March 2007

During my stay in China, I had trouble getting good food. Being a vegetarian finding "edible" food became much more difficult. However unlike China I had no trouble in finding veggie food in Boston.

Here is the list of restaurants I visited over the past one week and the "veggie delights" I had over there :). The choice of dish was limited to one or two in most of the American/Mexican/Thai restaurants.

(Restaurant Name - Veggie Dish - Rating )

Viet Thai - Veg Fried Rice - Very good Udupi Bhavan - Veg Biryani - Totally Hopeless Applebees - Cheese Pizza - Good Bamboo - Spinach Fried Rice - Totally Good ...

When I initially started this blog I signed up with Statcounter service which showed me detailed data of visitors reading my posts. It was exciting and nice to see the increasing number of visitors every day.

However the free service of Statcounter has limited functionality and you infer less data with more visitors visiting your blog.

Later I started using Google's free analytics service: Google Analytics.

I have been using it from the past 8 months and I still find it difficult to get in terms with the user interface. Of all Google products, I believe Analytics has one of the worst navigation interface.

There are 2 analytics service I have heard

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I'm in Boston and will be here for another two weeks. Some of the highlights of my 19 hour journey from Bangalore to Boston

The Lufthansa plane was at 3AM due to which I spent only 10 min in the cab from my home to the airport which otherwise would normally take 40 minutes. The check-in queue for the Lufthansa flight reminded me of the queue at BTS Bus stand ! The plane took off at 3 and landed on time; no wonder Lufthansa is known as an"efficient plane" The economy class seats in the Lufthansa flight was very congested and it looked like they converted the normal ...

I started my web log with Blogger and later on moved to Wordpress.com. The restrictions/limited features on Wordpress.com made me switch to Wordpress.org which at that time required a user to buy his own web hosting and a domain name. This gave birth to venukb.com/blog and on mid April I will be celebrating the first anniversary of this web log :) I did write a nice little post on my web site setup experience: How to setup your own web site ! The site is currently hosted by GoDaddy and for my economy paid/Linux based hosting I got 5 GB Space 250 GB ...

On March 1st I requested Airtel to switch my current 256kbps unlimited plant to 2Mbmps limited (3GB) plan. (For more details on Airtel new plans, check this post)

After making multiple calls to Airtel customer service, the plan switch is finally done today.

Nice to see downloads happening at 1.5-1.8Mb/second and nice to watch YouTube videos without any "buffering" :)

However access to my blog is still hopeless !! I guess I should switch to a better hosting !!

By the way anybody knows about a good bandwidth tracking tool ? With my previous unlimited bandwidth plan, I didn't have to worry about usage, but with the current 3GB limitation I ...

Airtel broadband service, one of the 3 SBU (Strategic Bussiness Unit) of Bharti Enterprises has now started offering 2Mbps bandwidth plans.

The official site is still not updated with the latest tariff plans. The service is available only in select areas (as told by the customer service).

Sushubh has more info about the new packages.

Special Double Speed Offer

My 256kbps unlimited plan seems to have been automatically upgraded to 512kbps !!

2Mbps Packages

Check the stock quote data of CSCO The day high was 100,000$ against the avg price of 24$. Now who would pay so much for 1 stock and how does the exchange allow such a transaction. One of my friends in Cisco was regretting that he missed an early retirement opportunity :)