things once again.This time conspired by Buchanan(yet another aussie coach) and Back stabbed by Sharukh Khan.You wonder whether these incidents are staged by team owners to create even more hype.

Whatever may be the results of IPL,its a fact that cricketers are just treated as cattle fodders inorder for the growth of a brand.When Huge Alcohol Brand Owner Vijay Mallya(Read King fisher,Royal Challenge) bought the historical items of non-alcoholic Gandhi hardly anyone questioned.He had also bought a cricket team before and named after his whisky brand Royal Challenge.He also named his cheerleaders after his Vodka brand White Mischeif.Wonder why he didnt name his son 'King Fisher'. :-)

IPL is not at all about cricket even though strangely its called cricket.Its More about Money n More Money,T.R.P ratings,Heavy advertising,Huge Hype and a little bit of a game played by 11 people on the ground and many others off the field.

TechFresh.in Launched

Yes People I have launched my Technology Blog.


TechFresh.in

Me Being Tech Hungry n Savvy wanted a Dedicated blog to Quench the Tech Thirsty Souls.
TechFresh.in will feature all the latest gadgets n gizmos sandwiched with reviews.It will also feature answers to lots of basic technological know-hows.
Hope it will help many people around.This blog(hickson.in) will rarely host any Tech Stuff from now on.

So all people interested only in Tech Stuff can Safely Move on to Techfresh.in

Unlimited Plans Exposed

"UNLIMITED" here refers to Technology.Be it Broadband or WebHosting,the word "Unlimited" is misused for commercial Marketing Purposes.There is nothing as Unlimited in this world even though your service Provider or Web Host may Promise You.Its called overselling in WebHosting n Extreme Marketing with reference to Broadband.Most ISPs offer an "unlimited bandwidth" option for their Broadband offering but what many do not know is that it is not so unlimited after all. In many cases you will get about the same through put as a cheaper "limited" package but with a decreased quality to stretch it out over the month. Most of the time no one notices this happening but new technologies are pushing to use this "unlimited" bandwidth and discovering it does not exist.

Your ISP more than likely uses what is called "traffic shaping" to slow down or block your use of peer-to-peer services (such as BitTorrent). This can range from bandwidth throttling to outright fraud. In the later case your ISP may actually "spy" on every packet of data you transmit through their network and inject extra packets into the steam as it passes through. This extra data is most often a reset signal that tells your client that there was a connection error.

I dont know how many of my fellow hosters will be reading this,but most of them are aware of overselling in WebHosting.Most websites only consume a very small amount of bandwidth and disk space. Web hosting companies that provide unlimited anything as a plan feature are banking on the fact that you won’t use very much.

Now, I get why mobile operators and net-providers continue to offer “unlimited” plans. It’s the same reason why some businesses always try to profile themselves as the cheapest or the best. It’s because they are operating in a fiercely competitive market, and they feel they need to do these (stupid) actions to keep up with others who are engaging in the very same thing.

But they are turning themselves into faceless commodities in the eyes of consumers, who are being trained by these corporations, by our capitalist system perhaps, to always look for the next-best, the next-cheapest, or the next less-limited thing. And all that does is open the market for someone else to come in, a Google or an Apple, a company with an identity, with a face, and do something completely unnatural to these companies. Not lie, but tell it like it is:

There’s no such thing as “unlimited.”

Hope this article is a eye-opener of sorts for people who are new to these terms.