Archive for August, 2008
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Free email; are they reliable?
A couple of days back, Gmail (free email from Google) went down for some users and while trying to log in, they were greeted with an uber descriptive error message “Temporary Error (502)”. This outage lasted for an hour, after which the problem has been resolved by Gmail engineers. Users cant blame google for this, [...]
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Chinese candies in Chennai petty shops!
Recently I see many petty shops in and around Chennai selling Chinese candies, and am surprised by it and enquired with a couple of petty shop owners about why they sell them when there are many varieties of Indian candies available in the market. The reply was quiet interesting, and they really don’t know why [...]