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

Here is a news from the Malayalam blogging community, and it is no more an issue of Malayalam Bloggers alone. I am not writing a long post about the issue because you have a lot to read at the pages linked to.

See the first email from the blogger :

You have copied from malayalam blogs and
placed it on your website.
http://www.kerals.com/malayalam/kerala/malayalam.php?f=8
http://kerals.com/malayalam/kerala/malayalam.php?f=15

These links show the copied stories and poems from Malayalam blogs. You have no right to do so. You have ads all over your website. You cannot put ads on copied content. This issue will be reported to your hosting service and to google.

And the reply ? here is a sample.

May be I might dont know how to reply properly, however it’s none of your business since you are another malayali thinks world is under your neath.. Just get rid of all the ego’s and come down to earth.. may be your parents didnt teach you to respect other and get respect.. I am too nice based on your character.. You are Nothing, just another FOB.. So Do NOT think you are on top of me or us.. Rule your husband or familly.. DO NOT TRY TO RULE THE WORLD…

Read the entire Story in Malayalam or in English

It’s been a long time since I did a tag post. Thanks to “My Chit Chat” , and Liju here is one again.

Eight things I am passionate about :

1 My Love
2 My Dreams
3 Internet
4 Music
5 Books
6 Journalism
7 Friends
8 My Blog

Eight things I want to do before I die:

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