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Nice title .. isn’t it ? Okay, this is the problem with people who use twitter a lot, you always try to make things short. The title means, “Joy To the World, The Saviour is Born”.  Well, if you have an online business, or, if you care about how your business reputation is online, that is.

You will call me crazy if I do not explain this now.

Do you remember Nikhil ? ( yea I should ask “remember ? ” because he was missing for quite some time ). He was crazy enough to leave his job during recession and then start a new venture called “ Dark Water Digital” and he launched it today, officially.

What is it ?

Darkwater Digital is a digital communications firm that specializes in strategic online campaigns aimed at leveraging the Internet and Web 2.0 to achieve a high recall quotient of your brand. With Darkwater Digital, your brand can conquer the semantic web. We specialize in building your brand comprehensively online, and is strategically poised to deliver your product directly to your customers globally.

So, if you have an online business or if you are serious about the online identity of your firm, you are saved. Wait, did you say, you do not care about the web 2.0 face of your company ? Man ! you are screwed !!

So, this is something you should really check out. I did talk to Nikhil about this project and I now know that it did  really good, even before its official launch, which was today.  Let us wish our “little” ( duh, sorry Nikhil I couldn’t stop myself there ) Nikhil all the best !!

Tweetbacks

Ready for some action ? Okay, we are going to steal some comments for your blog posts from twitter. Don’t worry, they took our comments first, now we are stealing them back, so you will not be punished ( if you get caught, I don’t know you, ok ? )

Check out some blogs, with loads of twitter love. They get hundreds of RTs about theirs posts, and we envy their Tweetme counts. But most of these blog posts with 100+ tweets about them, do not get many comments. People tweet about them but ignore the comment form. But, they still love your those blog posts.

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I am  only  a Linux user, not an expert. I feel good to tell you that I am linux user. Because, when I look around, I see only linux geeks, or linux experts and very very less linux users.

Understanding Linux as a user

The open source theory is not my attraction. I use Linux because it is a good operating system and that’s the only reason.When I write about Linux, I am not  preaching freedom and open source or any of those theories…  but I am trying to tell you about a good operating system that I use.

My job introduced Linux to me as an operating system  that does almost everything that windows can do, and lot of things that Windows can not do. I used linux because I had to, and I did not leave Linux because I started loving it.

This will not happen very often. We do not have platforms where general public get introduced to Linux. Linux and most of the things related to it are shared within the Geek Communities around the Internet.

The next step, reach the common man

What Linux should do now, as early as possible, is to introduce Linux to the common man. This should happen online and offline. There is a great community of Linux users. They can easily do this, using their online and offline contacts.

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College … Political Science classes …  when we get bored,  we had a good way of making things interesting .. we change the topic of discussion to something else asking our prof. questions … and we will go away from Political science and end up in real politics, college politics, or light topics that won’t make you bored …  I was part of that team ( ) and we tried the same during the combined Hindi classes too .. ( I was part of that team too !! ) …  

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Yes, I have a question for you, my friend and I need an answer since I could not find one myself. Who is the biggest terrorist of our times ? Those who come with guns and bombs or the economy and the market, which is falling down on you, crushing you and your life ?

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Yes !! another question for you. Is it easy to set up and manage a self hosted wordpress blog ? Or, is it a difficult job ?

My experience ?

Installing a new wordpress blog : 2 to 5 minutes.
Uploading a theme and making changes : 10 minutes
Uploading basic plugins and activating them : 5 minutes

Yes, setting up a new wordpress blog, including installation, theme, and plugins, -  30 minutes maximum. Well, this is after you get your hosting account activated. So, after you sign up for a hosting account, you will have to wait to get it activated. Sometimes it will be done within 30 minutes or less. If there is any issue with your payment, it may take little more longer, depending up on the kind of issue.

After you sign up, there is something called “DNS propagation”, which may take 24 to 72 hours. Once this is  done, ie – an active account, and DNS propagation completed, you are almost done. Because, as I told you, installation and set up will need only less than 30 minutes.

So -

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Strikes, Bandh, Harthal … oh no !! nothing new to us keralites. See, today it is “Education Bandh”. Yesterday and day before yesterday they had Harthal in Malappuram district. Last Friday it was private bus operators strike and there was a strike by Merchants association last week……. yes, we are familiar with these stikes, and we know how to celebrate them ….

So, need a vacation ? try if you can find a job in Kerala, or get transferred here ….. Welcome to Gods own Country ( and devil’s own people ok ? )

This time, the strike loving keralites made history by killing an innocent school teacher while he was attending a meeting.

Sirji…. what an idea Sirji !!! kill a teacher to protest against the textbook !!!!

I can’t find words to express what I am feeling now. So leaders, ( small and big, left or right, ) when its time for election, don’t ask me for my vote.. because my vote died with that poor teacher ….

When customers do not know English :They make our days better.

We ask for their full postal address for verification and  the answer is someone@hotmail.com !! their email address. ( This is something that happens everyday. ). I can reply and ask ” postal address please” and that’s easier than anything else !!

They send a loooooong email, that makes no sense at all and we reply ” We did not understand , please rephrase”. That makes our job easy !!

They call the server ” Virtual Console.” and so many other names. They get really creative, or imaginative, we can’t blame them. One of my friends got an email from a customer asking for the picture of their dedicated server. They wanted to know how she looks like !! ( Well, now, listen to this one , once a client wanted to rename the server, you know why ? he had named it after his girlfriend and now ?…..  She left him !!!!! )

A customer asked me this last week : “What is the name of the “public_html” folder ?.

You want more ? I will try to post whenever I get funny customer replies ok ? For now, read this one