Yes, Yes, Yes, they suck BIG TIME.

Here is the scene, A client sent me DD through registered post, office was closed to it remained undelivered and postman gave us a receipt which said collect it from post office between 9.30 - 10.30 AM.

I visit the post office, show them the receipt, they ask me if I have brought my company stamp and my ID card as proof. I show them both and the very next minute the person says “Nahi mil sakta hai abhi” (You can’t get it now) I ask them the reason, I get reply saying post office department does not know if my company exists or not. I was like, what the hell? It is just a registered post not any property paper where you have to check the stuff.

They ask me to send them some letter stating that my company exists  and details about company with the address. I will also have to mention in the letter, the name of the person who will come to collect the registered post on behalf of the company. Once I send them the letter, they will send their person to our office to check if my company really exists or not. And this process may take 15 days. It depends upon the person who is going to visit my office. They do not give any timeline.

So after all these things I may get the registered post.

It just pisses me off when they come up with these illogical solutions. I mean why the hell I cannot collect the post if I show them the proof? My company stamp, my ID card? Why in the world I have to send the letter and wait for their person to check if my company exists or not.

It is just so silly and stupid on their part to do things like this.

God only knows when they will improve and have some logical rules.

I was planning to leave for home to watch today’s India Vs. WI match but I got to know from Harish that Yahoo is streaming the match live on their website.

So why not give it a shot? And guess what, it worked pretty smoothly without any delays on my 256kbps connection.

Excellent stuff, watch it here It does not work anymore as it was for limited time.

You can check Willow.tv for live telecast of matches (It needs registration and it is a paid site) The registration is available only for selected countries. More information is provided on their site.

Indya.com is also planning to telecast some of the matches, they have not announced it officially but World Cup 2007 official site shows them having rights to telecast the matches over the net.

I will update this post as and when I see anything important.

Update: Watch India Vs South Africa test series live on Cricket Nirvana (Paid Website)

Watch IPL Cricket Matches Live Online

Update - 20th Oct 2008: You can watch Live cricket online here

Sorry guys for posting it after a long pause. I was out whole day Monday, meetings and all. And now finally I got sometime so decided to continue the post. (I had written half of it just after reaching Mumbai)

Going to Chennai for 2 days, leaving all the work… was it worth going to BlogCamp? I got these kind of questions from many people and I replied them with the single answer “You really missed it”

2 days with lots of exciting sessions and lots of messed up sessions too but I guess that’s the part of unconference and it was all fun. Some of the sessions finished one time and some even took more than 2 hours…

I had decided that I won’t be speaking on SEO but few things on the day one made me speak and I just prepared the stuff and booked the slot on day 2 morning. And this is how I landed up speaking on SEO.

Now after this I found that there are lot of people who want more info on SEO and Earning through blogs and I quickly decided to speak on “How to start earning through blogs?” I even spoke to Syed (one of the main organizers) but all the slots on that day were booked.

Okay, now enough of me speaking about myself. What else was there?

On day 1 I found technical sessions more interesting than the general ones. (May be I am more of a technical person) Ganesh spoke on Wordpress.com, how to setup a blog on it and al. Aswin spoke on Wordpress Hacks, Prassana spoke on Blogger Beta Hacks…

Day 1 part 2 was taken over by Podcast stuff by Kiruba and his friend Ram (I hope that’s the correct name) then there were couple of more sessions but I do not think so I remember them correctly.

Day 2 first part included my session and couple of others. Part 2 was kind of bad which had good session by Creative Commons guy but rest of them were not that good. Couple of them even spoke just for the sake of sessions and they ended up promoting their site rather than giving any info.

And now in that, there were few media hungry guys too who were trying their best to get attention of CNN IBN camera haha and I must say they succeeded too.

Now as all the sessions on the first floor (tech sessions area) were over, we were moved to the ground floor and I must say that was one of the best moments of BlogCamp. A healthy discussion. Very good discussion started by Dina Mehta, Peter Griffin and Kiruba Shankar. I wish it was continued for bit longer duration.

Then there was some contest going on. I could not attend it for some reason.

So that’s how things ended and in the end. I must say it was a great place to be and great experience too. Met many people. Amit Agarwal, Ganesh, Hitesh Mehta, Kiruba, Sunil, Syed and many more.

And I also learnt one thing. Never say No to Ashish when he asks you to sit on the window seat. Trust me, you won’t regret like I did. haha

Okay, I had decided that I won’t be speaking on SEO but somehow I madeup my mind yesterday and today spoke on SEO for Blogs. I think people liked it. It was fun actually, I was kind of nervous was it was for the first time, but nervousness was for just 2 minutes in the begining and then it was all smooth and was fun.

I think they have recoreded the video of the session and it might be available online (or they might make it available soon)

So we finally reached BlogCamp, pretty excited about the thing. We reached here around 845 AM. Just preperations going on, met couple of people here and yea, met Varun too. Waiting for Vinay now…

Will keep you guys updated.

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