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Indianness - Punctuality

Certain words in the dictionary remain as an antonym to typical Indian nature. No need to tell, "PUNCTUALITY" is one among them. Shashi Tharoor's series in TOI on Indianness had a lot to mention about it. One among the very first things that flashes in our mind when we think of our punctual habits is the timing being maintained by our transport system. Be it road or rail or air: no partiality, its same everywhere, none used to be on time :) I don't think, we ever we had a history of all flights on single day in a single airport took-off and landed on time. But history changes and the gets the credit too! Yes, this is about none other than landing of two spice jet flights in the nation's second private bound airport - Rajiv Gandhi International Airport. The two spicejet flights from Ahemedabad and Mumbai landed 40 mins ahead of schedule at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport on the day when the airport's commercial operations commenced. But the most surpris

UI Messages

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Back again the blogosphere !!! Was thinking about updating the blog for a long while and infact had a long list to blog. But this one triggered me to do this atonce. Here is my experience on the same and that too with my most favorite platform !!! While surfing the net, saw a link stating : "Father of SOA publishes, Security in SOA article... ". With the expectation of some Gregg / Marc to be the "Father of SOA", opened it and surprised to read, "Rajiv Gupta, widely known as the father of SOA.... " While browsing that site, here it came : Just with a curiosity to know what the error is, clicked, "click here" in the above, Didn't got any thing more. So thought why not see the technical information and again : "click here". Technical information about the error report : Even time stamp too in hexa ! Got nothing from a message from the most user friendly OS. Great going MS (!!!)