Bangalore, it's chaos....

People who are staying and working in so called IT hub of India, god help them, chaos all around. Bangaloreans are the most horrible people I have ever met….. especially the vendors, rickshawallas, workers. Either they are not worried about their living or they pretend to be arrogant. Traffic is worse than Bombay, only good thing I can see is that people have some road sense. Every road is either one way or leads to different location. Even if you loose out on one route, you will be landed in a different place. And frustrating part is for the 4 wheelers. Workers (I mean those who deliver goods to your house) keep pestering you for CHAI PAANI (bribe) and horrible thing is that they demand that instead of requesting. Order placed in a big showroom will reach only after 2 or 3 weeks and that too after 100s of follow up. Catching a rickshaw is one more headache… mostly rickshaw drivers refuse to come and even if they come they charge you more (again they demand). Lastly language problem….. you need to know kannada or to an extent tamil to survive.

Hyderabad LINGO at its best, watch this clip

Funniest video from the film "The Angrez"..... hyderabadi lingo at its best

Mouthshut.com.... Product review site

Have you guys wanted to eagerly know about a product, what are its benefits and how users perceive it after its usage.... yep sometimes you see it in some news channels, but then they show only advertisements. So here is a site wherein you can come to know about USER's review on particular product or service..... yes you can even write your own review, website is http://www.mouthshut.com/

But then why I got involved in mouthshut, it happened when we were to buy a TATA car and were dying to know what people who are actually driving it say about TATA Indigo, so as I spoke to many of my friends to assist me on where to find correct review, then some said mouthshut.com (Indeed teh name suggest that this website works on word of mouth), so went there registered there and read some reviews written by people, some mixed reaction, some praised it, some abused it, but overall I got the sum of review that I wanted to know.

Now comes the critical part, that is disadvantage of reading such reviews, at times many people who are a result of harrasement from service providers or showroom guys tend to put it in the review and many a times even I do so.... so you won't come to know if the product is reliable or not. And if you buy a product and then read abuses written about the product you will feel bad and then you will write a review praising that product, even if it is not worth the praise.

Mouthshut has this review of the day in daily basis wherein they put in reviewer's name and their review in home page. One of such article written by me featured (http://www.mouthshut.com/review/Bajaj_Discover-131788-1.html)
So next time if you are wondering on what to but and is it worth a buy, take a moment to stop by mouthshut.com.

My Mouthshut id is http://www.mouthshut.com/user/gopionline.html

LIC website - simply great - pay premiums through http://www.licindia.com/

This is simply great.... many of you maybe already doing this, I mean paying LIC premiums through INTERNET http://www.licindia.com/. Mark my words its simply great. How to do it is the problem. I mean it depends on branch to branch.... steps

Log on to http://www.licindia.com... and register, key in all your LIC policies here.

Now you need to physically enroll your policies for internet premuim payments. How to do ??? sems simple but sometimes painful because youy need to take a printout of a form from the website then take a signature from branch manager of LIC, then after a week or so you can pay all the premums ONLINE

STEPS for payment are very simple and almost alll the banks are been listed so that you can directly pay it through net banking . Also provision of CREDIT card is given

Good thing is that you can see the history of your premiums paid, who is and was your agent, what benefit you will get.... site is quick and very much user freindly. Not to mention, it dosen't have the usual jing bang.... TRUST me go in for online premium pay through http://www.licindia.com.....

HTML DOCTYPE... whats that ???

Ever wondered what is this doc type doing at the top of every HTML screen when you start building htm's in dreamweaver...... NOPE, frankly speaking I just blindly followed what dream weaver published, but was forced to learn more on the logic behind that because all HARSHLY UI recruiters started asking the defination of DOC type and why is it been used...

Why specify a doctype? Because it defines which version of (X)HTML your document is actually using, and this is a critical piece of information needed by browsers or other tools processing the document.

For example, specifying the doctype of your document allows you to use tools such as the Markup Validator to check the syntax of your (X)HTML (and hence discovers errors that may affect the way your page is rendered by various browsers). Such tools won't be able to work if they do not know what kind of document you are using.

But the most important thing is that with most families of browsers, a doctype declaration will make a lot of guessing unnecessary, and will thus trigger a "standard" parsing mode, where the understanding (and, as a result, the display) of the document is not only faster, it is also consistent and free of any bad surprise that documents without doctype will create.



So start with an basic defination, ul, liThe !DOCTYPE declaration is the very first thing in your HTML document, before the html tag. This tag tells the browser which HTML or XHTML specification the document uses.

According to HTML standards, each HTML document requires a document type declaration. The "DOC TYPE" begins the HTML document and tells a validator which version of HTML to use in checking the document's syntax

HTML 4 Strict

The document type declaration for HTML 4.01 Strict is

"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

HTML 4 Strict is a trimmed down version of HTML 4 that emphasizes structure over presentation. Some elements and attributes (including most presentational attributes), frames, and link targets are not allowed in HTML 4 Strict. By writing to HTML 4 Strict, authors can achieve accessible, structurally rich documents that easily adapt to style sheets and different browsing situations. However, HTML 4 Strict documents may look bland on very old browsers that lack support for style sheets..... so think twice before electing to this

NOT RECOMMENDED.... until client cries a lot demands for the same


HTML 4 Transitional

The document type declaration for HTML 4.01 Transitional is

"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">


HTML 4 Transitional includes all elements and attributes of HTML 4 Strict but adds presentational attributes, elements, and link targets.

RECOMMENDED highly.....


HTML 4 Frameset

"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">

HTML 4 Frameset is a variant of HTML 4 Transitional for documents that use frames. The FRAMESET element replaces the BODY in a Frame set document.

Not sure because people are nowadays going away from FRAMES.... use it when there is a FRAME