Thiyagaraj Krishna

I got an email from a close friend of mine that had the following subject.
Forward this message to any 10 of your friends and you will get free bonuses worth Rs. 5,995/-
The bonuses might have been real, because all the said bonuses were eBooks such as the “Hacker’s Black Book”, “100 Google Hacks”, “.NET [...]

I had a few issues with my Airtel telephones account and I logged into my Airtel Account and tried to send a complaint through a form provided onsite. Apparently, the form was just a mailer of sorts and guess what I got as an instant reply!
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at airtelbroadband.in.I’m afraid I [...]

Try Wordpress.com, its a very good publishing platform and is the freely hosted option of one of the largest self hosted blogging software in the world. Go to Wordpress.org to download and install on your own server!
It has a lot of built in features that Blogger(this blog runs on) doesn’t possess! Such as built-in trackback [...]

I got back my mobile phone that got screwed today after waiting for nearly an hour and a half in the waiting hall and two weeks in total. A bluetooth problem that had to be rectified at Hyderabad. Baa.. What a day!
The estimated time for delivery was “1 day” in the Job sheet. They [...]

I came across fd’s Flickr Toys during one of my sojourns online! It has a lot of tools for everyone(including non-flickr users) like creating Calendars, CD Covers, Magazine Covers, Motivators etc from your own photographs! You can even make your own Movie Poster with correspoding titles and credits! Pretty cool huh? Though you [...]

Well, atleast indirectly! i made my choice and voted today! It was over in a minute with the Electronic Voting Machine letting out a loud beep which I wasnt expecting! I assumed that it would be a small, discrete beep, but apparently, the polling officers in the whole area too are supposed to hear I [...]

Finally, I will be allowed to vote in the general elections to be held tomorrow!! Though the legal age permissible for a Citizen of India to vote is 18 and I’m 20. This is the first elections that are taking place after I have reached the magic age!
The funny thing now is, I have [...]

With reference to my previous post on spamming, though Yahoo’s SpamGuard does an excellent job in identifying spam and moving it to a bulk/spam folder. Occasionally, some legitimate mail gets marked as spam.
One of my friends, who has been co-placed with me in a company was supposed to have been intimated by the company. [...]

After reading about the recent attack on an anti-spam website, I have begun to think whether the fight against spam is worth it. I agree that spamming is a pain in the butt, on the other hand, do people read the spam that they recieve? I personally just trash email that I identify as [...]

With the next academic year starting in a month or so, parents are rushing towards premier institutions to apply for programmes. But do they have a word from their wards. I have seen a lot of my fellow students being ‘pushed’ into doing a degree that they didn’t have any liking for, due to peer [...]