Well, Mymo.in is a multiuser blog just like wordpress.com where people can actually come over and signup for their own blogs. What did you think I am doing in Pondicherry? Just sitting around and taking massage therapy all the while? I am contributing a good amount to blogging myself, and helping people to get their own blogs in different domains than the boring so called popular ones.

So, if you happen to be running such a company in India, what is most suitable for you for internet connectivity? One major problem in India are frequent powercuts. The Electricity department is not good anywhere throughout the country. Corruption, and non maintenance of cables are the only reason. But this situation is changing in several parts of the country. Then again you have got UPS systems installed, if you are in serious business. So power is not something that we  should be worrying about.

BSNL provides you with the worst of services Never go for them. Airtel has got their own trans oceanic cable laid from Chennai to Singapore, so their service is supposed to be very good. Tata Indicom, formerly VSNL too has a good line that is connecting directly somewhere, but there are disruptions in the service. Never make the mistake of getting a connection from Relianc, Hathway is good, but DNS problems occur often.

You need to choose between a leased line and a broad band connection and the data transfer volume that you would require, which would depend on the number of PCs that you might be having at your facility. Instead of getting 1 single 2 Mbps line, you could go for 10×256 kbps lines, which might cost you a bit more, but you will have consistency of data flow to systems without any breakage.

Remember that you would be using a lot of server software to connect to and to monitor remote servers. You need lots and lots of data transfer limit, and a limited 2 Mbps connection would never suffice.

Untill a few months ago, the connection at my home used to give problems every once in a while, and I used to get heavy bills for the usage though I doubt that I have used it much in those days, but right now, with the unlimited connections both at home and office, there is hardly any downtime.

Untill recently. At the office, for the past few days in the afternoon hours a strange phenomenon is occuring when the internet goes off every 150 seconds and comes back after every 150 seconds. This simply acts an an on off cycle with a frequency of 150 seconds. I got fed up with this today and went directl to the exchange, and they asked me to bring the modem stating that it si a modem problem. Bloody hell, a modem will not act like this, it is the problem of the bloody port to which our line is connected.

They are just refusing to check it, and when I came back to the office I found that net is working without the breaks, but with latency of upto 5 seconds per ping. I wonder how that works, there is a delay of 5 seconds or over 5000 ms for every request that is sent every second. Maybe the people programmed ubuntu know what they have been doing, and its correct.

Well, what is the best way to get connected to the internet? People these days do say that there will be satellite downlinks all over India in the next 2 years, and India would be the next server farm, and that you will find one in every home. If BSNL doesnt improve its service, people will start hosting their servers on BSNL, and that would come down as another black mark for India. The Land of Bad Servers.

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This is a cool business, buy domains that you think are cool, and put them up for sale, and interested parties might come forward to buy it.

The place should be clean, tidy, have good regulations, should have good looking tall buildings, and swimming pools where boys and girls swim together with the skimpiest of clothes. And where is such a place that is closest to home? It is Singapore. If you know a bit of computers, and if you speka fairly good english, there is no trouble in findina a job at Singapore. And if you perform well, becoming a Permanant Resident or a PR Holder is no big deal at all. And once you are a PR holder, you get all sorts of eligiblities that you can never imagine to get back at home.

The law and order is perfect, and the police will respect you and take your complaint even if you loose a penny from your pocket and wether they investigate or not, they will give you a good report, and you dont rally have to bribe them to get that report. The public transport is excellent, and you will not need to get your own vehicle any time soon, and you will have to go for one only if your route to office and home doesn’t fit well with the routes of the public transport, which is quite rare.

If you are looking at starting a business at Singapore, it is fairly easy. All you need is a PR there who would take care of your businesses, or atleast remain there as your contact point, and you can do whatever you want from there as long as you pay the government its taxes. And when you have a company in Singapore, you get an Open visa with which you can enter and leave the country just like having to fly in a domestic airliner.

Singapore is a good country, and if you think you can do nothing to improve India, move out and if you think you are not making India better and are making Singapore better, here is a good piece of advise. You alone cannot make India better, and if you dont go to Singapore, some one else will make it better. So, I suggest that you always claim your stake from the good pie and not from a rotting pie.

I got on to my PC to check the mails and find out what all problems clients have got today. I found nothing thankfully, but I had nothing to do and get the depression off me. I naturally moved to wikipedia and started reading about the fate of jews, the 6 million who died, how the sadist army and the other Germans treated them, and when I finished reading the time was 11 AM, and my son had woken up and was causing chaos as usual, throwing this and that here and there.

After Lunch, I decided to leave for Chennai, a trip which I was planning only this weekend. I left on my bike.

On the ECR, 2 partol policemen stopped me and used a breathalizer on me. When they found that I was not drunk they were talking about over speed snd stuff and they somehow managed to get Rs 100 from me.

Past Mahabalipuram, 2 Chennai City policemen stopped me and said that listening to Ipods while biking is illegal and that a fine of Rs 1200 is applicable, and I was not wearing a helmet, so a fine of Rs 100, and for overspeed another fine of Rs 300, totalling to Rs 1500 needs to be paid immediately.

I was completely down. I had no strength to bargain with policemen which was what they would obviously had expected. I dont feel proud of what I did, but this is what I did. I just pulled out my walled, took out 3 x 500 rupee notes and handed it over to the policeman who was standing close to me.

Im sure they had the surprose of their lives. No biker would have handed out the money without bargaining. He asked me where I was working, I told him that I am working in a Call Centre for a salary of Rs 6500. And If i dont reach office in another 1 hour I will loose my job. So this Rs 1500 is not really important for me at the moment, so just let me go.

He got sympathetic and handed me back the money and just asked me to pay Rs 100 fine for not wearing the helmet and gave me a receipt and told me that it was valid for another 24 hours so u  can ride the bike for 24 hours without a helmet.

When I reached my apartment, I found that my internet was not working properly, and just now I discovered that its mylaptop thats not configured properly. I forgot a few keys that I should have brought along with me from Pondicherry. And the Wi-Fi router that I had taken home last weekend.

I went to the Reliance Broadband Browsing Center in T Nagar later that evening, checked the days mail, spent about 1 hour, and they billed me Rs 100 for 3 hours, the remaining 2 hours however, can be used later.

On the way back I met a friend, and we went to a bar, had vodka and some dinner, and came back to the apartment and slept almost immediately.

The morning seems to be fine.

What will happen if all mobile companies keep their networks busy and stop providing decent services to the people around? Who would serve the country with a billion people and a trillion mobile phone connections? Maybe there would be a new player who would be soon coming in to take over all these service providers and become a monopoly.

Addiction to mobile phone has affected almost everyone in the world, particularly Indians, and no drug rehabilitation center will be able to help them out, as even in a drug rehab you find people talking on mobile phones.

You can also protect your trip costs in case there is a cancellation of a flight unexpectedly, emergency evacuation, multiple trips coverage and coverage for groups, global insurance benefits, and accidental death benefits.

But unfortunately, just like any other business in the world, not everything about paypal is perfect. It does have its pros and cons. I do not really want to differentiate and tabulate them, but I shall write along with everything combined, which should give a good view of the service.

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