Recently, I was exposed to an overpayment photography scam. It was disturbing, and it ruined a potential friendship. I’m going to outline how it happened in this article, so that other photographers don’t get fooled by these scam artists. What they do is disgusting, and exploitative. They have no heart, and I don’t want them to hurt others who work hard to earn their money. These scammers use easily available disposable cell phone numbers, and UPI accounts, to target their victims.
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A Shift in Focus
The Real Need to Stop. During the course of any journey, one needs to stop every once in a while, to look around, check that you’re actually moving in the right direction. To check the location of certain key features against those on a map, to ensure that you actually are where you think you … Read more
The Beautiful Chaos of Indian Roads
I’d like to introduce you to an Indian motovlogging channel called “Biking In India“. It’s a YouTube channel that explores the streets of Chennai, and beyond. I’ve ridden the same bike for 11 years, and been through quite a few silly incidents with it in that time. Like this one. Through it all, one experience … Read more
ICICI Bank IFSC Codes for all branches in India
I couldn’t find ICICI Bank IFSC Codes All India Branches on their website from a Google search, so I’ve added a link to it in this article. Hopefully Google will pick it up for what it is.
iXBRL – more XML based markup languages…
So along with the XMLisation of a ton of other things, comes the evolution of accounting formats into XBRL or iXBRL. It’s supposed to make filing and sharing of accounts between systems easier for everyone… Of course, there will be the initial hiccups in the implementation, and where there is a problem, there will be … Read more
Apple OS X (10.6.4) Graphics Update 1.0
Apple has long been criticized for their apparent neglect of the gaming industry. Today, it seems that they’re taking note. A software update released on 17th August says that it fixes problems that affect Portal, Team Fortress 2 and StarCraft 2 among others. Enough to level the playing field? Maybe not. A step in the … Read more
Reliance Netconnect Broadband Billing issues. An open letter.
The following is a letter that I am sending to Reliance Communication’s Service Assurance Cell, Chennai Nodal Officer, and Chennai Appellate Authority.
Vandalur Zoo (aka. Arignar Anna Zoological Park)
Who woulda thunk it? The Vandalur Zoo has a website.
I’m not going to buy the Kindle 2
Yes, I’m not going to buy it. Why? Because Amazon is making it ‘optional’ for authors to disable Text-To-Speech functionality on their books. Yes, authors, shoot yourself in the head… I’d rather buy bootleg or secondhand copies of books off the streets. Much cheaper… And I’ll ask my parrot to do the Text-To-Speech part… Read … Read more