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i am sure some of you must have you been wondering why i am taking pains to have a home page of my own on my hard disk!
well, the fact is that many of the things you can do on your computer are not allowed on mine. i cannot make bookmarks nor can i add pages to favourites and store pages for offline viewing. you can see all the urls you have recently visited appearing in the drop down from your address column on your browser. none of such things are available on my computer. in short every time i hit my back button the page has to come from the gestapo's server; there is nothing saved in my cache. so the way out is what you see as the so called launch pad in one of my blogs.
i am not allowed to take advantage of the facilities available with a net connection of my own. like last night i tried to make a telephone call from my puter. initially i tried my dial up net connection with tata indicom. i logged on to the net and then started my net telephony connection. as i started dialing the program came up with an error report. actually what happened was that the dial up connection was cut off. could be an accident; possible but not probable. all the same i logged on to the net again and as i started dialing from the net telephony account the net connection was again cut off. this process was repeated four times.
could be that it was a dial up connection and so the bandwidth was not enough so i logged on to my ADSL connection with bsnl and tried the net telephony (which comes from the tata indicom - the fact is that i have a lot of free hours pending with them and so net telephony comes handy for other wise the hours are likely to expire after a fixed time.) inspite of the broad band and all it did not work - this time the net telephony software was telling me "you are already logged in". well it was not me who has logged in for i was not able to use the facility. then who was the one who logged in? any idea?
i rang up the tataindicom's help line. and spent almost half an hour on the line.(luckily this time i could carry on the conversation with the person on the help line for the indian gestapo was not muffling my ear piece as was done on an earlier date). ultimately the gentleman told me he will tell their local representative in trivandum to contact me.
after the conversation i tried logging on again and this time there was no one else already logged in! i could dial and get connected to a number but the person at the other end could not hear me. when i tried the tools for adjusting the mic and the speakers i was told that some one else is using the hardware - the reason for no voice going over to the other side was obvious. so i gave up ultimately and went to bed.
today that is 11 july night i tried again. every thing worked fine and i could talk to a newyork telephone number for ten minutes or so for less than half a dollar! it was the same puter, the same hardware, same software, the same broadband and the same net telephony connection! but this time "no problem"!
who was the person in new york i was talking to ? i will tell you; but please dont tell any one else.
i had sent a rather (by my standards) costly present to my girl friend in new york by a registered acknowledgement due letter in may 2007. even after one month the acknowledgement card (for which i have paid the indian postal service almost the same amount as i did on the phone call made today ) has not reached me. i do not blame the post man - how many gerries said no to the gestapo before the war! there was no point sending an e-mail or even a letter. and now that i have the broadband connection and tata's net telephony the easiest and cheapest way out was to make a call from the net phone. and the indian gestapo was throwing a spanner in the works!
there was nothing i could have done about it. the fact that today i was able to make a call and get an assurance from my girl friend's staff that the present has reached her was just an indication that there still are a trickle of sensible human beings over here - ben adam's tribe has not yet been completely annihilated!
the fraternity there has been a response to my letter copy of which was published on the web last time. NOT a reply - a pBird has been posted to the tree just adjacent to my bed room and thanks to its shrieks, day before yester day i was forced to get up at 0430 hrs.
there is nothing i can do about it - the birdees keep a safe distance till dusk and then there is not much of a point trying my air gun. so for the last two night i have been sleeping in the spare bed room on the first floor which is on the opposite side of the house. and i woke up yesterday at 1200 and today at 1000 hrs respectively; cool.
viceman
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