2nd Message – Note the change in error message .
The people writing error messages DO have creativity 🙂
Author: Ajay Ohri
https://linkedin.com/in/ajayohri
Review -Sarkar Raj
Review -Bollywood Version of Godfather2 :Sarkar Raj
Okay , its not as good as Sarkar , the original “tribute” to Copolla’s classic Godfather by the maverick down again , up again desi Tarintino ,Ram Gopal Verma (who returns as director ). But thats true even of Godfather 2, and most sequels .
The good news – it is good enough for fans of pulp fiction style, violence ,strategy and intelligent movies. All and out a guy’s movie, Sarkar Raj is faster, bloodier , resorts to more camera tricks as if RGV is trying to prove something, and by the end of the movie he proves why he is the best director of violent Bollywood movies in the past two decades.
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A stellar star cast by India ‘s first family of acting, sees a violent and overweight Abhishek Bachhan playing Shanker “Remorseless” Nagre, Aishwarya Rai Bachhan playing beautiful ,and unwitting trap for him, and Amitabh as the aging and still defiant patriach. With a few hints to the Enron power project in Maharashtra , some classic Marathi pandering and even bold Thackeray family like hints (including the suffix “Raj” .)…this one is for you to go with your beer drinking buddies alone…… and enjoy. Definitely paisa wasool (thats value for money in Hindi) for a watch, and go with the subtitles version …it works equally well.
5 Web Analytics Softwares (apart from Google)
The following softwares are also recommended for web analytics (or analyzing traffic to your website)
1) Index Tools (acquired by Yahoo in April , thats 2 months ago) and now reportedly free .It is considered comparable in most features to Omniture , the market leader (see below)
http://www.indextools.com/products/features.html
2) Omniture
The leading professional web analytics software. The only caveat is the premium cost.
http://www.omniture.com/en/products/web_analytics
3) Get Clicky
4) Sitemeter (Small , useful for counting traffics, not useful for graphics rich sites)
5) Microsoft’s Answer (Adcentre -Analytics)
http://advertising.microsoft.com/advertising/adcenter-analytics
So here are 5 alternative ways to Google Analytics and thus have more , better control over your data.
The actual software used should be dependent on
your budget,
anticipated traffic and
subject matter domain of website.
Poem-Why are we creative ?
root cause of creativity
is most often necessity
to improvise and move on ahead
often is a matter of butter and bread
sometimes its just an whimsical
impulse created out of sheer boredom
dissatisfaction with the prevailing status quo
may lead to bursts of creativity for me and you
Modern scientists say creativity is affected by the serotonin in your brain
I think it’s simpler – a desire to break out of your mundane daily pain
Ode to an Ipod
Day before yesterday,
My younger borther gifted me an Ipod
for my 31 st birthday.
And now I am in love,
life a gift from heaven above,
with the smooth ipod,
in her little black dress.
The sound is good, the design is cool,
31 years it took me to realize I am a fool.
Why i didnot buy the I pod before ,
Why didnot I visit the i-tunes store.
And my friend Billy Joel sings,
his heart out on silvery ipod wings,
I rotate the dial a bit,
The songs are old, but they are still an hit.
Now I am maybe old, and getting older still,
but the Ipod classic gives my heart a thrill .
Whats your excuse mister, why dont you buy it too,
Give life some meaning , with more music in you.
Comedians sue Hillary and Obama for patching up
In a recent development, several noted comedians have initiated legal action against Barack H Obama and Hillary R Clinton.
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The unprecedented move was bipartisan as both the right wing media and liberal media supported the initiative to sue the Democratic party senators for kissing and make up. “This is even worse than the writer’s strike ” , said one noted CNN comedian” Where will we find extra jokes now ?”
Oh well, the election season is YET to come .
Google’s fine print
Just read the fine print in Google Analytics,
“Google’s (and its wholly owned subsidiaries’) total cumulative liability to You or any other party for any loss or damages resulting from any claims, demands, or actions arising out of or relating to this Agreement shall not exceed U.S. $500.”
“TERM and TERMINATION . Either party to the Agreement may terminate it at any time and for any reason.”
Well , thats just standard legal clause right. Wrong.
It happened to me once when my gmail account got de activated for 1 day, as I wrote to larry@google.com and sergei@google.com , asking to stop their recruiter for spamming me. If they (or any Googler) are reading this , please stop here right now, forgive me and I shall repent ………………………………………………………..for I need that gmail account still.
Anyways Google Analytics remains the best for tracking website performance.You can check website performance in terms of page views,time per page, location of visitors, trends in recency .frequency and duration of visits
Unfortunately it does not give you access to raw data from your own website, but gives you views , and slices of data .
The fine print says Google CAN use that data but you cant since, a record level data can be used for identifying customers using i.p addresses.
“ INFORMATION RIGHTS AND PUBLICITY . Google and its wholly owned subsidiaries may retain and use, subject to the terms of its Privacy Policy (located at http://www.google.com/privacy.html , or such other URL as Google may provide from time to time), information collected in Your use of the Service.
BLAH BLAH BLAH…
Unless You notify Google otherwise in writing, You hereby grant to Google and its wholly owned subsidiaries a limited license to use Your trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos, domain names and other distinctive brand features (“Brand Features”) in presentations, marketing materials, customer lists, and financial reports.”
7. PRIVACY . You will not (and will not allow any third party to) use the Service to track or collect personally identifiable information of Internet users, nor will You (or will You allow any third party to) associate any data gathered from Your website(s) (or such third parties’ website(s)) with any personally identifying information from any source as part of Your use (or such third parties’ use) of the Service. “.
Agreed on enhanced graphics, and functional design is extremely good for a free software. But it does allow the big G to own more of your data, which they cross sell for advertising.
Now if only Windows /Microsoft started giving programs for free by using advertising in their softwares. or Yahoo launched a tracking software .
DECISION STATS 